Kidd Kidd Names His Top 5 Favorite Hip Hop Albums

    HipHopDX recently spoke to G-Unit/Rida Gang emcee Kidd Kidd. The New Orleans, Louisiana native reacted to his verse being removed from 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar’s “We Up” single, as well as the recent murder of Tyson G-Strip. DX also asked the Sqad Up veteran and former Young Money Entertainment artist about his five favorite Hip Hop albums.

    Kidd began with his current boss’ 2003 major label debut. “Gotta be 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’; [that album] bust the streets right back open. He brought the Gangsta Rap to the forefront of Hip Hop, you know what I mean. Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, definitely.” He then turned to another debut album, this one the 1996 LP from hustler-turned-mogul. “I would say Jay-Z, the Reasonable Doubt [album], that was stupid crazy to me. I still listen to that to this day.”

    Staying in 1996, Kidd Kidd next selected the two acclaimed Death Row Records releases made by Tupac Shakur the year of his death. “Tupac, you know what I’m sayin’, I might even have to say two of Tupac albums, All Eyez On Me and [the album he released as] Makaveli [The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory]. I really love those albums.”

    Perhaps the most unlikely pick on Kidd Kidd’s top five album list was the third LP from Nas, released in 1999. “Last but not least, I wanna say Nas, that I Am.. album. A lot of people slept on the I Am… album, you know what I’m sayin’, but that’s my favorite album from Nas. I love that album. So that’s my top five right there. Those albums I could listen to all day every day without skipping any [songs].”

    Additional Reporting by Jake Paine

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    130 thoughts on “Kidd Kidd Names His Top 5 Favorite Hip Hop Albums

      1. KIDD KIDD PROVED HIS HIP HOP CREDIBILITY. FOR THE RECORD, NASTRADAMOUS WOULD BE A CLASSIC THESE DAYS. PROLLY A TOP 10 ALBUM LAST YEAR. KIDD KIDD NEEDS TO RESOLVE ANY ISSUES WITH BIRDMAN AND SIGN WITH YMCMB. 50 CENT IS DONE.

        #PRAYFORBIRDMAN

      2. Nastradamus def is not Nas’ best work, but he gets a pass, dude was dealing with his moms illness/death.

      3. Fuck LL’s first album, He has nothing to do with this post.

        I Am… and Nastradamus are both dope, just not as inspired as Nas usually is.

        Untitled is his worst piece of garbage.

    1. I knew this kid is not as bad as they say. He’s got class. These are a bunch of very very solid albums. Props for mentioning Get Rich and I Am.

      1. Do u really consider I Am better than Illmatic or It Was Written ?? Wow it just explains why hip-hop is so fucked up today. Cause of stans like you having the bad standards of what a classic album is. And of course the industry follows as long as it can sell

      2. Are you retarded? If people liked “I am” album from Nas would the industry sign artists like Drake?

      3. really you didnt say that real hip hop heads know Illmatic is and always will be Nas best album

    2. Cant be mad at his list. All dope classic albums. No real rap fan should be mad at his list…

    3. Im mad at Kidd Kidd. first he left YMCMB cause he could not accept Lil Wayne is a better rapper den him. and now he says he prefer old pop-rap albums? 50 Cent? Nas? Jay-Z? dem niggaz are pop singers. smh.

      my top 5 favorite REAL HIP HOP albums:

      1. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
      2. Drake – Take Care
      3. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Dont
      4. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded The Re-Up
      5. Lil Wayne – I’m Not A Human Being II

      swag

      1. weak list must be a teen and have no knowledge of hip hop reasonable doubt is a classic hip hop not hip pop album Nas will always be top 10 even though Illmatic is the best Nas album listen to real hip hop before you respond pop lover

    4. GRODT is so fuckin overrated !!

      how can even you put GRODT aside All Eyez On Me ??

      fuck outta here !

      1. Ya’ll gotta be kidding, All Eyez On Me had a dope first CD, that shit is classic right there. But that second one seems like Pac slacked, so I ain’t going to put that album in my top 10, hell might not even make my top 20 album list. Makaveli definitly makes the top 10.

    5. If you are a Nas fan, or really listen to lyrics, you can never say Nastradamus was a wac album. Most people just say that cos they heard someone say it.

      Kidd Kidd’s list is dope.

      1. Yeah it lacked the energy that Nas brings to the table. It wasn’t wack, just sounded more like he was going through the motions.

        But personally I don’t consider it his worst.

    6. how much kidd kidd pay yall to make ur headlines? or is 50cent behind this? no one knows this nigga.

    7. 1)Power of the Dollar – 50Cent
      2)All Eyes On Me – 2Pac
      3)The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory – 2Pac
      4)Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ – 50 Cent
      5)Beg For Mercy – G-Unit

    8. 1) Silkk the Shocker – The Shocker
      2) Vanilla Ice – To the Extreme
      3) Project Pat – Mista Don’t Play: Everythangs Workin’
      4) G. Dep – Child of the Ghetto
      5) Snow – 12 Inches of Snow

    9. Nastradusmus always considered the worst Nas albums but if you compare the track list with Iam i dont think it is

      I AM
      01 Album Intro -td
      02 N-Y- State of Mind Pt 2
      03 Hate Me Now -Feat- Puff Daddy-
      04 Small World
      05 Favor for a Favor -Feat- Scarface-
      06 We Will Survive
      07 Ghetto Prisoners
      08 You Won-t See Me Tonight -Feat- Aaliyah-
      09 I Want to Talk to You
      10 Dr- Knockboot
      11 Life is What You Make it -Feat- DMX-
      12 Big Things
      13 Nas is Like
      14 K-I-SS-I-N-G
      15 Money is my Bitch
      16 Undying Love

      NASTRADAMUS
      1 The Prediction (Poetry by Jessica) (01:20)
      2 Life We Chose (04:09)
      3 Nastradamus (04:12)
      4 Some Of Us Have Angels (04:15)
      5 Project Window (feat Ron Isley) (04:56)
      6 Come Get Me (05:32)
      7 Shoot ‘Em Up (02:54)
      8 Last Words (feat Nashawn) plus (05:32)
      9 Family (feat Mobb Deep) (05:17)
      10 God Love Us (04:37)
      11 Quiet Niggas (feat Bravehearts) (04:58)
      12 Big Girl (04:20)
      13 New World (04:01)
      14 You Owe Me (feat Ginuwine) (04:48)
      15 The Outcome (Poetry by Jessica) (01:55)

      If the real double album had not leaked forcing him to re-record these two albums we probally would of had another Nas classic

      1. I Am… is superior, just because of classics like Nas is Like, Small World, Favor for a Favor, Undying Love and We Will Survive. Nothing on Nastradamus really comes close to those tracks.

        Nastradamus is definitely near the bottom, but personally I put Untitled and Street’s Disciple near the bottom too because they’re bland as fuck. Not sure which out of those three is the worst.

        But Nastradamus gets far too much hate, it’s really not that bad.

    10. MT TOP 5 ALBUMS

      1. IANAHB2
      2. THA CARTER 4
      3. THA CARTER 3
      4. IANAHB
      5. REBIRTH

      NAS HAS SOME OF THE WORST HIPHOP GARBAGE EVER! THEY GIVE HIPHOP A BAD NAME!!

      1. Ever album in your top 5 are certified pop garbage that ruined hip-hop and gave it a bad name. Nas has some of the best records in rap. You’re delusional.

    11. my top 5

      its dark & hell is hot
      man vs machine
      eminem show
      laugh now cry later
      stillmatic

    12. Here’s my five

      Blueprint
      The Documentary
      The Red Light District
      It Ain’t Safe No More
      Doggystyle

    13. THUG MOTIVATION 101/THE RECESSION
      URBAND LEGEND/KING/PAPER TRAIL
      THE BLUEPRINT/RD/ AND THE BLACK ALBUM
      2-PAC AND BIGGIE LAST TWO ALBUMS BEFORE DEATH
      GRODT
      OUTCAST-ATLIENS/AQUEMINI
      JUVENILE-400 DEGREEZ
      AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST TO ME THE LAST CLASSIC I HEARD BESIDES JEEZY IS DEFINATELY GRADUATION BY kANYE……….. AND ROSS PORT OF MIAMI

      I FUCKS WITH YMCMB BEST RAPPERS AND SONGS WITH NO CLASSIC ALBUM BUT LOTS OF GREAT SONGS…….

    14. since when is kidd kidd buzzin? the only buzz he got is from being dropped off major hits hahah fuckin bum, fuck the south, fuck trap music. Worst shit to ever happen to hip hop. There are maybe 10 repectable mcs from the south. Truth, hate it.

      1. Nobody cares about your arrogant opinion, hating and boo hoo’n all day on DX aint gonna slow down the money we get out here fuckboi

    15. Most Def on the All Eyes On Me And Makaveli [The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory], those two are classic, timeless albums…I would put Blueprint before reasonable doubt but it’s preference. Not sure about that NAS album. It had a few joints on there, but not classic. BTNH-E 99 Eternal-

      1. Except he’s been signed to Wayne when 500 Degreez came out, then got signed to Def Jam after Jay-Z heard him freestyle, then got back with Wayne when Drake first came out, and now 50 has signed him…so yeah, you’re retarded.

    16. I VISITED OBAMA!! HERE ARE HIS FAVORITE ALBUMS

      1. IANAHB2
      2. SOULJABOYTELLEM.COM
      3. PORT OF MIAMI
      4. PAIN IS LOVE 2
      5. KISS THE RING!!

      NOW HERE ARE HIS WORST 5

      1. MARSHALL MATHERS LP
      2. GRADUATION
      3. THE BLUEPRINT
      4. ILLMATIC
      5. EMINEM SHOW

      1. THATS WHY I REPOST!! ANYWAY, I DID VISIT OBAMA AND HE DID TELL ME HIS FAVORITE AND WORST RAP ALBUMS!!

      2. YESSIR, EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS BULLSHIT LIES. YOU NEVER MET OBAMA EVER. I ACTUALLY MET HIM AND HE TOLD ME THIS IS HIS LIST.

        HIS WORST ALBUMS

        1. IANAHB2
        2. SOULJABOYTELLEM.COM
        3. PORT OF MIAMI
        4. PAIN IS LOVE 2
        5. KISS THE RING!!

        HIS FAVORITE ALBUMS

        1. MARSHALL MATHERS LP
        2. GRADUATION
        3. THE BLUEPRINT
        4. ILLMATIC
        5. EMINEM SHOW

    17. For those who say that Nastradamus is Nas’s worst work can at least agree is better than Wayne’s best.

      1. Settle down Ms. Estrada. Wayne’s best trumps anything Nas has ever put out including Illmatic.

      2. Anonymous:
        Settle down Ms. Estrada. Wayne’s best trumps anything Nas has ever put out including Illmatic.

        some retard shit here

    18. alot of yal dont know real oldschool rap to even name a real top 5. yal only think of biggy and pac. and they were great but there were many more who had classics dat affected hiphop in a mojor way

    19. Snoop Dogg – Doggystyle
      Ice Cube – Death Certificate
      Scarface – The Diary
      Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid m.A.A.d City
      Andre 3000 – The Love Below (from the Outkast Double Album Speakerboxxx – The Love Below)

      1. why cause he said white people own hip-hop ?? man fuck you ! truth hurts. just swallow it and walk away

    20. Kidd Kidd names his top 5 albumS ?..what about Kidd Kidd naming HIS own album ?..how bout that ? ** SUCK MY TEETH**

    21. This is the real list
      1. Tha Carter 3 > Illmatic
      2. Take Care > Enter the Wu-Tang
      3. Pink Friday > Hardcore
      4. God Forgives, I Don’t > Ready to Die

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      1. g-unit company probably pays hiphopdx to make headlines of him to boost 1st week sales of debut album

      1. “Say a nigga snitching, I’m saying show me the paper work” from “No Idea” by Joe Budden

    23. Gucci is the realest rapper and heres why.
      1) all other rappers rap about being gangster shooting and killing but they havent done it.
      2) Eminem raps about killing he hasnt.
      3)Jay z raps in open letter about sending shots he hasnt.
      4)Nas raps about how he is a queens thug but he wasn’t.
      5)Most of the rappers rap about stuff they havent done yet you all support them and say its real rap.
      6)When rick ross does it you all claim he is fake and say its fake rap.

      This shows that hiphop fans are hypocritical and all these real hiphop fan wanna be’s are just some unjustified haters whose opinions are just as irrelevent as the swag fag rapper fans.

      BIG GUWOP KILLED A MAN HE WAS A DRUG DEALER BEFORE RAPPER HE HAS STREET CREDENTIALS HE IS THE ONLY RAPPER THAT RAPS ABOUT FACTS THERE FORE BIG GUWOP IS THE REALEST RAPPER IN THE RAP GAME AND THATS A FACT!

      1. Gucci mane killed a man from defending himself when peeps were after him, anyone with a gun will shoot to save themselves from being killed. All the artists you mentioned are lyrically and flow better, get off gucci manes dick

    24. it’s obvious that kidd kidd does not respect the 5 elements of hip hop (1. Bboying 2. MCing 3. Graffiti 4. DJing 5. Knowledge, Culture and Overstanding). if so, he would have a more respectable list:

      Birdman
      Fast Money
      5 * Stunna
      Priceless
      Like Father, Like Son (with Lil Wayne)

      Honorable mention: Take Care, Pink Friday and Hotel California

    25. 1 – Nas fans (refuse to realize he fell off after Stillmatic)
      2 – Eminem stans (similar to Nas fans, plus they tend to be racist)
      3 – Lil Wayne fans (they worship a nigga who sounds like a roach)
      4 – Kanye West fans (this nigga ain’t no music genius)
      5 – 50 Cent fans (if he never got shot, he would never have fans)
      6 – Ross fans ( he’s a fraud)
      7 – Biggie fans (he’s overrated af, ONLY 2 ALBUMS!!)
      8 – Hova fans (they only care bout his money)
      9 – Drake fans (he’s a soft ass RnB singer)
      10 – Lupe fans (bunch of 15yr old hipsters)

      FYI i support ugk, scarface,2pac,outkast,game,cube,dmx and rakim!

      1. Stillmatic was Nas fifth album, Godson was his sixth which was also very good. He also released the lost tapes mixtape and the firm collab album. Do you really think a artist can go on forever giving you that nasty nas when he has matured. Your expectations from a artists is unrealistic, shut the fuck up

      2. The fact you put Lupe and had 15 year old hipsters, clearly shows that you know absolutely nothing. Lupe’s debut? Great. The Cool? Fantastic. F&LII a rebirth of who he is. His mixtapes minus “FOTP” classify him as a mixtape legend. You really need to get your proprieties straighten. The only thing I agree with you on is Lil Wayne & Biggie, but other than that you’re ridiculous. Understand where artist are in there lives once they make it they have nothing to prove to anyone anymore. Don’t you realize that, or are you really the hipster here?

    26. Y’ALL TALKING TRASH ABOUT HOW MANY ARTISTS TODAY CAN’T HANDLE AN ALBUM WITHOUT FEATURES BUT 2PAC HAD 2 OR MORE FEATURES ON ALMOST ALL OF THE SONGS FROM ALL EYEZ ON ME.

      LOL THEZE NIGGAS HAS REALLY BAD TASTE IN MUSIC. WHY EVERYBODY HAS TO HAD 2PAC, NAS AND JAY-Z IN THEIR TOP FIVES, DOES NOT MATTER WHO, ALMOST EVERYBODY MENTION THESE NAMES ALONGSIDE WITH ICE CUBE, BIGGIE, RAKIM AND OTHERS.

      AND GRODT WAS NOT EVEN IN TOP 5 ALBUMS THAT YEAR, 50 IS OVERRATED AS FUCK, I’M HAPPY THAT HE’S NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE.

      TUPAC IS OVERRATED TOO, IF HE DIDN’T DIE, NOBODY WOULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT HIM, HE WOULD FELL OF LIKE MOST OF THE VETERANS.

      1. He would have fell off. Yup. I guess the thousands of songs that were released after his death would prove you wrong.

        Here is your problem. You can only find two artist that can go song for song hit for hit with Pac. And that’s KRS and Nas.

        That”s it. It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact. Grab any artists catalog you want and you will lose.

        Especially Jay and Big. After the club songs and drug songs. Those two are out of the running.

        Which makes your listing of Biggie laughable. He’s the most overrated rapper of all time.

        If you want to look at the downfall of rap. Look no further than Big and Jay. They both gave you nothing but fantasies and most of their raps revolve around money and drugs.

        What does 95% of today’s rappers rap about. Money and drugs. Before them it wasn’t like that. It’s easy to rap about. Anyone can rap about what they got.

      2. Black Thought and The Roots, as well as Ghostface are just as consistent, if not more consistent than Nas and KRS-One. And I don’t even think KRS is consistent, his shit is boring these days.

      3. EVERYONE MAY BE HATING WAYNE NOW BUT WHEN HE DIES, YOU WILL BE LIKE ME AND SAY HE’S THE BEST RAPPER EVER!! NO ONE GAVE A SHIT ABOUT 2PAC AND BIGGIE WHEN THEY ARE ALIVE BUT AFTER THEY DIED, THEY BECAME POPULAR!!

      4. YESSIR, evrything you say is bullshit. If Wayne dies, nobody will be praising him and saying he’s the best rapper ever. Don’t compare him to Tupac and Biggie. FYI, EVERYONE gave a shit about Pac and Big when they were alive.

      5. SONGS THAT WERE RELEASED AFTER HIS DEATH WERE RECORDED BEFORE HE DIED, AT HIS ARTISTIC OR LYRICAL PEAK, NOBODY EVER THOUGH THAT LEGEND LIKE SNOOP DOGG WILL RELEASE REGGAE ALBUM AND HE WILL SUPPORT PEOPLE LIKE FRENCH MONTANA, SOULJA BOY OR GUCCI MANE, 2PAC WOULD BE NO EXCEPTION.

        AND 2PAC WAS REPETITIVE TOO, MOST OF HIS SHIT WAS ABOUT CALI, HIS FAMILY, HIS ENEMIES AND THUG LIFE. HE DOES NOT BRING ANYTHING BEYOND THE CREATIVE STANDARDS. HE AIN’T NO LUPE FIASCO, NAS, COMMON OR KANYE WEST.

      6. YEAH, NO ONE TALKED ABOUT TUPAC UNTIL HE DIED!! IN 1995, I WAS LIKE, HAVE YOU HEARD OF TUPAC AND THEY WERE LIKE, HOP OFF HIS DICK!! THOSE SAME PEOPLE LATER PRAISED HIM AFTER HE DIED!! YOU MAY BE HATING ON WAYNE BUT YOULL ALL BE PRAISING HIM AFTER HE DIES!!

      1. As an accountant for YMCMB, I can assure you that Shadyari is a female like Nicki Minaj. She sucks our dicks every time she visits here. She’s even trying to bring Kidd Kidd back to YMCMB!

      2. Yo dentaldam she was that racist bitch/nigga/transexual on the Scarface articles though. I thought YMCMB fought against racism?

      3. I can assure you that everything you read was bullshit. She is a natural born female who is against racism. She sucks our dicks every time she visits.

    27. The Documentary
      Get Rich or Die trying
      Ready to Die
      The Slim Shady LP
      Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of My Blood

    28. So what? Who is this dude? Is hiphopdx just interviewing random people about their top 5 albums?

    29. HERES A REAL LIST OF THE TOP 5 BEST PLATINUM ARTISTS

      1)WEEZY
      2)DRAKE
      3)NICKI MINAJ
      4)JOHN CENA
      5)JA RULE

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