Another slept on song is beware of the boys panjabi Mc hov had fire verses of that beat

Never liked Jay but this right here is an undeniable classic and the only song of his that I’ve played more than a handful of times

nigga I'll kill ya, chop ya up and put ya inside the mattress like d*** money, nigga

Prelude is my favorite Jay intro

talkin' like i got 9 lives,

9 wonder, uh

I put that knife in ya.. record-scratch

Aye yo!?

I need to delisten to a lot of albums but off of my head

Encore
Big Pimpin’
99 Problems
U Don’t Know
A Week Ago
Otis
Marcy Me
Heart of the City
What More Can I Say
Dead Presidents II
A Million And One Questions
Run This Town
New Day
Kill Jay Z
Money Cash Hoes
What More Can I Say
Dirt Off Your Shoulders
Brooklyn’s Finest
Picasso Baby
Moment of Clarity

People Talkin’ forgotten about because it’s a hidden track at the end of the Unplugged album:

Other songs I’d consider Top Hov tracks:
Smile
Nickels & Dimes
Paris
Otis
Made In America
Empire State Of Mind
Real As It Gets
So Ambitious
I Know
Say Hello
The Prelude
The Black Album - no skips project
Excuse Me Miss
Some How Some Way
The Blueprint - no skips project
This Can’t Be Life
Where Have You Been
Come And Get Me
A Million And One
Imaginary Players
Streets Is Watching
Who You Wit (original)
Where I’m From
Reasonable Doubt - no skips project
Dead Presidents I

But when the gat is tucked im fat as f***. Come and I get me is one of them ones

Never Change top 1

I f*** wit both verses, Beans verse get me more hype lowkey but Jay’s verse got the qoutables

3 cuts in ya eyebrows tryna wild out

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Agreed beans set the tone but jay was talking that s***

In that new blue yankee on who but me

BP2 is a mixed bag but it’s got some all timers on it for me

Meet the Parents
The Watcher 2
Somehow Some Way
Excuse Me Miss
Ballad for a Fallen Soldier

Ballad for fallen was a great song. Guns & roses is another slept on song from BP2

Guns and Roses has great verses, the hook is pretty mid

That’s fair it’s the beat & his verses that sells it for me

J-A-Y, dash, hoffa
The past, present, nigga, the future, proper
The Holy Trinity in Hip-Hop is us
We give Dre his props, but that's where it stops
It's the Roc!

BP2 has an amazing 14-16 track album within it but I like how he let himself have one massive album when most of albums are 11-14 tracks

Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint are of the top 10 greatest hip hop albums OAT

What’s the other 8 albums you have on that list

No particular order, trying to balance some personal bias with trying to keep an objective ear kinda:

Reasonable Doubt
Blueprint
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
36 Chambers
Doggystyle
Supreme Clientele
Hell Hath No Fury
It's Dark and Hell is Hot
Stankonia
DS2

pains me that GKMC, Take Care (not all the way a hip hop album), Madvillainy, Drought 3, Rodeo amongst others didn't make it but that's where I'm at rn hip hop gave us so much

Listened to this album today and it really took me back. It’s so 2010

Not mad at that list. DS2 sticks out like a sore thumb but I get it

In no order
Doggystyle
The chronic
Reasonable doubt
Midnight maurauders
To pimp a butterfly
Illmatic
College dropout
808s
Life after death