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So good.

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My top hip-hop albums:
1. cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
4. Dälek - Absence
5. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
6. Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
7. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
8. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
9. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
10. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
11. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
12. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
13. Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
14. UGK - Ridin' Dirty
* Afrika Bambaataa - Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere)
* Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
* Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
* Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
* CunninLynguists - Will Rap for Food
* Daedelus - Exquisite Corpse
* Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros
* Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light
* Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
* El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
* Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
* Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
* Sage Francis - Personal Journals
* Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
* Ice Cube - Death Certificate
* Wyclef Jean - The Carnival
* Madvillain - Madvillainy
* OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
* OutKast - ATLiens
* OutKast - Aquemini
* Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
* Run D.M.C. - Run D.M.C.
* Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
* A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
* UGK - Super Tight

^minds playing tricks on me is a personal favourite

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wow thanks for the enlightment. I didn't realise I was such a hypocrite

freestyles

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Obviously I feel inclined to call Dokken out on the underground rap thing. There's plenty of underground rap, like many of the artists you just mentioned (some I like more than others) who follow most if not all of the same basic conventions and the fact that they rap about different things or have a different image is behind most of the appeal. But there's a subset of underground rap that won't make it big simply because it's too different in a musical sense to the rap music that most people know. cLOUDDEAD and Dälek are two obvious examples, they almost have more in common with post-rock in terms of dynamics.

I mostly like classic hip-hop/rap music like Beastie Boys or Run DMC. No real recent ones that I can think of.

respect. gravediggaz are too sick (see my sig)

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some underground stuff, that, as we've learned, is the same s**t as eminem and "fiddy"

forget gangsta rap, real badasses come from Somalia :p

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yeah, cus that could never have been classified anywhere near "gangsta"

but yeah, thats the real deal allright, then again, somalia is... well... its technically the world's only anarchy

(that was a totally awesome track btw... it was hardcore! mm.)

Yeah, that's what i'm into as well, mostly alternative hip hop stuff like De La Soul, The Pharcyde and artists on the Definitive Jux, Anticon and Rhymesayers labels. Alot of the acts on those three labels use live instrumentation (Atmosphere, Why?) , collaborate with rock artists (El-P, Aesop Rock), are fans of alternative rock (P.O.S., most of the Doomtree collective) or are indie rock/rap hybrid groups (Why?, whose most recent record alternates between They Might Be Giants/Pavement-esque indie rock and De La Soul influenced hip hop).

Oh, and Lil' Wayne's "rock album"? It's terrible.

notorious b.i.g.!