It's that time of year again, that time when we roll out our best features of the past year so we can go out and shop and whoop it up at holiday parties and look around the neighborhood to see how many kids are building surly-looking Young Jeezy-inspired snowmen. Read on, we promise this is a good one.
#10: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and "Don't Believe the Hype" alone make the album a classic. The Shocklee brothers' musical grenades were perfect accomplices to Chuck D's whirlwind revelations. Flavor Flav's buoyant personality could never be replicated.
#9: Tupac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
The last album that Tupac recorded while he was alive. He wrote his hardest, his realest and some of his most poignant rhymes ever. It was the album that made the world shake for about a year after it came out.
#8: Ice Cube - Death Certificate
The opus that made Ice Cube public enemy number one in the eyes of the mainstream. Cube brought back all his gangsta sensibilities and posturing from the N.W.A and AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted days and mixed it with his newfound social-activist stances.
#7: N.W.A - N---az4life
Killing hookers, firing shots at "Benedict Arnold" and yelling "F--- the feds." Did you really think that hip-hop's most beloved bad guys would return any less abrasive with their second full-length? Losing their best lyricist could have easily caused the brash collective to fold. What did they do? Eazy talked even more reckless, Ren spit harder and Dre began to perfect his production craft.
#6: Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Obviously Jay-Z grew as an artist since his entrance into the game; however, he pieced together a flawless masterpiece the first time around. It was the hustlers' soundtrack, but even if you had that legit income, you had no choice but to be captivated by Hov's words.
#5: Run-DMC - Raising Hell
They already put Queens on the map, and this album put hip-hop on the globe. Kids from Asia and Africa as well as America were throwing on their Adidas and Lee jeans to be like Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay. Run-DMC also opened the doors for the rock and roll/hip-hop hybrids that maintain status on the charts today
#4: Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Biggie mastered the game. Like Chuck D, his voice was so unique that all he had to do was utter an ad-lib like "Ugh" and you automatically knew it was him. Match that with rhymes that left most lyricists with sleepless nights and a delivery that flowed like a 1987 L.A. Lakers fast break and you have the impeccable birth of one of hip-hop's most beloved geniuses.
#3: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Arguably the best produced hip-hop album ever. Dr. Dre gave Snoop Dogg a full-thrust introduction to the universe, and the two proved to be hip-hop's most formidable duo.
#2: Nas - Illmatic
Illmatic could have easily been called The Blueprint when it was released in 1994. Nas used five of the best producers at the time to lay the soundscape for his groundbreaking lyricism, creating the new hip-hop LP template. He was heralded as the second coming of Rakim.
#1: Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
With all the arguments our brain trust had during this endeavor to come up with the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, you would think that it would have been a knock-down, drag-out affair when it came to declaring numero uno, right? Nope. When the tally was finally done and it became clear that Paid in Full was #1, not a peep was heard.
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salah satu dari album tersebut gue punya :)
-nyombong dikit-
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