Top 3 Hip Hop Albums of All Time

1. Moment Of Truth -- best Hip-Hop album ever, you can't fuck with that
2. Illmatic
3. Apocalypse '91, The Enemy Stikes Black

4. Liquid Swords

1 36 Chambers
2 Ready to Die
3 Liquid Swords

Nas - Illmatic
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full[1987]
and i think deserves mention: LL Cool J - Radio[1985] Considered One Of the first proper hip hop LPs and lyrics are not bad considering the time.

Cuban linx
Liquid Swords
36 Chambers

there are many all time classics outside of wu-tang too....check these out:


Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Illadeplh Halflife - The Roots
Illmatic - NaS
The Infamous - Mobb Deep
Sun Rises in the East - Jeru the Damaja
It Takes A Nation of Millons.... - Public Enemy
The Low End Theory- A Tribe Called Quest
Mecca & the Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
Opreration Doomsday - MF DOOM
Whut? Thee Album - Redman

i mean ok...i wudnt consider dem all all time great but there all classics in one way or another...if any1 is lukin 4 deses albums den jus contact me nd ill send em to ya..peace

This is always a tough one. Theres too many dope albums to compound to top 3 status but I'll say........

1. Enter the Wu-tang(36 Chambers)
2. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
3. Operation Doomsday

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Originally Posted by sean michael

not really original, there just the hip hop albums from my collection that i enjoy listening to the most.

im not sure if that is the same as the greatest...?

but i dont see the point in listing Illmatic, Liquid Swords or OB4CL if i prefer other albums over them.

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yeah I meant that...almost every list here has Enter, Illmatic or OB4CL ;) ...nice to c something more diverse than that

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Originally Posted by Slick

This is very hard for me to do...but to me if i had to pick 3 off the top of my dome that are the most important to me, it'd probably be something along the lines of...

1. 36
2. Enta Da Stage
3. Liquid Swords

Runner ups:

1. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
2. 6 Feet Deep
3. Black Sunday
4. Iron Man
5. Illmatic
6. Tical
7. Sun Rises In The East
8. Infamous
9. Breaking Atoms
10. Ready To Die
11. Chronic
12. Doggystyle
13. Dah Shining
14. Hard To Earn
15. Daily Operation
16. Operation Doomsday
17. Lifestyles Of The Poor & Dangerous
18. East 1999
19. The Low End Theory
20. Capital Punishment
21. The Score
22. 3 Feet High & Rising
23. Roxbury 02119
24. Hold It Down
25. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
26. The Main Ingredient
27. Mecca & the Soul Brother
28. Stunts Blunts & Hip Hop
29. Supreme Clientele
30. Bakdafukup
31. Forever
32. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
33. Strictly For My Niggas
34. Noone Can Do It Better
35. Hell On Earth
36. 93 Til Infinity

and so on.......i could keep this list going for days
thats why this thread is so hard which makes it kind of suck.

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You goddamn right!:mmmyah:

1. Cuban Linx

2. Illmatic

3. Liquid Swords / 36 Chambers

me against the world
only built 4 cuban linx
violent by design

Midnight Marauders
36 Chambers
Illmatic

Loads more, and that will probably change in a while.

illmatic
liquid swords
black on both sides

Gravediggaz- Niggomortis,
Ghostface- Supreme Clientele
Wu- Tang - Forever.

thats my 3!!

1. Outkast "Aquemini"
2. Wu-Tang Clan "36 Chambers"
3. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper"

Honorable mentions

Gang Starr "Moment Of Truth"
Onyx "Bacdafucup"

36 Chambers
A War Story Book 1
OB4CL

Hon mentions::
Lets Get Free - dead prez
Chronic - Dre
Die Rugged Man Die
The Future Is Now - non phixion
A Long Hot Summer - masta ace
The Infamous - mobb deep
Liquid Swords
Illmatic - Nas
Nation Of Millions - public enemy
Wu Tang Forever
Black Sunday - cypress hill
Which Doobie U B - funkdoobiest
Capital Punishment - pun
Me Against The World - 2pac

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Originally Posted by noel411

It's a very standard, cliche sort of question, but I'm interested to see what people list, because aside from Illmatic there doesn't really seem to be any other albums which are definitively considered GOAT by a majority of hip hop fans. Anyway, I'm gonna have to list 4 since I have a 2 way tie for 1st and a 2 way tie for 3rd.

1. Liquid Swords / Forever
3. Cuban Linx / 36 Chambers

I'm not a Wu dick rider or anything, but I am of the opinion that their early classics are untouchable.

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You're kind of defeating the purpose of calling it a 'top 3' when you, the creator, don't even have 3. you got 4 or 2, depending on how you cross it up. What the fuuuuuck, man.

1. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecolygist
2. It's a Big Daddy Thing - Big Daddy Kane
3. Dare Iz a Darkside - Redman

1-Illmatic
2-Paid In Full
3-Liquid Swords

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Originally Posted by 11th Chamber

IMO, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is the greatest hip-hop album of all time.

I got like 10 albums on my mind that could be in 2nd and 3rd place, so who knows

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Co-sign.

1. Illmatic
2. 36 Chambers
3. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

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Originally Posted by SCHMERK

36 Chambers
A War Story Book 1
OB4CL

Hon mentions::
Lets Get Free - dead prez
Chronic - Dre
Die Rugged Man Die
The Future Is Now - non phixion
A Long Hot Summer - masta ace
The Infamous - mobb deep
Liquid Swords
Illmatic - Nas
Nation Of Millions - public enemy
Wu Tang Forever
Black Sunday - cypress hill
Which Doobie U B - funkdoobiest
Capital Punishment - pun
Me Against The World - 2pac

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someone always gotta add their extra favorites

1. 36 Chambers
2. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
3. Illmatic