I know this has been asked before buuuuuuuuuuut,top 10 fave rap albums?

I used to always ask this back in the day,but different people have been coming in and out of OTB and there are quite a few that have not really talked about their favorite albums to listen to (and I forgot some of the vets' favorite albums too lol) so I figured I'll ask. I'll start with mah list:

10.)Common-Resurrection

9.)AZ-Doe Or Die

8.)Organized Konfusion-Stress:The Extinction Agenda

7.)Notorious B.I.G-Ready to Die

6.)Outkast-Aquemini

5.)Raekwon-Only Built for Cuban Linx

4.)Redman-Muddy Waters

3.)Nas-It Was Written

2.)The Roots-Illadelph Halflife

1.)Xzibit-At the Speed of Life

Lol,I didn't even catch that all of them were in the early/mid 90's.

I do remember The Chronic being your favorite album:) 

In no special order, I was sitting like 5 minutes after I made the list thinking there was something I had forgotten but there are so many albums I love this list doesn't cover I guess. :P

Not in exact order but for the most part pretty accurate

1.) College Dropout (Favorite album from favorite rapper)

2.) Marshal Mathers LP (Eminem at his best...none of this Recovery bull****) 

4.)3:16 (tough choice between this or Murrays Revenge...this has the edge though)

5.) Power of the Dollar (i was blown away that 50 cent was actually really dope back in the day...plus brings me back)

6.) The Anthology (best songs by arguably the best group ever)

7.) Illmatic (no description neccessary)

8.) Late Registration (I love Kanye West...love the production...clever, real lyrics)

9.) Liquid Swords (fiiiiiire)

10.) Doe or Die

this will prob be edited 

Since most people's Top 10 are gonna look the same, I'll post a list of 10 underrated/slept-on albums:

People Without Shoes - Thoughts of an Optimist

Miilkbone - Da Miilkrate

Cella Dwellas - Realms 'N Reality

Blaque Spurm - Spurmacidal Tendencies (they never released an album, so this is a compilation of their joints)

Absent Minded - Extreme Paranoia in Stocktown (Swedish duo that raps in English, golden age-type ****)

DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz (all instrumental, all dope)

Rob Swift - Soulful Fruit

Eightball & MJG - Comin' Out Hard

Kazi - Down for the Kaz (12" Stones Throw released early 2000s, production handled by Madlib. CIassic ****)

Budamunky & Joe StyIes - BudastyIes CIassics (recent album...MC + Producer combo)

Too lazy to find pics so....

1. Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
2. Ready to Die - Notorious B.I.G.
3. The Infamous - Mobb Deep
4. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... - Raekwon
5. Word...Life - O.C.
6. Breaking Atoms - Main Source
7. Doe Or Die - AZ
8. Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
9. The College Dropout - Kanye West
10. Food and Liquor - Lupe Fiasco

Edit: Wow, forgot some albums... 

In no order...

1. Binary Star - "Masters Of The Universe" (2000)
2. Eric B. & Rakim - "Paid In Full" (1987)
3. Nas - "Illmatic" (1994)
4. Big L - "Life**** Ov Da Poor & Dangerous" (1995)
5. Raekwon - "Only Built For Cuban Linx" (1995)
6. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides (1999)
7. Jay-Z - "The Blueprint" (2001)
8. Outkast - "Aquemini" (1998)
9. Camp Lo - "Uptown Saturday Night" (1997)
10. Common - "Ressurection" (1994)

Years might be off, and this is a rushed list so I may edit it...but off the top this looks semi accurate. 

10. Lord Finesse - The Awakening

9. O.G.C. - Da Storm

8. O.C. - Word..Life

7. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda

6. Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop

5. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

4. Ghostface Killah - Iron Man

3. Nas - Illmatic

2. Raekwon - OB4CL

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

Kurupt : Streets iz a mutha

Slum Village - Fantastik vol.1

Brotha Lynch - Season of the siccness

Nas - Untitled

Dj Quik - Rhythmalizm

 Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2

 Snoop dogg - Blue Carpet Treatment

 Digable Planets - Blowout comb

 Common - Like Water for Chocolate

In no order...

Illmatic

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Liquid Swords

The Score

Low End Theory (or MM... I like the two almost equally, but don't want to put both on the same list)

Aquemini

SSLP (I have no idea why I love this album so much, but I do... I think it's because it was always played when I was growing up)

Reasonable Doubt/Blueprint (I'll admit that RD is the better album, but I just have fonder memories of Blueprint from when I was younger)

Lifestylez

Paid in Full 

Ones that just missed the list: Word... Life, OB4CL, ATLiens, Resurrection, E.1999 Eternal, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, among others.  

10. Lord Finesse - The Awakening

9. O.G.C. - Da Storm

8. O.C. - Word..Life

7. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda

6. Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop

5. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

4. Ghostface Killah - Iron Man

3. Nas - Illmatic

2. Raekwon - OB4CL

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

DeadQwon

Props for putting The Awakening up there. I thought I was the only one here that loved that album. 

^^ And thank God I'm not the only one that thinks Southernplayalistic > ATLiens...

ATLiens is overrated 'Lando :P 

In no particular order and off the top of the head...

Muddy Waters
Long Live the Kane
Low End Theory
E.1999 / Eternal
ATLiens
Enter the Wu
Paid in Full
On Fire (Stet)
Amerikkka's Most Wanted 
De La Soul is Dead

^^ And thank God I'm not the only one that thinks Southernplayalistic > ATLiens...

ATLiens is overrated 'Lando :P 

iHeartCali

• Outkast - ATLiens
• Outkast - Aquemini
• Biggie - Ready to Die
• A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
• Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
• Goodie Mob - Soul Food

And the rest of them you could probably pick out of a hat randomly from this bunch:

• Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce
• UGK - Ridin Dirty
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
• O.C. - Word... Life
• Nas - Illmatic
• Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
• Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
• Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
• Smif-N-Wessun - Dah Shinin
• Mobb Deep - The Infamous
• De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
• Common - Resurrection
• Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity

 
I was thinking of putting one of Showbiz & AG's albums up but couldn't decide between Runaway Slave and Goodfellas.

I don't really have a top 10, but these are some of my favourites anyway.

No order:

Clandestien - Dynasty
Tomhawk - A **** Named Hip Hop
Mortar - Sacred Geometry
Pharoahe Monch - internal Affairs
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
Company Flow Funcrusher Plus

[QUOTE="DeadQwon"]

10. Lord Finesse - The Awakening

9. O.G.C. - Da Storm

8. O.C. - Word..Life

7. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda

6. Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop

5. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

4. Ghostface Killah - Iron Man

3. Nas - Illmatic

2. Raekwon - OB4CL

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

Black-Demon

Props for putting The Awakening up there. I thought I was the only one here that loved that album. 

Regularly on rotation, still.

Reasonable Doubt

Aquemini

Illmatic

36 Chambers

Ressurection

Low End Theory

Nation of Millions

Third Eye Vision

Midnight Mauraders

Ready to Die

Fantastic Vol. 2

Something like that, not sure of the order, sorry its eleven.

Ones that would be top 10 depending on how recently I listened to them

Vagina Diner, ATLiens, Future Development, Funky Technician, Liquid Swords, Mecca and Main Indgredient, West Coast Vaccine, 93 Til Infinity, De la Soul's 4 first, Do You Want More?!!?!?!, Breaking Atoms,College Dropout, The Blueprint, Nocturnal.

orders are hard and constantly change.

shad - tsol

shad - the old prince

nas - illmatic

apathy - wanna snuggle

lupe fiasco - enemy of the state

louis logic - sin-a-matic

wu-tang clan - enter the wu (36 chambers)

eminem - the slim shady lp

eminem - the marshall mathers lp

drake - so far gone

honorable mention:

little brother - separate but equal
rjd2 - dead ringer
CIassified - trial and error
clipse - we got it 4 cheap vol. 2
esoteric - egoclapper
danny! - charm
dj shadow - endtroducing
charles hamilton - the pink lavalamp
jedi mind tricks - violent by design
joe budden - mood muzik
joe budden - padded room
j-zone - a bottle of whup ass ep
kanye west - graduation
kno vs hov: the white albulum
mission: - one
notorious b.i.g. - ready to die
outkast / aquemini and atliens
the pharcyde - bizarre ryde ii the pharcyde
prefuse 73 - one word extinguisher
quannum projects - solesides greatest bumps
atcq - marauders and low end
wise intelligent - the talented timothy taylor,
wale - the mixtape about nothing

too many honorable mention imo but once i started figured id complete it since i havent answered this question in years.

orders are hard and constantly change.

shad - tsol

shad - the old prince

nas - illmatic

apathy - wanna snuggle

lupe fiasco - enemy of the state

louis logic - sin-a-matic

wu-tang clan - enter the wu (36 chambers)

eminem - the slim shady lp

eminem - the marshall mathers lp

drake - so far gone

honorable mention:

little brother - separate but equal
rjd2 - dead ringer
CIassified - trial and error
clipse - we got it 4 cheap vol. 2
esoteric - egoclapper
danny! - charm
dj shadow - endtroducing
charles hamilton - the pink lavalamp
jedi mind tricks - violent by design
joe budden - mood muzik
joe budden - padded room
j-zone - a bottle of whup ass ep
kanye west - graduation
kno vs hov: the white albulum
mission: - one
notorious b.i.g. - ready to die
outkast / aquemini and atliens
the pharcyde - bizarre ryde ii the pharcyde
prefuse 73 - one word extinguisher
quannum projects - solesides greatest bumps
atcq - marauders and low end
wise intelligent - the talented timothy taylor,
wale - the mixtape about nothing

too many honorable mention imo but once i started figured id complete it since i havent answered this question in years.

KamMoye

Ummmm Vyse......why is your list filled with mixtapes.....lol 

these are not my top 10 albums, but they are 10 albums that i would bump all the time.

an honorable mention for a female rapper would be Foxy was just so hott in this album!

Nas-Illmatic

Biggie- Ready To Die

Smif-N-Wessun-Dah Shinin'

ATCQ-The Low End Theory

Lord Finesse-The Awakening

Gang Starr-Daily Operation

Jeru The Damaja-The Sun Rises In The East

De La Soul-Stakes Is High

Onyx-Bacdafucup

Black Moon-Enta Da Stage