| Re: A perfect 10?
The First Wu-Tang Clan album (Enter the Wu: 36 Chambers) the first Biggie album (Ready to Die), the first Nas album (Illmatic) and Things Fall Apart by the Roots for me.
I can probably rattle off dozens of 9's, but those are the 10s for me. Some of the 9s:
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Ghostface Killah - More Fish
Notorious BIG - Life After Death
Outkast - pretty much all their albums, but especially Aquemini
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
RZA - Bobby Digital (which gets my vote for both "Most Slept-on album of all time" and "Album that was the furthest ahead of its time"
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Redman - Muddy Waters
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Dr. Dre - 2001
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Smif n Wessun - Da Shinin
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
The Game - The Documentary
The Roots - All their albums, except Things Fall Apart, which is a 10 in my eyes
Nas - It Was Written
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik
Kanye West - College Dropout
Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
Clipse - Lord Willin
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night (also ridiculously slept on) |