 | Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde by The Pharcyde
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.60 My top hip-hop album of all time. It's not 'gangsta,' it's not strictly 'conscious' and I wouldn't say it's backpacker or political either. Call it individual. Call it genius.
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 | Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott-Heron
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £12.05 Modern-day 'gangstas' could use some of his passion and brain-cells...
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 | Madvillainy by Madvillain
The most perfect recent underground collaboration ever?
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 | Late Registration by Kanye West
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.40 The production's so damn delicious it could hurt. Rapping through a wire must hurt. But boy does KW do it well, considering.
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 | The Mouse and the Mask by Danger Doom
Buy new: £18.49 / Used from: £5.56 Find anything else that sounds quite like this? No? Well, that's Danger Mouse for ya.
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 | The Listening by Little Brother
Buy used from: £24.95 Forget Listening, consider Looking for the goosebumps that this album's gonna be giving you.
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 | The Minstrel Show by Little Brother
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.40 "You are hearing - sweet, SWEET beeeeeeeeats!" Luckily, they don't hide / compensate for the equally sweet lyrics
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 | Will Rap for Food by CunninLynguists
Hard to find. Totally worth the trouble.
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 | Southernunderground by Cunninlynguists
Buy used from: £27.58 No-one else captures the mischievous spirit of The Pharcyde like this lot.
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 | A Piece of Strange by Cunninlynguists
Buy used from: £87.13 ... and this is the alb where they lost it, but kept the ace production and great rhymes.
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 | Ghetto Pop Life by Danger Mouse & Jemini
Buy new: £8.68 / Used from: £4.27 Early proof of Danger Mouse's producerial talents!
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 | The Black Album by Jay-Z
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.34 Forget going out on it, enough rappers would kill to DEBUT on this album. Jay-Z dusts himself off for his swansong.
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 | Connected by The Foreign Exchange
Buy used from: £25.00 Hip-hop ain't hard work! Hell, nothing is when you're playing this.
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 | Children of Possibility by One Self
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.97 'Conscious' isn't a dirty word, and 'different' certainly isn't!
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 | Be by Common
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £1.66 Another (rare) good commercial release! Lonnie Rashid doesn't rest on his laurels. Thank God.
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 | The Craft by Blackalicious
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.32 Clever is most definitely cool, despite 50 Cent's best efforts.
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 | The Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.98 Ghostface: ultimate hip-hop entertainer of all time?
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 | Death Is Certain by Royce da 5'9"
Buy used from: £7.70 He's bitter. And angry. And vicious. It's great.
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 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric B. & Rakim by Eric B & Rakim
Buy used from: £3.47 Worth it just to hear where the rest of the world got those samples from...
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 | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.99 Finishing on a classic!
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