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essential hip-hop

debaser
over 8 years

which hip-hop albums would you consider essential to a hip-hop listener today?

btw there is no release date requirement, think of this thread as a "beginner's guide to hip-hop" thing

most influential hip-hop album of all time?
7
Illmatic
4
other
3
Low End Theory
2
Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
2
Run-DMC
1
The Chronic
1
Fear of a Black Planet
0
The Blueprint
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaPDNgUPLE
Sims
over 8 years
as far as influential goes, probably illmatic, but i like a tribe called quest better than nas so i voted for low end theory

for me midnight marauders holds up better than low end theory though even though it came out a year before and is normally overshadowed by low end theory. a lot of tribe records really sound dated to me
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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing..... too
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Madvillainy is a must
debaser
over 8 years
whoops Straight Outta Compton isn't on this poll wtf is wrong with me