Best of the 2000s

A friend recently asked me to come up with my list of top albums since 2000. So it got me to thinking–damn there have been a lot of dope albums in the last nine years. Maybe not as many as the previous nine, but still. What albums from the last decade will stand the test of time?

16 Comment(s)

  1. Blueprint, Black Album, Stillmatic, Get Rich Or Die Trying, The Marshall Mathers LP, Late Registration, Food & Liquor, The Cool, Electric Circus, Hell Hath No Fury to name a few…

    Slimmy | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply

  2. ^I agree with your list and I’d just add OB4CL 2 and Street Hop.

    console | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply

  3. college dropout > late registration

    Be?
    The Documentary?
    A Long Hot Summer?
    SpeakerBoz/Love Below
    Revolutionary Vol. 2?
    Liquid Swords
    The Fix
    Gods Son
    Quality
    Stankonia
    Quality Control?
    Let’s Get Free?
    Restless?
    The Carter?
    The Carter II?
    The Carter III?
    Word of Mouf?
    The Listening?
    something from Cee Lo?
    Shadows of the Sun or something else from Brother Ali?
    Maybe some Atmosphere?
    Aesop?
    Reflection Eternal?
    Mos Def?

    Brent | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply

  4. Supreme Clientele

    RoyistheBoy | Oct 25, 2009 | Reply

  5. I agree with brent, college dropout>late registration. So here are just some others not mentioned…

    Yeeeah Baby
    Kiss Tha Game Goodbye
    The Brick
    (Blacktrash) The Autobiography of Kirk Jones
    Shyne
    Best of Both Worlds
    Chronic 2001
    Devil’s Night

    Hi-C | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  6. people always seem to forget that chronic 2001 dropped in fall 1999… even game made a reference on his first album that it dropped in 2001.

    peace!

    ib2quik2c | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  7. supreme clientele
    the grind date
    stankonia
    the ecstatic
    below the heavens
    the listening
    get back
    a long hot summer
    diamond district
    game theory
    phrenology
    desire
    donuts
    welcome to detroit
    the shining
    jaylib
    all SV albums
    the rennaissance
    just to name a few known left field albums.

    actionslackson | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  8. Puffy – Press Play

    Rav | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  9. The Marshall Mathers LP
    The Blueprint
    Black Album
    The Love Below (Very inventive)
    Word of Mouf
    Reflection Eternal
    Black on Both Sides
    Be
    College Dropout
    Late Registration
    Graduation

    shortblackchick | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  10. god there is a lot of bad lists here? i thought pete’s follows would know beyond commercial bullshit!
    best albums.

    ghostface supreme clientele
    skitz countryman
    gangstarr the owners
    comega the realness
    afu ra body of the life force
    blak twang kik off
    rodney p the future (original version)
    roots manuva run come save me
    masta ace long hot summer
    bumpy knuckles industry shakedown
    klashnekoff the sagas of

    mick | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  11. Forgot about Common – Be

    console | Oct 26, 2009 | Reply

  12. Like the 80/20 rule, I agree with most of the list. But there is one album that no one mentioned that is in opinion the best hip/hop of 2000′s.

    Scarface – The Fix (2002)
    Production: Kanye West, The Neptunes, Nashiem Myrick for The Hitmen….
    Features: Jay-z, Nas, Kelly Price, Faith…

    One word…”ILL”

    Ron Mexico | Oct 29, 2009 | Reply

  13. J Dilla – Welcome To Detriot >>>> every album mentioned on this post

    ATB | Oct 30, 2009 | Reply

  14. mick – Im suprised to see anyone mention Klashnekoff on their list. I been a fan since I first heard “the sagas of” ! Good pick…

    Classified | Oct 30, 2009 | Reply

  15. yall 4got about diplomatic immunity and from me to u and what the games been missin

    johnnybladez | Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

  16. From Me 2 U is one of the worst Hip-Hop Albums this decade. Lyrically it is so bad I don’t see how anyone who knows anything can defend it. And I’m a Juelz fan. Here are a few I like that haven’t been mentioned.

    Royce Da 5’9″ – “Death is Certain”
    Styles P “A Gangster and a Gentleman”
    Beanie Sigel “The Truth”
    Lloyd Banks “Hunger for More”
    Young Buck “Straight Outta Cashville”
    G-Unit “Beg For Mercy”

    All the early G-Unit stuff is great IMO opinion, from the time before 50′s second album dropped. Styles has always been great IMO and Gangster and a Gentleman is to me his best album, track for track it still holds up to this day. Royce’s album Death is Certain is borderline classic material. And I love Beanie’s debut, The Truth. And is it too early to put the Slaughterhouse album on any list?

    Matt Lajeskie | Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

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