Sorting through my CD collection last night and realised at some point I've lost or someone's stolen 3 of the all time classics…

Snoop – Doggystyle – I have the box but no disc
Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt – gone
Gravediggaz – Niggamortis – gone

So now I'm going to have to but them again (Snoop was my 2nd copy already!)

What are your absolute classics?

Pharcycde – Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde.
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
Gang Star – No More Mr. Nice Guy / Step In The Arena
Wu-Tang – Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers

…etc etc

All present and correct Jamie.

Only one of those that still gets regularly played though is Pharcyde.

Ok, a few more

MF Doom – Operation Doomsday
Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
Q-Tip – Amplified
VA – Soundbombing comps from Rawkus Records.

Eze duz it!

I see your Soundbombings and raise you…

NWA – Straight outta Compton
Public Enemy – It takes a Nation of Millions
Run DMC – Raising Hell

How about the first J5 album? Format?

Public Enemy – Yo bum rush the show

Nas – Illmatic

+1 for NWA – Straight outta Compton

Dre – The Chronic

and I'm showing my age here – Tommy Boy – Greatest Beats.

wow – im going home now to dig out my old skool hip hop. Doggy style has to be an all time classic – a legendary lyric that still gets plenty of use on the trail 'a dog that don't p*ss up a tree is a b*tch'

GZA – Liquid Swords
Dr Octagon – Dr Octagon

I'd be upset if they disapeared

ATCQ Midnight Marauders

EPMD – Strictly Business
Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

The Roots – The Tipping Point
Tupac Shakur – All Eyez On Me
Erykah Badu – Baduizm
Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

I'd be most upset if those four went walkabout.

Run DMC – Run DMC
PE. It Takes a nation of millions…
and an oldie … Kurtis Blow – The Breaks

all from back in the day….

Black Sheep – A wolf in Sheeps clothing

Dilated Peoples – The Platform

Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature

Has to be JLS's self titled debut album for me.

Not really.

Collision course by Jay-z and Linkin

Biggie duets

And

2001 by Dre

Not so into hip hop more an indie kid mainly brit pop and some country
🙂

In all fairness I would't be listening to those 3 albums if it wasn't for Eminem's Marshall Mathers album

Ultras – Critical Beatdown

Nas – Illmatic
GZA – Liquid Swords
2Pac – Me Against The World
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
J Dilla – The Shining
Jay-Z – The Blueprint

UK
Akala – It's Not A Rumour
Blak Twang – 19 Longtime
Fallacy – Blackmarket Boy
Skinnyman – Council Estate of Mind
Sway – This Is My Promo vol.1
Out Da Ville – Notts Property EP
Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me

If they weren't digital I would wear them out!

+1 for j dilla,

what about reb and meth – blackout
mobb deep – the infamous

mobbs 'quiet storm track is soo good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvCp-N-9JEw

dre, snoop all good… Wu – 36 chambers

and

method man – tical

yeah yeah whatever
this is the shit and is what hip hop is all about

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
RJD2 – Deadringer
Dr. Octagon – Octagonologist!
Jurasic 5 – J5? 🙂
Deceptikon – lost subject
Del the funky homosapien – no need for alarm
Geto boys – Geto boys best…
Earthling – Radar
Gangstar – no more mr. nice guy
Sir mix a lot – Swass………1988!

some how have these which i'm enjoying right now!!

Oh that dancehall with robbo ranx on bbc iplayer is good stuff

How about the first J5 album? Format?

Power in Numbers is better

Nas – Illmatic
GZA – Liquid Swords
Gang Starr – Moment of Truth

maybe….

Hijack – The horns of jerico

Ice T – Power

Stetsasonic – in full gear

Derek B – bad young brother
Gunshot-Battle Creek Brawl
Paris – The devil made me do it
Demon Boys-Recognition

Okay so DB is a bit toyish in view of it's company but it's still an utter classic.

****; I forgot abooy Hijack (the terrorist group)

The badman is robin!

I can never do without
Tribe – People's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm
either

My copy of "Ill Communication" got nicked during my sister's birthday party and it's still one of my favourite LPs.

There aren't really that many hip hop LPs that are great from start to finish – it's more about the singles really – but Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop by Diamond D, Breakin' Atoms by Main Source. Mecca and the Soul Brother by Pete Rock and CL Smooth, The Unseen by Quasimoto and the Beatnuts' first LP are all a good listen.

Can't think of any UK hip hop LPs that I've loved unconditionally, Braintax's first one was great but a bit weak in places. If anyone has a spare copy of "Glimity Glamity" then let me know. 😉

Joolsburger, is that the recent Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats, or the 1984 one featuring Planet Patrol and similar cheese?

Damn, I've 'lost' more CD's than I'd previously thought!

Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star 💡

Black Star – I still have, that is a true masterpiece. One to be listened to from beginning to end!

amongst LP's I had stolen from a club a while ago that I still miss 🙁

KRS One – I Got Next
DJ Shadow – Pre-Emptive Strike
RJD2 – Deadringer
Heiroglyphics – Full Circle
Redman – Whut, The Album
Cypress Hill – S/T
Jurassic 5 Quality Control

wish I had the disposable to income to replace these in particular 👿

The best brit album I heard was
Overlord X – Weapon is my lyric

Doomsday of rap is the one from Hijack AFAIC, I was in the room when Ronnie recorded that. I'm surprised to see Hijack mentioned here.