Hip Hop Albums

[Func]

Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Dilated Peoples - The Platform
Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
The Game - The Documentary
Handsome Boy Modeling School - So How's Your Girl...
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
Sean Price - Monkey Barz
Tame One - When Rappers Attack

[capo ultra]

download links etc i also errrr lost my hard drive

[hugh]

about to pm u damo

[scspkr99]

I haven't seen

Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein
Real Live - The Turnaround
Smoothe Da Hustler - Once upon a time in America
Dead Prez - Let's get free
Mos Def - Black on both sides
Common - Like water for chocolate

[Snaps]

UK stuff:

Phi Life Cypher - Millennium Metaphors
Jehst - Falling Down / High Plains Drifter
Roots Manuva - Brand New Second Hand
Yogi - Jamaica Child
Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Yungun The Essence
K-Lash - Sagas
Jon Phonics - Half Past Calm (1&2)
Louis Slipperz - £10 Bag Series
Taskforce - MFTC / New ic Order
Braintax - Biro Funk
Anything by Lewis Parker / Hijack / London Posee


US Stuff:

Nas - iT Was Written
Mobb Deep - Infamous
G Rap - Giancana Story / 4 5 6 / Roots Of Evil
R A Rugged - Die Rugged Man
Talib - Train Of Thought (The illest), Quality & the one he did with Blackstar, forgot what it's called
Ill Bill - What's Wrong With Bill (Non Phixion
Jedi Mind - Violent By Desing is a must, also their AOTP stuff
Kame Moye - Self Centred
Anything by Kev Brown / Common
Elzhi - Preface
Busta - Anything pre '06
Canibus - Rip The Jacker - 2000bc
Anything on Rawkus (Talib did a track on one their comps called 2000 Seasons - Big
Anything by El-P / Cage / Aeasop Rock / RJD2 / Co Flow (Check Def Jux discog)
Anything by Copywrite


That's all i can think of at the minute, hope it's refreshed your memory abit

[Jizz]

ones that I can think of that ain't been mentioned yet:

Danny Brown - XXX
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Snoop Dogg - No Limit Top Dogg
Dr. Dre - Detox

[dickman69]

DJ Babu - Duck Season 1 & 2

idk if this has been mentioned, but i dont feel like looking thru

[faultier]

here's some more that i dont think have been mentioned yet, some might not be absolute essentials, but all worth a listen imo:

gangstarr - hard to earn
ghostface and raekwon - ironman
both quasimoto albums
onra - chinoiseries
oh no - dr no's ethiopium
most of dj krush's discography
busdriver - cosmic cleavage
blockhead - music by cavelight
k-the-i??? - broken love letter
ugly duckling - taste the secret
afura - body of the life force
sage francis - a healthy distrust
sage francis - personal journals
ddamage - shimmy shimmy blade
qwel and maker - the harvest
sixtoo - antagonist survival kit

[dmz007]

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design
Cannot emphasise enough how great this album is. 25 tracks on it even.

Also, Cypress Hill- Temples of Boom

These are my two current favourites

[node]

Excuse me while I get a bit backpacky







- I actually r8 the instrumentals album over the vocals






- Euphony this is some of the best work from some amazing MC's probably at the height of their talents (circa 2001) IMO



http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1357993 - Masei Bey Natural Magic Music

[AxeD]

Is it that you guys don't like Army of the Pharaos, or just don't know about it?

[BaronVon]

Is it that you guys don't like Army of the Pharaos, or just don't know about it?

I appreciate their skill but they sound like the hip hop version of metal. Not really my cup of tea. Enjoyed the first Jedi Minds thing when it came out, but the style doesn't seem to have progressed.

[magma]

There's too many, I keep thinking of really obvious ones I've missed!

DMX - It's Dark And Hell Is Hot / And Then There Was X / The Great Depression
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor / The Cool
Floetry - Floetic
Neptunes - The Clones
Bubba Sparxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights / Deliverance
Chili Gonzales - The Entertainist
Princess Superstar - Princess Superstar Is...
Kool Keith - Dr Octagonecologyst
Peaches - The Teaches Of Peaches
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap / Teflon Don
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself / 100% Colombian
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides / The New Danger
Blackstar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Blackstar
Mystikal - Let's Get Ready
Paul Wall - The People's Champ
Mike Jones - Who Is Mike Jones?
TI - Trap Musik
J. Dilla - Donuts
Obie Trice - Cheers
Proof - Searching For Jerry Garcia
Saian Supa Crew - X-Raisons
Jehst - Return Of The Drifter / Falling Down

[node]

- Tes x2

[parkour_nico]

sweet jesus, thanks for all the reminders guys, so many gems in this thread!
we counting anticon yeh? if so, cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD (or anything involving dose one, why? or odd nosdam, individually and collectively)
Buck 65 - Square
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
RZA - Ghost Dog OST
Diplo and Tripledoubl did 2 amazing mixtapes called AEIOU + AEIOU 2
Wu Tang - Shaolin Jazz is pretty interesting
and of course Mr. Blazey - Mr. Blazey/MUSH EP

[node]

Almost forgot the familam!

[hugh]

Is it that you guys don't like Army of the Pharaos, or just don't know about it?

Henry 8th might be one of the greatest horrorcore rap tunes of all time!

[magma]

Madlib - Shades Of Blue

[Snaps]

Is it that you guys don't like Army of the Pharaos, or just don't know about it?

Check my last post

[SCope13]

Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez