8isenough and Durgood - nice selection of rap. My favorite rap albums from last year:
The Roots
Nappy Roots
People Under the Stairs (really solid West Coast group with a really East Coast old school sound to them. I just heard about them this year, bought their previous two albums which were good as well).
Scarface (Roy Jones Jr. enter the ring to "My Block" from the album)
J-Live
Talib Kweli
The Streets
Grits
Some of my all time favorite rap groups/MCs:
Gang Starr (Moment of Truth, Hard to Earn)
Outkast (Aquemni and Alien my favorites)
Quasimoto
Deltron 3030 (love most of Dan the Automaters projects)
Roots (last two albums are unique from each other but classics)
Jay Z (Reasonable Doubt, UnPlugged, and BluePrints - the others I don't much care for)
Pharcyde (seen them play live and then hung out with them that night - that night was rather smoke filled
)
Goodie Mob (Soul Food was the first great Southern rap album)
Some others in my collection that I like are:
Greyboy
Gruf
Everlast
Ghostface Killah
Beanie Siegel
Freestyle Fellowship
Goodie Mob
Ugly Duckling
Def Squad
Rustic Overtones
Common
Pharcyde
AZ
Wu-Tang
Loot Pack
Ozomatli
Talib Kweli
Black Starr
De La Soul
Kardinal Offishall
DJ Krush
Swollen Members
Tribe Called Quest
Scapegoat Wax
Black Eyed Peas
Blackalicious
Mos Def
John Forte
Fugees
People Under the Stairs
Scarface
NERD
Gang Starr
Public Enemy
Capleton
Cee-Lo
Us3
Nas
Cannibal Ox
Dan the Automater
Quasimoto
Deltron 3030
Slum Village