The Official HipHop Hall Of Fame - By HipHopPhilosophy.com Radio
INDUCTEES (The criteria is volume of future-classic recorded material)
THE OFFICIAL HIPHOP HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES:
GANG STARR - 10+ (Much more ... never forget what Premo did for M.O.P., just like Group Home and Jeru ... Way more than 10 for Premo)
BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS - 10+ (Including Return of the Boom Bap, the self-titled an
d I Got Next = 1 more + MAD LION'S REAL TING and HEATHER B'S TAKIN MINE + JUST ICE'S albums + D Nice albums ... )
DR, DRE - 9+ (For all of the NWA albums, Eazy E's first solo album, Above The Law's first album, The DOC's first album, Michel'le's first R&B album, The Chronic and at least one more album of material produced for other artists)
WU-TANG CLAN - 9 (Including all of the classic solo albums and Wu-related classic material from Killarmy, Sunz Of Man, Gravediggaz and much more ...) HIEROGLYPHICS - 8+ (including all of the unreleased material, Del's first 4 albums, Casual, Pep Love and Jay Biz)
EPMD - 6+ (including credit for K Solo first album, Keith Murray's first album, Redman's classic first 3 albums, and at least another spread out among other artists)
KING TEE - 6 (Including all of the Alkaholiks classic material and much more ...) It's all there! Including the first Y Society album, the first Electric album, the first Shinsight Trio album, all of his solo stuff and much more!)
BRAND NUBIAN - 5 (Including their solo work too!)
PUBLIC ENEMY – 5
DIAMOND D - 5 (Including all of his work in the 80's with Ultimate Force, producing for others, remixes, and rhyming on other people's production, like A.I.M. or Collabo Brothers, etc.) MARLEY MARL - 5 (You better know the math! Including the first Lords of the Underground, album, all of the classic Tragedy music, Kool G Rap, Roxanne Shante and much much more!)
BIZ MARKIE - 5 (At least, including all of the producing he did for others ...) DJ X RAY - MONSTA ISLAND CZARS - DARC MIND - 5 (There is so much more material from X Ray, it might be more than 5, and counting ...) STETSASONIC - 4+ (Including all of the other Prince Paul and Daddio work)
RUN DMC - 4
LARGE PROFESSOR - 4
ULTRAMAGNETIC MCS - KOOL KEITH - 4
JUNGLE BROTHERS - 4
KMD - MF DOOM - 4
BIG DADDY KANE - 4
DE LA SOUL - 4
MC LYTE - 4
LL COOL J - 4
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - 4
NICE AND SMOOTH - 4
KOOL G RAP - 4
DOOLEY O - 4
BINKIS RECS - 4
ERIC B AND RAKIM - 4
THE 45 KING - 4 (For all of his work ...) GETO BOYS - 4
PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH - 4
ICE CUBE - 4 (If he never fell off, and never started making that coast bangin Rap music - fake HipHop, 2Pac and Biggie would still be alive ...) POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS - 3+
LEWIS PARKER - 3+
COMPTONS MOST WANTED - 3
AUDIO TWO - 3
BEASTIE BOYS - 3
THE BEATNUTS - 3
SCHOOLLY D - 3
SHOWBIZ AND AG - 3
CYPRESS HILL - 3
ROXANNE SHANTE - 3
THE ROOTS - 3
REDMAN - 3
LORD FINESSE - 3
CHUBB ROCK - 3 (He was responsible for classic albums from other artists too, like A-Team and Special Ed + ...) MASTA ACE - 3
SLICK RICK - 3
M.O.P. - 3
MOBB DEEP - 3
ICE T - 3
ORGANIZED KONFUSION - 3
MADLIB/LOOTPACK - 3
J ZONE - 2+
FUNKDOOBIEST - 2+
ALKAHOLIKS - 2+
COUNT BASS D - 2+
CAVEMAN - 2+
OUTLAW POSSE - 2+
TUFF CREW - 2+
BLACK SHEEP - 2
RODNEY O and JOE COOLEY - 2
DAS EFX - 2
DIGABLE PLANETS - 2
DOUBLE XX POSSE - 2
GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE - 2
ED OG AND DA BULLDOGS - 2
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - 2
PHARCYDE - 2
SPECIAL ED - 2
LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL - 2
NAUGHTY BY NATURE - 2
ONYX - 2
OC - 2
TOO SHORT - 2
WHODINI - 2
X CLAN - 2
3RD BASS - 2
TIM DOG - 2
OUTKAST - 2
PERCEE P - 2
LONE CATALYSTS - 2
BUSY BEE - 2
ANTIBIOTICS - 2
JUST ICE - 2 (BDP!)
JVC FORCE - 2
JERU THE DAMAJA - 2 (Premo!)
HERBIE LUV BUG - 2
CORMEGA - 2
CELPH TITLED - 2
UGLY DUCKLING 2
KING SUN - 2
JEDI MIND TRICKS - 2
TOM J of KNUCKLEHEDZ - 1+
BIG L - 1+
BLACK MOON - 1+
DR.OOP - 1+
STEADY B - 1
THE TREACHEROUS THREE - 1
PSYCHO REALM - 1
UTFO - 1
THE COLD CRUSH BROTHERS - 1
DEF JEF - 1
SKINNY BOYS - 1
PARIS - 1
FREDDIE FO # # # - 1
DOUG E. FRESH - 1
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - 1
SUPER LOVER CEE & CASANOVA RUD - 1
POSITIVE K - 1
STEZO - 1 (Another notch in EPMD's credits)
CHILL ROB G - 1 (45 King)
LAKIM SHABAZZ - 1 (45 King)
HELTAH SKELTAH - 1 (Bootcamp)
SMIFF N WESSON - 1 (Bootcamp)
TRAGEDY - 1 (Marley Marl)
ABOVE THE LAW - 1 (Dr.Dre)
BIGGIE SMALLS - 1
JAY Z - 1
2PAC - 1 ( ... for all of his work with Digital Underground and his maybe-one-or-two great songs per year he recorded the rest of the time, including the unreleased great stuff he recorded with several other artists like Greg Nice, Bootcamp, etc.) The criteria is amount/volume of future-classic HipHop recordings ...
If somebody wants on the list we need to hear AT LEAST one classic album worth of songs from that artist ...
.. all artists will be listed on the levels/tiers of volume of future classic albums/material recorded ... over ten future classic songs = one album ...
WE WILL ADD MANY NAMES AND EVOLVE THIS LIST FREQUENTLY ...
