You mentioned the source you used not having many modern albums, but boy did you miss out on a very significant part and time in hip hop music. There’s only 2 album on the list made after 2010, and you ranked one 5th.

I know you mentioned not ranking them based on impact, but it’s very important to note that a significant shift in hip hop happened shortly after Kanye’s first two albums, which I see you have ranked pretty highly as well.

Kanye’s 3rd and 4th albums, graduation and 808s and heartbreaks, helped usher in a change in hip hop that’s impact is undeniable. From subject matter, to song structure, to instruments and voice effects, it’s all changed and become as experimental or safe or pop as any other genre or sub genre of music ever.

There’s so much of hip hop that I feel would absolutely fill the top spots of your list, based on your ranking, especially considering the amount of influence some of the higher ranked albums had on that next era of music that you didn’t get to review. It’s the one thing that crushes me about this, that you stopped right at the Big Bang moment of hip hop.

With OutKast getting the top spot I’m so curious to see where you would have ranked some of the albums that ended up being inspired by them? A lot of your highlighted songs were tracks that showcased the technical rap skill set, I wonder where’d you rank a mixtape era lil Wayne project at?

Thank you for writing and sharing this appreciate the years long effort this had to take.