your favorite rap album

i'm not the world's biggest rap fan. I don't listen to most of the rap that's coming out these days. but i've got a few that i love. q-tip, mos def, and snood dog - with each of them, it's the flow that gets me.

but the best rap album ever has got to be Mos Def's Black On Both Sides...it's funky and smart...jesus proclaim it a masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtSiYjaFW-Y

Illadelph Halflife by The Roots

Fuckin dark, fuckin smooth n way better than the vastly hyped (but still good) Things Fall Apart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I1IX2cqjQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzacv8dtb4&NR=1

i forgot to put J5 in my list of favorites.

Black on both sides, mobb deep's the infamous and heltah skeltah Nocturnal is the three albums I think I've listened to most as a whole album, but The Infamous is probably the best even if it isn't the album I'd chill out to. Any other (almost) flawless rap albums would be great to get to know of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdF8wEfP6MQ

is just soooooo good

love that kick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nh39ISqFbU

Hard Choice, but:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:11 PM, chassis said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:02 PM, Deepex said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:21 PM, EleminoP said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:02 PM, Deepex said:

yes, true

Madvillian is right up there though...

Runners up:

ATCQ - The Low End Theory / Midnight Marauders

The Roots - Do You Want More?

Gang Starr - Daily Operation

Run DMC - Raising Hell

De la Soul - De la Soul is Dead

So many...

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:44 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:40 PM, plisb said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:21 PM, EleminoP said:

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:02 PM, Deepex said:

 

also Public Enemy's "Takes a Nation of Millions..." and "Fear of a Black Planet".

Not my absolute favorites, but among my favorites and not yet mentioned above:

Definetly this. This guy is like rapping Tom Waits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Ryjs3zlfw&feature=related

  On 5/6/2010 at 4:44 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

or

or

36 chambers is up there, along with low end theory. fuck, really difficult to come up with others right now! i might actually suggest

too. i really liked the first busta rhymes album, but not sure if all of it would constitute a favorite.

fuck this thread, argh

This is the hardest thread to answer of all time....

iTunes claims I like this album the most, has the most plays and highest ratings...

  On 5/6/2010 at 6:01 PM, acid1 said:

This is the hardest thread to answer of all time....

 

This album i've been playing non stop since i got way back in 95. i still play it like it was released yesterday.

But also getting heavy rotations:

and lots of others already mentioned in this thread.

.....

Top 5 + 1

Nas - Illmatic

Wu-Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers

Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate/Stakes is High

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Then so many runners up...