The best hip hop would have to be Pete Rock "Soul Survivor" best rap would have to be a tie between Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and Dr. Dre's "The Chronic".
Damn, I had to think about that. I'll go with Ice Cube-Amerkka's Most Wanted, NWA-Straight Outta Compton as close 2nd. Honorable Mention- Eazy-E- Eazy Duz It.
Nas-illmatic prob one of the best albums of all time
Wu tang -Enter the 36 Chambers
GZA- Liquid Swords
Eminem- SSLP
Nas- it was written
Blackstar-blackstarr
Binary Star-
defensively Tupac Shakur's "ALL EYES ON ME" the greatest album ever period! all the other albums from Rakim, Biggie, Big pun, Krs one, Dr. dre, Eminem, Jay z, Nas, Run dmc, Nwa, are great but not better than Tupac's album.
i love biggie life after death but a good album that came out in 08 thats very underrated is ludacris theather of the mind im not saying its a classic but i think people fell in love with carter 3 and paper trail(both are good albums) and overlooked that album