Xzibits discography is highly underrated.
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For me Nas, Tupac (just the stuff he released when alive, i like his older stuff too), Ice Cube, Outkast and Kendrick if he keeps it up but great start so far.
Cube's first four solo albums, the quality is so consistently high. Hard to look past him.
Common's run of Resurrection - One Day It'll All Make Sense - Like Water for Chocolate - is as good a three album run as I know about in hip-hop. Best thing is each record has a completely different feel and mood to it.
Biggie has the perfect discography.
Kanye was a close second up until Pablo (for me)
Kendrick has had no album that’s below 7/10 thus far.
All of those are definitely on the list, for me.
I’m imagining a playlist where every single song is on it, how often am I going to skip tracks?
For those 3 above, very few skippable tracks in comparison to how many songs they’ve made.
Which I think is important, you can make 3 classic albums but if you’ve got 5 others which are forgettable then your discography as a whole isn’t the best.
I wasn’t the biggest jay z fan growing up, so I’m not gonna pretend as though I heard all of the volumes, and I definitely didn’t care for magna carter, American gangster, blueprint 3 etc beyond the singles - so I can’t say he deserves it. Same story for Eminem.
Tupac’s albums have an incredible amount of filler.
Nas is on my personal list, but I can’t say a lot of people appreciated albums like Gods son, Untitled, Hip Hop is dead or Life is good.
It’s a tough question.
I think DMX should be in consideration, I like the shoutouts for Redman and Xzhibit
Mos Def, Talib, Q-Tip up there as well, Big L too.
I’m gonna say Ghostfce and Scarface for the other two spots.
They’ve managed to remain ridiculously consistent throughout their careers while releasing a lot of albums, and that’s not including their collaborative work either.
Kanye was a close second up until Pablo (for me)
Kendrick has had no album that’s below 7/10 thus far.
All of those are definitely on the list, for me.
I’m imagining a playlist where every single song is on it, how often am I going to skip tracks?
For those 3 above, very few skippable tracks in comparison to how many songs they’ve made.
Which I think is important, you can make 3 classic albums but if you’ve got 5 others which are forgettable then your discography as a whole isn’t the best.
I wasn’t the biggest jay z fan growing up, so I’m not gonna pretend as though I heard all of the volumes, and I definitely didn’t care for magna carter, American gangster, blueprint 3 etc beyond the singles - so I can’t say he deserves it. Same story for Eminem.
Tupac’s albums have an incredible amount of filler.
Nas is on my personal list, but I can’t say a lot of people appreciated albums like Gods son, Untitled, Hip Hop is dead or Life is good.
It’s a tough question.
I think DMX should be in consideration, I like the shoutouts for Redman and Xzhibit
Mos Def, Talib, Q-Tip up there as well, Big L too.
I’m gonna say Ghostfce and Scarface for the other two spots.
They’ve managed to remain ridiculously consistent throughout their careers while releasing a lot of albums, and that’s not including their collaborative work either.
Only problem with Biggie is that he hasn't got enough albums, obviously not his fault but 2 (3 if you count life after death as 2) is not much.
Agree with most of this except the nas part. If we're talking discography, all those albums you mentioned in addition to it was written, stillmatic, his work with the firm are all considered top class, even if retrospectively. The problem is nothing he can do will ever live up to Illmatic so it's kind of underwhelming in the moment. If we're looking at his overall body of work I honestly don't think anyone else can compete.
Tupac became the character he portrayed. As for Hammer, he downplayed his gang links, the others rapped a lot of bollocks about their lives. Anyway remember Tim Dog? Was he proper gangster? He used to love dissing mocking cussing the whole of LA.
If it was my personal list then Nas would absolutely be on there, the only albums I don’t like are Nastradamus, and bits of I am & Streets Disciple - everything else is at least 7/10 in my personal taste.
I tried to be objective and pick the best discographies rather than my favourites.
While also being quite varied in styles of music and a mix of older stuff and more current stuff too.
Not the whole of LA. Just NWA and DJ Quik. Later he was also good with Cube.
I thought we were still going with the ignoring Nas, Biggie, 2pac, Eminem and Jay-Z
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Yeah I can see where you're coming from. I like his diversity, album to album and I think lyrically he's remained consistent. Streets disciple is actually one of my favourite nas albums but that's probably an unpopular opinion.
I'll be honest, I don't really listen to a lot of the new stuff. Outside of Drake, Cole, Gucci and a touch of Migos, the only current hip hop I listen to is from the old heads e.g. Jadakiss, Raekwon, The Game etc. My taste is very east coast centric ha, and the South holds the most influence currently.
I don't think he did, sadly. You can't fake that realness and you can't start late. Tim Dog was a legend! Loved that 'feck Compton' joint.
If you've listened to Reasonable doubt, The first Blueprint and the Black album alone I can't see how you wouldn't at the least have Jigga up for consideration. IMO Xzibit hasn't put out a body of work as good as any of those iconic albums, as good as Restless and At the Speed of life were.
DOOM: Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villian, Madvilliany, MM...Food, The Mouse and the Mask all genuinely top albums. 2 definite classics.
Played Uptown Saturday Night to death when it came out and it's still a great album .
Their flows were amazing
I'm going with Ghost again for discography. Raekwon and GZA have albums that are considered classics of the genre in Cuban Linx and Liquid Swords. The critical acclaim both records received smoke any individual release Ghost has done in his own name.
That said, I don't think Ghost has released an LP that isn't worth your attention. His output is incredibly consistent, whereas Raekwon and GZA have a number of duds in their catalogue. I've got every Ghost record and there isn't one I wouldn't want to listen to front to back. They're all rock solid, despite a lack of true classics.
The Twelve Reasons To Die records are particularly underrated, in my opinion. I love that over-egged comic book story. They both have some of the best production in modern hip hop too. Adrian Younge is the man.
That said, I don't think Ghost has released an LP that isn't worth your attention. His output is incredibly consistent, whereas Raekwon and GZA have a number of duds in their catalogue. I've got every Ghost record and there isn't one I wouldn't want to listen to front to back. They're all rock solid, despite a lack of true classics.
The Twelve Reasons To Die records are particularly underrated, in my opinion. I love that over-egged comic book story. They both have some of the best production in modern hip hop too. Adrian Younge is the man.
Nah that was just the original question in the OP.
There's plenty of great hip-hop you could get into, you might like Joey Bada$$ for example.
It would be a shame if you only relied on listening to old school stuff.
He's up for consideration sure, but I don't think he's as guaranteed as Biggie, Kendrick, Kanye, Ghost & Scarface.
All of them either have a similar amount of albums with more consistency, or less albums with much higher quality.
Jay & Nas' discography's are similar in quality and longevity, but their longevity has also led to a few albums that we could've done without.
His life being cut short obviously didn't help but I wouldn't put BIG's discography up there. He's got an all time classic and one other very, very good album but that's it. I reckon Born Again features more verses from guest stars than him and its largely fluffy-commercial stuff (which is fair enough given the proceeds go to his kids I guess) Rap Phenomenon is a tune though
Ghosts discography is near flawless with only bulletproof struggling on account of the sampling issues it had, if it had featured the original tracks that were later released(the watch, the sun, maxine) you could be talking a 7 album run before the (comparatively) underwhelming ghostdini
On a similar subject has any hiphop artist nailed the double album? Life after death comes close but both discs sag in the middle for me. R U still down is arguably Pacs best album but its more a compilation really. Wu Tang Forever maybe. Doesn't seem to be something artists try much nowadays, perhaps a product of the change in distribution methods
Ghosts discography is near flawless with only bulletproof struggling on account of the sampling issues it had, if it had featured the original tracks that were later released(the watch, the sun, maxine) you could be talking a 7 album run before the (comparatively) underwhelming ghostdini
On a similar subject has any hiphop artist nailed the double album? Life after death comes close but both discs sag in the middle for me. R U still down is arguably Pacs best album but its more a compilation really. Wu Tang Forever maybe. Doesn't seem to be something artists try much nowadays, perhaps a product of the change in distribution methods
Used to think it was a bit of a flop back in the 90s, but the more I go back to it in the last few years the more and more I think it's a classic.
I'm exactly the same with it which makes me suspect it's more a case of nostalgia / getting old on my part
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The quality of the material from his best albums is enough to guarantee him a spot IMO. I also wonder how you can say with absolute certainty in your mind that he can't be guaranteed a spot among the absolute best when you admit to not even listening to the volumes in full. Those were some of his best albums, that was golden age Jigga!
I feel this deserves to be in here.
Sean Price should be on people's lists: 4 official studio albums: Monkey Barz, Jesus Price Superstar, Mic Tyson, Imperius Rex. All par Mic Tyson are 5/5 to me, which was full of good tracks too but as an album it felt a bit disjointed somehow.
The mixtapes were all dope as well, specially Donkey Sean Jr is a fecking classic. Still listen to it on monthly basis.
The mixtapes were all dope as well, specially Donkey Sean Jr is a fecking classic. Still listen to it on monthly basis.
I'd say its rated fine, not great but good.
Pharoahe´s verse on this is top 5 verse ever
In no particular order for me, solo artists, I'd go with: Busta Rhymes, Rakim, Ice Cube, Andre 3000, Nate Dogg
Replace Jay-Z in the OP (not Nas) with Rakim please
Guru (Gangstarr)
Chuck D
+ 3 others I can't think of right now.
Guru is my personal fav. Step into the Arena is my favourite hip hop album of all time.
Chuck D
+ 3 others I can't think of right now.
Guru is my personal fav. Step into the Arena is my favourite hip hop album of all time.
Marshall Mathers
Slim Shady
The white guy from D12
B-Rabbit
Stan
Shamelessly stolen from various memes
Slim Shady
The white guy from D12
B-Rabbit
Stan
Shamelessly stolen from various memes
Eminem is also pretty good.
He is but the OP said without naming Eminem
Stan is the odd one out.
Damn, shame on me for not reading the OP.
Apologies for bumping an old thread but seemed pointless to start a new one.
Lauryn Hill
Black Thought
Kendrick
Ghostface
Andre 3000
Lauryn Hill
Black Thought
Kendrick
Ghostface
Andre 3000
These lists are usually personal preference based. As of today for me:
Kendrick
Nas
Andre 3000
Jay Z
Mos Def
excluding Eminem obviously.
Kendrick
Nas
Andre 3000
Jay Z
Mos Def
excluding Eminem obviously.
Akala
Joe Budden
Mic Righteous
Royce Da 5'9"
Lupe Fiasco
Joe Budden
Mic Righteous
Royce Da 5'9"
Lupe Fiasco