kanye west - the college dropout (2004)kanye yest - late registration (2005)kanye west - graduation (2007)kanye west - 808s and heartbreak (2008)kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy (2010)kanye west & jay-z - watch the throne (2011)drake - take care (2011)kendrick lamar - good kid, maad city (2012)kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly (2015)kanye west - the life of pablo (2016) you probably already know this but kanye west basically invented the genre that we call hip hop today, so i figured i’d start with his first album. some people out there consider his 4th album 808s and heartbreak to be the first “real hip hop” album ever made but i decided to include the three he put out before that one anyway just because they weren’t really any other albums worth mentioning. i’m not counting all those albums from the 90s that people love to namedrop in order to make themselves seem knowledgeable about the culture, those are irrelevant. no one actually listens to that stuff nowadays. a bunch of corny motherfuckers in the park with boomboxes and funny hats spinning on their heads, get out of here with all that bullshit. as far as defining what makes a hip hop album great, the answer to that is: memes. we live in the age of the internet and social media, so whatever hip hop album spawns the most memes is the best and most important.
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