PART 2 - Personal Best Rap Albums & Mixtapes of All Time (Close to no skips, 9/10, 10/10 for me)
DAYTONA (Pusha T) – personally I preferred the BLOWBAMA beats, but man, what we got was truly incredible. Kanye never fell off artistically, and Pusha, to this day, has maintained a really high elevated level.
Late Registration (Kanye) – super poetic and well-written, for me you can listen to this album on every occasion.
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (Tyler, The Creator) – IGOR was really good, but CMIYGL has genuinely more rap moments and elaborate production. "CORSO" is an absolute masterpiece that really sets the great tone for this album. Also a 10/10 song with 10/10 rapping and production.
Truly Yours 1 & 2, Friday Night Lights (J. Cole) – mixtape Cole goes really hard. I genuinely think that "Higher" is a 10/10 song with 10/10 rapping and production.
Indicud (Kid Cudi) – I took a long time to truly appreciate this project, but now I think it's one of the greatest Cudi albums ever released. Same weirdness as Yeezus, but now Cudi puts his own melodic shit into it. I came from hearing "Young Lady".
Vaudeville Villain (Viktor Vaughn) - not a single skit – just really powerful and gritty sound. MF DOOM sounds really menacing on this record. "Vaudeville Villain" perfectly encapsulates this whole album and serves as a perfect opener – a rather recent discovery.
1999 (Joey Bada$$) – same reasons as Late Registration. You've got a high-energy track like "Survival Tactics" my favorite. On "Waves", he keeps rapping nonstop over a dreamy beat. "Hardknock" has great storytelling, and MF DOOM also produced some of the tracks. But this is a more jazz-oriented project, I love saxophone, trumpets, and piano. Jazz with hip hop is a flawless combination, bro.
Samurai (Lupe Fiasco) – Lupe, as always, has genius rhyme schemes. Jazz mixed with hip hop again – the first track sets the tone, nostalgic, no filler, just like all the other albums I showed.
Now I'm going to recommend some other albums, but this time outside the hip hop/rap genre:
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis) – because I like jazz.
Rio (Duran Duran) – 80s, man.
WAR (U2) – not the one Kanye was working on with James Blake – this one is literally perfection.
Adore (The Smashing Pumpkins) – depressing, i love being depressed 😭👏👏👏
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