this the best album of 2003.

nothing more influential itt

Basic choice but the black album is jay’s masterpiece

F*** a phone

No Chicken N Beer lovers here?

Or Grand Champ?

Not really.

Justify My Thug is awful.

Change Clothes and My Favorite Song are just meh.

that fabolous album was good too

Street Dreams was terrible.

That's why they had to follow it up with More Street Dreams in a couple months to try to erase the stain it left.

Free, What We Do, Life, Flipside, Full Effect

Definitely one of the best albums from 03. I still go back to this every once in a while

i aint mind it

GRODT

But here’s another dope album that hasn’t been mentioned

Nothing is topping get rich or die trying i understand you guys like to change history with your opinion but nah don’t be stupid

Because everybody in your f***ing household was bumping get rich or die trying

RIP Nate

I thought GetBack was way better but I get it

So Fif dropped Get Rich and Beg For Mercy same year.

His run is unmatched

Definitely the best and most influential album of 2003 but it's not really a rap album to me. Outside of Fix Up Look Sharp nothing on there is uk rap/hip hop. Same with Love Below, which I'd put in and is influential, but isn't hip hop/rap.

So I'd have to go with GRODT, followed by Black Album.

Amazing year for music

Its a tie between grodt and tba

Yeah it's always hard to classify because of its fusion of garage/jungle/grime etc. but i put it in here just cause i wasn't too sure if people on here were familiar with it

This was my sister fav album at that time so this one

always love to see it bigged up it's one of the best albums ever

It's a proper Grime album. I think that gets confused in the media cos i've seen uk rap, hip hop, drill, afroswing etc. all get called grime cos journalists are lazy. The US media is worse too calling people like Giggs grime.

Dizzee has hip hop influences from Three 6 Mafia and production like that. Plus the way he expanded grime lyricism to include more concepts and storytelling was probably influenced by US rappers like Nas or at least UK hip hop that was influenced by the US.

But I still think the biggest influences on Grime sound were garage, soundsystem culture, jungle, drum n bass, clashing, rave culture, dancehall and jamaican culture in general. Even lyrically a lot Dizzee's bars are still his classic bars he used to say on radio and at raves.

So weak

This one of my fav videos as a little kid

the genre wouldn't be nearly as big globally without it. but i think a lot of people in the us especially are quick to hate on it as a genre because it has a lot of different influences and represents a culture that a lot of people in the us have no experience with. you'll never see an american rave or dnb set. that being said whatever you want to call it boy in da corner gotta be one of the greatest uk albums of all time

hate seeing so many artists under the umbrella of grime but at least a lot of them are getting exposure now.

yeah i love a lot of artists in the UK rn, but there's really no big new artists doing grime in the last 2-3 years. The people holding down the sound in the UK mainstream are JME, Kano (on his grime songs), D Double E, Ghetts, Skepta, P Money, Wiley and now Dizzee again. There are some good new grime mcs like SBK (great producer too), but he has no mainstream attention.

People call artists like Stormzy and Dave grime but idk. Stormzy doesn't usually get involved in the culture like some of those other legends. The grime songs he does drop are good but ironically end up all being Wiley tributes or sampling him (Wiley flow, know me from, one take) and i can't see that happening again anytime soon lol

Idk why the uk music press is so clueless when it's genres like grime that's actually given the UK it's own sound and culture for 20 years. Without it we'd just be copying the US. I saw the guardian call lily allen's first album grime the other day, i can't tell if they're just trolling by this point. they put kano's picture up instead of wiley's too. disrespectful af