ILM Best Rap Albums of all Time Part 2 - 75 - 51

Cypress Hill. Pigs is one of my favourite rap album opening tracks.

Blaqkout!!!!!!!

I think the first ATCQ is still my favorite of them. Otherwise I was going for The Sun Rises In The East. Relatively few albums here in my regular rotation.

For a new poll, I think 2010-2019 would be cool. More than re-evaluating the classics, which the previous poll did a good job with: 4 full decades is a lot to cover. Or do 2000-2020 maybe, and then if if works well, you can redo 1980-2000. Or or or, I don't know.

Hmm, 00-20 seems like an interesting possibility

As much as I love ATCQ, my 16 year old self dictates me to vote 'Ironman'.

Soul food

How is Donuts on this list? There's no raps.

Dilla is as hip hop as it gets. If Premo or Pete Rock or Zaytoven or whoever made an instrumental record, surely it would still only ever be in the one genre? Sampling old records in a new, constructive manner to make beats... well it’s not country music is it?

If you find that hard to deal with, wait till the next poll and then get even more annoyed!

I love instrumental yodeling albums

probably listen to King, Soulfood, Blaqkout, Ironman and OG the most these days. my heart is saying soulfood.

hip hop vs rap. not that I care that Dilla was included.

i think i probably put up a stink about it when this rolled out but i cant remember now. havent listened to donuts in a long time.

Surely we can all be above such a silly genre name exercise at this point? Or does the 1975 having a bit of rapping on their new album make them more valid than dilla’s instrumental hip hop record

i dont care to argue it either way in 2020

I wouldn't call Donuts a rap album, cause there's no rapping on it, but yeah I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. I think lot of ppl go with Rap over Hip Hop cause it's 1 less syllable, 3 less letters.

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lol uh... black star is not that great!

4 great tracks and skip the rest. cant believe it won this.

didn't vote in this one, probably should have voted Soul Food, though I think I listen to Still Standing more often.

xp those four tracks are really really good tho

(don't blame me, i voted for the goodie mob)

Forgot to vote but I would have gone with Critical Beatdown.

I prefer Stress: Extinction Agenda to this Organized Konfusion alb

Big L album had great rhymes, crap beats, and The Big Picture was much better

BLACK STAH

xp those four tracks are really really good tho

― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:31 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

right, but still

sad nobody voted Jeru

No votes for both Ghostface Killahs !

Ironman was my second choice, woulda voted for it if I knew no one else was leaning that way

still think it’s rza’s strongest effort behind the boards

Black Star ? i don't even know you people!

If I knew Critical Beatdown would have gotten 2nd place either way I would have gone with Dr Octagon