Same as last time: I’m putting together a list of the best hip hop albums of the 90′s, and I need your help making sure I don’t miss any albums that deserve consideration. Today’s year is 1993. Here’s what I have from 1993. What am I missing? Also, if any of these albums weren’t released in 1993, let me know.
If you don’t have anything to add:
BQ: What are your top 5, 10, 20, or however many albums you want to list from 1993?
2Pac – Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Above The Law – Black Mafia Life – The Album
Akinyele – Vagina Diner
Ant Banks – Sittin’ on Somethin’ Phat
Apache – Apache Ain’t Sh*t
Arabian Prince – Where’s My Bytches
Arrested Development – MTV Unplugged
B.O.N.E. Enterprise – Faces of Death
Big Daddy Kane – Looks Like a Job For…
Biz Markie – All Samples Cleared
Black Moon – Enta Da Stage
Blood of Abraham – Future Profits
Brand Nubian – In God We Trust
Brokin English Klik – Brokin English Klik
Capital Tax – The Swoll Package
Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf – Big Shots
Cold World Hustlers – Cold Streets
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Da King & I – Contemporary Jeep Music
Da Youngsta’s – The Aftermath
Das EFX – Straight Up Sewaside
De La Soul – Buhloone Mindstate
Del The Funky Homosapian – No Need For Alarm
Digable Planets – Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Digital Underground – Body-Hat Syndrome
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Code Red
DMG – Rigormortiz
Domino – Domino
Dre Dog – The New Jim Jones
Dru Down – Fools from the Streets
Eazy-E – It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa
Edo. G & Da Bulldogs – Roxbury 02119
Eightball & MJG – Comin’ Out Hard
Erick Sermon – No Pressure
Esham – Kkkill the Fetus
Fat Joe – Represent
Figure Uv Speech – U Already Know
Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots
Funkdoobiest – Which Doobie U B?
Geto Boys – Til Death Do Us Part
Gunshot – Patriot Games
Guru – Jazzmatazz Vol. 1
Havoc & Prodeje – Livin’ in a Crime Wave
Hoodratz – Sneeke Muthafukaz
Ice Cube – Lethal Injection
Illegal – The Untold Truth
Intelligent Hoodlum – Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum
JT the Bigga Figga – Playaz N the Game
Jungle Brothers – J Beez Wit the Remedy
Just-Ice – Gun Talk
Justin Warfield – My Field Trip to Planet 9
Kam – Neva Again
Kaos – International Dope Dealers
Katch 22 – Dark Tales From Two Cities
King Tee – The Triflin’ Album
Knucklehedz – Stricktly Savage
K-Rino – Stories from the Black Book
Kriss Kross – Da Bomb
KRS-One – Return of the Boom Bap
Labtekwon – The Ghetto Gospel EP
Leaders of the New School – T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind’s Eye)
LL Cool J – 14 Shots To The Dome
Lords of the Underground – Here Come the Lords
Mac Dre – Young Black Brotha
Mad Kap – Look Ma Dukes, No Hands
Masta Ace – Slaughtahouse
MC Breed – The New Breed
MC Lyte – Ain’t No Other
MC Ren – Shock Of The Hour
MC Thick – The Show Ain’t Over Till the Fatman Swings
Mobb Deep – Juvenile Hell
Mysterme & DJ 202 – Let Me Explain
Naughty By Nature – 19 Naughty III
New Kingdom – Heavy Load
Nuff Ruffness – Nuff Ruffness
Onyx – Bacdafucup
Original Flavor – Beyond Flavor
P.M. Dawn – The Bliss Album
Parental Advisory – Ghetto Street Funk
Poor Righteous Teachers – Black Business
Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich – Dust to Dust
Pudgee tha Phat Bastard – Give Em the Finger
Queen Latifah – Black Reign
Rascalz – Really Livin’
Raw Breed – Lune Tunz
Rodney O & Joe Cooley – F*ck New York
Rumpletilskinz – What is a Rumpletilskin?
Run D.M.C. – Down with the King
Salt-n-Pepa – Very Necessary
Scarface – The World Is Yours
Shaquille O’Neal – Shaq Diesel
Snoop Dogg – Doggystyle
Souls Of Mischief – 93 ‘Til Infinity
Spice-1 – 187 He Wrote
Strickly Roots – Begs No Friends
Success-n-Effect – Drive By Of Uh Revolutionist
Tha Alkaholiks – 21 & Over
The Beatnuts – Intoxicated Demons
The Brotherhood – XXIII
The Conscious Daughters – Ear to the Streets
The Coup – Kill My Landlord
The Roots – Organix
Threat – Sickinnahead
Tim Dog – Do or Die
T-Isaam & DJ Magic Mike – Southern Hospitality
Top Quality – Magnum Opus
Trends Of Culture – Trendz…
Ultramagnetic MCs – The Four Horsemen
Us3 – Hand On The Torch
Various Artists – Menace II Society Soundtrack
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Yall So Stupid – Van Full of Pakistans
YG’z – Street N*gga
Yo Yo – You Better Ask Somebody
Young MC – What’s the Flavor
YZ – The Ghetto’s Been Good to Me
