Your favourite old school hip hop albums

[Manhattan]

Things pretty slow at work this morning so just rockin out to the ipod. Pretty sure I own every classic hip hop album but who knows...I'll start off.

Notorious BIG - Ready to die
Jay-z - Reasonable doubt
Goodie mob - Soul food
Kool Keith - Dr Octagon
Jeru - Sun rises in the east

[5hift]

Outkast, ATLiens
Outkast, Aquemini
Jay-Z, The Blueprint
Black Star, Black Star
Common Sense, Resurrection
De La Soul, Three Feet High and Rising
The Fugees, The Score
Dr. Dre, The Chronic
Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Nas, Illmatic

[Manhattan]

I listen to all kinds of music but it seems like hip hop has had the most classic/influential albums in the past 20 years out of any genre. Just me?

[aget]

^^ Wouldn't call Blueprint oldschool. Good album though.

Snoop - Doggystyle
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cubin Linx
Ghostface - Ironman
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
BDP - By All Means Necessary
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead

[RY213]

Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Ice Cube Death Certificate
Gangstarr Step in the Arena
Lord Finesse Return of the Funky Man
BDP first 4 albums
Basically 90% of the albums that dropped between 1988-1991...

[KRyn]

Anything by the Beatnuts and Jurassic 5

[speedog]

N/A - there was no such thing as hip hop when I was in high school. Do recognize some of the artists named above, even have heard some of their stuff. Not my genre though, never the less - enjoy if it's your style.

[bashir26]

N.W.A - Welcome to Compton
Ice Cube - Ghetto Bird, Today was a good day, Check Yo Self
Rick James - Mary Jane

among a several others.

[scboss]

Tupac- Better dayz
dr dre - the chronic
wutang clan- enter the wutang: 36 chambers

[86max]

Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Capone N Noreaga - The War Report
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
AZ - Pieces of a Man
Gang Starr - Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
Ice Cube - War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
Nas - Illmatic
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Tupac - All Eyez on Me
Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt

[JordanEG6]

These have been mentioned already, but these are my favorites:

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Nas - Illmatic
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Mirauders
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Outkast - ATLiens
Method Man - Tical
Warren G - Regulate (The G Funk Era)

[claxx]

3rd base - the cactus album
monie love -Down To Earth
paris - The Devil Made Me Do It
Erik B. and Rakim's Paid In Full
Eric B. & Rakim Follow The Leader
Slick rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Slick rick The Art of Storytelling
Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East
The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride
Special Ed - Youngest in Charge
D-Nice crumbs on the table

allot more that I am forgetting
time to go dig out some casette

[darkkent]

epmd - strictly business

ll cool j - radio

beastie boys - pauls boutique

special ed - youngest in charge

slick rick - the adventures of slick rick

[Manhattan]

Beastie boys - License to ill
2pac - Me against the world
Outkast - Southerplayalisticadillacmusik
Mobb deep - The infamous
Black moon - Enta da stage
Notorious BIG - Life after death
Common - Resurrection

Golden age hip hop

[Pacman]

Originally posted by claxx
3rd base - the cactus album

That's was the first CD I ever bought. It was 1989 and until then most stuff was still coming on cassette tapes.

That's one album I still listen to on a regular basis.

[Mixalot27]

Scarface of the Geto Boys - Mr. Scarface is Back
Scarface - The diary
Gravediggaz - 6 feet deep
Luniz - Operation Stackola
Ice Cube- Bootlegs and B-sides
Eazy E - It's On 187um Killa
Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in tha Mist

[rage2]

Originally posted by darkkent
beastie boys - pauls boutique

2 year bump...

Just found this album cleaning up my basement, what an epic album beginning to end. Still remember how to rap 1/2 the album haha.

[Troll-ol]

Snoop dogg- doggystyle
Dre - chronic 2001
2pac - all eyez on me
Three 6 mafia - most known unknown
Too short
The game - documentary

[lison]

Any Wu Tang album.

[dynamo]

GZA - Liquid swords