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  1. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Mar 29, 2021
    Easily Daytona for me. His other projects got some 10/10 individual songs, but Daytona the only one I’m playing all the way through.
     
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  2. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Mar 29, 2021
    MNIMN I tend to revisit more, even though I believe Daytona to be the superior album.
     
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  3. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Mar 24, 2021
    Yeah that Dre verse was not great but still a cool song.. Plus this album also has the best Ross x Nas collab of all time
     
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

    Mar 23, 2021
    Boo Yah b----!!!! That’s what I want to hear. I must drive home this idea because I don’t think I was clear enough in OP- this thread is not about objective best albums, this is about YOUR FAVOURITE ALBUMS. I want to hear people talking that s--- h--- yeah!!!
     
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  5. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    Mar 23, 2021
    Am I the only one that loves Rather You Than Me? smh
     
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  6. icecube
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    icecube West Coast is the Best Coast

    Mar 23, 2021
    First RR album I listen to was PoM2. Wasn't overly impressed. I know there's better examples of his but not inspired to listen to them all.
     
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  7. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Mar 23, 2021
    Teflon Don—Mastermind is also a personal favorite of mine. Rich Forever as well, which honestly I think should be included in this because it was going to be an album but he released it for free as a "mixtape" due to label issues. Just shows how meaningless the "mixtape" vs. "album" terminology was at that point.
     
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  8. Jeans
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

    Mar 22, 2021
    WINNERS
    •Week 1: Rick Ross - Teflon Don (26.7%)
    •Week 2: Pusha T - Daytona (67.3%)
    •Week 3: DMX - Its Dark And h--- Is Hot (67.3%)
     
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  9. icecube
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    icecube West Coast is the Best Coast

    Apr 14, 2021
    I've said this in the past and I'll say it again. I've been a die-hard West Coast fan since I was a teenager. Never got into the majority of the East Coast sound. But I'd love to.

    Nothing taking me away from X for a while yet though.
     
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  10. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Apr 14, 2021
    All of these albums are in that certified classic category that keeps me revisiting them time and time again. I think I could recite these all backward lol. Besides Tical and you could probably make a solid argument for any of them being the best but my personal pick would be Liquid Swords. It was one of the first albums I remember completely nerding out to, trying to figure out the hidden meaning in every single bar, just listening on repeat for weeks at a time. And that cinematically grimy sound that RZA produced that I'm pretty sure shaped my music taste forever.

    Tbh at this point I'd put Enter the Wu above any of these. Thats just utter perfection on the same level as Illmatic, MBDTF, etc. to me.
     
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  11. Jeans
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

    Apr 14, 2021
    Could not disagree more. Tical is a decent album but no where on the level of the other 4. I guess I’ve never really cares for m--- as a solo artist at all, only with Wu or with red
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Apr 14, 2021
    Honestly haven't heard any of those in years besides Ironman—all great albums that get neglected simply because there's so many AAA albums from Wu. I'm bout to throw on the ODB album cuz I was just thinking about him when I was listening to Danny Brown's Old yesterday (which was originally called ODB ). We don't talk enough about how influential ODB was in general.
     
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    BIGFOOT More than a myth!

    Apr 14, 2021
    M E T H O D MANNN
     
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  14. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Apr 14, 2021
    tough decision between the two but I think OB4CL has edge—Liquid Swords will always be special to me as the first solo Wu album I fell in love with.
     
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  15. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Apr 13, 2021
    I feel pretty confident in saying OB4CL is the best, but I don't think Liquid Swords is super far off.
     
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  16. icecube
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    icecube West Coast is the Best Coast

    Apr 8, 2021
    After careful consideration I've gotta go with Its Dark and h--- is Hot. I guess it's the same for a lot of debut albums, the hunger is at the peak of intensity. Faultless piece of work and perfectly sets his entire discography for that certain sound. The "X" factor if you will...
     
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  17. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Apr 6, 2021
    It's been ages since I've listened to his albums other than the first 2 (which I still occasionally revisit just because of how d--- good they are), but man, And Then There Was X and Grand Champ were vital to my introduction to hip hop back back in the day. Great Depression too, although I never got into that one as much. But in terms of his overall catalog, its gotta be Its Dark and h--- Is Hot. Thats a contender for Top 10 hip hop album of all time. I've seen it being described as the Dante's Inferno of hip hop, just a journey through h--- told in the voice of a half-man-half-dog on a murderous rampage.

    @Jeans you've got the right idea though, I think I'mma need to relisten to the full discog.
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Apr 5, 2021
    Toss up between his first two. It's tough for me to wanna vote against an album with the line "I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse/I got blood on my d-ck cuz I f----- a corpse" but I've always kinda liked It's Dark and h--- Is Hot more.
     
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    Wreckless

    Apr 5, 2021
    I picked ...And Then There Was X but it could honestly be a toss up between that It's Dark and h--- is Hot and The Great Depression.

    Redemption of The Beast shouldn't count as an official album imo.
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Mar 29, 2021
    I added Wrath of Caine and Fear of God II to the poll cuz those are such big essentials imo and his solo discography is pretty small.

    Daytona > Wrath of Caine > MNIMN > Fear of God II > King Push
     
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