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Originally Posted by whomario
again, the sites in question making those lists in question all serve a similar base. Both for listeners as well as for Bands/Artists.
Look up some hip hop sites and you wonīt even find non-hip-hop albums on those lists, they donīt even bother and just say "best Rap/Hip Hop albums of the year/decade".
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It's less about that - I said catering to an audience is fine as long you're not pretending to include other genres - and more that they picked the same 3 albums for their top 20's out of all the hip-hop options. (Especially when The Blueprint and Stankonia are both probably the 3rd best album from their respective artists - although Outkast's better efforts were in the 1990's.) There were other superlative efforts from Lupe, Eminem, the Roots, Reflection Eternal, Common, J5 and Nas, just to name mainstream enough artists. The odds of multiple people actually listening to the catalog from those artists and then picking The Blueprint/Stankonia/Late Registration as the 3 best is miniscule. Which is why that list seemed like more of a coronation of the consensus best reviewed albums than a true person's stand on what they listened to the most.