The 100 Greatest Hip Hop Albums (70-66)by Henry Adaso, About.com 100-96|95-91|90-86|85-81|80-76|75-71|70-66|65-61|60-56|55-51 |
70. Queen Latifah
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"The CD's strongest material includes "Evil That Men Do," a hardhitting duet with KRS-One addressing Black-on-Black crime and other social ills; the infectious hip-house number "Come Into My House"; the rap/reggae duet with Stetsasonic's Daddy-O "The Pros"; and the aforementioned songs... To be sure, Latifah's rapping skills are top-notch -- which is why All Hail the Queen should have been consistently excellent instead of merely good." ~ Alex Henderson , All Music |
69. DJ Shadow
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"Tracks like "The Number Song", "Organ Donor", and "Midnight in a Perfect World" became curious points of intersection for listeners of otherwise disparate music, and one can't help but think ...Endtroducing brought the possibility of hip-hop to die-hard rockcentrics. "Organic" is an understatement; ...Endtroducing is living, breathing Weltgeist, its form self-determined and unusually cohesive, given its vast breadth and bottomless well of innovation. With DJ Shadow's debut, other hip-hop in 1996-- no, other music period-- couldn't help but "suck."" ~ Nick Sylvester, Pitchfork |
68. AZ
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"In 1995 it was easy to confuse comrades and collaborators Nas and AZ, so similar in style were their street-schooled lyrical concerns and their austere, lazy-eyed rhyming styles. AZ, in fact, first came to the attention of the rap scene by contributing a verse to the former's classic 1994 single "Life's a Bitch." To compound the resemblance, he called upon Pete Rock to produce a couple tracks ("Gimme Your's" and "Rather Unique," both stellar) on this introductory recording, just as Nas had on his classic debut... Certainly it was one of the strongest, most promising debut efforts of 1995, and probably one of the year's strongest rap albums period." ~ Stanton Swihart , All Music |
67. UGK
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"UGK scaled to the top of the small but vicious hip-hop scene in the Southern United States, creating a distinctive gangsta hybrid in the process. UGK is just as hedonistic and materialistic as those rappers out on the West Coast, but they don't infuse their music with the deep funk of the Cali scene, nor do they revel in the buoyant bass of their Miami brethren. Instead, they take a more stripped-down approach, which is all the better to hear their celebrations of money, drugs, women — all of the typical gangsta accessories." |
66. Boogie Down Productions
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"By All Means Necessary, the new album by the South Bronx-based Boogie Down Productions (BDP), is a gripping statement... On "Necessary," the album's last track, KRS recites an ardent defense of hip-hop culture over an eerie, atmospheric background. "We strive to be the best we can be/Not to just get over," he says of the standards BDP promulgates, and he describes "controlling a positive destiny" as life's most basic necessity. The vision KRS articulates on By All Means Necessary can help put both those goals within the reach of his listeners. " ~ Anthony Decurtis, Rolling Stone |
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