East Coast
Daily Operation, Gang Starr
The symbiosis of the rapper and the producer on a jazzy and raw boom bap
4,5,6, Kool G Rap
Narrative quality in the service of violent mafia stories
It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, DMX
Heaven is love and light. Ruff Ryders Forever ! RIDE AND NEVER DIE !
Critical Beatdown, Ultramagnatic MCs
Surreal and abstract lyrics on samples dissected chirugically
Rule 3:36, Ja Rule
The balance of a Thug Lover as gangsta as emotional
Black Bastards, KMD
A Holy Grail of Hip Hop that we might have never been able to listen to
Strictly Business, EPMD
The art of sampling for a killer groove
legal, drug, money, Lost Boyz
The Jamaican roots of the lost children of Queens
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West Coast
Music & Me, Nate Dogg
Nate’s captivating voice dedicated to his love for music
At The Speed Of Life, Xzibit
Raw punchlines for an introspective album
Regulate… G Funk Era, Warren G
A melodious and relaxed G-Funk for a timeless classic
No One Can Do It Better, The D.O.C.
No one could do it better than The DOC at that time
Lethal Injection, Ice Cube
A lethal injection of funk!
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, Makaveli
What is Tupac’s ultimate message? IM ALIVE.
Funk Upon A Rhyme, Kokane
Experimental G-Funk, very trippy. It’s eccentric, it’s smoky, it creeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaks.
Quik Is The Name, DJ Quik
DJ Quik is in the motherfuckin’ house!
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Dirty South
The spiritual poetry of Goodie Mob
A sticky and melancholic “Soul Food”
Lord Willin, Clipse
The Neptunian avant-garde touch for a tough “drug rap”
The Fix, Scarface
After taking this fix proposed by Scarface, we are fixed.
West Coast Bad Boyz: High Fo XMas
When Master P’s G-Funk parodies Christmas
ATLiens, Outkast
A journey in space, outside of time…
Chicago / Detroit
Electric Circus, Common
The experimental turn to electric sounds
808s & Heartbreak, Kanye West
An experimental R&B turn a la Kanye West
Alternative rap
Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
Epic adventures in a cyber-punk atmosphere for a powerful social message
Whodini, Whodini
The beginnings of rap with an Electro synthesizer
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, Tyler The Creator
The mix of a career in double measure
Madvillainy, Madvillain
Two acid soaked brains defying the laws of music
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