Top 50 Albums by Region: Midwest Day 1

Esham - KKKill the Fetus

hardcore, innovative Detroit hip hop...does it make the cut?

top 25

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

KRob86 wrote:

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

well that also may be the point...to give the less heralded gems from the midwest that wouldnt make a national list some shine

KRob86 wrote:

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

Douchiest thing to come out of a Chicagoan's mouth in a long ass time.


how about this?

Point Blank
Triple Darkness
Twista
Do Or Die
DMG
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Royce Da 5'9"
Da Brat
Mhz
Copywrite
Blueprint
Rhymefest
Esham
Eminem
D12
Obe Trice
Psychodrama
Snypaz
A-G-2-A-Ke
Slum Village
Jay Dilla
Elzhi
Dayton Family
Natas
Bootleg
Ghetto E
Shoestring
ROC
ICP
Tech N9ne
Krizz Kaliko
Prozak
Kutt Calhoun
King Sandman
Atmosphere
Brother Ali
POS
Eyedea
Krayzie
Bizzy
Layzie
Flesh
Poetic Hustla'z
Vakill
Molemen
Juice
Supernatural
Common
Lupe Fiasco
EC Illa
Kanye West
Bow Wow
MC Breed
Crucial Conflict
Malik Yusef
Kid Cudi
Coo Coo Cal
Top Authority
Ray Cash

All rappers with fanbases that would say yes to their albums.

OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD

Half that fuckin list would not make top 100 yet alone top 50. Point Blank reps Texas more so than Chicago so he's debatable. And when you list Bow Woe I know you are stretching your point.

Coo Coo Cal?.............LMAO!

Slang Editorial wrote:

KRob86 wrote:

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

well that also may be the point...to give the less heralded gems from the midwest that wouldnt make a national list some shine

Very true. A lot of the true gems from this region get buried my the surrounding areas.

N/A. I've heard two Esham albums, and i wasn't really impressed by either.

You're being an idiot, KRob. Nitpicking over one artist and saying Point Blank claims TX more than Chicago...why don't I take every rapper you like off the list so you can pretend the region YOU'RE FROM doesn't produce dope hip hop music. And Coo Coo Cal is dope, hater.

I think the midwest produces good music just in spurts. Most are not consistant discog wise. I have noticed they usually drop one fire ass album and the rest be just average at best.

Neither for this one, but i can guarantee you that there's 50 good albums from the midwest when you really stop to think about it.

n/a don't own

And there are easily more than 50 albums from the Midwest that are worthy of this list, some of you guys just gotta open your mind up and not be so damn close minded.

KRob86 wrote:

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

1) I was thinking that, too.

2) If there aren't 50 top albums from the Midwest, how is this one a neither? lol

This is the only Esham album I've heard; I guess I'll give it top 50. I really can't think of 50 midwestern albums that I dig, though.

Well Shaun:

Brother Ali - 3 Albums
Atmosphere - 5 Albums
Bone - 6 albums
Tech N9ne - 8 Albums
One Be Lo - 3 Albums
Senim Silla
Decompoze
Binary Star
Kanye West - 4 Albums
Common - 8 Albums
Rhymefest - 1 Album
Consequence - 1 Album
Do or Die - 5 Albums
Eminem - 6 Albums
D12 - 2 Albums
Royce - 8 albums/mixtapes

etc. etc.


Out of all that I think you could come up with 50 you dig.

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

im giving this top 25...

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Yep, I was just trying to put in perspective for Shaun. There's at least 200 dope albums out of the midwest if not more - so cutting it down to Top 50 will be a good thing to do. I think shaun needs sleep though... he's kjing it up today.

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Its a problem when you have to list a persons whole discog just to try to get 50 dang albums.

KRob86 wrote:

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Its a problem when you have to list a persons whole discog just to try to get 50 dang albums.

Considering people will have 5 BDP records and 4 ATCQ albums and 4 Gangstarr albums and 4 PE records, etc. etc. in an east coast top 50 - where is the problem?

Southern Rap Porn wrote:

KRob86 wrote:

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Its a problem when you have to list a persons whole discog just to try to get 50 dang albums.

Considering people will have 5 BDP records and 4 ATCQ albums and 4 Gangstarr albums and 4 PE records, etc. etc. in an east coast top 50 - where is the problem?

True but not me.

KRob86 wrote:

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Its a problem when you have to list a persons whole discog just to try to get 50 dang albums.

How many Geto Boys, Scarface, Kast, Goodie Mob albums will be in your top 50 southern albums? It's ok to have more than one entry per artist. I think what it boils down to is that your not a huge fan of the various midwest artists, and that makes picking 50 albums harder for you.

T. Myers wrote:

KRob86 wrote:

T. Myers wrote:

If people can't come up with 50 albums from the midwest, there is a problem. You left off Dayton Family. They got 3 albums in my top 50. Black milk, Slum Village, Dilla, Vakill, not to mention Bone solos

Its a problem when you have to list a persons whole discog just to try to get 50 dang albums.

How many Geto Boys, Scarface, Kast, Goodie Mob albums will be in your top 50 southern albums? It's ok to have more than one entry per artist. I think what it boils down to is that your not a huge fan of the various midwest artists, and that makes picking 50 albums harder for you.

That has some truth in it but the fact is I have heard a lot of midwest artist and to me a good amount of them have weak overall discogs. And of course a lot of Geto Boy and the others would make my top 50 but they warrant that spot I bet more so than some forced midwest albums just to meet quota.

Okay, so who out of these groups has a weak discog?

Royce
Brother Ali
Atmosphere
Dayton Family
Do Or Die
Twista
Tech N9ne
Eminem
Binary Star
Slum Village

N3R0N0N Of 0nslaught3r wrote:

Okay, so who out of these groups has a weak discog?

Royce
Brother Ali
Atmosphere
Dayton Family
Do Or Die
Twista
Tech N9ne
Eminem
Binary Star
Slum Village

But see thats what i'm saying those you mentioned including Common and Ye of course would fill up my top 50 just because of default. No real competition. The other coasts would push me more. And to answer you question Do or Die and Twista catalog are average at best. Not a big fan of Royce, can't get down with Atmos or Slum Vill. Tech N9ne? Yeah right.

If Point Blank music is Midwest that's like saying DJ Premier music is South.

lounge wrote:

If Point Blank music is Midwest that's like saying DJ Premier music is South.

I understand your point, but I disagree entirely. The difference being that Point Blank and DMG both made music that still represents the region they are from, and even if they didn't, they spent enough of their careers in their home states to justify being called Midwest.

I don't think so. Point Blank's entire recording career was in Houston, with Houston rappers, Houston cliques, and a Houston style. Even today he remains in Houston. I know he reps Chicago as his home town - but he is a southern artist IMO.

Okay, but DMG is locked up in Minnesota.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

well, im too late now, but this was my reply...

Hmmm I just can't justify Point Blank being midwest. What part of Blank's music career was spent in Chicago? In my opinion, it aint where ya from its where ya at. Point Blank music is nothing but South, created in the South, by Southerners, and has no relevance to the midwest other than that he came from Chicago and sometimes raps about that but this does not make him a midwest artist imo, rather an artist who came from midwest, and made Southern music. If he had made his music with a bunch of people from midwest, with midwest sound, only then I would call his music midwest.

Tupac is another great example. Born in the East, but everything about his music is West Coast.

My point was that dude reps Chi-town, and at that point in hip hop history, there were two types of rap music made in the midwest: east caost influenced, and the stuff coming out of Rap-A-Lot or influenced by stuff coming out by Rap A Lot (like MC Breed). So he reflected his regions sound at the time IMO.

N3R0N0N Of 0nslaught3r wrote:

My point was that dude reps Chi-town, and at that point in hip hop history, there were two types of rap music made in the midwest: east caost influenced, and the stuff coming out of Rap-A-Lot or influenced by stuff coming out by Rap A Lot (like MC Breed). So he reflected his regions sound at the time IMO.

The midwest always took from the west more than they did from the South IMO. I mean if he had really wanted to do his own sound he could have done like Do or Die - signed to a southern label but making midwest music.

Definite top 25. E is way underrated.

Never heard it, sleeping I know, no vote.

KRob86 wrote:

Neither, but are there even 50 albums out the midwest worthy of this list?

LMAO!! I know I got at least 100...

Neither. Quality album (actually, the only full album I've heard from Esham). Not really my style though.

In this new poll let's not forget:

Unknown Prophets
Invincible "Shapeshifters"
Finale & Spier "1200"

All dope if you ask me.

E. Taylor wrote:

In this new poll let's not forget:

Unknown Prophets
Invincible "Shapeshifters"
Finale & Spier "1200"

All dope if you ask me.

Hell yeah...

Top 25 for midwest. Great album

N3R0N0N Of 0nslaught3r wrote:

So he reflected his regions sound at the time IMO.

Yes, his region at that time was the South, and so was his music, so this statement rings true.