![]() I did not have a specific one in mind, but I just wanted one that wasn’t his 2020 Circles album. I had one goal in mind and that was to find myself a Mac Miller vinyl. I could talk about Mac Miller for hours (but I will save that blog post for a rainy day). The first thought that popped into my head was Mac Miller, my favorite artist of all time. She suggested that we go to a record store. Some friends suggested we go back to Fordham because we already checked everything off the list for the day, but my friend Makena had a vision something important was on the horizon for us. I even found a cool hockey shirt at L-train that I was very excited to bring home and wear. The weather was beautiful and I was genuinely having a good Saturday in the city. ![]() We were to grab some Ukrainian food in the East Village and go thrift shopping. While walking to the 4 train my friends and I decided on a more definitive plan. The plan was very much random, but my friends agreed to explore the city with me and we were out the Walsh gate in about an hour. I began pouring myself a bowl of fruit loops and walked into the living room where I asked my friends, “Do you guys wanna go to the city today? I don’t know, maybe we can walk around or something. I woke up, put in my Airpods, and played Mac Miller’s GO:OD AM. It was just like any other normal morning. To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now.It all started on the morning of September 16th. One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. ![]() Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. ![]() But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be. ![]()
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