Best Hip Hop Albums of 1988

1 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

2 Follow the Leader - Eric B. & Rakim

3 Critical Beatdown - Ultramagnetic MCs

4 Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

5 The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick

6 Strictly Business - EPMD

7 Long Live the King - MC Daddy Kane

8 By All Means Necessary - Boogie Down Productions

9 In Control, Volume 1 - Marley Marl

10 Power - Ice-T

The Contenders

11 Long Live the Kane - Big Daddy Kane