 | Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.
Buy used from: $2.99 The album that by itself brought hip hop to the mainstream music scene. The true godfathers of rap.
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 | Hot, Cool & Vicious by Salt 'N Pepa
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.05 The first ladies of hip hop. Raw talent mixed with more raw talent, so good.
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 | Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. by 2Pac
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $7.95 Should be called strictly for my anyone who likes good music, cause that's really what it is. great album
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 | Colors (1988 Film)
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $0.79 This soundtrack is made by ice t doing the title track. a analytical look into the mind of a gang member, so interesting
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 | Paid in Full by Eric B. & Rakim
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.13 The best DJ/rapper duo i think i've ever heard. Rakim is a champ on the mic, and Eric B is just as impressive on the Discs.
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 | Sex Packets by Digital Underground
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.87 One of their earlier albums, and still their biggest. Put oakland and northern california rap on the map.
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 | Black Sunday by Cypress Hill
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.98 The first major all latino rap group. With B legits original high pitched sound and their funky smoke filled lyrics, cypress hill is one of the better rap groups in the game
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 | Loc-ed After Dark by Tone-Loc
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.86 Wild thing + Funky cold medina. Tone-locs two hottest songs on his hottest CD
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 | Tical by Method Man
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $2.95 After wu tang split, it was evident that most of them were headed for successful solo careers. Method man proved his ability to stand with rap giants on his debut album.
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 | By All Means Necessary by Boogie Down Productions
Buy used from: $40.79 KRS-one is by far one of my favorite MCs. This is BDPs best album by far.
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 | Eyes on This by MC Lyte
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.83 The best solo female vocalist i think i've ever heard. She came out with this when the game was run by the baddest most gangsta boys and she stood her ground
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 | Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version by Ol' Dirty Bastard
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.87 Going back to Method man, here's his partner in crime ODBs debut album. Shows that wu tang was a birthing ground for great rappers
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 | Illadelph Halflife by The Roots
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.92 the roots is probably one of the greatest bands, not hip hop groups, bands the world has ever seen. a must have
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 | Resurrection by Common
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.98 His first album, and he set standards high for himself. great listen, what hip hop should sound like
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 | A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Black Sheep
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.50 The first rap song i knew every word to was The choice is yours. Great album, go buy it!!
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 | It's Dark and Hell Is Hot by DMX
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.44 His debut album. Made me like angry screaming gangsta rap
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 | UTFO by U.T.F.O.
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $49.25 The powder keg that started the Roxanne wars of the eighties.
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 | Come Home With Me by Cam'Ron
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $1.02 Even though he wore pink and only pink for a whole year, he's still a great MC.
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 | Ghetto D by Master P
Buy used from: $3.96 Help start the crunk movement in the south. And invented a word, UHH! is not in the dictionary last time i checked.
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 | Kings of Crunk by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.77 Speaking of crunk, probably the most crunk album i think i have ever heard. and that's a good thing...i think
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 | Eazy-Duz-It by Eazy-E
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.97 After NWA, both Dre and Ice cube had their solo debut. Seems only logical that Eazy follow. And he did it with style. R.I.P. Eazy
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 | In Control, Vol. 1 by Marley Marl
Buy new: $36.49 / Used from: $65.20 One of the most influential DJs in the history of hip hop. Made beats for slick dick, Kool rap G, and many others. His first and i think best album.
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 | Funkdafied by Da Brat
Buy used from: $0.83 She was a hard back on celebrity fit club, and she's a hard back with her music. A great female MC
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 | USA (United State of Atlanta) by Ying Yang Twins
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $0.01 Going back to crunk, as producers they make some of the most original and club hoping beats i've ever heard.
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 | Quik Is the Name by DJ Quik
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.35 Another great DJ, this was one of the first old school rap artists i really loved.
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 | Legal Drug Money by The Lost Boyz
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $3.28 Before Mr. Cheeks made lights camera action, he made this group very popular. some great New York rap.
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 | Black on Both Sides by Mos Def
Buy used from: $2.99 Not a rapper, more of a poet. One of my favorite MCs
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 | Ridin' Dirty by UGK
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.00 R.I.P. Pimp C, Bun B keep up the good work
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 | The Sun Rises in the East by Jeru the Damaja
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.19 Straight from Brooklyn, a very unknown and unrecognized MC, but still one of the baddest rhymers i've ever heard.
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 | What More Can I Say? by Audio Two
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $4.80 Top Billin is one of the most sampled songs in hip hop. for good reason, it bumps
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 | The War Report by Capone-N-Noreaga
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.99 Hopefully you've heard of NORE, this is where he got his start. The anti-diddy New York rappers
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 | Stress: The Extinction Agenda by Organized Konfusion
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.25 Speaking of solo career starters, this is where Pharoahe Monch got his big break. great listen
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 | Breaking Atoms by Main Source
Buy new: $43.98 / Used from: $74.58 If scientists could rap, they'd sound like this. Plus Nas makes his first album appearance right here.
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 | Menace II Society: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $3.01 This album is worth getting solely for MC eiht's track, straight up menace. A true Compton sound
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 | MC Breed & DFC by MC Breed & DFC
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $42.34 His first, and by far best album. Real street music
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 | Bow Down by Westside Connection
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.46 Ice cube was good in NWA, great solo, and a mixture of both with these guys.
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 | Station Identification by Channel Live
Buy used from: $3.54 When KRS-one puts together a group, you best believe they have some skills
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 | Real Talk by Fabolous
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $1.74 One of the few new age rapper's i really like. And one of a handful of Texas rapper's i can stand listening to
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 | Kamikaze by Twista
Buy used from: $0.69 This dude by far has the fastest flow in the game. That deserves something right
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 | D12 World by D12
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $0.74 I'm very glad eminem brought these guys with him to the top.
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