20 Hip Hop Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

7. Kanye West - The College Dropout

Love him or hate him, nine times out of 10, Kanye West makes GREAT music. If you're somehow able to to forgive his habit of charging on stage to interrupt another artist's speech or his awkward proclamations of greatness then you can't deny that he's a pretty awesome rapper and producer. For example, his first album The College Dropout had some incredible songs on it.

From the fantastic Slow Jamz featuring Twista and Jamie Foxx to the incredible Through The Wire where he rapped even with his jaw still wired shut after a car accident, we got a glimpse of how good a rapper he would turn out to be on the entire record. Plus, he made speeding up old soul records and using them as samples popular and who didn't like that?