Top Ten Hip Hop Albums of the 2010s

20 full tracks. No intro, no outro, no skit. Length varies from 2 and a half to 7 and a half minutes. Overall album length: 75 minutes of pure music.

The lyrics are 5 out of 5. In almost every single line there is something breathtaking. Kollegah rhymes as complex as it gets, but still remains unpredictable. But that is not the greatest aspect. Even greater is the extremely intelligent play on words. Kollegah makes heavy use of homophones to create double entendres, often so hidden you don't get the line until you hear the song again.

Here's an example: "fairen Steuern" (=fair taxes) and "Fähren steuern" (=to drive ferries) are pronounced exactly the same. Now Kollegah says what translates to "You can't make that much money with fair taxes/driving ferries like a ship's captain". And lines like this appear about every ten seconds throughout the albums. Kollegah does not have a variety of different topics but he portrays what he wants to be ...more

Should be number one

In my opinion, Eminem's best studio album to date. This album had everything you could ask for, from Em's crazy flow and lyrics to his speed in certain songs "Rap God" "Love Game", to the Slim Shady person making a comeback for the first time in 4 years with "Berzerk" to the dilemma Eminem went through trying to contain the character in "The Monster", then to Slim Shady's death in "Bad Guy". Something you can bop to in your car, blow up a club with it, house party type music and even songs to listen to when feeling down like "Legacy". A complete masterpiece.