Top 50 rap albums of the decade...(according to hip hop blog Passion of the Weiss)

[dapper d]

The '00s was the decade hip-hop took over, splintered into a thousand offshoots and ideas, and became something wild and utterly unconstrained. No singlenarrative could capture this decade, and this list does not attempt to. Over the past ten years, the genre decentralized completely, with scenes all overAmerica, and indeed the world, as culturally and artistically important as the New York boroughs that birthed it. Novelty bumped up against art, autotune andfinger snaps filtered through chipmunk soul and boom-bap throwback, and the entire culture was declared dead and still kicking too many times to count. Whatour list says about the '00s is that, just as with the decades before it, there is a wealth of great music still being made. While editing this list, Iwould find records that received only a handful of votes vying against albums that nearly all of us agreed were worthy of recognition, and among each of thesewas music worth recognizing, revisiting and relishing. We could have published a Top 100 and still failed to find every disc warranting inclusion, but I haveno doubt that the fifty we count down this week are a worthwhile, if necessarily incomplete summary of the decade. Enjoy.

-Jonathan Bradley, Feature Editor

50. Deltron 303 - Self-titled
49. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
48. DOOM - Born Like This
47. Cam'ron - Purple Haze
46. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
45. Blu And Exile - Below The Heavens
44. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
43. TI - King
42. Quasimoto - The Unseen
41. De La Soul - The Grind Date
40. Nas - The Lost Tapes
39. UGK - Underground Kings
38. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
37. El-P - Fantastic Damage
36. Little Brother - The Listening
35. Lil Wayne - The Carter III
34. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
33. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
32. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
31. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
30. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
29. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
28. The Game - The Documentary
27. Edan - Beauty And The Beast
26. Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
25. Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
24. MF DOOM - MM..Food
23. The Roots - Game Theory
22. M.O.P. - Warriorz
21. Common - Like Water For Chocolate
20. Common - Be
19. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
18. Clipse - Lord Willin
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
16. Nas - Stillmatic
15. Reflection Eternal - Train Of Thought
14. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
13. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
12. Scarface - The Fix
11. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. 50 Cent - GRODT
9. J Dilla - Donuts
8. Jay-Z - The Black Album
7. Kanye West - Graduation
6. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
5. Outkast - Stankonia
4. Kanye West - College Dropout
3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
2. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint

http://passionweiss.com/2...albums-of-the-00s-50-41/

There's a good explantation of each pick at the site...
I don't necessary agree wit the list but its the first of its kind I seen and a pretty noble attempt...

 

[miketysonthekiller]

Below the Heavens should be higher in that list.

 

[Lizakers]

Originally Posted by Dapper D

47. Cam'ron - Purple Haze
43. TI - King
39. UGK - Underground Kings
38. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
35. Lil Wayne - The Carter III
31. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
29. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
18. Clipse - Lord Willin
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
10. 50 Cent - GRODT

these are the only ones I don't have

who is The Streets?

good list though

 

[blahzee]

11. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. 50 Cent - GRODT
7. Kanye West - Graduation

 

[starkyl0ve]

Looks like they just took all the popular mainstream and backpack choices and lumped them all onto one list.

 

[the gr8]

7. Kanye West - Graduation
Should be lower... wasnt even Ye's 2nd best album

16. Nas - Stillmatic

40. Nas - The Lost Tapes
Both should be WAY higher.

at some of the garbage albums ranked higher than The Lost Tapes. And where the **@+ is God'S Son??!!

at the Nas hate

20. Common - Be
shouldnt be out of top 5 imo

not feeling all the Hov/Ghostface riding

my top 10

1. College Dropout- Kanye West
2. Be- Common
3. Stillmatic- Nas
4. Blueprint- Jay-Z
5. Stankonia- Outkast
6. Food & Liquor- Lupe Fiasco
7. Black Album- Jay-Z
8. Get Rich or Die Trying- 50 Cent
8. God's Son- Nas
10. Come Home With Me- Cam'Ron
HM- Supreme Clientele, Marshall Matters LP, The Lost tapes, Trap Musik

 

[gentry187]

Hate him or love him, ja rule should have at least 1 album up there. I'm sayin'.

 

[miamin2]

If you're gonna put a Weezy album in there, C1 & C2 >>>>>>>>>>>C3

 

[miketysonthekiller]

I'm sorry, but how can you not have Below The Heavens on that top ten. Album is amazing, but I guess we all have different taste's.

 

[bmorekicks]

Trap Muzik?

 

[scotthallwithapick]

Originally Posted by MikeTysontheKiller

I'm sorry, but how can you not have Below The Heavens on that top ten. Album is amazing, but I guess we all have different taste's.

Stop it that is not a top 10 hip hop album of the last 10 years. Great album but no

And I'm a post the ones I think are foolish
9. J Dilla - Donuts
7. Kanye West - Graduation
14. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
19. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
27. Edan - Beauty And The Beast (Never heard it but I'm pretty sure it doesn't belong

)

 

[dipsetgeneral]

List is Wrong all over the place... close this thread...

 

[boomatic206]

There's 4 and a half months left in this decade.

Will Detox be released in time??

 

[starkyl0ve]

Why not.. here's my list at the moment



20. Blueprint
19. Untitled
18. Common - Be
17. Cunninglynguist - Dirty Acres
16. JMT - Violent By Design
15. .Kanye West - College Dropout
14. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
13. Common - Like Water For Chocolate
12. Foreign Exchange - Connected
11.Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
10. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
9. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
8. Nas - The Lost Tapes
7. Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
6. Blu And Exile - Below The Heavens
5. Reflection Eternal - Train Of Thought
4. Hell Razahp - Razah's Ladder
3. Scarface - The Fix
2. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
1. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

Honorable Mention to:

Carter 1
Black Album
Stillmatic
The Listening

 

[venom lyrix]

how is Wale's mixtape there (it is good) but Joe Budden's MM2 not there...SMH

 

[blacklion23]

This list sucks. I'm Serious, Trap Muzik, and Urban Legend were better than the King album. The first two Carters were better than the third especially thefirst one. And what about Luda's Chicken and Beer? I probably would put College Dropout over The Blueprint. The Marshall Mathers LP should be higher. Thislist is just too wrong. Some of these artist and albums I have never even heard of.

 

[13saldana13]

I can't respect this list, too biased.

 

[scotthallwithapick]

Wait Wale's mixtape made it?

 

[homeboy d]

Originally Posted by miamin2


If you're gonna put a Weezy album in there, C1 & C2 >>>>>>>>>>>C3

Word, they put the worst Carter up there

 

[beatjunkie5]

Originally Posted by ScottHallWithAPick

Wait Wale's mixtape made it?

I didn't even notice that at first either...

 

[lb510]

Originally Posted by bmorekicks

Trap Muzik?

*DEAD*

Overall the list is ok. Where is the WU and the Roots

 

[thejumpfather]

50 went hard back in the day

 

[blkflipkid]

man, where's e. 99 from bone thugs? or even the score from the fugees. didn't it sell like 18 mil world wide

 

[thejumpfather]

bone thugs east 99 is from the 90s not the past decade but still is better than alot of new rap

 

[eightysbaby]

Originally Posted by Dapper D

35. Lil Wayne - The Carter III

Not sure why this even made the list...I dont care how much it sold.

29. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
[h3]Top 50 rap albums of the decade[/h3]

16. Nas - Stillmatic
Should also be top 5

10. 50 Cent - GRODT
Should be top 5

7. Kanye West - Graduation
Not sure why this is 7th.




Where is Ready to Die,Only Built for a Cuban links,etc

!$$$ this list

If your gonna put Wale's mixtape might as well throw Drake's "So Far Gone" mixtape on there