Every Hip-Hop Album Ever

On a quest to listen to every hip-hop album ever made. I post albums once I’ve listened to them🎧 instagram here

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The last few months I’ve been on a quest to listen to every hip-hop album ever. Slowly but surely making progress. I mostly post to I*stagram, but figure I may as well give Tumblr a chance too.

Feel free to follow along with this journey! I’ll be posting some album covers of stuff I’ve already listened to so far with some anecdotes if I feel like it 😊

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Gucci Crew II - So Def, So Fresh, So Stupid (1987)

Quite a boring album to be honest.

2.4/10

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Bobby Jimmy and the Critters - Back and Proud (1987)

This sucks. Don’t bother.

0.4/10

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N.W.A. - N.W.A. and the Posse (1987)

Definitely nowhere close to their future projects but there are smatterings of potential that would obviously be eventually used in their next albums. Dope Man is the high point, but boy are there some lows thrown in here.

6.2/10

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Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now (1987)

Definitely an improvement from his debut album, and of course is an important piece of the feud with LL Cool J. Solid album.

6.1/10

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Heavy D & The Boyz - Living Large (1987)

Heavy D is super charismatic and offers a fun aspect to hip-hop that has been seen sparingly so far in these early albums.

5.3/10

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Skinny Boys - Skinny & Proud (1987)

Still gimmicky. Still very Fat Boys inspired and there’s a bit of Beastie Boys’ sound in there too, which doesn’t fit. Not the best. A weird homage to Bill Cosby at one point which hasn’t aged well, obviously.

4.2/10

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Steady B - What’s My Name (1987)

I struggle to vibe with Steady B’s music to be honest. I don’t think he’s the rapper for me, lol.

3.8/10

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Grandmaster Flash - Ba-Dop-Boom-Bang (1987)

A very “nothing” album. The “Furious Five” provide very little growth or substance from prior albums.

2.1/10

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Whodini - Open Sesame (1987)

A drop off in quality from Whodini here, a throwaway album.

3.7/10

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Fat Boys - Crushin’ (1987)

This is a big improvement from their other albums and it comes as no surprise to me that it’s once they began to drop their overly-gimmicky stuff. The beatboxing is still there which can be jarring when it’s just randomly thrown in with decently produced songs that don’t need it but it’s better for sure.

5.3/10

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MC Shy-D - Got to Be Tough (1987)

This album has a couple of high spots but is overall pretty bland and repetitive. I wouldn’t bother seeking it out.

3.2/10

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MC Shan - Down by Law (1987)

I understand why dude was getting ate up in that beef but he is still nice on some of these tracks, I can’t lie. Solid debut album.

5.7/10

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Ice-T - Rhyme Pays (1987)

This was a super fun debut album, I enjoyed it a whole lot more than I expected.

7.4/10

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Too Short - Born to Mack (1987)

I didn’t enjoy this album as much as I expected to do so. Some pretty sus bars that didn’t sit right with me kinda put me off.

3.2/10

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Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (1987)

One of the albums I have been most looking forward to listening to from 1987, it didn’t disappoint at all.

8.3/10

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LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer (1987)

Definitely not as strong as his debut album but it is still a solid album. The production on it go crazy, for sure.

7.9/10