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There are some very blatand rap haters on this board. Makes sense, along with country, it's the most easily disliked genre out there. Anyhow, like all forms of music, it has its lows (pop-rap), and its incredible highs. Here are some of those, a few albums that everyone should at least give a chance to:
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet
The Roots' Things Fall Apart
Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising
Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell
Black Star's Black Star
A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory
Wu Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang (46 Chambers)
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
Ice-T's O.G. Original Gangster
Dr. Dre's The Chronic
There are tons, tons more. You may dismiss gangster rap for being too nihilistic and too pro-violence. That's certainly a valid viewpoint. But there is a reason that kind of music started... to chronical a kind of life that most of us, with a cushy, middle-class upbringing and decent shot at education couldn't hope to understand. So we fear it.
Theres more to rap than that. There is the funky (Outkast, Gnarls Barkley), the intellectual (Black Star, A Tribe Called Quest), the trippy (Massive Attack, Tricky)... theres so much out there.
Its music, and music is meant to be embraced in all its glory and all its forms...
Anyone who'd like to, feel free to add your own albums.
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Eazy E - Easy Does It. 
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I enjoy music by E-40, young Bloodz, De La Soul, The Roots, Beastie Boys....
There are some great rap acts out there.
The remix of "Damn" by the Young Bloodz is amazing...
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Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Geto Boys - Uncut Dope (It's a greatest hits, but it has everything you could possibly want.)
Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush the Show
Genius (GZA) - Liquid Swords
Scarface - The Diary
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I can only agree with the Dr. Dre, the other groups I don't exactly like all too much.
I do like some Eminem songs (usually the funny ones, my favorite of his recently was Shake That Ass for Me). Some Three Six Mafia is always good, some of the Akon and Young Jezzy songs, and that pretty much does it for my Rap taste... im not all too big of a fan of hip hop and certinally not one certin group though many odd out songs do catch my interest time to time
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The alubms I need to own.
The New Danger- Mos Def
Detox- Dr. Dre
The Slim Shady EP- Eminem
Against the Grain- Kurupt
Juvenile Hell - Mobb Deep
These are the alubms every one has to hear.
All Eyez on Me- 2pac (and all other 2pac albums)
The Chronic- Dr. Dre
Doggystyle- Snoop Dogg
Ready to Die- Biggie Smalls
Blackstar- Blackstar
Black on both sides- Mos Def
Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
God's Son- Nas
Eazy-Duz-It- Eazy-E
Straight Outta Compton- N.W.A
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A song that I thought was pretty funny is Dark Hearts- YA GET SKEETED ON everyone should check it out
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Should be titles, Rap albums that everybody except Ral_Partha needs to hear... cause I would rather stick needles in my eye than listen to ANY rap.
/rant off
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The Roots - Phrenology I think it's superior to Things Fall Apart myself.
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"Deltron 3030"
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Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner.
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obligatory rap sucks post
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Outkast - Aquemini
Nas - Illmatic
Atmospere - Overcast and also You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek - Reflection Eternal
The Fugees - The Score
Blackalicious - The Craft
could go on but those are some that people haven't really said
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Let's not forget M.O.P. 
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"Outkast - Aquemini"
GREAT album. I don't consider myself a rap fan at all, but Outkast does it for me.
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Thanks for posting.
I agree with Lauren Hill and Outkast. I still listen to Lil' Kim and some others at times. While it doesn't "scare" me. Some of the themes just get old. I understand a lot of it is meant to raise awareness and not just "be cool like a gangsta type of crap".
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I have a few individual songs that are favs of French rap too:
Mission by Prodige featuring Rockin' Squat
Ndekete Yo by Bideew Bou Bess
La Tribu De Dana by Manau
La Confession by Manau
Mais Qui Est La Belette? by Manau
Hotel Commissariat by Gomez and Dubois featuring China (for humor)
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Rap Song by Black Eyes Peas and Wyclef Jean
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) by US3
Beware of the Boys by Panjabi MC
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Flexette posted:
Thanks for posting.
I agree with Lauren Hill and Outkast. I still listen to Lil' Kim and some others at times. While it doesn't "scare" me. Some of the themes just get old. I understand a lot of it is meant to raise awareness and not just "be cool like a gangsta type of crap".
I would argue that a lot of these albums tent to focus on themes other than violence.
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Chingy- Pick 3!!!
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My ear didn't adjust to rap before ten or twelve years ago.
When did rap really start anyway? I know it didn't all start with Death Row Records.
Edit: If anyone knows of any other documentaries about rap other than Tupac: The Resurrection I would be interested in watching them.
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Hip hop's roots can be traced to the late 70s. First hip hop 'hit'.
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oops, I guess that link didn't work. um, Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight was the first hip hop track to ever be considered a 'hit'.
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Oh gawd. That song is soooo long, but yeah that would probably be about right.
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
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Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 2
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Aesop Rock... all CDs... but if I had to pick one, it would probably be Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives.
Apathy - Eastern Philosophy
Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap
Common - Be
Dilated Peoples - Neighborhood Watch
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Ice Cubes Greatest Hits (Although I NEVER understood why Ghetto Vet isn't on it, it is his best song IMO)
Juelz Santana - What the Games Been Missing
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Ludacris - Red Light District
Styles of Beyond - Megadef
ANYTHING by Outkast.
Scarface - The Fix
The Beatnuts - Milk Me
Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
The Streets - all 3 cds... Original Pirate Material, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, and A Grand Don't Come For Free
Twista - Kamikaze
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
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A Tribe Called Quest!
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i didn't know Massive Attack was considered Rap !! 
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i didn't know Massive Attack was considered Rap !!
It really isn't... but I guess it's hip-hop production, along the same lines as DJ Shadow?
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Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 2
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IAM - De La Planète Mars
And most of the albums from Bahamadia and The roots.
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My favorite rap album of all time is
Guerillas in the Mist - Da Lench Mobb
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Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Atmosphere - The Lucy Ford EP
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
The Roots - Do You Want More?!?!!?/Game Theory
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