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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9rB0jUbFc
2004's "Madvillainy" by the eponymous Madvillain duo of Madlib on production and MF DOOM rapping is my favorite hip hop album of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAoPBY_D4E
"good kid, m.A.A.d. city" is Kendrick Lamar's heartfelt testament to his hometown of Compton, and was released last year.
There's plenty of reasons to keep coming back to hip hop once you realize there are more rappers today than your Lil Waynes and Tygas and MGKs.
With that out of the way, two minor gripes that came to mind.
Why do people call hip hop "rap?" "Rap" is a verb. "To rap." That would be like calling rock music "strum."
And also, genres never die, despite the fact that they may not be prominent. There's still plenty of influence in today's music from disco and punk rock, two genres people love to say are dead. Just look at "Random Access Memories" and any hardcore band to ever exist.
Harsh vocals can carry more emotion than clean vocals much of the time, which is why I come back to them so often. Also, when you know what's being said, you can find a lot of great lyrical bits and pieces from a lot of great songs, and even learn to decipher the vocals without reading the lyrics along with them.
Here's a lyric video to demonstrate my point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wt2OOLOCg
The instrumentation can still be inaccessible, but at least you know some of what you're hearing.