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Smino·Rating: 8.3
This is the album where Smino stopped trying to prove anything. No more winking at the underground. No more coded nods to his Zero Fatigue crew or elaborate wordplay meant for heads who parse lyrics l...
Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest·Rating: 9.0
When A Tribe Called Quest released Midnight Marauders in November 1993, they faced an impossible challenge: following up The Low End Theory, an album that had already redefined hip-hop's relationship ...
Resurrection
Common·Rating: 8.7
Chicago hip-hop in the early nineties had a gang problem it could not solve. Not the Disciples or the Vice Lords — the industry kind, the label bosses who wanted Chicago rappers to sound like they wer...
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Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Nas
Illmatic
East Coast Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
The Notorious B.I.G.
Life After Death
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.8
Madvillain
Madvillainy
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
