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MTV : The Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time

Submitted by Chris DeLine on May 30, 2005 – 5:37 pmOne Comment

a href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/246/2242/1024/mtv_hip_hop.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/246/2242/200/mtv_hip_hop.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /10 – Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/nations.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/nations.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /9 – 2Pac “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/pac.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/pac.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /8 – Ice Cube “Death Certificate”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/death.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/death.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /7 – N.W.A. “Niggaz4Life”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/niggaz.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/niggaz.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /6 – Jay-Z “Reasonable Doubt”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/reasonable.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/reasonable.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /5 – Run-D.M.C. “Raising Hell”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/hell.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/hell.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /4 – Notorious B.I.G. “Ready to Die”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/die.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/die.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /3 – Dr. Dre “The Chronic”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/chronic.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/chronic.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /2 – Nas “Illmatic”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/nas.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/nas.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /1 – Eric B. Rakim “Paid in Full”br /a href=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/paid.jpg”img style=”border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;” src=”http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2005/greatest_albums_0505/images/paid.jpg” border=”0″ //abr /br /br /I was surprised that MTV didn’t put Eminem on this list…they seem to like that dude. br /br /span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;” span style=”font-weight: bold;”Where’s the WU-TANG CLAN?/span/spanbr /No KRS-One (Boogie Down Productions)?br /A Tribe Called Quest called…they said MTV is goofybr /Big Daddy Kane who?br /Afrika Bambataa whaaa?br /De La Soul?br /Afrika Bambaataa?br /Grand Master Flash?br /br /but…I must rest my argument, it’s not (all in all) that bad of a list…though they did a poor job in my opinion

One Comment »

  • The Kid says:

    That list is on fire. You most definitely picked the right albums. I thinks that you left out one album that most definitely deserves to be an honorable mention. Outkast (aquemini). They are in my opinion the greatest rap group of all time and deserves some props.

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