You mentioned you like hip hop, a great hip hop jazz record is Shades of Blue - Madlib.

For straight jazz some of the albums I've found these to be accessible and a good jumping off point.

Moanin' - Art Blakey

Rumproller/Cornbread/Search for a New Land/Sidewinder - Lee Morgan (I am partial to Lee Morgan, he was the artist that really made jazz click for me)

Fat Albert Rotunda/Headhunters - Herbie Hancock (Jazz funk albums)

Soul Symphony - The Three Sounds (Soul funk jazz)

Alligator Bogaloo/Everything I Play is Funky - Lou Donaldson

Birth of Cool/Kind of Blue/In a Silent Way/Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis

A Love Supreme/Ballads - John Coltrane

Idle Moments/Green Street - Grant Green

At the Pershing - Ahmad Jamal

Night Train - Oscar Peterson

West Coast Jazz - Stan Getz

Ah Um - Charlie Mingus

Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington