10 rap albums you can't live without since 2010

[Jimmy Conway]

So I need some new music, give me your top ten from the last three years. No Eminem, Jay, Kanye, Nas

[King Lance]

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

[fifflaren]

Eminem ain't even in the top 10 of this decade, neither is Jay-Z

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

+ Krit mixtapes, Cole's mixtapes and Trunk Muzik Returns

and you can close the thread.

[King Lance]

Eminem ain't even in the top 10 of this decade, neither is Jay-Z

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

+ Krit mixtapes, Cole's mixtapes and Trunk Muzik Returns

and you can close the thread.

He said albums bro

[Jimmy Conway]

Eminem ain't even in the top 10 of this decade, neither is Jay-Z

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

+ Krit mixtapes, Cole's mixtapes and Trunk Muzik Returns

and you can close the thread.

Which is Cole's best tape. I've been listening to his new album a lot, it's fire.

[King Lance]

He said no Nas bro

true

[Shameek]

Official Music Essentials For All Genres Thread

Hip-Hop:

1980-1989

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, Licensed to Ill
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane, Its a Big Daddy Thing
Boogie Down Productions- Criminal Minded, By All Means Necessary
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full, Follow the Leader
Kool G Rap - Road to Riches
Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow
LL Cool J - Radio
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Run DMC - Raising Hell, Run DMC
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown

1990-1999

2pac - Me Against The World, All Eyez on Me
Atmosphere - Overcast
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
AZ - Doe or Die
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Black Moon - Enta da Stage
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Bone Thugs - Creepin on Ah Come Up, E.1999 Eternal
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Common - Resurrection
Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus
DJ Quik - Quik is the Name
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
DMX - Its Dark and Hell is Hot
Dr. Dre - 2001, The Chronic
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
Fugees - The Score
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth, Daily Operation, Step in the Arena
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Ice Cube - Death Certificate, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in The East
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Masta Ace - Slaughtahouse
Method Man - Tical
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Nas - Illmatic, It Was Written
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die, Life After Death
Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion
OutKast - ATLiens,Aquemini, Southernplayalisticadillazmuzik
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother, The Main Ingrediant
Pharaohe Monch - Internal Affairs
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Rakim - The 18th Letter
Redman - Whut? The Album, Dare Iz a Darkside, Muddy Waters
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart
Scarface - The Diary
Smif-n-Wessun - Dah Shinin
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity
Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez
UGK - Ridin Dirty
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

2000-2009

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Black Keys - Blackroc
Cam'ron - Purple Haze
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Common - Be, Like Water For Chocolate
Cunninlynguistists - A Piece of Strange
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Drake - So Far Gone
El-P-I'll Sleep When You're Dead
El-P-Fantastic Damage
Elzhi - The Preface
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show
Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat
Fashawn - Boy Meets World
Game - The Documentary
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele, Fishscale
J. Cole - The Warm Up
J Dilla - Donuts
Jay Electronica - Act 1: Eternal Sunshine
Jay-Z - The Blueprint, The Black Album, American Gangster
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II, Carter III
Little Brother - The Listening, The Minstrel Show
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool, Food & Liquor
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer, Disposable Arts
MF DOOM - Vaudeville Villain
Missy Elliot - Miss E...So Addictive
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Nas - Stillmatic, The Lost Tapes
N.E.R.D - In Search of... Seeing Sounds
OutKast - Stankonia
Pete Rock - PeteStrumentals
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt 2
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
The Roots - Game Theory
Scarface - The Fix
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
Talib Kweli - Quality
T.I. - Trap Muzik, King
Tyler, the Creator - Bastard
UGK - Underground Kingz
Wale - Mixtape About Nothing
Young Jeezy - TM 101, Trap or Die

2010 - Present

ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Big KRIT - KRIT wuz here, Return of 4eva
Cunninlynguists - Oneirology
Curren$y - Pilot Talk, Pilot Talk 2
Danny Brown - XXX
Elzhi - Elmatic
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Day in Hell
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80, Overly Dedicated, Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
The Roots - How I Got Over, Undun
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Drake-Take Care

R&B/Soul/Pop

Aaliyah - One in a Million, Aaliyah
Al Green - Call Me, Lets Get Together
Alicia Keys - Songs in a Minor, Diary of Alicia Keys
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Anita Baker - Rapture
Anthony Hamilton - Aint Nothing Workin
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now, Young, Gifted, And Black, Lady Soul
Boyz II Men - II
Curtis Mayfield-Superfly
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Erykah Badu - Baduizm, Mama's Gun, New Amerykah
Frank Ocean-Channel Orange
Isaac Hayes - To Be Continued, Hot Buttered Soul
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down, Dancing on the Ceiling
Lyfe Jennings - Lyfe 268-192
Madonna - Like a Prayer, Ray of Light
Marvin Gaye - Lets Get it On, What's Going On?
Mary J. Blige - Share My World, What's the 411?
Maxwell - Now
Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bad, Off The Wall
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Prince - Purple Rain, 1999, Sign O' The Times
R. Kelly - 12 Play, R.
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
Ray Charles - Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Sade - Diamond Life
Sam Cooke - Aint That Good News
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On, Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Up-Tight, Songs in the Key of Life, Innervisions, Hotter than July
Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy Pendergrass


Newer R&B/Soul/Pop

Adele - 21
Beyonce - B'Day
The Dream - Love Hate, Love vs Money
Duffy - Rockferry
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsehwere
Frank Ocean - nostalgia, ULTRA
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
John Legend - Get Lifted
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Lady Gaga - The Fame, The Fame Monster
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Robin Thicke - Evolution of Robin Thicke
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad, Rated R
Take That - Progress
Usher - Confessions, 8701
The Weeknd - House of Balloons


Rock (Alternative, Indie, Soft, etc.):

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Strawberry Jam
The Antlers - Hospice, Burst Apart
Arcade Fire - Funeral, The Suburbs
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beach House - Teen Dream
Best Coast - Crazy for You
The Beatles - Sergent Pepper's, Abbey Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul, The White Album
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Billy Joel - The Stranger
The Black Keys - Brothers, Thickfreakness
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Sabotage, Heaven and Hell
Blink 182 - Enema of the Sate
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan Live 1966, Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin
Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
Blur - Parklife
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver
Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Brand New-The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Wilson - Smile
Broadcast- Haha Sound
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Born in the USA, Nebraska and Darkness on the Edge of Town
Burt Bacharach - The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
Can - Tago Mago
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Cat Power - Moon Pix, You Are Free
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Coldplay - Viva la Vida, A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Clash - London Calling
The Cure - Disintegration
David Bowie - Low, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
The Doors - The Doors
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
Elliott Smith- Either/Or, Elliott Smith
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True,This Years Model
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Fugazi - Repeater, The Argument
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Galaxie 500 - On Fire, Today
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Life Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, F♯A♯∞
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Green Day - Dookie
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Hot Chip - The Warning
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Raw Power
Interpol-Turn on the Bright Red Lights
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?, Electric Ladyland
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me, Y's
Joy Division - Closer, Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson - In the Court of Crimson King
The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin II, Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin I
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Lykke Li - Youth Novels, Wounded Rhymes
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Mastadon - Remission, Leviathan
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Mogwai - Young Team
Misfits- Static Age
Mission of Burma - Vs.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The National - Alligator
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies
New York Dolls- New York Dolls
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nico - Desertshore, Chelsea Girl
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul McCartney - McCartney II
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Doolittle, Surfer Rosa
Pulp - Different Class
Queen - News of the World, A Night at the Opera
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme
Radiohead - OK Computer, In Rainbows, Kid A, The Bends
Ramones - Ramones
R.E.M. - Murmur, Automatic for People
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication
The Replacements - Let it Be
The Residents - Not Available
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Some Girls, Let it Bleed
Roxy Music - Country Life or Stranded or For Your Pleasure
Sebadoh - III
Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sounds of Silence
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Sixx: A.M. - The Heroin Diaries
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Slint - Spiderland
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
The Strokes - Is This It, Room on Fire
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Television - Marquee Moon
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend, Contra
The Velvet Underground - Loaded, The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/ White Heat
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Wavves - King of the Beach
Weezer - Pinkerton
White Stripes-De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant
The Who - Tommy
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
XTC - Skylarking
The xx - xx
Yardbirds- Having a Rave Up With the Yardbirds
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One
The Zombies- Odyssey and Oracle

Electronic:
Actress - Splazsh & Actress - RIP
Amon Tobin- Permutation
Andres - I & II
Aphex Twin - Drukqs, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Richard D. James Album
Autechre- Tri Repetae
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Bjork - Homogenic, Vespertine
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Another Green World
Burial - Untrue
Celdweller - Celldweller
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles II
Daedelus - Denies The Days Demise
Daft Punk - Discovery, Homework
Diplo - Florida
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Fennesz - Black Sea
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles, Cosmogramma
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
James Blake - James Blake
Justice - Cross
K-S.H.E. - Routes Not Roots
The Knife - Silent Shout
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening, Sound of Silver
Massive Attack - Blue Lines, Mezzanine
Metro Area - Metro Area
M.I.A. - Kala, Arular
MM / KM - MM / KM (Mixmup / Kassem Mosse)
Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Passion Pit - Manners
Plastikman - Consumed *****
Portishead - Dummy
Ratatat - Ratatat
Robyn - Body Talk
Sandwell District - Feed Forward *****
The Other People Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café *****
Theo Parrish - Sound Signatures Vol. 1
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain, Young Liars
Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született

Reggae:

Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch a Fire, Exodus, Kaya, African Herbman, Uprising
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Damian Marley- Welcome To Jamrock
Jimmy Clif - The Harder They Come
Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Shaggy - Boombastic
The Specials - The Specials
The Wailers - Burnin

Other:

Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
Bessie Smith - The Complete Recordings Vol. 1
Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday
Earl Klugh - Dream Come True
Fally Ipupa - Droit Chemin
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
Jimmie Rodgers - The Essential Jimmie Rodgers
Johnny Cash - All Aboard the Blue Train, I Walk the Line, At Folsom Prison, American Recordings
Koffi Olomide - Koweït Rive Gauche
Mance Lipscomb - Trouble in Mind
Odetta - signs ballads & blues
Odyssey - Odyssey 1977
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Soundtracks/Scores:

Alain Gorageur- La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic planet)
Clint Mansell - The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, Moon
Jon Brion - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia
Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
Hans Zimmer - Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight, The Lion King
John Williams - Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Randy Newman - Toy Story
Alan Menken - Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast
Dust Brothers - Fight Club
Eminem - 8 Mile
Leopold Stokowski - Fantasia
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Sherman Brothers - Marry Poppins
Tyler Bates - 300
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Prince - Purple Rain
Howard Shore -The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network
Footloose
Grease
Moulin Rouge
Pulp Fiction
Top Gun
Trainspotting
Vangelis-Blade Runner
Michael Giacchino - Up, Ratatouille
Alexandre Desplat - Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Moonrise Kingdom
Thomas Newman - The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo


Jazz:
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um, Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Charlie Parker - Bird and Diz
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Study in Brown
Cortex - Tropeau Bleu
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Self Titled
Herbie Han**** - Headhunters
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Blue Train, Giant Steps
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, ****es Brew, In A Silent Way
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sun Ra - Lanquidity, Jazz in Silhouette
Theolonious Monk - Monk's Dream, Brilliant Corners

[PAINKILLƎR]

Official Music Essentials For All Genres Thread

Hip-Hop:

1980-1989

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, Licensed to Ill
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane, Its a Big Daddy Thing
Boogie Down Productions- Criminal Minded, By All Means Necessary
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full, Follow the Leader
Kool G Rap - Road to Riches
Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow
LL Cool J - Radio
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Run DMC - Raising Hell, Run DMC
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown

1990-1999

2pac - Me Against The World, All Eyez on Me
Atmosphere - Overcast
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
AZ - Doe or Die
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Black Moon - Enta da Stage
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Bone Thugs - Creepin on Ah Come Up, E.1999 Eternal
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Common - Resurrection
Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus
DJ Quik - Quik is the Name
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
DMX - Its Dark and Hell is Hot
Dr. Dre - 2001, The Chronic
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
Fugees - The Score
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth, Daily Operation, Step in the Arena
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Ice Cube - Death Certificate, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in The East
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Masta Ace - Slaughtahouse
Method Man - Tical
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Nas - Illmatic, It Was Written
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die, Life After Death
Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion
OutKast - ATLiens,Aquemini, Southernplayalisticadillazmuzik
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother, The Main Ingrediant
Pharaohe Monch - Internal Affairs
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Rakim - The 18th Letter
Redman - Whut? The Album, Dare Iz a Darkside, Muddy Waters
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart
Scarface - The Diary
Smif-n-Wessun - Dah Shinin
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity
Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez
UGK - Ridin Dirty
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

2000-2009

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Black Keys - Blackroc
Cam'ron - Purple Haze
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Common - Be, Like Water For Chocolate
Cunninlynguistists - A Piece of Strange
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Drake - So Far Gone
El-P-I'll Sleep When You're Dead
El-P-Fantastic Damage
Elzhi - The Preface
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show
Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat
Fashawn - Boy Meets World
Game - The Documentary
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele, Fishscale
J. Cole - The Warm Up
J Dilla - Donuts
Jay Electronica - Act 1: Eternal Sunshine
Jay-Z - The Blueprint, The Black Album, American Gangster
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II, Carter III
Little Brother - The Listening, The Minstrel Show
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool, Food & Liquor
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer, Disposable Arts
MF DOOM - Vaudeville Villain
Missy Elliot - Miss E...So Addictive
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Nas - Stillmatic, The Lost Tapes
N.E.R.D - In Search of... Seeing Sounds
OutKast - Stankonia
Pete Rock - PeteStrumentals
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt 2
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
The Roots - Game Theory
Scarface - The Fix
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
Talib Kweli - Quality
T.I. - Trap Muzik, King
Tyler, the Creator - Bastard
UGK - Underground Kingz
Wale - Mixtape About Nothing
Young Jeezy - TM 101, Trap or Die

2010 - Present

ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Big KRIT - KRIT wuz here, Return of 4eva
Cunninlynguists - Oneirology
Curren$y - Pilot Talk, Pilot Talk 2
Danny Brown - XXX
Elzhi - Elmatic
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Day in Hell
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80, Overly Dedicated, Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
The Roots - How I Got Over, Undun
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Drake-Take Care

R&B/Soul/Pop

Aaliyah - One in a Million, Aaliyah
Al Green - Call Me, Lets Get Together
Alicia Keys - Songs in a Minor, Diary of Alicia Keys
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Anita Baker - Rapture
Anthony Hamilton - Aint Nothing Workin
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now, Young, Gifted, And Black, Lady Soul
Boyz II Men - II
Curtis Mayfield-Superfly
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Erykah Badu - Baduizm, Mama's Gun, New Amerykah
Frank Ocean-Channel Orange
Isaac Hayes - To Be Continued, Hot Buttered Soul
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down, Dancing on the Ceiling
Lyfe Jennings - Lyfe 268-192
Madonna - Like a Prayer, Ray of Light
Marvin Gaye - Lets Get it On, What's Going On?
Mary J. Blige - Share My World, What's the 411?
Maxwell - Now
Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bad, Off The Wall
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Prince - Purple Rain, 1999, Sign O' The Times
R. Kelly - 12 Play, R.
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
Ray Charles - Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Sade - Diamond Life
Sam Cooke - Aint That Good News
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On, Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Up-Tight, Songs in the Key of Life, Innervisions, Hotter than July
Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy Pendergrass


Newer R&B/Soul/Pop

Adele - 21
Beyonce - B'Day
The Dream - Love Hate, Love vs Money
Duffy - Rockferry
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsehwere
Frank Ocean - nostalgia, ULTRA
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
John Legend - Get Lifted
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Lady Gaga - The Fame, The Fame Monster
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Robin Thicke - Evolution of Robin Thicke
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad, Rated R
Take That - Progress
Usher - Confessions, 8701
The Weeknd - House of Balloons


Rock (Alternative, Indie, Soft, etc.):

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Strawberry Jam
The Antlers - Hospice, Burst Apart
Arcade Fire - Funeral, The Suburbs
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beach House - Teen Dream
Best Coast - Crazy for You
The Beatles - Sergent Pepper's, Abbey Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul, The White Album
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Billy Joel - The Stranger
The Black Keys - Brothers, Thickfreakness
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Sabotage, Heaven and Hell
Blink 182 - Enema of the Sate
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan Live 1966, Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin
Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
Blur - Parklife
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver
Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Brand New-The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Wilson - Smile
Broadcast- Haha Sound
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Born in the USA, Nebraska and Darkness on the Edge of Town
Burt Bacharach - The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
Can - Tago Mago
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Cat Power - Moon Pix, You Are Free
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Coldplay - Viva la Vida, A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Clash - London Calling
The Cure - Disintegration
David Bowie - Low, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
The Doors - The Doors
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
Elliott Smith- Either/Or, Elliott Smith
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True,This Years Model
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Fugazi - Repeater, The Argument
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Galaxie 500 - On Fire, Today
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Life Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, F♯A♯∞
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Green Day - Dookie
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Hot Chip - The Warning
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Raw Power
Interpol-Turn on the Bright Red Lights
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?, Electric Ladyland
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me, Y's
Joy Division - Closer, Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson - In the Court of Crimson King
The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin II, Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin I
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Lykke Li - Youth Novels, Wounded Rhymes
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Mastadon - Remission, Leviathan
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Mogwai - Young Team
Misfits- Static Age
Mission of Burma - Vs.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The National - Alligator
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies
New York Dolls- New York Dolls
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nico - Desertshore, Chelsea Girl
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul McCartney - McCartney II
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Doolittle, Surfer Rosa
Pulp - Different Class
Queen - News of the World, A Night at the Opera
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme
Radiohead - OK Computer, In Rainbows, Kid A, The Bends
Ramones - Ramones
R.E.M. - Murmur, Automatic for People
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication
The Replacements - Let it Be
The Residents - Not Available
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Some Girls, Let it Bleed
Roxy Music - Country Life or Stranded or For Your Pleasure
Sebadoh - III
Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sounds of Silence
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Sixx: A.M. - The Heroin Diaries
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Slint - Spiderland
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
The Strokes - Is This It, Room on Fire
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Television - Marquee Moon
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend, Contra
The Velvet Underground - Loaded, The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/ White Heat
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Wavves - King of the Beach
Weezer - Pinkerton
White Stripes-De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant
The Who - Tommy
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
XTC - Skylarking
The xx - xx
Yardbirds- Having a Rave Up With the Yardbirds
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One
The Zombies- Odyssey and Oracle

Electronic:
Actress - Splazsh & Actress - RIP
Amon Tobin- Permutation
Andres - I & II
Aphex Twin - Drukqs, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Richard D. James Album
Autechre- Tri Repetae
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Bjork - Homogenic, Vespertine
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Another Green World
Burial - Untrue
Celdweller - Celldweller
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles II
Daedelus - Denies The Days Demise
Daft Punk - Discovery, Homework
Diplo - Florida
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Fennesz - Black Sea
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles, Cosmogramma
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
James Blake - James Blake
Justice - Cross
K-S.H.E. - Routes Not Roots
The Knife - Silent Shout
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening, Sound of Silver
Massive Attack - Blue Lines, Mezzanine
Metro Area - Metro Area
M.I.A. - Kala, Arular
MM / KM - MM / KM (Mixmup / Kassem Mosse)
Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Passion Pit - Manners
Plastikman - Consumed *****
Portishead - Dummy
Ratatat - Ratatat
Robyn - Body Talk
Sandwell District - Feed Forward *****
The Other People Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café *****
Theo Parrish - Sound Signatures Vol. 1
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain, Young Liars
Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született

Reggae:

Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch a Fire, Exodus, Kaya, African Herbman, Uprising
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Damian Marley- Welcome To Jamrock
Jimmy Clif - The Harder They Come
Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Shaggy - Boombastic
The Specials - The Specials
The Wailers - Burnin

Other:

Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
Bessie Smith - The Complete Recordings Vol. 1
Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday
Earl Klugh - Dream Come True
Fally Ipupa - Droit Chemin
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
Jimmie Rodgers - The Essential Jimmie Rodgers
Johnny Cash - All Aboard the Blue Train, I Walk the Line, At Folsom Prison, American Recordings
Koffi Olomide - Koweït Rive Gauche
Mance Lipscomb - Trouble in Mind
Odetta - signs ballads & blues
Odyssey - Odyssey 1977
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Soundtracks/Scores:

Alain Gorageur- La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic planet)
Clint Mansell - The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, Moon
Jon Brion - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia
Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
Hans Zimmer - Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight, The Lion King
John Williams - Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Randy Newman - Toy Story
Alan Menken - Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast
Dust Brothers - Fight Club
Eminem - 8 Mile
Leopold Stokowski - Fantasia
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Sherman Brothers - Marry Poppins
Tyler Bates - 300
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Prince - Purple Rain
Howard Shore -The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network
Footloose
Grease
Moulin Rouge
Pulp Fiction
Top Gun
Trainspotting
Vangelis-Blade Runner
Michael Giacchino - Up, Ratatouille
Alexandre Desplat - Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Moonrise Kingdom
Thomas Newman - The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo


Jazz:
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um, Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Charlie Parker - Bird and Diz
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Study in Brown
Cortex - Tropeau Bleu
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Self Titled
Herbie Han**** - Headhunters
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Blue Train, Giant Steps
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, ****es Brew, In A Silent Way
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sun Ra - Lanquidity, Jazz in Silhouette
Theolonious Monk - Monk's Dream, Brilliant Corners

Lmfao I just had to quote this. Shameek is lowkey Wikipedia

[Mr.DGAF]

Eminem ain't even in the top 10 of this decade, neither is Jay-Z

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

+ Krit mixtapes, Cole's mixtapes and Trunk Muzik Returns

and you can close the thread.

Which is Cole's best tape. I've been listening to his new album a lot, it's fire.

Check The Warm Up man. That's my favorite. FNL is dope as shit too though.

[classthe_king]

Eminem ain't even in the top 10 of this decade, neither is Jay-Z

My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy - Kanye West
Good Kid mAAd City - Kendrick Lamar
Section 80 - Kendrick Lamar
Control System - Ab-Soul
H&C - Schoolboy Q
Life Is Good - Nas
Rap Music - Killer Mike

+ Krit mixtapes, Cole's mixtapes and Trunk Muzik Returns

and you can close the thread.

Which is Cole's best tape. I've been listening to his new album a lot, it's fire.

Friday Night Lights is a classic and definitely the pinnacle of his career

[dead prez]

Mista Thug Isolation
Good Kid Maad City (real original I know)
Section 80
XXX
Album of the year-Black Milk
Lone Sharks-Doppelgangaz
Yeezus
MBDTF

and buttloads more but really the first album I listed should conclude this

[MistaVijilantee]

I don't know about top 10 but these are dope.

Mac Miller - Watching Movies With The Sound off
Danny Brown - XXX
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Mad City
Hopsin - RAW
Tech N9ne - Something Else
Killer Mike - RAP Music
ASAP Rocky - Long Live ASAP - some of the lyrics aren't always great but holy fuck those beats and ASAP's pretty charasmatic, making him enjoyable to listen too.

[Jimmy Conway]

Friday Night Lights is a classic and definitely the pinnacle of his career


I think I like Warm up better. Production is a lot better. That dream beat. Kind of reminds me of no ones iller, can never go wrong with that style.

[Willy]

All the Jokerr's shit, Flowers for my Father. um. I made a really dope CD with a bunch of anime songs on it and that's got to be in my top 5 albums of all time. The tracks tell a story and it is a story that might make you cry.

[ImANoob]

(In no order)
Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
Section.80
Man on the Moon II
Wolf
Trunk Muzik 0-60 (fuck you, it's an album)
Control System
Undun
Watching Movies With the Sound Off
Acid Rap (fuck you, it's an album)
Habits & Contradictions
edit: forgot about undun...bye bye 'no love lost'