If You Can't Name These 12 Albums Stop Calling Yourself A Hip-Hop Head
#RapHistory #OldSchoolHipHop #RealHipHop#Storytelling #Raplist #LyricismRakim records Paid in Full for $35,000. It generates over $100 million in licensing. And it permanently changes the technical standard every MC is measured against for the next forty years. Scott La Rock is shot dead months after Criminal Minded drops — and KRS-One turns that grief into one of the most politically engaged careers in hip-hop history. The D.O.C. delivers a debut that stops producers mid-session — then loses his voice in a car accident weeks after release and spends the next decade ghostwriting for Dr. Dre and Snoop. And Raekwon builds a crime epic from a Staten Island housing project that Rolling Stone later ranks among the greatest albums ever made in any genre. Twelve albums. Twelve foundations. Each one built by artists who never chased the radio, never softened the sound, never changed for the industry. This is the test. How many do you know? Drop your number in the comments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ALBUMS COVERED IN THIS VIDEO #12 — Big Daddy Kane / Long Live the Kane (1988) — Cold Chillin' Records #11 — Ultramagnetic MCs / Critical Beatdown (1988) — Next Plateau Records #10 — A Tribe Called Quest / People's Instinctive Travels... (1990) — Jive Records #9 — Brand Nubian / One for All (1990) — Elektra Records #8 — The D.O.C. / No One Can Do It Better (1989) — Atlantic Records #7 — Gang Starr / Daily Operation (1992) — Chrysalis Records #6 — A Tribe Called Quest / The Low End Theory (1991) — Jive Records #5 — Black Moon / Enta da Stage (1993) — Nervous Records #4 — Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth / The Main Ingredient (1994) — Elektra Records #3 — Boogie Down Productions / Criminal Minded (1987) — B-Boy Records #2 — Eric B. & Rakim / Paid in Full (1987) — 4th & Broadway Records #1 — Raekwon / Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995) — Loud Records ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 COMMENT PROMPT How many of these twelve did you know before today? Drop your number below. And tell us which albums you want on the next test. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #HipHopHistory,#TrueHipHopHead,#Raekwon,#CubanLinx#EricBAndRakim,#PaidInFull,#BoogiDownProductions,#CriminalMinded#KRSOne,#ScottLaRock,#BigDaddyKane,#UltramagneticMCs,#KoolKeith#ATribeCalledQuest,#LowEndTheory,#PeoplesInstinctiveTravels#BrandNubian,#OneForAll,#TheDOC,#GangStarr,#DailyOperation#DJPremier,#Guru,#BlackMoon,#EntaDaStage,#PeteRock,#CLSmooth#MainIngredient#WuTang,#RZA,#GhostfaceKillah,#GoldenEraHipHop#UndergroundHipHop,#90sHipHop,#80sHipHop,#BoomBap#HipHopDocumentary,#RewindSonic,#ClassicHipHop,#RealHipHop#RapHistory #OldSchoolHipHop #RealHipHop#Storytelling #Raplist #Lyricism

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