Eric B. & Rakim
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Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 25 Greatest Albums by Year 1980-98 (1999) 8
The Source (USA) - The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time (1998) No Order
Tom Moon (USA) - 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008) Catalog entry
XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Albums by Year (2014) No Order
Gary Mulholland (UK) - 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco (2006) No Order
The New Nation (UK) - Top 100 Albums by Black Artists 65
VPRO (The Netherlands) - 299 Nominations of the Best Album of All Time (2006) No Order
Christophe Brault (France) - Top 20 Albums by Year 1964-2004 (2006) 5
Hervé Bourhis (France) - 555 Records (2007) No Order
Technikart (France) - 50 Albums from the Last 10 Years (1997) No Order
Javier Blánquez & Omar Morena (Spain) - Loops, a History of Electronic Music (2002) No Order
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s (1990) 48
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 300 (+200) Best Albums from 1984-2014 (2014) 301
Blow Up (Italy) - 600 Essential Albums (2005) No Order
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 4.5 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A-
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 1992) 3 Stars
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 4.5 Stars
Spin's Book of Alternative Albums, Ratings 1-10 (USA, 1995) 9
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 7
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 3 Stars
Music Story (France) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 6.5
End of Year Lists
Face (UK) - Albums of the Year 12
NME (UK) - Albums of the Year 29
Q (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
Spex (Germany) - Albums of the Year 14
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Albums of the Year 9