Long post inc.
So, it's finally time for me to go through my hip-hop-education and fill in some major blanks. I started listening to the genre back in -07 with Graduation, but aside from a few specific artists (Wu, Biggie) I've never taken the time to actually go through all those seminal albums from the 80s and 90s. Sure, I've heard a lot of individual songs from them, but some are actual complete blind spots as albums go (Outkast, Public Enemy).
Basing most of it on Esch top 20, this is my current educational Spotify-list:
36 Chambers
The Diary
Ready To Die
Reasonable Doubt
Eternal 1999
Illmatic
Criminal Minded
Mystic Stylez
Me Against the World
College Dropout
The Infamous
Doggystyle
Madvillainy
Paid In Full
Death Certificate
Super Tight
Straight Outta Compton
Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders
It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
ATLiens
Aquemini
The Score
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Pilot Talk I & II (In anticipation of III)
Fuck that became a long list. If you guys are interested I might do reaction posts on the ones I'm going in blind on (not Madvillainy, Illmatic, Straight Outta Compton + the two previously mentioned) and you can get the completely uneducated opinion of one of them white boys.
What's missing from the list? Thinking pre -05 in general. Veto'd Em myself.