Quick, what's the best hip hop album between the years 1985 and 1997?

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Quick ... I need to know!

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

is this for real?

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.posternow.com/b/b302.jpg

(actually, I don't know if it was really the best, but I'd be shocked if they don't make the top ten)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

what a hopelessly broad topic, but ok...

outkast - atliens

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

WOOPS!!! I thought he said 1985 and 1987!!!! not 1997!!! Fuckity fuck.

ok. My new answer
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f621/f62146lkaoe.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

NWA Straight Outta Compton

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

midnight marauders

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe Frank Kogan would vote for L'Trimm, *Drop That Bottom.*

I might agree with him or might not. The Real Roxanne's first album and Schooly D's first two would definitely be in the running.

― chuck, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Willy Dee - Controversy

of course

― katharine (katharine), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Right artist, wrong album:

Low End Theory

However, I agree that this is a hopelessly broad question.

― Debito (Debito), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinda like asking who was the best president between 1809 and 1985 .... a whole huge-ass chunk of history there.

That said, I'd second Low End Theory ... purest distillation of what hip-hop is about.

― Chris O., Wednesday, 22 October 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What about "...shaolin shadowboxing and the Wu-Tang sword style?... If what you say is true..." etc. Or indeed "When I was little, my father was famous..."

Those two albums would be my picks from that (admittedly very broad) era.

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Gravediggaz - Six Feet Deep

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024IE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

snoop doggy dogg - doggystyle

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

― dog latin, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Second "Fear of a Black Planet". I have to be in a certain mood to enjoy it, but when I'm in the mood I am just as blown away by its sonic originality now as I was when I first heard it.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Enter The Wu...."

― Nick H, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

between '85 & '87: EPMD - Strictly Business

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry that was '88. and i just now saw the "97" ha.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ilosaarirock.fi/2002/kohti_rokkia/kohti_images/wham.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e583/e58321stdmf.jpg

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

excuse me 1980

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

MC Skat Kat - he had a record out, right?

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Tarrie B. or how about the group the kid from Married With Children was a part of. how about Young Black Teenagers... MC Pillsbury & the Dough Boys. so many good ones can't choose just one... the Rappin' Duke... Two Live Jews..

― PeterALopez, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c479/c47981w59x8.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Brand Nubian - One for All. My second-favorite ever after Aquemini, or maybe third after Back for the First Time.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

hey chris o., what the hell does this mean????

>purest distillation of what hip-hop is about.<

i honestly don't think it means *anything*! but you know that, right?

― chuck, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, since when is hip-hop about being "pure," anyway? and tribe called quest were eclectics; there was nothing "pure" about them, was there? (Actually, I don't think I've ever even heard Low End Theory. Though I did deservedly pan People's Instinctive Travels in the Paths of Rhythm or whatever it was called in Rolling Stone when it came out, calling it adult contemorary quiet-storm jazz fusion rap you can't dance to or something like that. Hip-hop w/o forward motion made no sense to me at all. I've evolved SOME since, but not much.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

someone has to...

http://www.sonic.net/~mpaglia/zine/chunkya.jpg

― E. (ebb), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising.

― Sundance, Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Vanilla Ice: To The Extreme

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh. Quick? Shit. Er. Uh.

Reasonable Doubt.

(pause)

Eh, that'll do.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell is "Get Off My Dick"?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

De La Soul "De La Soul Is Dead"

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Saturday, 25 October 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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