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Earlier this month, the Hip-Hop community reacted to the latest high-profile lists ranking the greatest Rap albums of all time.\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>\u00a0magazine and a team of journalists and writers ranked 200 Hip-Hop LPs<\/a>, prompting plenty of reaction<\/a>. It was not the first list of this kind, and it certainly will not be the last.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n In the latest episode of the\u00a0What\u2019s The Headline<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0podcast, the\u00a0<\/span>Ambrosia For Heads\u00a0<\/span><\/em>team discusses why lists exist and how the\u00a0<\/span>Ambrosia For Heads<\/span><\/em>\u00a0staff treated them differently<\/a>. If these definitive lists are truly intended opportunities to have conversations and (re)discover music,\u00a0<\/span>AFH<\/span><\/em> deliberately created a tournament-style bracket in 2015 and 2016 that allowed polling from our millions of readers<\/a> (including the allowance of write-in votes for transparency and democracy). The podcast hosts begin the episode by discussing this approach, laying out our personal Top 10s of all-time, and then pointing back more than six years ago to what the\u00a0<\/span>Ambrosia For Heads<\/span><\/em>\u00a0readers decided\u2014and why it may be a far more accurate account of Hip-Hop greatness than most rankings.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n In addition to video and audio embeds, the Top 20 are ranked below (in reverse order)\u2014with some of the copy included at the time. In addition to the definitive \u201cSweet 16\u201d determined by the readers (ranked by final standing), this consists of the four closest margins to make it 20.\n<\/p>\n