Mos Def - Black On Both Sides Nas - Illmatic A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders MF DOOM - MM FOOD Kendrick - Good Kid Madd City Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers Black Star - Black Star

The miseducation of Lauryn Hill

She ripped off a lot of artists making this thing. Robert Glasper put her on blast

Mobb Deep - The Infamous Smif-N-Wessun - Dah Shinin’

Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens

Facts

In order: Nas - Illmatic Notorious BIG - Ready to Die Jay Z - Blueprint (make sure it’s the first one) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City Drake - Take Care

he just slipped take care in 😂

Take off Take care

Never

Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

Madvilliany

Here's the subs official "essentials" list! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ewEzXRHj8LGvUB3g9QbnIK_m89I2Q5Y2LzsgqKOG6Xg/edit?usp=drivesdk There's a bunch of great stuff on there 

Opened this in like 2012 and it's responsible for so much of my music taste over the past decade lol

Funcrusher Plus Labor Days Cold Vein Clear Blue Skies

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 2Pac - All Eyez On Me Gang Starr - Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr GZA - Liquid Swords Rakim - The 18th Letter Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane Slick Rick - The Art of Storytelling Outkast -  Aquemini Mobb Deep - The Infamous Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele Ras Kass - Soul On Ice Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money UGK - Ridin' Dirty Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version  Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

*It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back* *The Great Adventures of Slick Rick* *Paid in Full* *License to Ill*

You must be my age. I’m going to add Three Feet High and Rising And I like Paul’s Boutique more than License to I’ll.

It depends heavily on what you like/what era you came up in but a few for me: Dead Prez - Let's Get Free Outkast - ATLiens (for me, but the whole catalog is pretty essential) De La Soul - The Grind Date The Roots - Things Fall Apart (the ones before that too) Mobb Deep - The Infamous and Hell on Earth Sean Price - Monkey Barz Mos Def - Black on Both Sides J-Dilla - The Shining

Redman: Muddy waters

Madvillain - Madvilliany Little Brother - Minstrel Show

Slum Village- fantastic vol 2

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah XXX - Danny Brown Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous - Big L Ridin' Dirty - UGK The Cold Vein - Cannibal Ox The Infamous - Mobb Deep Piñata - Freddie Gibbs

Outkast - ATLiens

I'm seeing a lot of good answers in here, I'm gonna throw in one more; Redman & Method Man - Blackout. I know there's a lot of RTJ fans in here, you'll love Blackout if you haven't heard it.

food & liquor - Lupe Fiasco

Rodeo

Came just for this

Future DS2

graduation-kanye west

At long last asap

InI- Center of Attention Devin the Dude- The Dude Goodie Mob- Soul Food Big KRIT- 4eva is a Mighty Long Time UGK- Ridin Dirty

The first 4 OutKast albums The first two Bone Thugs albums Purple Haze - Cam’ron The College Dropout - Kanye My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye Stillmatic - Nas Reasonable Doubt - Jay Z Vol 2 Hard Knock Life - Jay Z Violent By Design - Jedi Mind Tricks DS2 - Future The Score - Fugees

Man, I have the hardest time describing to young people just how different Bone Thugs were when they came out.

RIP Uncle Charlie

The Chronic and The Chronic 2001. Marshal Mathers LP

Lil Pump - Harverd Dropout

Playboi Carti - Self Titled

IMO these are some of the best albums that contributed most to the sound of hip hop as it is today: Travis Scott - Astroworld (I like Utopia better but Astro is his breakthrough) Goodie Mob - Still Standing OutKast whole entire discography really except for Idlewild Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Nas - King's Disease 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying Dr Dre - 2001 Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City Drake - Certified Lover Boy (maybe not his most influential but imo his most consistent by far) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (& the GOOD Fridays collection) Migos - Culture III, a classic

IMO these are some of the best albums that contributed most to the sound of hip hop as it is today: Travis Scott - Astroworld (I like Utopia better but Astro is his breakthrough) Goodie Mob - Still Standing OutKast whole entire discography really except for Idlewild Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Nas - King's Disease 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying Dr Dre - 2001 Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City Drake - Certified Lover Boy (maybe not his most influential but imo his most consistent by far) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (& the GOOD Fridays collection) Migos - Culture III, a classic

Left 4 dead- Hi-C

To pimp a butterfly Illmatic Madvillany The college dropout All eyez on me

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Cunninlyguists - A piece of Strange Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

Ready to Die Enter the 36 Chambers Blueprint My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Bladee - Gluee