anyway if you're curious here are my personal five favorite hip-hop records (favorite ≠ best) from the 90s. no particular order.
midnight marauders
black on both sides
things fall apart
enta da stage
the infamous
midnight marauders
black on both sides
things fall apart
enta da stage
the infamous
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1999 was a great year for hip-hop but this record is a personal favorite and this song is, i think, the highlight www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W9y...
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Cypress Hill (1991)
The Infamous ('95)
Death Certificate ('91)
It's a Big Daddy Thing ('89)
#oldheads
Mind of Mystikal
Liquid Swords
Hard to Earn
The Chronic
This was too difficult btw
https://youtu.be/l0ozGVtOUA4?si=6jxCz0I5RcyPvU7d
the low end theory
black on both sides
aquemini
atliens
and many others that could be listed
This is an actual "top hip hop" post that isn't a trash take. Also so many replies chiming in with top lists that I can get behind. Can't disagree with so many opinions in this one.
jedi mind tricks debut (long title)
negro necro nekros
kollage
labcabincalifornia
low end theory
I back doored my way to that group. I got into Little Brother in college and started going crazy into 9th wonders discog. Then started checking out those artists earlier projects.
3 feet high
Tricks of the shade
Black on both sides
Jurassic 5
Check your head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAqy1i2hEA
KRS-ONE Boombap Album
Jammatazz The Guru
The Sun Sets in the East Jeru
Illmatic NAS
I made a few t shirts out of that …
I'd personally put Me Against The World, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, E. 1999 Eternal, and Life After Death with MM on my list of favorites.
1. ugk - ridin dirty
2. only built 4 cuban linx
3. the infamous
4. ready to die
5. aquemini
if i can make it 6: e 1999 eternal
https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3ldkel5if322d
MVP! MVP! MVP!
Prodigy over a Howard McGhee 78 rpm lol
Soul Food
Return of the Boom Bap
Stakes is High.
Blowout Comb.
Me against the world
36 Chambers
Cuban Linx
Ready to Die
The Score could be in the mix as well
Also, Nas is the goat
Midnight Marauders (Midnight 😭)
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Slaughtahouse
Whut? Thee Album
36 Chambers
Cuban Linx
Me Against the World
The Diary
Highly recommended The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,
both the book and the movie.
The first African to write a novel in English about life in Africa. It was published around 1957. Did they get the name from that? He wrote 2 more books in a trilogy The books are sad, because of the white invasion But educational to me
Illmatic
Black on Both Sides
Aquemini
The Chronic
Black on both Sides
Operation: Doomsday
Illadelph Halflife
Supa Dupa Fly
Dr. Octagonecologist
Where art imitates life and people get famous
Welcome to the world of showbiz arrangement
Where lights, camera, action is the language” (2000)
https://youtu.be/10CYwG-Tweg?si=4H_2j5v9lk0TIPGH
Soundbombing Vol 2
BlackStar
Gangstarr Moment of Truth
GoodieMob Still Standing
Coast entry: https://youtu.be/PnZz7jUEy7w?si=RS_sQk-0_VRc7trO
Black Star
Buhloone Mindstate
Illmatic
Midnight Marauders
Things Fall Apart
The Infamous is def honorable mention.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfm3meA7S10
Sex Packets
De La Soul Is Dead
A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
Mecca & The Soul Brother
and as much as I love MM I think I played Low End Theory every day for a year
Illmatic
…i can’t pick five apparently
Tical
ATLiens
Ready to Die
The Chronic