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Music is drug. Simply put, it's an all purpose ointment for the peaks and valleys that come with the day to day tribulations of life.
The mind blowing thing about music is that there's such a vast amount of ground to cover out there that there's always an unique project, or an artist that can trigger a certain emotion or premonition within you for each disposition possible. There's music for the turn up, there's music that numbs you when you're seeking an escape from reality, there's music that will take you to an introspective and reflective space
Someone tweeted about how people born in 1994 are the new old heads...and yeah that may of had a spec of some truth to it. "You had to be outside" may qualify as a overused trope that justifies the rolling of ones eyes, but there's some truth to it. Living through music in your headphones doesn't compare to the organic utility of music and how it spreads and touches the people. Some of the music below was released before i could even form sentences or even string together coherent thoughts, so there's an element of it missing from my personal experience and had to be learned retroactively but it doesn't take away from the quality of the music standing the test of time.
For the record, Doggystyle & Illmatic each came out before i took my first breath, which is crazy and spotlights the lifespan of timeless music. The battle on IG Live between DJ Premier & RZA put a spotlight on the modern beauty of hip-hop which has now spanned several generations and now instead of janky ass handmedowns being passed down the gift of timeless music can be given to anyone with enough reverence for the dominant culture to do their due diligence.
Below is a list of the albums i would define as the fiber of my musical DNA. At anytime if you would've came up to me and asked me what album or project has been on repeat for you? The answer would've been found somewhere on here. This list spans several eras from Cassette's, CD's, limewire, the Streaming era, and the Blog era. Enjoy!
1994 - Doggy Style - Snoop Dogg
1994 - Illmatic - Nas
1994 - Ready to Die - The Notorious B.i.G
1995 - The Infamous - Mobb Deep
1995 - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.. - Raekwon
1996 - Brown Sugar - D'angelo
1996 - Hell on Earth - Mobb Deep
1996 - Beats Rhymes & Life - A Tribe Called Quest
1996 - It was Written - Nas
1996 - Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
1996 - ATLiens - Outkast
1997 - Life After Death - The Notorious B.i.G
1998 - Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood - DMX
1997 – No Way Out – Puff Daddy and The Family
1997 - Baduism - Erykah Badu
1998 – Aquemini – Outkast
1999 – Black on Both Sides – Mos Def
1999 – The Roots Come Alive – The Roots
2000 - Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah
2000 – The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
2000 – Stankonia – Outkast
2000 – Country Grammar – Nelly
2000 - Whoa Nelly! - Nelly Furtado
2000 - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia - Jay-Z
2001 – Songs in A Minor – Alicia Keys
2001 - 8701 - Usher
2001 – The Blueprint – Jay-Z
2001 – Stillmatic – Nas
2002 – Songs About Jane – Maroon 5
2002 - Cam'Ron - Come Home With Me
2003 – Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – 50 Cent
2003 – Speakerboxxx/Love Below – Outkast
2003 – Chicken-N-Beer – Ludacris
2003 – The Black Album – Jay-Z
2003 – Diplomatic Immunity – The Diplomats
2003 - Trap Muzik - T.I.
2004 – The College Dropout – Kanye West
2004 – Confessions – Usher
2004 – Urban Legend – T.I.
2004 - Madvillainy - MF Doom
2004 - Purple Haze - Cam'Ron
2004 - The New Testament - Suga Free
2005 – The Documentary – The Game
2005 – Be – Common
2005 – Late Registration – Kanye West
2005 – Tha Carter II – Lil Wayne
2005 – Thug Motivation 101 – Young Jeezy
2005 - The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey
2006 – B’Day – Beyonce
2006 – Futuresex/Lovesounds – Justin Timberlake
2006 – Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
2006 – KING – T.I
2006 - Hell Hath no Fury - Clipse
2006 - Dedication 2 - Lil Wayne
2006 - Hustlers P.O.M.E - Jim Jones
2006 - The Blue Carpet Treatment - Snoop Dogg
2006 - The Best Thang Smokin' - Young Dro
2007 - Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) - Styles P
2007 – Graduation – Kanye West
2007 - Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
2007 – Alive 2007 – Daft Punk
2007 - Da Drought 3 - Lil Wayne
2009 – The Cool – Lupe Fiasco
2008 – Seeing Sounds – N.E.R.D
2008 - Young Jeezy - The recession
2008 - The Mixtape About Nothing - Wale
2008 - Graduation - Kanye West
2009 - Jay-Z - American Gangster
2009 - Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon
2009 - The Warm Up - J Cole
2009 - Deeper Than Rap - Rick Ross
2009 - No Ceilings - Lil Wayne
2009 - The State versus Radric Davis - Gucci Mane
2009 - Flying Lotus - CosmoGramma
2010 – Teflon Don – Rick Ross2009 - Flying Lotus - CosmoGramma
2010 - Friday Night Lights - J Cole
2010 - Flockaveli - Waka Flocka Flame
2010 - Everything Based - Lil B
2010 - Last Train to Paris - Diddy/Dirty Money
2010 – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West 2010 - Kush & Orange Juice - Wiz Khalifa
2011 - Self Made Vol 1 - Maybach Music Group
2011 - 2 Chainz - TRU Realigion
2012 - Lloyd Banks - Cold Corner 2
2012 - Back From the Dead - Chief Keef
2012 - Rich Forever - Rick Ross
2012 - The Yellow Album - Dom Kennedy
2012 - Detroit - Big Sean
2012 - Kaleidoscope Dream - Miguel
2012 - Late Nights: The Mixtape - Jeremih
2013 - Crenshaw - Nipsey Hussle
2013 - Stolen Youth - Vince Staples & Larry Fisherman
2013 - Blue Chips 2 - Action Bronson
2014 - Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Mad City
2014 - Tha Tour Pt 1 - Rich Gang
2014 - Monster - Future
2014 - $ign Language - Ty Dolla $ign
2014 - X - Chris Brown
2014 - Pinata - Freddie Gibbs
2015 - BUSH - Snoop Dogg
2015 -Barter 6 - Young Thug
2015 - DS2 - Future
2016 - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016 - The Sun's Tirade - Isaiah Rashad
2016 - Anti - Rihanna
2017 - Future - Future
2017 - Future - HNDRXX
2018 - Daytona - Pusha T
2019 - Bandana - Freddie Gibbs
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