For upbeat stuff that'll have you grooving:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Bahamadia - Kollage
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beat Junkies - The World Famous Beat Junkies Vol 1
Beat Junkies - The World Famous Beat Junkies Vol 2
Beat Junkies - The World Famous Beat Junkies Vol 3
Da Brat - Funkdafied
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers
Little Brother - The Listening
Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Mos Def - We Are Hip Hop • Me • You • Everybody
Naughty By Nature - Naughty By Nature
Naughty By Nature - 19 Naughty III
Onyx - Bacdafucup
Pete Rock - Lost & Found- Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
Styles Of Beyond - Megadef
Styles Of Beyond - B-Sides Guest Shots and Freestyles Version 1.0
Styles Of Beyond - Razor Tag
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
I avoided stuff that's on the darker/gritter side like Wu (producers like RZA and Prodigy), inconsistent albums, or stuff that's all over the place (Jay-Z).