In no particular order:

• Styles of Beyond: Megadef
• Osdorp Posse: Tegenstrijd
• Ugly Duckling: Taste the Secret
• The Donnas: Bitchin
• Northern State: Can I keep this pen?
• Le Tigre: This Island
• 1200 Techniques: Consistency theory
• ‘t Hof van Commerce: Ezoa en niet anders

Artists that should have released albums that would be in this list, but didn’t:

• Rakim (Wat een slecht album. Rakim had dat natuurlijk gewoon met Seda en DJ Daan moeten opnemen…)
• Beastie Boys
• Clawfinger
• IAM
• Public Enemy

Honorable mentions:

• Jawat (one of the few Dutch rappers that is any good, now that the OP is gone)
• Duo Kie, Triple XXX, Keyo, Jefe de la M, Arma Blanca (Spanish rap)
• Svinkels (French rap)
• Massilia Sound System
• Nitro Microphone Underground (would be in the list, but I’m not sure if “Colaboraciones vol 1″ is a real album…)
• Jurassic 5
• Hammerfall
• Blind Guardian

But overall, I discovered *many* more pre-2000 albums (and often pre-1990) that were much better than most of what I heard in the 2000s. I guess my musical taste is firmly grounded in the 80s. But then again we *knew* that… :-)