But that’s okay – I enjoy listening to all 12 of these, some more than others, and all four had runs worthy of your respect and money. Original Gangster, a classic that’s unfortunately about 20-25 minutes too long. The two albums that come closest are from the artists ranked towards the bottom, actually: The Roots’ Rising Down (as David Amidon said, their loudest and angriest record, and maybe their best) and Ice-T’s O.G. They’re consistent, but they can’t break out of very good into great. All four of these are like that for me: none of their albums are able to hit the A level for me, which represents a great album and a peak in that artist’s career. And that’s fine! Teams kill for reliable players who bring 23/6/4 to the table every night. If you’re super nerdy about basketball and sport like me, consider this the Gordon Hayward range of players who don’t have many off nights but aren’t always spectacular – they’re just always very good. Miss E…So Addictive (2001, A-), Under Construction (2002, A-), This Is Not a Test! (2003, A-) Let’s count down first – they’re slotted into four groups. My statistics-based research backed with scientific methods and other methodology has led me to find what I believe to be the best three-album run ever.
A pair of artists had multiple three-album runs of excellence. Doesn’t matter – he’s a hip-hop artist, so he counts. It’s over a ten-year span, but it does exist. But under the MF Doom project, which he’s pretty easily best known for, he has three A-level albums released, technically, in a row. About MF Doom: yes, he’s released tons of works under other names. That level of consistency and explosion is extremely rare. 
Three or more home runs in one game? Just 19. It’s like baseball, kind of: in 2016, there were 318 occurrences of a player hitting two home runs in one game. The numbers significantly decreased to these 13 when I looked for those who’d done it three straight times out. Tons of artists released two great albums in a row or two out of three or two out of four.That gives us the following pool of 13 artists or groups to choose from:įour major issues I found when creating this: Danny Brown: Before coming through again with Atrocity Exhibition, I was a bit let down with Old – not enough going for it in much of any way, though still good-ish.
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De La: The DLS issue is that they released their debut and Buhloone Mind State as #1 and #3 of a series and both are masterpieces, but #2 – De La Soul Is Dead – is one of the most overrated hip-hop albums to have been released. Tribe: I hate to be That Guy but The Low End Theory is barely a B+ it scrapes itself up on the efforts of some of the beats but Phife in particular isn’t very good on this album. The artist must release three albums in a row that I, personally, have rated at an A-minus (~8/10) or higher.Īfter further research, I’ve got a few more artists to add to the pile: The Roots, MF Doom*, Ice-T, M.I.A. We’re removing from the pile of consideration A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and Danny Brown. The cases against each:. (Happy hip-hop history to all, even the haters and losers!) Historically, music has had several of its own, and while high variance can work very well (Young Thug is probably the best current example of this), it also leads to high inconsistency. Those were really fun, great runs that you had to be a major hater to not enjoy. Regardless of that, it gave me this question: which artist possesses the greatest three-album run in hip-hop history? It’s the music equivalent of the Lakers winning three in a row or when UCLA won a bajillion titles in the 1970s. That’s still a good and solid run, just not that spectacular. I would rate Wayne’s three album run respectively: Carter I a B, Carter II an A-, Carter III either a B+ or A. Upon further review, I do not agree with this suggestion, but respect it. I was informed by my friend James that I left out Lil Wayne’s three-album run of Tha Carter I to Tha Carter III. Maybe Heems, Big KRIT, some of those guys? Idk it's still a very short list.
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