Best Albums of 1999
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
2001The most immaculate sounding rap album ever made, and one where the producer is plainly the only author.Read the review
The Slim Shady LPCartoon horror with real teeth, cut so lean it still moves faster than anything that copied it.
MaryThe grown up, live band record: tasteful, well sung, and short on songs you remember.
Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. CarterTwo enormous singles and a great deal of coasting, from a man who had discovered he could sell anything.
I Am...Half of a great record, and the surviving half keeps reminding you how much of it went missing.
Tha Block Is HotA seventeen year old rapping over factory issue bounce beats, already charismatic and not yet anybody.
NastradamusRushed out eight months after the last one, and it sounds it from the concept down to the hooks.