What are albums one must listen to in order to consider themselves hip-hop fans?

[Teddy Roosevelt]

So I can make sure that I've listened to them all.

[floatin_above_everything]

36 Chambers
The Infamous
Doggystle
Chronic
Straight Outta Compton
Cube's 1st 4 records
Tical/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Big Pun: Capital Punishment

I mean if u like hip-hop at all, u should be considered a fan. Alot of these records would probably sound weak to someone younger.

[WC Iz Active]

^^great list.


listen to Purple Haze

[StevenQBosell]

36 Chambers
The Infamous
Doggystle
Chronic
Straight Outta Compton
Cube's 1st 4 records
Tical/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Big Pun: Capital Punishment

I mean if u like hip-hop at all, u should be considered a fan. Alot of these records would probably sound weak to someone younger.

God that's so true. A lot of youngsters today can't even appreciate Life After, 36 Chambers, Wu Tang Forever,D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better, The Chronic, and that's all I casn thinl of off the top of my heead... But yeah youngstyers should listen to that stuff instead of the commercialised, corporate garbage being spewed from Mtv, BET, and so forth

[floatin_above_everything]

36 Chambers
The Infamous
Doggystle
Chronic
Straight Outta Compton
Cube's 1st 4 records
Tical/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Big Pun: Capital Punishment

I mean if u like hip-hop at all, u should be considered a fan. Alot of these records would probably sound weak to someone younger.

God that's so true. A lot of youngsters today can't even appreciate Life After, 36 Chambers, Wu Tang Forever,D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better, The Chronic, and that's all I casn thinl of off the top of my heead... But yeah youngstyers should listen to that stuff instead of the commercialised, corporate garbage being spewed from Mtv, BET, and so forth

Well I got love for commerical music too. But yeah, shit had me crazy when that kid ( I think either Bundy or Xander ) was sayin 36 Chambers was garbo too him.

^^great list.


listen to Purple Haze

I didn't like that album. I thought Cam was at his worst in fact. Killa Season was MUCH better imo.

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

Get in Where you Fit in.

[WC Iz Active]

Get in Where you Fit in.

great album,  i like gettin it better though

[Teddy Roosevelt]

God that's so true. A lot of youngsters today can't even appreciate Life After, 36 Chambers, Wu Tang Forever,D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better, The Chronic, and that's all I casn thinl of off the top of my heead... But yeah youngstyers should listen to that stuff instead of the commercialised, corporate garbage being spewed from Mtv, BET, and so forth

That's what I'm saying. A lot of people think they are hip-hop fans because they like listening to the radio and downloading singles on their iPods. To truly be a fan you have to appreciate and understand the classic/other really good albums. Even if their are a couple you never felt.

Thanks peeps. Keep it coming.

[Lunatic]

36 Chambers
The Infamous
Doggystle
Chronic
Straight Outta Compton
Cube's 1st 4 records
Tical/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Big Pun: Capital Punishment

I mean if u like hip-hop at all, u should be considered a fan. Alot of these records would probably sound weak to someone younger.

God that's so true. A lot of youngsters today can't even appreciate Life After, 36 Chambers, Wu Tang Forever,D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better, The Chronic, and that's all I casn thinl of off the top of my heead... But yeah youngstyers should listen to that stuff instead of the commercialised, corporate garbage being spewed from Mtv, BET, and so forth

i'm  a youngster, and i love some of those on the list...granted i haven't gotten into any old school n.y shit at all, but i do plan on (eventually) listening 2 the catalogs of nas, biggy, mobb deep, wu-tang and so on..I consider doggy style the greatest album ever, for some reason (don't kill me) the chronic wasn't mind blowing 2 me (on 2 listens only, plan on giving it a few more 2 see if i can see it in the same light as some of y'all...i do think that album is more of a "had 2 be around 2 appreciate it" type of LP)..Straight Outta Compton is a defanite classic, and Cube is the greatest rapper of all time...I LOVE D.O.C.'s No One Dan Do It Better as well i might add

[Wessia4LiaNia Chieee Chieee]

you can't consider yourself a hip hop fan if only you heard some albums. everyone around the world listens to all music genres. I think to be hip hop you just gotta realize what hip hop is about, be part of the revolutionary movement, part of the streets reality, part of the art of dance and graff, part of easterns wise lyrics, part of the wc landscape, part of the cash money life... Dunno, just listen what you feel like listening, usually is the same message but some can't rap it right ya digg?

[Don Jacob]

-The Chronic
-Doggystyle
-illmatic
-36 chambers
-ready to die
-all eyez on me
-me against the world
-makaveli
-Straight outta Compton
-Paid in Full
-The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
-only built 4 cuban linx
-liquid swords
-amerikkkaz most wanted
-death certificate
- three feet high and rising
-by all means necessary
-criminal minded
-fear of a black planet
-follow the leader
-it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
-licenced to ill
-raising hell
-paul's boutique
-radio
- run dmc
-sex packets
-strictly business
-low end theory
-ice berg....freedom of speech just watch what you say
-midnight marauders
-aquemini
-atliens
-southernplayalisticadallacmuzik
-soul food
-mmlp
-2001
-cypress hill
-black sunday
-o.g. original gangster
-king of rock
-the message
-planet rock
-stankonia
-sslp
-no one can do it better
-the diary
-reasonable doubt
-people's instinctive....
-e. 1999 eternal
-the infamous
-mecca and the soul brother
-life is ...to short
-supreme clientel
-Dr. Octagonecologyst
-things fall apart
-critical beatdown
-one for all
-grip it, on that other level
-breaking atoms
-de la soul is dead
-the score

[floatin_above_everything]

36 Chambers
The Infamous
Doggystle
Chronic
Straight Outta Compton
Cube's 1st 4 records
Tical/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Big Pun: Capital Punishment

I mean if u like hip-hop at all, u should be considered a fan. Alot of these records would probably sound weak to someone younger.

God that's so true. A lot of youngsters today can't even appreciate Life After, 36 Chambers, Wu Tang Forever,D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better, The Chronic, and that's all I casn thinl of off the top of my heead... But yeah youngstyers should listen to that stuff instead of the commercialised, corporate garbage being spewed from Mtv, BET, and so forth

i'm  a youngster, and i love some of those on the list...granted i haven't gotten into any old school n.y shit at all, but i do plan on (eventually) listening 2 the catalogs of nas, biggy, mobb deep, wu-tang and so on..I consider doggy style the greatest album ever, for some reason (don't kill me) the chronic wasn't mind blowing 2 me (on 2 listens only, plan on giving it a few more 2 see if i can see it in the same light as some of y'all...i do think that album is more of a "had 2 be around 2 appreciate it" type of LP)..Straight Outta Compton is a defanite classic, and Cube is the greatest rapper of all time...I LOVE D.O.C.'s No One Dan Do It Better as well i might add

Ur right about thr Chronic sounded a little dated to someone who wasn't really around to see the impact it made. Artists nowadays have access to so muh better equipment and technology as a whole has changed, so it's almost unfair to compare it to something nowadays. Chronic will remain a classic in hip-hoppers eyes forever imo, simply because of how it literally changed the game.

Check this shit, u r an OFFICIAL hip hop head if u know what I mean when I'm talking about the purple tape

[WC Iz Active]

Cam's Purple Haze!!!! almost every track is a 5/5 perfect track

[floatin_above_everything]

Cam's Purple Haze!!!! almost every track is a 5/5 perfect track

LOL I was talking about OB4CL.

[WC Iz Active]

Cam's Purple Haze!!!! almost every track is a 5/5 perfect track

LOL I was talking about OB4CL.

huh?  and Im serious man, if u have that album on ur comp go through it, its flawless!