Best Albums of 2000
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Marshall Mathers LPThe most technically frightening rap album of its era, and one of the very few that earns its own scale.Read the review
StankoniaFaster, louder and pointed straight at the world. The one that made them enormous without softening anything.
The Dynasty: Roc La FamiliaMeant as a label compilation, reclassified as a solo album, and it introduced the producers who would remake him.
Tha Last MealThe recovery record. Dre comes back, the beats breathe again, and so does he.
Hybrid TheoryThirty seven minutes of ruthless efficiency that critics dismissed and an enormous audience did not.