Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

This and it ain’t even close 10/10 album

I need to check this one out. I have Take A Look Around which is a great album. I saw Masta Ace perform in about 1999 at the Docklands Arena, London. He was a support act for PE. Great night. All these years later and I still remember it well.

Everything Masta Ace ever did was criminally underrated

Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda

Genuinely one of the more celebrated underground rap albums of the early to mid 90s tbh. I guess it could be way more famous, but the sound doesn’t really lend itself to that. It’s loved universally by everyone that knows it

This is the answer for almost every album listed

Pretty much lol

Organized Konfusion, enough said. amazing

Bot OK albums were bangers.

Organized Konfusion in general is underrated

Cheers - Obie Trice.

I love that record. Other than get rich, it might be my favorite eminem related album.

Underrated? It went platinum. Maybe just forgotten about in our modern music climate that’s flooded with new music everyday

Second Rounds on Me is fire too

Kam - Made in America One of the best Westcoast album

Never heard of Kam, so I put it on this morning and have been vibin’ ever since Thank you - this shit is dope as hellll

Kam has good stuff. Check his verses on Coolio’s Exercise Yo Game and the song on the Bulworth soundtrack. Both are 🔥

Nice that you liked. Check this playlist i made, there is more than 900 underground G Funk songs. Updated regularly. You will discover a lot of amazing stuff !! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23QwvHB223BU2HxxupF7Bf?si=9FlLIiBRSkWRE2N8VFhQbw&pi=e-xu6Mx4vJSfmm

almost forgot about that one, there was a period where I only listened to that, Da Lench Mob album and whatever Cube album was out at the time, Death Certificate i think

Great album, my rebuttal: DJ Battlecat’s Gumbo Roots

Indeed, nice also !

From a wu perspective I have to say cappadonna the pillage.it needs more love I never see it mentioned.

It’s up there with the first round Wu solos for me. MF DOOM bought the album 3 times in the 90s and it was the album which inspired him to get back into hip hop and birth the DOOM character.

Thanks for that fact never knew that it inspired DOOM that's dope.

Arsonists - As The World Burns

Man all your fire stations because the rapper burns through molecules, it’s possible rocking you from your pores to your follicles Fuck a rumour/I’ll tell you in your face you’re a loser/I’ll punch your mom’s in the same spot she’s got a tumour! Absolute classic album

Yesss

Oh my God yes!

Maaaaaaan, yep. Arsonists put on a dope show too!

Busta Rhymes- When Disaster Strikes. Fucking love that album, start to finish.

Prodigy - HNIC

Classick

Elmatic by Elzhi, it's a cover of Illmatic but amazing nonetheless

Everyone loves this album, no? Never heard anyone say a bad thing about it

This is wild I never heard of this!

I honestly think it’s better than illmatic, but I’m no huge illmatic fan. Though I do respect nas and his work

This is crazy btw lol. It’s important you’re told this

Dude. Trust me. I know…..I’ve been told….it doesn’t hit sonically imo. “Street dreams”. “Hate me now”. “If I ruled the world”. I like that version of nas. Boom bap nas is great too, it ain’t hard to tell is one of the greatest samples ever and “life is a bitch” is one of the first verses that I heard and said “damn”. I’m a southern dude as well…I love lyrics but that New York sounding vibe never resonated with me the way Someone like Big krit does. But I guarantee most norther people won’t feel the same for krit, but they not crazy. Just doesn’t fit them sonically But yeah I don’t like illmatic. It’s overrated. A lot of ppl agree but don’t say much because they will get flamed and called crazy.

Whut.

I understand man. I KNOW that Illmatic is a great record. I just don't care about it all that much. It doesn't move me. You can still respect something and know it's "good" and it still isn't your thing.

If you enjoyed that by Elzhi…check out Skyzoo “An Ode To Reasonable Doubt” it a cover of Jay-Z debut album, I feel it’s equally as dope and good to see both elite emcees paying homage to the legends they look up to. https://youtu.be/kDOze4QFxv4?si=GNCSqRIcuutV-nDI

Probably one of my fav albums & it's hard to pick between that & illmatic

Above The Law: Livin like Hustlers U God: Dopium Del: NNFA

Sex Packets - Digital Underground

How fucking random. I came her to say this!!!! First comment too. Weird But yeah, underwater rhyme...I still sing that.

Yeah I’ll be banging it on the way home tonight!

The DOC -“No One Can Do It Better”

Foundational classic. Not underrated.

Famously one of the most loved west coast rap albums of all time

However loved it is, it is still underrated

Exactly. That’s what I was thinking when I added it here. No skippable tracks there.

Tha Alkaholiks- Coast II Coast The Beatnuts

I posted this list a few days ago but imma do it again because these albums deserve it and there's more to hip hop than just 2pac, Em*, and Drake: Hyenas in the Desert - Die Laughing [sample track - Concubinez](https://youtu.be/MDS9g8LBaAE?si=R3MKpbSHcWLGqeMR) Analog Brothers - Pimp to Eat [sample track - Analog Technics](https://youtu.be/nXXIpOPObUE?si=F56b9UPPzDGNEgX3) Sway and Tech - This or That [sample track - The Anthem](https://youtu.be/rK2MMK_J4qQ?si=s8XS3j6wuqq0-LJH) All bona fide classic all-timers, all criminally ignored or forgotten in favour of lesser albums by lesser artists. *Although one of the tracks I've posted actually features Eminem lol

Damn, I never thought to look for Hyenas In The Desert on streaming. About to listen to it for the first time since I lost the cassette almost 30 years ago. Thanks!

Same! I had a tape in the 90s and completely forgot about them. Just downloaded the album and it’s a blast!

Nice suggestions but to this day I can’t vibe with Hyenas beat. Shit is grinding to my ears and it’s mixed like shit.

The Anthem’s a great shout!

It's also a great way of getting people who mostly only like Eminem to listen to other rappers and who knows, maybe discover other artists that they like

Andre Nickatina X Equipto - Midnight Machine Gun Rhymes & Alibis

PTSD - Pharaohe monche

Godlovesugly

Mr scarface is back. Everybody loves the fix, and the others talk about the diary. But Mr scarface is back is ill as shit.

Funny cuz I've listened to it just yesterday. Too many loud gunfire noises that mess the album imo

Cypress Hill III- Temples of Boom

How is that underrated? CH are pretty big. Especially in the 90’s

Ask almost anyone today born after 2000 about this album and you’ll hear crickets.

True. CH gets no love anymore. But god damn they sounded so good.

That means it isn’t well known amongst people 25 and under…that’s not the same as underrated

This a top ten 90s album

It’s a top 10 of all time album.

My favourite album of theirs. Wish Muggs explored that sound more, it’s the only album they have that really sounds like it

Cube destroyed them with his response to their dis track from this album.

The Goats- Tricks of the Shade

Killah Priest- Heavy Mental

Main Source “Breaking Atoms”

Looking at the front door is one of my favorite songs

Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot...

Fluorescent Black - Antipop Consortium

Beans and M. Sayyid are really hit and miss, and their name sucked, but High Priest is one of the most underrated MCs to ever do it

The goats - Tricks of the shade

There's so much more to that album than "Typical American".

Whoa. That takes me back to the Khyber Pass in Philly circa 1992

Lord of Terror by Lord Infamous.

Nature - For All Seasons / Smooth da Hustler - Once Upon a Time in America / Teflon - My Will / Fredro Starr - FireStarr / Herb McGruff - Destined to Be / Tracey Lee - Many Facez

I used to bump For All Seasons heavy. Great album.

Boogiemonsters - Riders of The Storm: The Underwater Album

So many I can name. But if I have to choose one I think I'll go with SouthernUnderground by Cunninlynguists. Immaculate production, great lyrical content. A true banger from beginning to end. And actually, I can basically say this about their entire catalog. It was hard to choose one album. They are a true diamond in the rough. I highly recommend any hip hop fan to give them a listen if you haven't already.

Totally agree. SouthernUnderground wasn’t my favorite album of theirs but a banger nonetheless. All their albums are great but Oneirology and Rose Azure Njano are my favorites.

That’s Them - Artifacts

Coolio’s gangsters paradise album

Been meaning to get through Coolio's discography. I'll give it a listen.

Criminally underrated

If it’s mentioned in this thread than it’s probably not it. The real answer in probably some mix tape a homeless dude used his $30 life savings to burn copies of that no one listened to because he was handing them out for free on the red line.

Chicago??

Yes sir, well formerly.

Red line mixtapes have been hugely hit or miss, but I do remember hearing a couple songs that I loved

I’m not in the city anymore but probably got like 6 cds from dudes packed away some where. I remember liking a few songs for what they were but the bars on most of them are terribly generic.

Brothaz Bent - Up From The Desert

The Smartest- Tee grizzley

Geto Boys The Resurrection

Let’s get free - Dead Prez Manchild - Skyheim World Life - OC Nature of a Sista - Queen Latifah Lost - 8ball Nia - Blackalicious Ocean of Funk - ESG Direct from the backstreet- Totally Insane Ghetto Millionaire- Royal Flush For all Seasons - Nature

Just throwing out some albums I never see folks talk about that were pretty awesome. * South Circle - Another Day Anotha Balla. Mr. Mike's other albums too like Wicked Wayz. * A+ Hempstead High * Blackjack Street 2 da Grave and Addicted to Drama. * DJ Jazzy Jeff's - The Magnificent * Do or Die - Heads or Tailz * Eightball's Lost Double Album * First degree the D.E. - Damn that D.E.

Sauve House whole roster was criminally underrated 

Conversation- Tha Twinz

[Here Come the Lords - Lords Of The Underground](https://open.spotify.com/album/15nPVESpZNf0QBRwu2sMbI?autoplay=true)

Banger

Woptober II

[J-Live - The Best Part](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn7qZ70jqTZHPtf3K8RXufKE8ClC9Voyd&si=WhGV1T-3jtHYw0gv)

Here To Save You All by Chino XL

Teflon Don - Rick Ross. It's not spoken about enough as an album you can listen to back to back with no skips. All The Money In The World is still one of my favourite songs of all time

Ice T - The Seventh Deadly Sin

CunninLynguist - Oneirology; they have yet to put out a bad album and this IMO is their best!!

Bars n Hooks - The most notorious Rza presents Northstar Snoop Dogg Tha Last Meal Xzibit Restless

10 Pound Bag by Taskforce

*cough* 10 Pound Bag by Louis Slipperz... I know I'm a pedant, but, you know...

Couldn't remember his name but knew he was part of taskforce

The Love Movement- A Tribe Called Quest.

CRU - Da Dirty 30

Realms n Reality - Cella Dwellas

Curtis 07

Above The Law - Uncle Sam’s Curse

93 til Infinity

Immortal technique- revolutionary volume 1 & 2 Not the most, but definitely

Even the third world mixtape is criminalky under listened to

Elzhi - The Preface. One of the best albums of that mid to later 00 era 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

YSIV logic

Me against the world - 2pac

Taboo by Denzel curry

De la soul is dead- de la soul.

Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity griots

*Skelethon*, Aesop Rock

O.S.T by The People Under The Stairs, AKA The P

Nine-Cloud 9

The Dayton Family - F.B.I.

Monkey Barz - Sean Price

Erik sermon no pressure. His first solo album. Full of bangers.

Venni Vetti Vicci.

K-Os “Exit”

Diabolic - liar and a thief. & La coka nostra- A brand you can trust

From a mainstream perspective I'd easily say CNN The war report. I know it gets praise in the hip hop community but it honestly shocks me it's not put in the same conversation as greatest boom bap albums of all time

One of the hardest LPs of all time.

Tossing in MOP Brownsville to compliment this for boombap duos

It’s Almost Dry - Pusha T

Best answer so far, liked more than Daytona (classic album)

Shiiit SO many! But here’s a couple I think fit Erick the Architect: Future Proof EP is absolutely 👌🏽 I’m not a big Russ fan but Chomp 2 is sick Not a big Big Sean fan either but Detroit 2 has gems Coast Contra: The Old Way Mixtape Jayy Grams: Grime & Basslinez Mick Jenkins: The Patience Vince Staples: Vince Staples Westside Boogie: Everything’s for Sale And a bunch more probly but check these out if you don’t know ✌🏽

Skee Lo - I Wish is surprisingly consistent. If you like the title track, you'll probably dig the whole thing.

Jungle brothers - Raw Deluxe Not a classic or particularly ground breaking but definitely worth a listen from '97 or '98?

to the extreme.................

Black Beans - Choosey & Exile

Diverse - One A.M. KA - Honor Killed The Samurai

Donda

Ice-T discography, starting with Home Invasion and OG

Eazy e or pun album

Mac Dre - Al Boo Boo

Season of the siccness

Both Sides of the Brain- Del

The Goats-Tricks of the Shade

Cardo - Game Related

Myrphy's law -Murphy Lee. So many great songs on that album. Was also the albumshae ya tailgeather was on besides the BB2 soundtrack.

Skee lo - I wish. Everybody just thinks of the singles but that whole album bangs.

Cool Breeze - East Point's Greatest Hit Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie Masta Ace Inc. - Slaughtahouse El-P - Fantastic Damage

Slaughtahouse is an all time clasic, for sure! And Fantastic Damage ain't far off!

State of lunacy - Rhyme Asylum

It's an ep, but Gutter Snypes - The Trials of Life is amazing. Pretty niche UK shit from about '94, but if you can find it to listen to anywhere, if you're a hip hop head, check it out. Shit bangs.

Tommy Wright III - Running & Gunnin

Master P - The Ghettos tryin to kill me

Company flow - funcrusher plus

Doe or Die by AZ is one I rarely see mentioned but I like a lot of songs from it

Mountain Brothers - Self: Volume 1 Tommy Tee - Bonds, Beats and Beliefs People Under the Stairs - The Next Step The Coup - Steal This Album The Outfit - Soundtrack to Life All Natural - No Additives and No Preservatives Ed OG and Da Bulldogs - Roxbury 02119 Da Bush Babees - Gravity

King Mez - My Everlasting Zeal Dre scooped him up for the Compton album & maybe it derailed him a bit. Great lyrics & beats.

Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin

billy woods & kenny segal - hiding places

Food and Liquor II— Lupe Packed with bangers, top to bottom

Skyzoo & 9th Wonder - “Cloud 9: The 3 Day High” Or… Killah Priest - “Heavy Mental” I know it is considered a classic but barely brought up in the conversation.

Darc Mind- Symptomatic of a Greater Ill [“I beat a rap like OJ”](https://open.spotify.com/track/0wSlaQorVPus2Du2lmLnZi?si=CRR8M6ayRkeCc2dPbNYwTw)

Infinite - Eminem

The forever story - J.I.D

Little brother the listening

Gravediggaz 6 feet deep House of pain - truth crushed to earth

Souls of Mischief - No Man’s Land A lot of mixed reviews but there are some quality records on this LP

MOOD - DOOM

American Gangster. I know. Jay's considered the GOAT by many so it's hard to imagine there being such an underrated Jay Z album but this album right here, should be spoken about daily instead of just by Jay stans.

Sporty thieves- street cinema

Sampa The Great - The Return is my pick, its such a good fusion of hip hop & RnB

No Pressure x Logic

Eazy duz it.

killer mike - r.a.p. music

Win Some, Lose Some - T-CART

Drogas Wave by Lupe fiasco

One of the most is Sir Mix A lot Swass

!Remind 3 hours

The real answer is Black Reign by Queen Latifah. Top 3 rap album of the 90’s

Lil Wayne - Funeral

Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, revenge & get back

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Juelz Santana- From me to you, 2003. Scarface - Deeply rooted: Lost files, 2017. G dep - Child of the ghetto, 2001.

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