Best Hip Hop Albums Of The Last Decade [97-07]

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

i'm curious as to what AF's hip hop community list as their faves of the last 10 years.
a bud posed this question to me last night & it wasnt as easy to answer as i thought due to the fact that it just misses the mark on what many consider to be hip hop's golden decade [86-96].
so here's the criteria:
*albums that have held up over time
*albums that you can put in your player & just let go from beginning to finish
*no soundtracks,best of compilations etc
pretty simple? for me it wasn't. such a glut of bad or substandard product out there IMHO.
without further ado,i ask for members' Top 5 or Top 10. here are mine in no particular order

The Roots - Game Theory/Phrenology [Tie]
Common - Be
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Nas - God's Son
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
Outkast - Aquemini/SpeakerboxxxThe Love Below [Tie]
Dr Dre - Chronic 2001
Rahzel - Make The Music 2000
Jay-Z - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life/The Blueprint [Tie]

gotta give a shout out to Wu-Tang's Iron Flag,The Roots' Things Fall Apart,Common's Like Water For Chocolate, Mos Def's Black On Both Sides & Big Pun's Capital Punishment who just got edged outta my list.

[AYHJA]

Shit, in the last 10 years, other than any Outkast album that has come out, I don't think I have a CD like that...Damn shame, but I do believe its true...We've been going through a funky period in music man, we have all kinds of shit mixed in with the good stuff...Very rarely do we see an album w/great beats and rhymes...

Shit man, we gotta throw some more names out...Even going through my collection on my external I can't find an album (other than The Love Below) that I can just put on at any time and listen to all the way through...

OK, can't forget about Jigga, the Blueprint and The Black Album bang the fuck out...

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

i dunno,A. i thought the Black Album was ok but i thought the only standouts were 99 Reasons & the pure pimp Dirt Off Your Shoulder.
more contenders you say?
Redman's Doc's The Name
Shyne's self-titled debut
Sway &Tech's This Or That
Xzibit's Restless
Dilated Peoples' The Platform
DJ Quik''s Balances & Options
Slum Village's Detroit Deli
Mos Def & Talib Kweli's Black Star
Gang Starr's Moment Of Truth
Cam'ron's Take You Home.

[AYHJA]

Umm, you mention Cam'ron making the list in anything except a joking way and you loose cred, lol...

The Black album was hot Mang..! It was chok full of bangers..! Definitely one of his best albums...

I've always been a fan of Quik, you're right, I could ride them joints all the way through...Redman is my dude also, I have ALL of his albums up here, so I can't front on the love there...

Snoop's 'Topp Dogg' I liked alot...I used to buy every No Limit CD that came out until they fired Beats by the Pound...

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Umm, you mention Cam'ron making the list in anything except a joking way and you loose cred, lol...

I used to buy every No Limit CD that came out until they fired Beats by the Pound...

1.yeah i was clownin'. you got me :?
though i do like a lot of Killla Cam's singles.
2.BBP made that hotslammin' southern fried shit. i miss their work. IMHO,Snoop was the only one with the skill to ride their beats though. ;)

[Habib]

personally, here are the albums I really liked in the last decade, no order though:

The Predator - Ice Cube
The Marshall Mathers LP - Em
The Eminem Show - Em
The Blueprint - Jigga
Life After Death - Biggie
Be - Common
Finding Forever - Common
The College Dropout - Kanye
T.I. vs. T.I.P. - T.I. (i really love this album)
Laugh Now, Cry Later - Ice Cube

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

CDR. The Predator was from '92,Habib....unless one counts the remastered extended version from a few years back. ;)

[Habib]

my bad, I didn't know that it was that old...

[AYHJA]

Oh yes, big props to the Marshall Mather's LP, my favorite of Em's albums hands down...

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

also my fave out of Em's albums thus far.
also gots to add: Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. more of a soul cd to me though..