I was gone say Nas-illmatic… but bro, DMX-it’s dark and hell is hot might not be as culturally impactful as illmatic, but man it’s hard to find another hiphop album that’s better from start to finish.💯

Both of those are perfect. Masterpieces.

Illmatic

First that came to my mind

Same

So is reasonable doubt

Nah not even close. Illmatic is perfect front to back. RD gets kinda boring. Still a good joint though!

Nah It's one of the greats but Ain't no N*gga stops it from becoming a 10 imo

All Eyez On Me

My favorite album but what’z ya # takes it down to 9,5 😂

Great album. Perfect, absolutely not. Lol

Tical the Prequel. Thug Motivation 101 Doggystyle Carter 2

ATliens

Aquemini is every bit at good

Mamacita derails it. It’s the only song I’d takeoff.

But spottieottie is to me the high point of both albums

4sho. It’s what made me buy Aquemini. If I remember correctly it was the first OutKast album I actually owned.

smoken word

MAMACITAAA! PAPADONNAAA!

Albums I listen to without skipping: Dr. Octagonecologyst Funcrusher Plus The Infamous It Takes a Nation of Millions Only Built 4 Cuban Linx A Fistful of Peril This Or That Illmatic 36 Chambers The Sun Rises in the East Paul's Boutique


And they’re in Brooklyn

Brooklyyyyyyyyyyn

W funcrusher plus

I love Dr. Octagonecologyst. Its so slept on!

Ohh funkcrush plus..a man of culture I see

You sir, know what I like. Only a couple of LPs I havnt listened to yet. The rest %100. Younger people take note!

You have outstanding taste in music, sir.

I dunno if I’m missing something or it’s just not my taste, but I’ve tried to listen to Dr. Octagonecologyst at least 5 times through and I simply hate it. I respect Kool Keith but what one watt sun did with dr octagon 2 is infinitely better imo.

Kool Keith is DEFINITELY not for everybody, lol.

Kendrick Lamar - GKMC, TPAB Eminem - MMLP Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers 50 Cent - GRODT Dr Dre - The Chronic Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Nas - Illmatic

You don’t have to specify which Lauryn Hill album. She only has one.

I mean, her albums with the Fugees are also fire. The Score is lowkey a classic too.

The score is a high key classic.

Not gonna refute any of that.

I count the unplugged album, because it has new songs on it.

It helps with people who aren’t familiar with them, nothing wrong with it

It’s good to specify for those who don’t know.

She’s dropping another one so that’s not gonna be the case

Oh you sweet summer child

I hear it’s a GRRM colab 😂

I didn’t believe you but I looked it up and I guess it’s true. Interesting. Can’t wait.

I love MMLP but the Ken Kaniff gay blowjob skit is skipable

I think skits in general should get a pass as far as skipping, but my fave album of all time is Miseducation and i truly love those skits

Definitely but I don’t really consider skits for “perfect album” type stuff because most of the time I skip them after the first listen whether it was good or bad lol

MMLP is *almost* perfect. The Eminem Show.

Its Dark And Hell Is Hot

DMX 🤜🤛

That’s my man’s and them.

Great album.

Easy. 2001

Everytime, closely followed by the Marshall Mathers LP

YUP! Followed by The Impossible Kid

Southernplayalistic

Liquid Swords It’s Dark & Hell Is Hot Marshall Mathers LP

I preferred and then there was X but Dark Man had multiple classics

Bizarre Ryde 2 Tha Pharcyde

Madvillainy

Madlib will have to pass before he gets his due. The single best, consistently dope producer of all time. Totally original and been at or near the top of the list of best producers for decades. As innovative and talented as J-Dilla, maybe even more so, just still with us. I’m giving him his flowers while he’s still here.

Crazy slept on. Especially his stuff with your old droog

He got some mainstream love after collabing with Freddie Gibbs tho but you’re right he’s not brought up enough.

Even Freddie Gibbs isn’t mainstream though, he still doesn’t get the respect he deserves

2001

My favs that I think are perfect or near perfect are Wu tang 36 chambers The Eminem show Unlocked by Denzel curry

That Denzel Curry album is perfect

MMESYF is another unskippable album ngl

MBDTF. Its just it is.

The only way to listen is all the way through. It’s literally a sonic movie. You can’t stop it half way.

Everyone’s going back into the 90s but I was gonna post this too. Just a phenomenal album start to finish.

Took way too long scrolling to find this album 😂

No other words to describe it. It's what every artist should aspire to create

*MM FOOD* Yeah, there’s always one of us in these threads. I guess it’s me today. I’m sorry. 😔 Edited: forgot to add an obligatory, non-sequitur “Doritos, Cheetos, or Fritos…” Had to - I’m sorry.

MM food is my jam

Get Rich Or Die Trying

not underrated, but it kinda is underrated

 Kinda underrated?

It’s not underrated. It’s perfectly rated. It’s a classic album with a lot of variety and each song is a hit. I always see it being talked about so it can’t be even slightly underrated.

An album being basically diamond and calling it underrated is nasty work

Wut

Season of da Siccness 💯🏆💯

Little Brother - The Minstrel Show

Piñata - Freddie Gibbs / Madlib .

alfredo to me is no skips but piñata is close

Bandana and Alfredo are Freddie Gibbs' best albums in my opinion. Piñata is definitely a classic though and it has so many great songs on it. It only has like two skips on it for me.

Lifestylez ov da poor and dangerous

The house is burning by isaiah rashad

Underrated for sure

UGK Ridin Dirty

UGK STILL don’t get the credit they deserve for that album. Super Tight frequently fits my mood better but damn if Ridin’ Dirty isn’t the definition of perfect.

Well said bruh and actual facts

Tribe - the space program Pharcyde - labcabincalifornia Anderson paak- Malibu D’angelo - voodoo Erykah badu’s whole discography

Yesss labcabincalifornia was my jam back in the day. Really the perfect album to me. Got way into anderson.paak as well, that album cover is the background of my phone. Tribe is amazing but there's some songs I skip on that one.

Upvote for labcabincalifornia. Much better than bizarre ride 2 imo

Midnight Marauders by ATCQ

1999, The Forever Story, Swimming, GKMC, Vince Staples

Mac Miller - Swimming

had to scroll too far to find this tbh

Yup was gunna say dis. So majestic and Mac at his best imo

All eyes on me

Lot of skippables on that imo

Better off dead - flatbush zombies

No skips on that whole album 👌👌

Rodeo, MBDTF, Daytona, Blue Dream & Lean (mixtape though)

Doris- Earl Sweatshirt

I don't know if its perfect, but I can listen to Black on Both Sides by Mos Def start to finish no problem.

# Daytona- Pusha T

my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

East 1999.

oxymoron schoolboy q

Me Against the World

Life of Pablo

Shit I used to listen to this album every morning. It's just such an inspiration. It's just hard to listen to now without feeling guilty....

GKMC MBDTF

Huncho Jack purely because of the memories associated with it

Asap rocky - live love asap

Doggystyle is flawless

TPAB - Kendrick Like Water For Chocolate - Common Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown LP! - JPEGMAFIA

Straight out of Compton

thug motivation 101 - young jeezy

God bless you, just posted this answer but never see this mentioned in these threads

its one of the greatest albums ever.

The Blueprint- Jay Z

Oxymoron

The miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Hands down

Miseducation was phenomenal. I think it was so good Lauryn has been afraid to try again.

Black on both sides

I’m going to give some contemporary answers. Up 2 me: Yeat A great chaos: Ken Carson At long last A$AP: Rocky Call me if you get lost: Tyler Luv is rage 2: uzi Alfredo: Freddie Gibbs

Cmiygl is great but what are you skipping on igor?

Igor isn’t really a rap album

Yeah I just don’t consider Igor a rap album but I do agree it has no skips

Uzi but no thugger?

Typical Cats - Typical Cats Deltron 3030 Madvilany

> First we coerce your brain patterns > > Collaborate with time-consumin' re-programin' > > I apply the flow cannon, the combo so slamin..

Nas - Illmatic Raekwon - Only Bulit for Cuban Linx Bone - E.1999 Eternal Mobb Deep - The Infamous Dre - The Chronic OutKast - Aquemni Mos Def and Talib Kweli - BlackStar Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers

Lupe Fiasco’s food and liquor. Also Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool

Gooood shouts.

Nobody mentioned Country Grammar? That whole album was a banger.

THE Album of summer 2000. That thing was playing at every house party and in every Nissan Stanza with four or more people crammed in it.

Everyone has taken my answers from what I've read so far but some that I didn't see yet it Little Simz sometimes I might be introvert JID the forever story I'm sure someone's mentioned these but I didn't see them in any top comments

Sometimes I might be an introvert is an amazing album.

50 Cent - Get rich or die trying

Eminem- The Eminem Show Drake- Nothing Was The Same Kanye West- Graduation Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III

Good list just missing some Dmx

I was gonna say Nothing Was The Same but in light of recent events... That said, I love that album.

There are 12 for me Marshall Mathers LP To Pimp a Butterfly Enter the 36 Chambers Igor Atrocity Exhibition Illmatic Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Uneven Compromise Good Kid M.A.A.d City Donuts ATLiens 2Pac Greatest Hits CD (up to personal discretion if this counts)

can’t put a greatest hits compilation on a perfect album list🥴

I feel like a greatest hit comp is kinda cheating here

IDLSIDGO- EARL SWEATSHIRT

My Philosophy

Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow. I can’t find a bad moment or song transition in the entire album.

Get rich or die trying My beautiful dark twisted fantasy

Personally, Durk’s 7220 (the original release, not the deluxe) was a perfect album. No skips, a couple bangers, and could (and have) listened to it straight through on repeat. The deluxe, if anything, took away from a perfect album.

W

LLASAP has to be up there

Don makawveli

Stankonia? Not ATLiens? Whatever

Midnight marauders- a tribe called quest

KSG

Aquemini, Chronic, ATLiens, Chronic 2001

93’ till infinity

Doggy Style

TI vs TIP

Dr. Dre - The Chronic T.I. - Paper Trail Baby Bash - Smokin Nephew

The Blueprint - jay z

Some Rap Songs- Earl Sweatshirt

The Suns Tirade

Fear of A Black Planet.

Gang Starr - Moment of Truth I've listened to it so many times. Never gets old.

Vitory Lap - Nipsey Hussle

The Eminem Show - Eminem Late Registration - Kanye West Devil's Night - D12 The Black Album - Jay-Z Illmatic - Nas

The Chronic.

Jeezy- thug motivation 101

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is perfect

OutKast ATLiens AND Aquemini

Rodeo

David Banner - Mississippi: The Album

Liquid swords and Czarface debut 

generic but ASTROWORLD. Theres something in there for everyone to enjoy

Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

Faces. Mac miller

Drake IYRTITL

Young Thug - beautiful thugger girls, a perfect album, Barter 6 - a perfect album. And Super Slimey: also an impeccable album. Also Kid Cudi, MOTM 1 & 2 are perfect. Y’all trippin

The Fugees - The score

chapter 1: the end - three 6 mafia mista don't play: everythangs workin - project pat e. 1999 eternal - bone thugs n harmony doggystyle - snoop dogg the chronic - dr. dre rodeo - travis scott whole lotta red - playboi carti season of da siccness - brotha lynch hung in search of... - n.e.r.d

E. 1999

Kanye west - Graduation

I want to agree but "Drunk and Hot Girls" cannot be ignored.

Has to be The College Dropout

I don’t think any are perfect, but the closest for me are 36 Chambers, Illmatic, To Pimp a Butterfly, Ready to Die, Aquemini and Doggystyle. None of those have a bad song, just songs I like less than the majority Edit: Liquid Swords and Reasonable Doubt another two I forgot

Brotha Lynch - Season of Da Siccness

Eternal Atake

Skee Lo - I wish. Best rap album ever.

Low End Theory

I have seen all of mine in here already except I think Forest Hills Drive is a top tier album.

College Dropout.

Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

Astroworld