The perfect hip hop/rap album is a little bit elusive. I'm going to list a few that I think are really strong and deserve consideration:
Here is my top 5. A little bit of bias...but I think that these are all phenomenal albums from top to bottom.
- 2pac "All Eyez on Me"
- Notorious BIG "Ready to Die"
- Jay Z "The Blueprint"
- Enimem "Marshall Mathers LP"
- Twista "Kamikaze"
Honestly, I'm not a big Kanye or P Diddy fan...but there's no denying that these were among the most well rounded albums ever. There was HIT AFTER HIT on these two albums, and that is something that is incredibly rare in a hip hop album.
- Kanye West "The College Dropout"
- Puff Daddy & the Family "No Way Out'
I don't think that it is hip hop/Rap, but if you choose to fit it there...then I think that Black Eyed Pea's "The E.N.D." probably deserves to be somewhere on the list. Not a big fan, but no denying that they monopolized the charts for about a year or two with the release of that album.