An Accurate List Of Classic Albums

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

I feel that I'm guilty of throwing around this word too much and feel that every dope album that comes out has this word attached.  An album can be just amazing and flawless and it won't take anything away if you don't put the label "classic" on it.  I'm going to tone down the word classic a great deal.
So with that said, here are hip-hop's only classic albums.
 


Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.


LL Cool J - Radio


Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell


Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill


Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded


Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full


Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back


Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick


NWA - Straight Outta Compton


EPMD - Strictly Business


Boogie Down Productions - By Any Means Necessary


Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader


Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane


Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown


Geto Boys - Grip It! On That Other Level


Big Daddy Kane - It's A Big Daddy Thing


Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road To The Riches


Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted


A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm


A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory


Dr. Dre - The Chronic


Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca And The Soul Brother


Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang


A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders


Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle


Black Moon - Enta Da Stage


Nas - Illmatic


Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die


Chef Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...


2Pac - All Eyez On Me


Outkast - Aquemini

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

I had a difficult time with some albums like De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising, Ice Cube's Death Certificate and Scarface's The Diary but I decided to be conservative and leave them off if I didn't feel very strongly about putting them up their with the others.

[Leggy Hendrix]

its a pretty good list, but i would probably have put 2 of the 3 others you mentioned (de la soul - 3 feet high, and scarface - diary) on there...

[CharlieBrown]

take off 2pac, Biggie and Nas and definately put 3 feet high & rising on there.

[CharlieBrown]

And Gangstarr don't even get a mention, thats cold.

[akaDRooPY]

the diary is definatley a classic, hands down

[N-Sane Brain]

[Suga Foot]

[West C. Connected]

That's the shit right there.

[phoneix66]

[white Boy]

yea good list, i would have put some others on there, but... anyway, since you posted this, whats YOUR deffinition of a classic album

[Bramsterdam (see ya)]

And Gangstarr don't even get a mention, thats cold.

[Kill]

take off 2pac, Biggie and Nas and definately put 3 feet high & rising on there.

take off Illmatic? LMAO

I'ma comment on that list when i got sum time

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

whats YOUR deffinition of a classic album

First, and most important it has to impact hip-hop music, it has to influence others in how they make music.  Straight Outta Compton came and shook up the rap world and the rest of music too.  It wasn't the first time gangsta rap was recorded but it was the first time it really got attention.  Another example is that I think that Slick Rick's album made MCs more creative and was the blueprint of how to tell stories.
That's not my definition of a classic album but that's the main aspect that a classic album has.  

take off 2pac, Biggie and Nas and definately put 3 feet high & rising on there.

2Pac and Biggie I can see, but Nas?  No Illmatic?  That's the popular choice for greatest album ever.  That album is the yardstick for perfection and what other rappers try to acheive.

And Gangstarr don't even get a mention, thats cold.

Which one(s)?  Daily Operation?  Moment Of Truth?  I can't see in the same class with the others in terms of impact.  Great albums but no classics.

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

yeah thats a good list, but theres ALOT missing. we've had more classic albums than that. heres a few i would add:

Brotha Lynch Hung - Season Of Da Siccness


Spice 1 - 187 He Wrote


Xzibit - At The Speed Of Life


Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food


Ice Cube - Death Certificate


Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill


The DOC - No One Can Do It Better


Too Short - Get In Where You Fit In


Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik


Warren G - Regulate... G-Funk Era


MC Eiht ft. CMW - We Come Strapped


Ras Kass - Soul On Ice


Luniz - Operation Stackola


DJ Quik - Quik Is The Name


Kam - Made In America


E-40 - In A Major Way


Westside Connection - Bow Down


Bone Thugs N Harmony - E.1999 Eternal


Above The Law - Black Mafia Life


Scarface - The Diary



Those are all undenaible classics to me, and I'm sure to many others also.