Best Rap CD's of 2001?
 

What are your picks...?

Three that come to mind are Nate Dogg - Music and Me , Warrenn G - Return of the Regulator amd Mystikal - Tarantula.

Dialated Peoples - Expansion Team
Canibus - "C" True Hollywood Stories
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Ja Rule - Pain is Love
D12 - Devil's Night
Outkast - Stankonia
The Wash - Soundtrack
Xyhbit - Restless

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Cannibal Ox -- The Cold Vein

Best of the year, hands down.

Jay-Z - The Blueprint was easily the best rap record of the year....

MATT

I have heard that alot, but can't find it in Marshall. Have to buy it online I guess.

It's worth searching out. Really great.

Jigga - The Blueprint
Beanie Sigel - The Reason
Nas - Stillmatic
Dungeon Family - Even In Darkness
Jadakiss - Kiss The Game Goodbye
The Coup - Party Music
Mobb Deep - Infamy
and....Ghostface Killah "Bulletproof Wallets" -- it's short with a bunch of stupid skits but the 11 or 12 actual tracks are hot!


Lousy ones -- Ruff Ryders 3 is a real piece of crap.
Wu-Tang's Iron Flag is so-so.

Jay-Z: The Blueprint
Outkast: Stankonia even the title kicked ***!

There hasn't been a great, and I mean truly GREAT, rap album in at least 4 years.

Word. Most have 2 or 3 good songs, and the rest is fluff.

Listen to the Cannibal Ox album.

Maybe not, but there have been many great hip-hop albums.

There hasn't been a great rap cd since they are just throwing things together in a last minute effort to remain in the public eye. I doubt any Rap cd ends up in the top ten of 2001.

Let me be a broken record one more time -- Cannibal Ox, <i>The Cold Vein</i>. I bet it places in the top ten of the <i>Village Voice</i>'s Pazz and Jop poll (which is the best year-end list of them all). I know it ranks number two for me.

Half of Cannibal Ox is awesome; El-P really surprised me with the production (I haven't liked anything he's done before). I'm not too crazy about the MC's, though.

I'm sorry that I got in on this about 4 months too late, but I still feel the need to post my picks. I just discovered this part of the forum today. Other DVD Talkers into hip hop music, as much as I am? Damn, who would've thunk it...

2001
1. Jay-Z "The Blueprint"
2. Wu-Tang Clan "Iron Flag"
3. Ghostface Killah "Bulletproof Wallets"
4. Rza as Bobby Digital "Digital Bullet"
5. Cormega "The Realness"
6. Nas "Stillmatic"
7. D12 "Devil's Night"
8. Jay-Z "MTV Unplugged"
9. Mobb Deep "Infamy"
10. Killarmy "Fear, Love & War"

For good measure, my favorite hip hop albums from 1987-2001:
1987: Eric B & Rakim "Paid In Full"
1988: Too Short "Life Is... Too Short"
1989: Special Ed "Youngest In Charge"
1990: Brand Nubian "One For All"
1991: Ice Cube "Death Certificate"
1992: Dr. Dre "The Chronic"
1993: Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the 36 Chambers"
1994: Nas "Illmatic" (best album ever)
1995: Raekwon "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx"
1996: Jay-Z "Reasonable Doubt"
1997: Wu-Tang Clan "Wu-Tang Forever"
1998: M.O.P. "First Family 4 Life"
1999: Prince Paul "Prince Among Thieves"
2000: Ghostface Killah "Supreme Clientele"
2001: Jay-Z "The Blueprint"

Anything El-P touches is gold. Funcrusher Plus is still one of the best hip hop discs I've ever heard.

I'll reiterate:

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
(check out Metal Gear on The F-Word EP)
Aesop Rock - Labor Days

Yes, Jay did OK with Blueprint.

Nice list I agree, they were all great albums.

man how can you put the blueprint over jigga's unplugged album??? the blueprint was one of those albums with mad fluff on it, but unplugged was just the ish. I mean to have thet greatest hiphop band The Roots on it gives the album merit already.

Swollen Members "Bad Dreams". You wouldn't know these guys could lay out a rhyme to look at em. But they can, and they're Canadian to boot. Chali 2na appears on a track as well. It's on the Battleaxe Records label, they are definitely keeping it live.

Dungeon Family - Even in Darkness
Killarmy - Fear, Love and War
Nas - Stillmatic
Jay-Z - Blueprint


Outkast was released in 2000

I have a couple of there songs, I need to find there album. :) When I get the cities I will probably. Since I live in hickstown, usa.`

Wow, there is actually someone else out there who thinks that this album is pure brilliance. I can't say enough about Prince Among Thieves, as it really is one of the best albums I've ever heard.

However, I have to regretfully disagree with your choice for 1996...while Jay Z was good that year, nothing came close to Dr. Octagon...