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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
Have there been that many great, high-profile hip-hop albums released in the the past 30 or so years? Sadly, the answer to that is, no.
Hip hop has always largely been geared toward the marketing of singles and not albums. This isn't to say that there have not been some amazing hip-hop albums.
Does the sparseness of Hip-Hop albums on Rolling Stone's list of top 500 albums downplay Hip-hop's influence on music as a whole? No, not really. Hip-hop has pretty much influenced hip-hop, with some exceptions, but nothing noteworthy, and hey, rock and roll and its derivatives (soul, R&B, Heavy metal, etc.) had a 30 year head start, so naturally there's gonna' be a lot more albums from rock and associated sub-genre's than from hip-hop
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Have you seen the rest of the list though? It's probably 400 rock albums, 100 albums from every other musical genre. Not to mention probably 15 of the top 20 albums are from the 60s. They know their audience and including more then 20 hip-hop albums (enough to make them look diverse and informed on hip music styles) was unnecessary.