Hip-Hop bloggers' favorite rap albums evar
Remember Joey from Straigt Bangin' and Jeff from Passion of the Weiss were putting together a list of the 25 greatest hip-hop albums of all time? I posted mine here and at XXL a few weeks ago. Well, they finally finished compiling everyone's lists (there were 101 in all) and today they've posted the final list based on everyone's submissions.
Here's the top 10:
- Nas, Illmatic
- Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
- Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die
- Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
- Dr. Dre, The Chronic
- Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders
- A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory
- Eric B. & Rakim, Paid in Full
- Mobb Deep, The Infamous
Not a bad list, if I can say so myself. Of the top 10, I had 9 on my list. And overall, 17 of the albums I picked made the top 25. That means I won, right? I'd say it's definitely skewed towards the early to mid '90s rather than, say, the late '80s. If I'm not mistaken, myself, Passion and Bangin' are all roughly the same age, and there must be quite a few of us hip-hop bloggers in that mid to late 20s age range.
You can check Straight Bangin' or Passion of the Weiss for further (somewhat more erudite) analysis as well as a spreadsheet with all of the facts and figures. Weiss also has audio samples, in case you're still wondering how Illmatic sounds 13 years after the fact.
