The hip hop game is not about albums. It's about singles, and stringing those singles together to make party tapes. Hip Hop was introduced to me when I was very young. The first tape that I ever owned was a compilation of rap songs. Not so much anymore, though.
Rap music is one of the ever changing genres of music.
My 2 cents on the Top 10 10. A mixture of soulful and hardcore rap, with a certain depth pertaining to his life, over funk driven beats. It isn't easy to sum up about twenty years of rap into one list of ten. So here we go. Well these are my next favorite ten.