Omarion Names His Top 5 Favorite Hip Hop Albums

    Maybach Music Group’s Omarion spoke with HipHopDX several weeks ago. With over 11 years releasing albums, both with groups and alone, the Inglewood, California native was asked about his Top 5 favorite Hip Hop albums.

    “Definitely Tupac’s [The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory]. That’s a classic,” kicked off the MMG artist, of the album Tupac released—as Makaveli, shortly after his 1996 death. The former Sony artist praised another album from a few months later that had that same posthumous promotion. “Definitely Life After Death [by The Notorious B.I.G.],” he said of the 1997 Bad Boy Records release. Continuing, Omarion had a second album making his list from the Death Row Records catalog, this one from 1993. “The first Snoop Dogg album ever, Doggystyle. I want to say Kanye [West’s] albums… but I want to say which one it is: 808’s & Heartbreak. People wouldn’t consider that a Hip Hop album, but I do because he’s a rapper.”

    The former B2K member closed out his list with a 2001 favorite, “Jay-Z’s The BlueprintI judge it off of whether i know the lyrics of all the songs. Sometimes, I hear records and I don’t even know that I know the lyrics. That’s how I know it’s a classic.”

    Additional Reporting by Jake Paine

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    65 thoughts on “Omarion Names His Top 5 Favorite Hip Hop Albums

    1. He’s got very good music taste, but I will make these points.

      1. How is this news???
      2. How is The Blueprint (released on the exact day of 9/11 – September 11, 2001) a “2011 favourite”?
      3. I think Omarion is the ONLY person to consider “808s and Heartbreak” a hip-hop album. I like it, it’s one of my favourite albums, but it’s not hip-hop.

      1. watch kanye’s interview with sway – he breaks down how it definitely is hiphop. and LOL can’t believe hhdx didn’t notice the 2011 thing.

    2. He doesn’t really explain why he likes those albums, he’s like-

      Um, I like Biggie’s album and um Doggystyle is good too and um…

      1. Did the article say “Omarion explains why”? NO SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID CUNT. Ok!!?!?! you treat me like SHIT LIKE SHIT!

    3. 808’s actually paved the way for artists like drake, kid cudi and anyone else that does that introspective, commercial singing/rap tunes…don’t hate on it…it played its part in the evolution of music

      1. No, The Love Below did. 808’s was a poor imitation, that had little impact beyond marking Kanye’s decline as an original artist.

      2. You’re absolutely right. Anybody saying different is a fucking fool.It’s not that great of a album and people hate it because of the autotune (the beats were fucking sweet) he did pave the way for them.

        Its one of the reasons Kanye is a getting to legend status.

      3. @Christopher Hundley

        The album sold a million copys under a week fuckhead. 808’s was completely different genre musically from The Love Below (classic). Kanye took it to the next level as far beats, 808 beat and snares, melodies, singing etc. its that type of music you hear from R&B’s artists nowadays.

    4. What about Cater III?????

      At least he didn’t name a boring CD like Illmatic or Reasonable Doubt.

      1. Graduation is incredible. I’m not saying it’s my number 1 album, but I understand why someone would love it.

    5. atleast he can make an arguement for a good list..props to one of the better lists i heard in a while..everyone has a different opinion on top 5 but when ur atleats in ballpark range u get credit

      1. Shit’s a top 4. 808’s and Heartbreak is not a hip-hop album, and it doesn’t matter that a rapper made it. There’s one rap verse on the whole album from Young Jeezy.

    6. 1. Im Not a Human Being 2
      2. Take Care
      3. Tha Carter IV
      4. Pink Friday Roman Reloaded
      5. Hotel California

      swag

    7. “Exclusive: Maybach Music Group’s R&B vet…”

      ^ turns into

      “………spoke with HipHopDX several weeks ago”

      ^ slow news day so we’re going to pull some articles out of the trash bin

    8. 1. Nas – Illmatic
      2. Notorious B.I.G – Ready to die
      3. Snoop doggy dogg – Doggystyle
      4. Wu tang clan – Enter the wu tang (36 chambers)
      5. Dr dre – the chronic
      6. Notorious b.i.g – life after death
      7. Tribe called quest – the low end theory
      8. Boogie down productions – criminal minded
      9. Public enemy – it takes a nation of millions
      10. Jay-z – reasonable doubt

    9. This R&B ass nigga deserves to get sliced with the shiv for not mentioning any Ja Rule albums. Oh, I forgot, pussy niggas don’t listen to Ja Rule anyway. Rule for the real niggaz. Murdaaaa!!!

    10. 1. Jay Rock – Follow Me Home
      2. 50 Cent – GRODT
      3. Nas Illmatic
      4. Biggie – Ready To Die
      5. Dr Dre – 2001

      And you know everything on that list is fire!!

      1. it actually is my favourite. It’s just one banger after another and its not bogged down with loads of features.

    11. dude who give a fuck what m-m-m-maybach O favorite albums is.. look how lame he look in the pic ctfu

    12. Nas – Illmatic
      Pete Rock and CL Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother
      Big L – Lifestyles of the Poor and Dangerous
      NWA – Straight Outta Compton
      KRS One – Return of the Boom Bap

    13. ight…for u idiots…

      1. Illmatic
      2. The Chronic/2001 (yea im combining them idgaf)
      3. Enter The Wu-Tang 36 Chambers
      4. Aquemini
      5. The Marshall Mathers LP

      what?

    14. 1 – Straight Outta Compton
      2 – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
      3 – Raising Hell
      4 – Paid in Full
      5 – Criminal Minded

    15. Jay Z-Reasonable Doubt
      Nas-Stillmatic
      Eminem-The Eminem Show
      Wu Tang-36 Chambers
      Big L-The Big Picture

      Let’s hear the hate

    16. 1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
      2. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
      3. Deltron 3030
      4. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
      5. Black on Both Sides

    17. Be paid weekly and earn like a boss! Love my job, since I’ve been bringing in $87h I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I’m making it online. All I do are easy tasks from this one cool site, Epic2.com___

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