This is a list of gangsta rappers and their most influential recordings.
- 112 - 112
- 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- Above the Law - Black Mafia Life
- Ant Banks - Sitting on Somethin' Phat
- B-Legit - Tryin' to Get a Buck
- Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
- Black Rob - Life Story
- Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E 1999 Eternal
- Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
- Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness
- Busta Rhymes - The Coming
- C-BO - Gas Chamber
- C-Murder - Life or Death
- Cappadonna - The Pillage
- Capone-N-Noreaga - The War Report
- Canibus - Can-I-Bus
- Compton's Most Wanted - Music to Driveby
- Coolio - It Takes a Thief
- Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
- Da Brat - Funkdafied
- Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in tha Mist
- Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back
- DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, Let There Be X
- The D.O.C - No One Can Do It Better
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic
- E-40 - Tha Hall of Game
- Eazy-E - Eazy Duz It
- Eightball & MJG - In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
- Eve - Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryder's First Lady
- Fabolous - Ghetto Fabolous
- Fat Joe - Jealous One's Envy
- The Firm - The Album
- Foxy Brown - Il Na Na
- Geto Boys - Geto Boys
- Ghostface Killah - Ironman
- Goodie Mob - Soul Food
- Gravediggaz - Six Feet Deep
- GZA - Liquid Swords
- The Hot Boys - Guerilla Warfare
- Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
- Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster, "6 N' Da Mornin'"
- Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance
- Ja Rule - Pain Is Love
- Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint
- Jayo Felony - Take a Ride
- Junior M.A.F.I.A - Conspiracy
- Juvenile - 400 Degreez
- Kane & Abel - Am I My Brother's Keeper
- Kid Frost - Hispanic Causing Panic
- Kool G Rap - "It's a Demo"/"I'm Fly"
- Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
- Kurupt - Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
- L.A. Star - Poetess
- Lady of Rage - Necessary Roughness
- Lil' Bow Wow - Beware of Dog
- Lil' Cease - The Wonderful World of Cease A Leo
- Lil' Kim - Hard Core
- Lil' Troy - Sittin' Fat Down South
- Lil' Wayne - Tha Block Is Hot
- The Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
- Ludacris - Word of Mouf
- The Lox - We Are the Streets
- Mack 10 - Based on a True Story
- Mase - Harlem World
- Master P - The Ghetto Is Trying to Kill Me
- MC Breed - The New Breed
- MC Eiht - We Come Strapped
- MC Ren - Shock of the Hour
- Mellow Man Ace - Escape from Havana
- Memphis Bleek - Coming of Age
- Method Man - Tical
- Mia X - Unlady Like
- Mobb Deep - The Infamous
- M.O.P - First Family 4 Life
- Mystikal - Let's Get Ready
- Nas - Illmatic
- Nate Dogg - Music & Me
- Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature
- Nelly - Nellyville
- Notorious B.I.G - Life After Death, Ready to Die
- N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
- Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
- Onyx - Backdafucup
- OutKast - Aquemini, Stankonia
- Outlawz - Ride Wit Us or Collide Wit Us
- Puff Daddy & the Family - No Way Out
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
- Rappin' 4-Tay - Don't Fight the Feelin'
- Redman - Whut? Thee Album
- RZA - As Bobby Digital in Stereo
- Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back
- Schoolly D - The Adventures of Schoolly D
- Shyne - Shyne
- Silkk the Shocker - Charge It 2 da Game
- Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
- Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
- South Park Mexican - Never Change
- Spice 1 - 187 He Wrote
- Tha Eastsidaz - Tha Eastsidaz
- Three Six Mafia - Chapter 2: World Domination
- Tru - Tru 2 Da Game
- Tupac Shakur - All Eyez on Me, Me Against the World
- Too $hort - Life Is...Too Short
- Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
- Westside Connection - Bow Down
- Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
- Xzibit - 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
- Yo-Yo - Black Pearl
