The Year 2000 was one of the illest in Hip Hop History

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

for releases, I think one of the greatest years ever, especially for that TRU underground, check this list, i probably missed some....

2000.!!!!!!!!

Deltron 3030
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s9858.jpg

Train Of Thought
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s12150.jpg

Supreme Clientele
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s10027.jpg

Like Water For Chocolate

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s8861.jpg

Stankonia
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s644.jpg

Fantastic Vol 1
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s30723.jpg


think thats good? its only 6.......

moar


The Unseen
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s69888.jpg

Quality Control
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s6088.jpg

Marshall Mathers LP
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1667.jpg

Black Bastards (first time officially released)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s669598.jpg

Violent by Design
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s44944.jpg

Lets Get Free
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s30523.jpg



think thats good??? still only 12....


MOAR!!


The Big Picture
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s47549.jpg

Warriorz
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s40389.jpg

DITC
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s190725.jpg

A much better tommorow (Dan the Automater)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s68175.jpg

Body of The Life Force
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s78158.jpg

Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s181189.jpg



DO YOU WANT MORE??!?!?!!


YEA


The Platform
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s22342.jpg

Kid Koala Carpel Tunnel Sydrone
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s2109.jpg

The W
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s6148.jpg

Y2K
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s178470.jpg

H.N.I.C
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s112938.jpg

2000BC
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s30647.jpg




Getting ridiculous, right???????


MMOAR!!!!!!!



Murderers and Robbbers
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s258904.jpg

Last of a Dying Breed
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s56403.jpg

Restless
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s6147.jpg

Mosaicc Thump
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s9948.jpg

Yeaaah Baby
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s61172.jpg

The Truth
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s42380.jpg



CAN WE DO 6 MORE??????????



Balance and Options
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s195226.jpg

I need Drugs
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s161846.jpg

Jazzmatazz: Streetsoul
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s22319.jpg

Hip Hop
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s78186.jpg

When The Smoke Clears
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s159354.jpg

Anarchy
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s12163.jpg




KEEP IT MOVIONNNNNNNNNNN





The Piece Maker
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s179393.jpg

The Dynasty
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1675.jpg

Shyne
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s91641.jpg

BTNHRessurection
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s22848.jpg

S.D.E
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s30625.jpg

G.O.A.T
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s42231.jpg

The Lox We Are the Streets
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s93075.jpg




GOD DAMN YEAR 2000 YOU KILLIN EM OUT THERE


MOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!


War and Peace
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s2573.jpg

Dirty Harriet
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s80226.jpg

Both Sides of the Brain
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s9854.jpg

Enter the Collosus
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s190134.jpg

MF
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s237792.jpg

Soul Assasins II
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s85516.jpg

The Last Meal
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s927.jpg

Def Squad presents Eric Onasis
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s230777.jpg

Lights Out
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s177160.jpg

The Reuinion
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s25515.jpg


Back For the First Time
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s42230.jpg

View From Masada
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s30684.jpg

Lets Get Ready
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s42375.jpg






Damn i need to stop, but I dont think its honestly any kinda exagerration to say ALL these albums are must hears for real hip hop fans.

Dam what a year. Honestly, just 10 years later, I think we'd all be happy with just a couple of albums of this quality in 2011.

[MaskedAvenger]

I have to disagree, 2000 was a weak year, I'm not even sure if your being sarcastic or not coz half them shits is weak

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

need to throw in more

The Last Stand
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s78190.jpg

Country Grammar
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1698.jpg

The Paper Route
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s42376.jpg

Trapped n Crime
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s198554.jpg

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

I have to disagree, 2000 was a weak year, I'm not even sure if your being sarcastic or not coz half them shits is weak

haha

Like Water For Chocolate
Fantastic Vol2
Stankonia
The W
Supreme Clientele
The Unseen
Train OF Thought
The Dynasty
Warriorz
Violent By Design
Deltron 3030
Lets Get Free
The Platform


Please explain again, wtf you are talking about

[FRiTz]

^^ i liked lots of those albums.
2011 is guna be bangin for hiphop too hopefully

[Undiluted Karma]

yeah this year was dope i think next will be too,

loser heads (of which there are plenty)should (theoretically) have less reason to bitch about commercial hip hop like on youtube

[beautifulrock]

I'll see your 2000 and raise you a 1995.

[biggorfries]

i think hiphop peaked here commercially

[corky831]

not the illest in hip hop.....but illest of the new millenium lol.....i do enjoy a ton of those albums...

Big L
CNN
Luda
Ghost
Wu
Mystikal
Shyne
LOX
Talib

all fuckin bangers....but i think 94-99 all had better yrs

[corky831]

not 2 mention BTNH, Cam, MMLP, and violent by design.....damn it was a stacked yr.....but still 94-99 prob were better yrs.....

[Sosa]

I guess I own more albums from that year than any of the last 5 years, but it was a standard year overall. Also KMD doesn't count.

[Prolifical ENG]

haha

Like Water For Chocolate
Fantastic Vol2
Stankonia
The W
Supreme Clientele
The Unseen
Train OF Thought
The Dynasty
Warriorz
Violent By Design
Deltron 3030
Lets Get Free
The Platform


Please explain again, wtf you are talking about


Those are indeed dope albums but I think 2000 was still a weak year. Your original post has a lot of albums there that were, and still are considered flops.

It is trivial that SC was the best album that year.

I think '99 was way better and more recent, 2003, 2006 and 2007 were better. If you made this thread to acknowledge 2000, 10 years ago then thats fine....there are jewels that were made in that year, I agree.

[Rame]

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s61172.jpg

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fatboybrandon]

i think hiphop peaked here commercially

Me too, that might have been a gift and a curse because more Hip Hop was coming out based on chart-topping, radio single, pop appeal, but because of that some artist started to emerge and rebel against it with the traditional sound and ideals of Hip Hop.

There are some outstanding weaknesses of 2000 because of more artists sucking up to the commercial spotlight, but also some gems here and there from artists on the underground that started to rebel against the corporate machine controlling Hip Hop.

lsNSFhVB_zo

^This album came out at just the right time, Bumpy kicked the uncut truth over dope production.

Overall, I think 2000 was alright, there was alot of music coming out and some of it was classic.

It's unfortunate that for all the good albums that came out, in my memory this era is still stained with mass materialism, commercialism and confusion of artists rushing for the support of the corporate world, all of which were illusions now gone due to the internet and changes in the economy.

Those artists who remained true to themselves and didn't sell out while corporations exploited the music and culture in 2000 are still here: Pharoahe, Dead Prez, Reflection Eternal, Bumpy, Outkast, Common, Wu etc.

[Shogah]

I was just thinking about it recently, how hip hop was dope on the entry of new century, especially for that alternative underground stuff.

[AliJack]

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s61172.jpg

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what the hell you sayin bro, that album wasn't up to par wit Capital Punishment but it sure as hell wasn't anywhere on the same continent as bad...

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

Those are indeed dope albums but I think 2000 was still a weak year. Your original post has a lot of albums there that were, and still are considered flops.

It is trivial that SC was the best album that year.

I think '99 was way better and more recent, 2003, 2006 and 2007 were better. If you made this thread to acknowledge 2000, 10 years ago then thats fine....there are jewels that were made in that year, I agree.

How can you say that and then say it was a weak year? There was a near classic album for every month!

Shit

Stankonia, Fantastic Vol2, Supreme Clientele, Like Water For Chocolate, The W, Warriorz ALONE make it a classic year. THese are some of my all time favorite albums.


Then throw in shit like The Platform, Dynasty, Train OF Thought, the Dead Prez and JMT album, damn this year is incredible.

No way 03 05 and 07 had better albums, no way. Youre crazy.

[Prolifical ENG]

How can you say that and then say it was a weak year? There was a near classic album for every month!

Shit

Stankonia, Fantastic Vol2, Supreme Clientele, Like Water For Chocolate, The W, Warriorz ALONE make it a classic year. THese are some of my all time favorite albums.


Then throw in shit like The Platform, Dynasty, Train OF Thought, the Dead Prez and JMT album, damn this year is incredible.

No way 03 05 and 07 had better albums, no way. Youre crazy.

one could easily name a handful of albums from any year of those album's you've listed caliber.

[David Daniel Davis]

As for me; I think that 1998 was hiphop's most recent classic year; all I need to say is It's Dark and Hell is Hot and Capital Punishment and all of the other surefire bangers from then.

[Prolifical ENG]

I think 2000 is a somewhat pivotal year in hip-hop. 2000 cant come close to any year in the 90's, even '99. I think there are a few years in the double-0's that can contest with 2000. On one hand thats the year that I was in the middle of high school so I should have some favour but then I see it how it is. I remember discussions on websites forums in '03 and '04 discussing how hip-hop turned to shit and the year was 2000 as its mark.

There are certainly classic albums in 2000, no denying that, SC and Back for the First Time could make my top 25. An ill year for the decade but a sub-par-to-par year for hip-hop in general.