All-Time Hip-Hop CD...

Hip-hop isn't bad these days, it's just too commercialized and too mainstream. There's a reason for that, and that is you make a lot more money when you cater your music more so to the casual fans who're more pop than hardcore rap types. The key here is almost always having a nice, catchy beat much more so than great lyrics or even delivery.

50 Cent is the poster-child of that along with most rappers today. To his credit, 50 Cent probably has some of the greatest beats that've ever graced hip-hop with Dre and Em producing tons of stuff for him and G-Unit. Fiddy makes 'club' type music, and that's why EVERYONE, and not just a small demographic of people, buys his music and he's easily the top selling and money-making artist out there today, not to mention that he's branching into designer cloth like Jay-Z and PDiddy have with their "Sean John" and "Rocawear" brands.

 

Souls of Mischief - '93 to Infinity
Del - Catch a Bad One
Scarface - Now I feel ya
UGK - Feds in Town
The Roots - Distortion to Static
Talib Kweli - All the Lonely People (original mix with the Beatles)
Gangstarr - DWYCK
Nas - Ain't hard to tell
MC Serch - Here it Comes
Main Source - Looking at the Front Door
Bone - Look into my eyes (Atlantis Remix)
Jay-Z - What more can I say
Outkast - Mainstream
Too $hort/UGK - It's alright
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
2Pac - When we ride on our enemies (Original Mix)
Eminem - Just don't give a F%$k
Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride
50 Cent - Ski Mask Way

 

best list so far; imho.