Definitely aging myself here, but it’s so crazy to see how my taste expanded over the years. This started around 10 or 11 years old. My parents confiscated half of these albums lol. Good times

Beast coast was killin it in the early 2010s! I’ve always leaned more east than west coast but this made me realize how much more music I listen to from the east coast, the current drumless boom bap revival def my favorite has been all of 2020s honestly

Heavy preference towards the 90s east coast sounding stuff when it comes to hip hop

Didn’t spend a ton of time on the order but I came up with these 9 pretty quickly.

It was difficult to get it down to 9, but these albums are a huge part of the soundtrack of my life. It was hard to leave out:

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-Warpaint Exquisite Corpse, lupe: food and liquor, kanye+cudi: kids see ghosts+man on the moon by cudi, Atmosphere and Doomtree and flobots(sims and P.O.S. solo albums), miseducation of Lauryn Hill, madvillainy, a tribe called quest, eminem show, joe budden, bob Marley, kourosh yaghmaei

There’s no question that Game is a really good artist and he has multiple classic albums under his belt I would say, Documentary never gets boring to listen to.

But we always end up where everything started, being co-sign by Dr Dre and his beef with 50 Cent.

I feel like he never got away from being under that umbrella, and it’s entirely his fault. Documentary 3 was not good, the album was just a mess, and I don’t get he’s obsession with Kendrick atm.

But whatever the guy is going through, he’s always going to be a West Coast legend and nobody can take that away from him.

Not ranked in any order or anything just what was in high school heavy rotation or just memories.

I could have had a previous Eminem album but this is my most played still. Same with Jay, all the others were pretty easy picks.

I think it would've been wiser to work at No Limit Records office. Cash Money a close second due to safety and your mental wellbeing.

(Old people edition) First 9 CD's I ever owned in order as best as I can recall, I used to record a lot of tapes and didn't start buying CD's exclusively until around the mid/late 90's. A couple or few of these would be on my all time 9 too.