Best hip-hop album(s) in the last 10 years is/are Kanye's
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Volume II
Jedi Mind Tricks -Violent By Design (could include Servents in Heaven here too)
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange (could include Oneirology in here too)
Sean Price - Monkey Bars
Ill Bill - The Hour of Reprisal
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
RA The Rugged Man - Die Rugged Man, Die
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
MOP - Warriorz
The Grouch - Show You The World
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
Killah Priest - View From Masada
Pharoahe Monch - We Are Renegades
Heltah Skeltah - DIRT
KRS One & Buckshot - Survial Skills
Pete Rock - Soul Survivor II
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Murs/9th Wonder - Murs 316: The 9th Edition
Free Speech/Ro Blvd - Laffy Taffy Rots Your Teeth
Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint
Nas - Stillmatic
The Roots - The Tipping Point
Cage - Hell's Winter
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Celph Titled/Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
juuuuuust to name a few that I would put well ahead of Kanye West's efforts. I'm not talking sales, and I'm not talking mainstream success. I'm talking records that reflect what Hip Hop should be about.