My Top-25 Hip-Hop Albums

All the cool kids are doing it. The dudes from Passion of the Weiss & Straight Bangin’ want all the bloggers to make a list of their top 25 hip-hop albums. It is extremely, extremely hard to do. You don’t realize it till you can’t fit in that KRS-One or that Jay-Z album that touched your life into the list. I have weird tastes. I don’t care whether or not your a pioneer or a legend to the game. I have my favorites, my guilty pleasures. I’m kind of pissed I don’t have Kurtis Blow or Big Pun and a dozen others in it. Or the fact The Score was the first album I ever bought when CDS were first coming out. Why wasn’t there a top 100?

25. Peanut Butter Wolf: My Vinyl Weighs a Ton

MP3: Peanut Butter Wolf: Styles Crew Flows Beat

24. Outerspace: Blood & Ashes

MP3: Outerspace: The Revolution

23. Aesop Rock: Labor Days

MP3: Aesop Rock: Daylight

22. Grandmaster Flash the Furious Five Grandmaster Melle Mel

MP3: Grandmaster Flash: New York New York

21. Tupac: Loyal to the Game

MP3: Tupac: Ghetto Gospel

20. Big L: The Big Picture

MP3: Big L: 98′ Freestyle

19. Blackalicious: The Craft

MP3: Blackalicious: Black Diamonds & Pearls

18. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Art of War

MP3: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Body Rot

17. Killah Priest: Heavy Mental

MP3: Killah Priest: B.I.B.L.E.

16. Madvillain: Madvillainy

MP3: Madvillain: Fancy Clown

15. Ice-T: OG Original Gangster

MP3: Ice-T: Original Gangster

14. Rappin’ 4-Tay: Don’t Fight The Feelin

MP3: Rappin’ 4-Tay: I’ll Be Around (!!!!)

13. Jurassic 5: Quality Control

MP3: Jurassic 5: Great Expectations

12. Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

MP3: Public Enemy: Night of The Living Baseheads

11. LL Cool J: Bigger and Deffer

MP3: LL Cool J: Go Cut Creator Go

10. Mase: Harlem World

MP3: Mase: Lookin’ At Me

9. Wu-Tang Clan: Disciples of the 36 Chambers

MP3: Wu-Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M.

8. Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein

MP3: Cannibal Ox: Stress Rap

7. Run-DMC: Raising Hell

MP3: Run-DMC: My Adidas

6. Ghostface Killah: The Pretty Toney Album

MP3: Ghostface: Metal Lungies

5. GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords

MP3: GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords

4. Cunninlynguists: Southernunderground

MP3: Cunninlynguists: Seasons

3. Nas: Illmatic

MP3: Nas: Life’s A Bitch

2. Immortal Technique: Revolutionary, Vol. 2

MP3: Immortal Technique: Freedom of Speech

1. Jedi Mind Tricks: Violent By Design

MP3: Jedi Mind Tricks: Heavenly Divine

(Oh shittt, son really put Mase in the top 10? And LL COOL J? For realsss?)