Your personal top 10 debut albums.

[kjrain12]

Good lists here folks, no one mentioned Funcrusher Plus or The Future Is Now though!

 

[Bodhi]

Paid in Full

Let's Get Free

Illmatic

Soul Food

It's Dark and He'll Is Hot

Operation Doomsday

E. 1999 Eternal (faces of death and creepin on ah come up don't count)

Southernplayalistic..

Don't know about the last 2.

 

[king hassan]

Nas-Illmatic

Eric B & Rakim-Paid In Full

Souls of Mischief-93 Til Infinity

Geto Boys-Grip It, On Another Level

OC-Born To Live

Alkoholiks-21 and Over

De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising

Wu Tang-Enter the 36 Chambers

Gang Starr-No More Mr Nice Guy

Group Home-Living Proof

 

[ohhhla]

Nas-Illmatic

Eric B & Rakim-Paid In Full

Souls of Mischief-93 Til Infinity

Geto Boys-Grip It, On Another Level

OC-Born To Live

Alkoholiks-21 and Over

De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising

Wu Tang-Enter the 36 Chambers

Gang Starr-No More Mr Nice Guy

Group Home-Living Proof

Underrated albums.

You're really a golden age fan.

 

[Ibex]

Snoop Dogg- Doggystyle

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Drake - Thank Me Later

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli

Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Kanye West - The College Dropout

Devin the Dude - The Dude

 

[real_hh_rep]

Illmatic

Good Kid mad City

Liquid Swords

3 Feet High & Rising

Enter the Wu Tang Clan

Doe or Die

Amerikkka's Most Wanted

Word...Life

Take a Look Around

People's Instinctive Travels

 

[Say What]

Black on Both Sides - Mos Def

Southernplayerlistic - Outkast

The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

College Dropout - Kanye West

Enter The 36 Chambers - Wu Tang

Food & Liquor - Lupe

Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z

Ludacris - Incognegro/Back For the First Time

I'm Serious - T.i.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

lol @ how many times Liquid Swords and GKMC have been named. Neither of those are debut albums.

 

[5 Grand]

lol @ how many times Liquid Swords and GKMC have been named. Neither of those are debut albums.

Yeah, Get Rich or Die trying isn't a debut album either. Here's my list

Run DMC - Run DMC

LL Cool J - Radio

Stetsasonic - On Fire

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush The Show

Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane

The Jungle Brothers - Strait Out The Jungle

Eazy E - Eazy Duz It

All classics, and those are just from the 80s.

 

[And_So_It_Burns]

GKMC is his major label debut and that's what most people consider your "official" debut. Technically Nas and Big had demos before their respective major label debut

 

[king hassan]

Nas-Illmatic

Eric B & Rakim-Paid In Full

Souls of Mischief-93 Til Infinity

Geto Boys-Grip It, On Another Level

OC-Born To Live

Alkoholiks-21 and Over

De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising

Wu Tang-Enter the 36 Chambers

Gang Starr-No More Mr Nice Guy

Group Home-Living Proof

Underrated albums.

You're really a golden age fan.

Albums of my youth, and I know they said ten but I got to mention

Little Brother-The Listening

Slum Village-Fantastic Voyage Vol II even tho they dropped a album under the J-88

 

[king hassan]

lol @ how many times Liquid Swords and GKMC have been named. Neither of those are debut albums.

Yeah, Get Rich or Die trying isn't a debut album either. Here's my list

Run DMC - Run DMC

LL Cool J - Radio

Stetsasonic - On Fire

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush The Show

Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane

The Jungle Brothers - Strait Out The Jungle

Eazy E - Eazy Duz It

All classics, and those are just from the 80s.

I co-sign all these. SMH @ me still having a lot of these on cassettes

 

[a_list]

Illmatic

OB4CL

Capital Punishment

Ironman

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Ride The Rhythm- Chill Rob G

Reasonable Doubt

The War Report

The Cronic

Doggystyle

 

[silverfoxx]

Soul Food

GRODT

Parachutes -Coldplay

GKMC

Food and Liquor

Ilmmatic

Reasonable Doubt

Hybrid Theory

The Chronic

Nostalgia/Ultra

 

[A$AP_A$TON]

Lord Willin-Clipse

College Dropout-Ye

Port Of Miami-Ross

Confessions Of Fire-Cam

Kiss Of Death-Jada

Venni Vetti Vicci -Ja

The Score-Fugees

Ghetto Fabolous-Fab

Country Grammar-Nelly

Incognegro-Luda

 

[SnuffDaddy]

Kiss Of Death-Jada

The Score-Fugees

Not debut albums.

Fugees debut was "Blunted On Reality" which had songs like "Nappy Heads" & "Vocab".

Kiss debut was "Kiss Tha Game Goodbye". I'm sure you just twisted the names on that one.

 

[MR Josh]

reasonable doubt

war report

ready to die

doggy style

the chronic

capital punishment

life story(black rob)

The truth(beanie sigel)

The greatest story never told (sigon)

The professional(DJ Clue

I didn't mention cds I don't have in the car and have not

listened to in years just to be politically correct

 

[makaveli4ever]

Illmatic

Ready to die

Food and Liquor

Slim shady lp

Doe or Die

2pacalypse now

Get rich or die trying

college dropout

doggystyle

reasonable doubt

 

[real_hh_rep]

lol @ how many times Liquid Swords and GKMC have been named. Neither of those are debut albums.

My bad. GZA 1st album was so embarassing that I completely forgot about it. Section 80 is the mixtape, not an offical release so I stay with this pick. You can't even buy this shit.

 

[Weazel]

Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush The Show

LL Cool J - Radio

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

2Pac - 2Pacalypse Now

Dr Dre - The Chronic

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Nas - Illmatic

Biggie - Ready to Die

Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot

The awkward moment you start to realise that 10 ain't enough..