Best Rap Albums

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Best Rap Albums

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2Pacalypse Now 2Pac

• Released in the fall of 1991, 2Pacs debut album
  dropped during a time period of racial unrest on
  the west coast. The political commentary shows
  the streets through the eyes of an intelligent
  young black male. Racism, police brutality,
  teenage pregnancy, and even black on black crime
  are spoken of by 2Pac, making the album a time
  capsule for that place in time.

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Illmatic - Nas

• Released in the spring of 1994 Illmatic put East
  Coast hip hop on the boards as a contender in the
  hip hop game opposing the rival West Coast hip
  hop style. Nas at the time was still a young
  rapper in the game, but with the release of
  Illmatic, he put himself on the map instantly.

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Life After Death Notorious B.I.G.

• The second and final studio album of Christopher
  Wallace (AKA Biggie) released in early 1997 sent
  shockwaves through the rap industry. The album
  released less than a month after his death in
  1997 acting as a sequel to his Best Rap album
  Ready to Die. Biggie captured the appeal and
  glamour of the streets for young males, but
  illuminates the desperation and loss gang banging
  eventually brings with it.

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Reasonable Doubt Jay Z

• The debut album for Jay Z released in the summer
  of 1996 started Jay Z towards the iconic hip hop
  mogul status he now resides. Heavily influenced
  by his time on the streets slinging drugs and
  working in organized crime. The Mafioso rap
  themes present themselves throughout the album,
  as well, Jay Z displayed his ability to flow
  freestyle on 22 Twos.

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To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamar

• Released in early 2015, Kendrick Lamar may be one
  of the only rappers currently in the rap game
  producing music of high enough quality to rival
  the legendary g rappers of the 90s. To Pimp a
  Butterfly is culturally aware of the struggles
  facing the African American community currently
  in 2015. Lamars album also finds resonance in
  the internal struggle the rapper found with his
  growing fame.

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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan

• Released in 1993 by the hip hop supper group
  Wu-Tang Clan. The hardcore hip hop album put
  together explicit and humorous lyricism with
  heavy, eerie beats produced largely from old
  martial-arts movie clips. Enter the Wu-Tang has
  earned tags of marking the beginning of the East
  Coast Renaissance of hip hop and became a
  blueprint from a style of hardcore hip hop in the
  90s.

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Straight Outta Compton N.W.A

• Released in the summer of 1988, N.W.A. put out
  one of the most controversial albums ever made,
  putting the hip hop / rap genre into the
  forefront of modern society. The gangster rap
  album was one of the first of its kind and with
  songs such as Fuck the Police it became a
  symbol of the race conflicts in the West Coast
  during the late 80s and early 90s.

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The College Dropout Kanye West

• Released in February of, Kanye West
  revolutionized the production style of the rap
  genre in the 2000s. The gangster rap era of the
  90s had come and gone for the most part and the
  rap industry needed a new leader to guide them
  through a transitioning phase, and Kanye was that
  voice. His background in beats production led
  West to create some of the best sample based
  beats production, which he had shown on Jay Zs
  The Blueprint. The College Dropout is also a very
  self aware album for West dealing with religion,
  family, and personal issues.

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The Chronic Dr. Dre

• After the split of N.W.A. Dre found himself
  working on his own material and in 1992 he
  released The Chronic. The Chronic was the debut
  album for Dre as a solo rapper. The album made
  Dre a lot of enemies in the came after he
  directly called out Eazy-E and Ruthless records.

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