NOTORIOUS B.I.G: Best Hip-Hop Album

Rolling Stone magazine published their ranking of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

Topping the list is Notorious B.I.G followed by Outkast, Jay-Z, Public Enemy and Kendrick Lamar rounding out the top five. Kanye West is right behind in sixth.

Filtering the list to only the women. Missy Elliott placed the highest at number seven, with Miss E…So Addictive. The critics at Rolling Stone ranked Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy ahead of Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday. Megan Thee Stallion’s 2019 mixtape, Fever, made the top-200 list.

Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums according to Rolling Stone:

1. Notorious B.I.G                Ready to Die (1994)
2. Outkast                             Stankonia (2000)
3. Jay-Z                                 The Blueprint (2001)
4. Public Enemy                   It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
5. Kendrick Lamar               To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
6. Kanye West                      My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
7. Missy Elliott                     Miss E…So Addictive (2001)
8. Wu-Tang                           Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
9. A Tribe Called Quest       The Low End Theory (1991)
10. Lauryn Hill                        The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)