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Jane's Favorite Rap Albums - By Popular Demand
FIRST OF ALL
let me begin by saying that I am absolutely not an expert on hip-hop (the music or the culture that surrounds it) in any way, shape or form, if you're looking to get into the genre from the ground up, there are tons of lists out there to help you out (the HipHopHeads community on reddit has a pretty good one, though it's also quite splotchy. My understanding is that they're working on a better one).
There are tons of reasons my words on the genre shouldn't be taken as gospel, I am, among other things, fairly young (hip-hop emerged in the 70s, I was born in 1994), white (hip-hop is a primarily African-American genre and despite the number of white or otherwise non-black rappers active and indeed, on this very list, that is not going to change), and live in an area that is fairly hip-hop devoid (not too many people are repping the Pocono Mountains, though there are some). This is, plain and simple, a guide to my personal tastes as far as the genre goes. Even within my fairly narrow wheelhouse, I'm not an expert, so take everything you read here with a grain of salt, I am sometimes wrong about things.
I've divided the rappers and producers below into a couple loose categories, based on similar sound, musical philosophy, time period, or geography (or a combination of these ). Artists are then listed alphabetically.
And I'm going to be extremely real with you guys, I started out writing up bios for each artist and descriptions of each album, but that shit takes forever and I got bored by the time I was done with El-P's, so what you have below is a list, sorted by scene.
Late 90s / 2000s Underground / "Backpacker"
- Aesop Rock - Labor Days
- Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
- Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
- BlackStar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are....BlackStar
- Cage - Movies For The Blind
- Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
- cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
- Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Both Sides of The Brain
- Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
- DJ Krush - Zen
- DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
- DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
- DJ Vadim - USSR Repetoire - The Theory of Verticality
- Edan - Beauty & The Beat
- El-P - Fantastic Damage
- Genelec & Memphis Reigns - Scorpion Circles
- MF DOOM - Operation: DOOMsday
- MF DOOM - MM....Food
- MF DOOM (as Viktor Vaughn) - Vaudeville Villain
- Madvillain (MF DOOM x Madlib) - Madvillainy
- Madlib - Beat Konducta (an album series, they're all good)
- J Dilla - Donuts
- Jaylib (Madlib x J Dilla) - Champion Sound
- Lootpack - Soundpieces: da Antidote
- Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
- Quasimoto - The Unseen
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- Big L - Livestyles ov da Poor & Dangerous
- Big L - Big Picture
- Blahzay Blahzay - BLAH BLAH
- Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
- De La Soul - 3 Ft. High & Rising
- Del The Funky Homosapien - No Need For Alarm
- Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
- Nas - Illmatic
- Pete Rock - Petestrumentals
- Smif-n-Wessun - Dah Shinin'
- Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
- Gza - Liquid Swords
- Ghostface Killah - Ironman
- Method Man - Tical
2000s Pop Rapi have like 10 albums on here and they are good albums
there's a lot on here i haven't heard yet
so thats something to look forward to
but id be interested, for sure
i should branch out more, its just knowing where to start