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While it seems that few would argue against the validity of the magazine's pick for No. 1 — or at least the fact that the deceased Brooklyn Bard should be in contention for the coveted spot —the rest of the list drew immediate criticism from fans of the genre following its release Tuesday.
"Look, I get that lists are subjective but Rolling Stone's top 200 hip hop albums is f*cking ridiculous," Andreas Hale wrote on Twitter, citing Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy" claiming the No. 16 spot as an example.
He added, "Any list that has Cardi B's 'Invasion of Privacy' ranked higher than 'Illmatic,' 'Midnight Marauders,' 'Aquemini' and 'Doggystyle' is null and void."Look, I get that lists are subjective but Rolling Stone's top 200 hip hop albums is f*cking ridiculous. Any list that has Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy" ranked higher than "Illmatic," "Midnight Marauders," "Aquemini" and "Doggystyle" is null and void.
— Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) June 7, 2022
I WANT my culture back! @RollingStone’s list of the 200 Best Hip Hop albums is egregious! The entire list is bullshit. As a former journalist who wrote for the @TheSource I’m highly insulted! About to fly to their offices and pull an @icecube!#rollingstone #hiphop #thesource
— Shawn Edwards (@sedwardskc) June 7, 2022
For its part, the magazine said, the rich history of rap LPs forced its panel to make some painful choices, describing their methodology as such:this screenshot alone invalidates the rolling stone top 200 rap albums of all time pic.twitter.com/FD6YhDoTDp
— Kyan (@Kyan__223) June 7, 2022
"When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution — from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond."
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