Best Albums of 1988
Best Albums of 1988
| album | percentage | points | listed |
average
when listed |
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| 1 | Public Enemy - "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" | 16.13% | 342 | 22 | 15.55 |
| 2 | Big Daddy Kane - "Long Live the Kane" | 10.57% | 224 | 15 | 14.93 |
| 3 | NWA - "Straight Outta Compton" | 10.52% | 223 | 17 | 13.12 |
| 4 | Eric B & Rakim - "Follow the Leader" | 9.48% | 201 | 19 | 10.58 |
| 5 | Slick Rick - "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" | 8.73% | 185 | 16 | 11.56 |
| 6 | EPMD - "Strictly Business" | 8.49% | 180 | 17 | 10.59 |
| 7 | Ultramagnetic MC's - "Critical Beatdown" | 7.78% | 165 | 12 | 13.75 |
| 8 | Jungle Brothers - "Straight Out The Jungle" | 6.84% | 145 | 18 | 8.06 |
| 9 | Run DMC - "Tougher than Leather" | 2.74% | 58 | 9 | 6.44 |
| 10 | BDP - "By All Means Necessary" | 2.36% | 50 | 8 | 6.25 |
| 11 | Eazy E - "Eazy-Duz-It" | 2.31% | 49 | 6 | 8.17 |
| 12 | Biz Markie - "Goin Off" | 1.98% | 42 | 7 | 6.00 |
| 13 | Stetsasonic - "In Full Gear" | 1.56% | 33 | 4 | 8.25 |
| 14 | Ice T - "Power" | 1.42% | 30 | 5 | 6.00 |
| 15 | Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud - "Girls I Got 'Em Locked" | 1.42% | 30 | 1 | 30.00 |
| 16 | Too Short - "Life is Too Short" | 1.32% | 28 | 3 | 9.33 |
| 17 | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" | 1.27% | 27 | 6 | 4.50 |
| 18 | King Tee - "Act a Fool" | 1.04% | 22 | 4 | 5.50 |
| 19 | 2 Live Crew - "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" | 0.85% | 18 | 3 | 6.00 |
| 20 | Marley Marl - "In Control Volume 1" | 0.75% | 16 | 3 | 5.33 |
| 21 | MC Lyte - "Lyte As A Rock" | 0.61% | 13 | 2 | 6.50 |
| 22 | Doug E Fresh - "World's Greatest Entertainer" | 0.47% | 10 | 1 | 10.00 |
| 23 | Tuff Crew - "Danger Zone" | 0.38% | 8 | 1 | 8.00 |
| 24 | Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - "It Takes Two" | 0.38% | 8 | 1 | 8.00 |
| 25 | MC Shan - "Born to be Wild" | 0.38% | 8 | 1 | 8.00 |
| 26 | Lakim Shabazz - "Pure Righteousness" | 0.24% | 5 | 1 | 5.00 |
| Sweet Tee - "It's Tee Time" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| Schoolly D - "Smoke Some Kill" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| Salt 'n' Pepa - "A Salt with a Deadly Pepa" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| MC Hammer - "Let's Get It Started" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| Kid & Play - "2 Hype" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| J.J. Fad - "Supersonic - The Album" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| 7A3 - "Coolin' in Cali" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | |
| 3-D - "Original Styling" | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! |