What's the best "run" in hip hop history?

Started by SHUDEYE, Feb 1, 2017, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Bourbon Ben
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    Feb 1, 2017
    his first two are amazing after that just straight booty
     
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  2. Sav Stanfield
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    Feb 1, 2017
    Fixed
     
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  3. The Lyricvore
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    Feb 1, 2017
    Lmfao. Yeah okay dude. I think you need to go back and play his albums again.
     
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  4. Bourbon Ben
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    went thru his discography last month X has two classics none of them u listed
     
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  5. Ricky
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    Great Depression wasn't that good tho
     
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  6. Mraczewsky
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    Feb 1, 2017
    maybe Kanye discography
    for sure the 808-mbdtf-yeezus run
     
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  7. Sav Stanfield
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    And Then There Was X is really good imo, not classic but a pretty decent follow up after the first 2
     
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    Probably Drake
     
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  9. Bourbon Ben
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    i agree i was just being hyperbolic cuz that list he gave was so weird to me
     
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    Off The Wall - Thriller - Bad
     
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    He didn't even peak until the mid 70s.
     
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  12. SHUDEYE
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    Editing the title to hip hop history. I just mean hip hop brahs
     
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    Yall smoking DMX's personal crack. DMX has the best discography in rap.
     
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    Dylan had bars.
     
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    A Tribe Called Quest's first three albums then.
     
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  16. Charlie Work
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    Prob Outkast. I still can't even rank them s----s in the same order from month to month.
     
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  17. Lucy
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    Feb 1, 2017
    not sure, quality-wise? or career-wise?

    but i want to give a special mention to kevin gates, who's off to a good start with a 10/10 platinum debut. I imagine by 2142 he'll have sold about 20 trillion copies. truly an astonishing feat.
     
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    Hey, here's a new one since the last time we did this thread:

    --- -> Old -> Atrocity Exhibition
     
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    83837477 Test Account

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    The Lyricvore My balls are gone.

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    Surprised nobody has said

    Section 80
    GKMC
    TPAB
     
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