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List of hip hop albums

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I've listed this article for peer review to get some feedback with a view to improving the article. Perhaps it'll go over to FLC at some stage. I'm away from home right now, but I'll be checking back regularly. Thanks. 86.44.xx.xx. or in this case...212.2.165.61 (talk) 20:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick comments from ~ Eóin (talk)

Would a better title be "List of important hip hop albums" or "List of notable hip hop albums". I first expected to this page to have all hip hop albums ever made.
Could there be some bolding in the lead?

Got it started for you. ~ Eóin (talk) 02:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral on the title, such renaming is beyond my power. Note though that no article of the type you expected should exist here under WP:NOT (indiscriminate lists) :)

Neutral on the bolding too; my lead is mostly cribbed from list of important operas.Thanks to you yet again! 212.2.165.61 (talk) 20:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm leaning towards renaming the list as this one is clearly misleading. Many readers will think it is a comprehensive list of all hip hop albums. Eklipse (talk) 17:18, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Emw2012 (talk · contribs)

It seems like most other articles contain only important related subjects, that is "important" is assumed, so the title seems good.

Shouldn't something from Tupac Shakur, like his 9x multi-platinum album All Eyez on Me be included? Diamond hip hop albums like Outkast's Speakerboxxx, TLC's CrazySexyCool, and MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em should be included as well. The list seems very sparse for notable or important hip hop albums.

2pac is certainly the most striking omission. He is one of the artist penalized for having no one album universally recognized as superior or zeitgeist-changing in a way that his others are not; different critics, if they rate him, select either Me Against The World, All Eyez on Me or Don Killuminati as best representing him. Unlike, say, A Tribe Called Quest, few lists of this kind include more than one 2pac album.

MC Hammer's record, despite its success, is seen as entirely disposable. In a slightly similar way, I think Outkast's ATliens and Aquemini, and perhaps even some more of their records, are better regarded than Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, despite its success. Only Aquemini makes the list. CrazySexyCool appears on none of the ten lists consulted here IIRC—probably it is regarded as R n'B.

Taking all three sections there are 66 albums listed. Given that recorded hip hop has a history of only thirty years, that doesn't seem sparse to me. However more recent albums will be under-represented, due both to the dates of the lists consulted, and the frequent too-soon-to-tell attitudes of careful critics. 212.2.165.61 (talk) 20:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]