Top Hip Hop albums

The US hip-hop band The Black Eyed Peas recorded a new disc The E.N.D. It is a bright collection of dance tracks with a feasible slant to electro-funk, which is a powerful comeback after 2005's Monkey Business

On FutureSex/LoveSounds the pop, R&B, funk, soul and rock music of the 1980s combines with the modern trends of production and studio processing, and Justin Timberlake's singing reechoes the performace manner of Prince and young James Brown

Nelly Furtado's greatest strength has always been her musical versatility. On Loose the folksy blend of styles that made the pop chanteuse famous is still there. It's principally a beat driven collection, most capably described by Nelly as “punk hop”

Timbaland's second solo album Shock Value became an attempt to expand his artistic horizon and to discover new way for further growth. As Timbaland himself said "My mission is to blow up the boundaries and tear down the limits"

The people responsible for Gnarls Barkley are rapper and vocalist Cee-Lo Green and hip-hop producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton. The mass of disparate sounds is perfectly bound together on St. Elsewhere by astonishing songwriting and haunting voice

The Dutchess has not too much in common with The Black Eyed Peas music, and at some points Fergie's singing is so different from the way she has been performing with the band, that one cannot but wonder whos beautiful voice that is

Recovery, Eminem's seventh album was initially planned as a continuation of Relapse but is notably different from it in its content: there is less severe introspection on Recovery and more Eminem’s honest stories about himself

Kanye West, famous American МС and producer, deliberately released the third album Graduation the same day as 50 Cent brought to the light his Curtis. It means works will compete, and Graduation has all chances to win

The current incarnation of the Pussycat Dolls are a focused sextet of pop hopefuls. PCD is certainly not lacking in the beat department, and combined with their vocal strength and radio-orientated melodies, girls produce some admirable results

The Heist is the first studio album released by American rapper Macklemore in cooperation with producer Ryan Lewis. Both musicians began their music career in the early 00's, but now they are ready to present their works for a public trial

The Blueprint, Vol.3 has resulted to be impressively innovative, futuristic and confident as the absolute majority of one of the main contemporary hip-hop industry representatives Jay-Z's works

The Sweet Escape is a more urban album with a less retro coloring than the first solo effort had and due to Gwen Stefani's cooperation with such professionals as the Neptunes, Linda Perry and Akon its sounding has acquired really fashionable traits

Monkey Business is a big phunky follow up to 2003's Elephunk from a group that invented and perfected a revolutionary new hip-hop beat. With their trademark crazy lyrics, irresistible dance beats and catchy hooks

If, by some incredible chance, you missed the debut album by the great LMFAO duet and you have not come to know them yet, now is the best time to correct it with their sophomore effort Sorry For Part Rocking

Eminem finally dishes out Curtain Call: The Hits. It is an album that takes you from 1999-2005, and gives you a little taste of what's to come. Let's all hope that this isn't really the final curtain call for the multi-talented rapper

The Beginning, The Black Eyed Peas album number six, will arouse a sweet sensation of nostalgia and a powerful desire to dance

This album features a whole list of guest appearances. With the mixture of their rapping skills and Akon's smooth R&B style Konvicted suggests another direction for a pop music scene which is nowadays overfilled with dozens of twin like performers

Kanye West's fourth work 808's & Heartbreak proves to be his most emotional and sincere album offering melodious and soulful compositions and, as is clear from the record title, of the broken heart topic

Demon Days may end 2005 as one of the year’s most celebrated albums. Before you even consider the sonic and melodic innovation paraded through the album there’s so much crammed into each of these fifteen songs

The US rapper T.I. issued the sixth disc Paper Trail. This brilliant work features witty texts, laid on catchy Southern beats and performed in a company of stars like Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and others

A promising rapper Bobby Ray (also known as B.O.B) did not let down his listeners with the debut long player, Adventures Of Bobby Ray

This summer Pitbull's voice will be definitely heard everywhere, because his sixth album Planet Pit's producers have done everything they could so as to make new dance hits of all the album's tracks

The main of Nicki Minaj's weapons is the great rapping that helps her express the entire emotional spectrum, be tough or soft, serious or funny. The singles from her debut album Pink Friday have already become incredibly successful

The rise of Kanye West has been as impossible to ignore as it has been meteoric. Late Registration, the sophomore release by young, hip-hop luminary contains even more of the stellar production, witty raps, and sample-centric pleasures fans heard on

Keeping experimenting with the possibilities of her outstanding vocal, Beyonce has made a record completely different from the debut work. The melodies on B'Day are significantly more complicated and multilayer

Flo-rida is working persistently on his mix of rap and dance electronic music, getting better from release to release. His fourth long player, Wild Ones, is the peak of his career so far

Celebrated R&B singer Usher is now into difficult period of life, both professionally and personally. This could not but affect his sixth studio work, Raymond V Raymond. However, class will be class; and the album is far from an unworthy effort

Ed Sheeran has been in the music for quite a long time; however it is the year 2011 that became incredibly successful for him. The performer's debut studio long play titled Plus attracted attention of connoisseurs of honest art in no time

Kanye West's fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy –is not only Kanye West's views on world, but also the exploration of his own consciousness' depths surprising with the richness of various images

In the wake of Gwen Stefani's elevation to diva status in the early 2000s, it's easy to forget that for a brief moment at the start of the millennium it seemed that she and her band, No Doubt, were dangerously close to being pegged as yet another of