10 Perfect Hip-Hop Albums With No Bad Songs
6. Stankonia - Outkast
Whenever we're talking about the golden age of hip hop, you normally have to find the heavyhitters on both the East and West Coast. Even though the whole thing would resort to violence pretty quickly, it was never better than when you had both sides of the US throwing beef at each other in the '90s. That didn't mean that the South didn't have something to say as well though.
Once the '00s unfolded, OutKast laid their claim as one of the greatest rap outfits in the world on Stankonia, where they proceeded to turn the entire concept of rap inside out. Outside of the strange anomaly of having Andre 3000 sing across some of these tracks, the hooks were too catchy for anyone to ignore, with Ms. Jackson and So Fresh So Clean becoming some of the biggest earworms of the time.
Where the record really shines though is the deep cuts, with Gasoline Dreams being one of the most high energy songs in the hip hop canon and Toilet Tisha actually having a darker story than hip hop may have been ready for. And if you're talking about the greatest hip hop songs of the past 20 years, B.O.B. wins without any competition. While most emcees were firmly in one camp around this time, this is the definition of what a great alternative hip hop album can sound like.