10 Essential Albums for Hip-Hop Beginners:
A Tribe Called Quest: People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990)
A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory (1991)
Black Star: Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star (1998)
De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
The Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)
Nas: Illmatic (1994)
Lupe Fiasco: Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor (2006)
Kanye West: The College Dropout (2004)
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides (1999)
Binary Star: Masters of the Universe (2000)
