Top Rap Albums of All Time

This list is in alphabetical order because it is hard enough to put them in order alone, let alone agreeing on all these classic albums. Of course this is purely opinion so please remember to comment on your thoughts and your favorites we may have missed!

A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Stand Out Tracks: Can I Kick It? Rhythm (Devoted To The Art Of Moving Butts), Bonita Applebum, Push It Along

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Stand Out Tracks: Scenario, Verses from the Abstract, Buggin' Out, Check the Rhime

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Stand Out Tracks: Fight for your Right, No Sleep till' Brooklyn, Girls, Paul Revere, Brass Monkey, Time to Get Ill
 

Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
Stand Out Tracks: Ch-Check it Out, Right Right Now Now, An Open Letter to NYC, Shazam!

 
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane 
Stand Out Tracks: Long Live the Kane, Raw (Remix), Set it Off, I'll Take You There, Ain't No Half Steppin'

Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous
Stand Out Tracks: Danger Zone, Put It On, MVP, No Endz No Skinz, Da Graveyard, Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous

Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Stand Out Tracks: Beware, Super Lyrical, Still Not a Player, I'm Not a Player, Capital Punishment, Boomerang, You Came Up

Big Pun- Yeeeah Baby
Stand Out Tracks: My Turn, New York Giants, Leatherface, Off Wit His Head, Watch Those

Chamillionaire - Mixtape Messiah Series (Note: this is  7 mixtapes totaling over 170 songs)
Stand Out Tracks: Roll Call Reloaded ft. Everybody, Body Rock, Hip Hop Warning, Money Already Made, Nothin' But Lies, It's Just Pain, Chamilli, Put On For Houston, The Real Thing, Internet Nerds Revenge, Top Down Money, On the Grind Homie, My Life, Swagger Like Cham, I Got, I'm the One, Get It, Ran Out of Autotune, Everything ft. Crooked I, Breathe, I Know Ya Mad, The One, Successful

De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Stand Out Tracks:

Dr. Dre - 2001
Stand Out Tracks: Forgot About Dre, Still D.R.E., The Watcher, What's the Difference?, The Next Episode, Ackrite,

Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Stand Out Tracks: Fuck Wit Dre Day, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang, Deeez Nuuuts, Bitches Ain't Shit, Stranded On Death Row

Eminem - The Eminem Show
Stand Out Tracks: 'Till I Collapse, Soldier, Sing For the Moment, White America, Cleaning Out My Closet, Business

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Stand Out Tracks: Stan, The Way I Am, I'm Back, Criminal, Who Knew, Bitch Please II, Drug Ballad, The Real Slim Shady

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Stand Out Tracks: Role Model, Just Don't Give a Fuck, Still Don't Give a Fuck, Guilty Conscience, Bad Meets Evil

Eric B and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Stand Out Tracks: Follow the Leader, Microphone Fiend, Lyrics of Fury, No Competition, Musical Massacere

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Stand Out Tracks: I Ain't No Joke, I Know You Got Soul, Eric B. is President, Paid in Full

Gift Of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
Stand Out Tracks: Rhyme Travel, El Gifto Magnifico, Escape 2 Mars, In Las Vegas, Lightyears, Richman Poorman, Spotlight


GZA - Liquid Swords
Stand Out Tracks: Liquid Swords, Cold World, Investigative Reports, I Gotcha Back, Labels, 4th Chamber, Shadowboxin'

Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Stand Out Tracks: Alive on Arrival, Steady Mobbin', I Wanna Kill Sam, Doing Dumb Shit, The Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit, True to the Game

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted  
Stand Out Tracks: Endangered Species, You Can't Fade Me, It's a Man's World, The Bomb, The Nigga You Love to Hate

Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Stand Out Tracks: Takeover, Izzo (H.O.V.A), U Don't Know, Heart of the City (Ain't No Love), Renegade

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Stand Out Tracks: Can't Knock the Hustle, Dead Presidents II, D'evils, Ain't no Nigga, Coming of Age

Jay-Z - The Black Album
Stand Out Tracks: Dirt Off Your Shoulder, 99 Problems, Moment of Clarity, Lucifer, Change Clothes, What More Can I Say

Kanye West - Late Registration
Stand Out Tracks: Touch The Sky, Diamonds From Sierra Leone, Hey Mama, Gone, Heard 'Em Say, Gold Digger

Kanye West - The College Dropout
Stand Out Tracks: Two Words, Through the Wire, School Spirit, The New Workout Plan, Jesus Walks, All Falls Down, Never Let Me Down

KiD CuDi - Man on the Moon: The End of Days 
Stand Out Tracks: Soundtrack 2 My Life, Day n' Night, Simple As..., CuDi Zone, Make Her Say, Up Up and Away


KRS-One - Criminal Minded 
Stand Out Tracks: South Bronx, The Bridge is Over, Criminal Minded, Dope Beat


KRS-One - Sneak Attack
Stand Out Tracks: Attendance, Hot, Hip-Hop Knowledge, Hush, Get Yourself UP!, The Raptism

Ludacris - The Red Light District
Stand Out Tracks: Number One Spot, Get Back, Pimpin' All Over the World, Blueberry Yum Yum, The Potion, Spur of the Moment


Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food And Liquor
Stand Out Tracks: The Instrumental, Kick Push, Kick Push II, I Gotcha, The Cool, Daydreamin', He Say She Say, Pressure ft. Jay-Z

Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Stand Out Tracks: The Coolest, Dumb it Down, Go Go Gadget Flow, Streets on Fire, Put You on Game, Hip Hop Saved My Life, Hello/Goodbye, Superstar

MF Doom and Dangermouse - The Mouse and the Mask
Stand Out Tracks: Sofa King, The Mask, Old School, A.T.H.F.

Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Stand Out Tracks:


Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Stand Out Tracks: Hip Hop, Love, Ms. Fat Booty, Do It Now, Got, Rock 'N' Roll, Mathematics

Mos Def and Talib Kweli- Black Star
Stand Out Tracks: Definition, Re: Definition, Children's Story, Respiration, Astronomy (8th Light)

Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Stand Out Tracks: Life In Marvelous Times, Quiet Dog Bite Hard, Casa Bey, Supermagic, Pistola, The Embassy
 

Nas - Illmatic
Stand Out Tracks: N.Y. State of Mind, Halftime, One Time 4 Your Mind,  The World Is Yours, Life's a Bitch

Nas - God's Son
Stand Out Tracks: Thugs Mansion N.Y., Get Down, Cross, Made You Look, Hey Nas, I Can

Nas - Stillmatic 
Stand Out Tracks: Got Ur Self a Gun, One Mic, Ether, My Country, Smokin'

Outkast - ATLiens
Stand Out Tracks: ATLiens, Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac), Mainstream, Wheelz of Steel, E.T., 13th Floor/Growing Old


Outkast -  Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Stand Out Tracks: Prototype, Hey Ya!, My Favorite Things, Ghetto Musick

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Stand Out Tracks: Rebel Without a Pause, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Night of the Living Baseheads, Don't Believe the Hype

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Stand Out Tracks: Guillotine (Swordz) ft. Ghostface, Rainy Dayz ft. Ghostface, Verbal Intercourse ft. Ghostface & Nas, Wu-Gambinos ft. Ghostface, Criminology ft. Ghostface


Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Stand Out Tracks: It's Tricky, Walk This Way, You be Illin', My Adidas

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggy Style 
Stand Out Tracks: Lodi Dodi, Gin and Juice, Murder Was the Case, Pump Pump, Who Am I?

Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang


Stand Out Tracks: Sugarhill Groove, Rapper's Delight, Rapper's Reprise

Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
Stand Out Tracks: Apache, Showdown, 8th Wonder

T.I. - King
Stand Out Tracks: What You Know, Ride Wit Me, Why You Wanna, Live in the Sky, Top Back, Stand Up Guy, King Back

Tupac - All Eyez on Me
Stand Out Tracks: California Love, All Eyez On Me, Can't C Me, 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

Tupac - Me Against the World
Stand Out Tracks: Death Around the Corner, Me Against the World, Dear Mama, Lord Knows, So Many Tearz

Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)  
Stand Out Tracks: Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin' to Fuck Wit, C.R.E.A.M., Method Man, Can It All Be So Simple