Kendrick lamar - Good Kid Maad City
Burial - Burial or Untrue, depends on my mood
J.Cole - 2014 Forest Hill Drive
Tinashe - Aquarius
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
I reckon Aquarius and forest hills is subject to change, but rn I rate them both highly
Edit - also wanna give special shouts to:
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Nas - Illmatic
Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
Horsepower Productions - To The Rescue
YG - My Krazy Life
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Joey Badass - B4DA$$
And all the other albums that I loved but can’t remember rn
only album from them and one of the few hip hop albums i like. their bits before this were a bit cheesy and the shit after it was just meh. this one tho… flawless production, dark as fuck, some samples wouldn’t be out of the place on mid 90s dnb/jungle tunes
It changes all the time it’s so so impossible to pick just 5.
I always think that the stuff that stands out is the stuff that you can go weeks/months without listening to, and then when you actually do, it still stands alone and connects with you like nothing else.
Have to pick a Radiohead album, they for me stand alone musically, as do The Beatles actually. I’d go for OK Computer or Hail To The Thief, and I’d go for Abbey Road from the Beatles.
I’d pick Shadows Collide With People by John Frusciante - if any of you haven’t heard his solo stuff I cannot recommend it highly enough it’s just fucking outstanding.
After those potential 3 there’s then a list of about 8374984653186451 albums that could get in there, that changes almost hourly haha. I have to give an honourable mention to Fabriclive 37, not because it’s ‘such a great album’, nor does it represent Dubstep (that wasnt it’s point), it’s just because it’s the piece of music that got me hooked on Dubstep as a sound, and I owe it so much for that.
I really like black sunday too but yea the funk samples and al that are quite cheesy and the sound of the album isnt special. Temples of boom is the album that made me realise theres more to music than rock/alternative/punk derived music.