Top 10 Hip Hop Albums of the 90s

Описание: This is my personal opinion of the top 10 Hip Hop albums of the 90s. I base my choices on production and lyrics, not record sales or popularity.



Thanks for all the responses. A lot of you have questioned some of my choices and I respect differences in opinion. Ready To Die, Reasonable Doubt, and 36 Chambers are the three albums I see a lot of people questioning why they are not on the list.


1. Ready To Die: Although this album is not on the list I did purchase it the week it dropped and I still love it today. If you were of club age at that time you already know that every DJ played cuts from this album every 10 minutes. Plus the radio DJ's would not give it a rest either. It got to the point you could turn to three different radio stations and hear "Big Poppa" playing. Then everyone in your building was playing the album, on the train, in cars. Basically I overdoes on the album. Puffy being in every video didn't help either.


2. Reasonable Doubt: This album was definitely a banger and I especially loved "Regrets". The biggest problem with the album is Jay tried to make another Illmatic. Illmatic had a great influence on Jay and he tried to make a street hustling - crime scene - cocaine on the triple beam, type album and Nas had already closed that chapter. There were other albums out at the time that were more unique. Maybe on a top 25 list it would have made it. By the way, Reasonable Doubt is Jay's hottest joint.


3. 36 Chambers: I don't really have a good excuse for not having this on the list. Basically I slept on Wu when they came out. I just could not get with the 8 Emcees in one group thing. I was not until the Wu started dropping individual albums (all bangers) that I started to go back and listen to 36. So 36 should be on there.