Top 10 HipHop Albums of 2006
Right, It's taken me a while to internally deliberate this but here is my definitive top 10 HipHop albums of 2006. Full albums only, no mixtapes (for mixtapes, check the 1Xtra mixtape awards)
1. J Dilla - Donuts
2. Nas - HipHop Is Dead
3. The Game - The Doctor's Advocate
4. Jay-Z - Kingdom Come
5. Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liquor
6. Ty - Closer
7. Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang
8. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale & More Fish (taking it as 2 parts of one album rather than 2 albums)
9. Sway - This Is My Demo
10. Snoop Dogg - The Blue Carpet Treatment
Agree? Disagree? What's missing? Anything in the honourable mentions that should be in the top 10?
Comments
Post your commentSorry but Kingdom Come is wack. I agree with your other choices though. Press Play was a nice album although not exclusively hip hop. Definitely Ty's Closer was a good look.
i have no idea what i bought pre-september, but kenn starr, hi-tek, sir smurf and terra firma (not an album strictly speaking) all deserve honorable mentions at the very least.
hmmmm... what else..... yungun and mr thing, raks one, tanya morgan, c-mone, ghost, verb t and harry love, stylah and snips (although clearly not an album.
i don't know about obie though... i bought the album off the strength of cry now... in all fairness, only listened to it once or twice, but it sounded like one of the worst albums ever.
The Game Should no way be top 3, not even top 10 because of the amount of good albums this year, he knows how to pick beats but you cant take him seriously as an MC.
Sway has already become 1 of my favourite MCs but his album aint top ten.
Where's Luda and Hi-Tek. Release Therapy (excluding the track with bobby V) is by far luda's best work.
The Clipse backed by the neptunes murked it. The clipse always bring the best out of the neptunes, I know most of the time they only rap about coke but they do it in such a charismatic and witty way.Good to hear them back.
Top Ten:
1. Nas - Hip hop is dead
2. Clipse - Hell hath no fury
3. Hi-Tek - Hi-Teknology 2
4. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
5. J Dilla - Donuts & The Shining
6. Ludacris - Release Therapy
7. Ghostface - Fishscale
8. Jay-Z - Kingdom Come
9. Busta Rhymes - Big Bang
10. The Roots - Game Theory
Snoop Dogg is the best album.
Game, Lupe, Ty and Busta did nothing for me.
Donut's wouldn't make my list cos its still just a nice beat tape but I thought The Shining was the real deal and might even top my list.
Only listened to Nas twice but I like it more than I thought I would, ditto the Snoop. I like Outkast more than everyone else does and it would make my top ten but then I think it's a terrible year for Hiphop albums. Killah Mike and Clipse are definites the Ghost stuff is okay. Can I have the Joanna Newsome album as my number one Mistajam?
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I would defo have had Outkast up there personally, theyre always nicely creative. Big up to the Lupe mind, I really felt F&L.
No I think luda's Release therapy"
and T.I's "King" should be up there....
well at least u got donuts as #1
dilla dawg RIP!