![]() ![]() What do YOU think? Are your favorite experimental Hip Hop albums here? Do you think any essential records are missing? Share your thoughts in the comments! So, let’s get into it – in this piece, you will find 100 experimental Hip Hop albums we consider to be essential representative works for the subgenre, not ranked but presented in release year order. To avoid having to list them all, we will give them a mention and a salute of respect in this intro, and start a little later on Hip Hop’s timeline with this selection of experimental Hip Hop albums. Certainly genre-defining albums like Run DMC’s Run DMC, LL Cool J’s Radio, Beastie Boys’ Licensed To Ill, Eric B & Rakim’s Paid In Full, Boogie Down Productions’ Criminal Minded, Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush The Show and It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Ultramagnetic MCs’ Critical Beatdown, NWA’s Straight Outta Compton, and many others were highly innovative and therefore experimental. We could have included most of the albums released in the mid-1980s – it can be argued that when Hip Hop was in its infancy EVERY record released was experimental. Some of the albums listed here are firmly rooted in the industrial/noise corner of Hip Hop, others are more neo-soul, jazz, or rock-flavored. For this piece, we’ve used a wide net: the albums on this list are all progressive, innovative, creative, and unique – the one thing they have in common is that they are all DIFFERENT from the Hip Hop norm. Now, what exactly makes a Hip Hop record experimental or alternative is open for discussion of course. ![]() 100 Essential Experimental Hip Hop Albums:
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