Best Pop Rap
![Greatest Hits [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519FJqa%2BhTL._SS600_.jpg)
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Fantastic!!"
"Love this CD."
"Product was delivered fast and contained Notorious B.I.G."
"Accidentally purchased when phone was in my pocket."
"Its BIGGIE.... you know its great!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a really solid mainstream metal entry and it is VERY accessible to the casual listener. Rick Rubin did a great job producing this one, and his track record is impressive - Chili Peppers, Slayer, Metallica, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Danzig, the list goes on...So, people say the band sold out/ softened up, etc. It starts with some kind of "opener", then moves into the next track which usually rips your head right off, in this case it's "The Blister Exists", which sounds awesome. The two singles, "Duality" and "Before I Forget", are very approachable with "Before I Forget" securing the band their first Grammy win in 2006."
"At first I was kind of skeptic about this album with how everyone says it was not a good album and I will admit my first thoughts about the album was eh."
"Husband loves it."
"My favorite heavy song on the album is "Before I Forget" and my favorite melodic song is "Vermillion, Pt."
"It kicks but it did not "frighten" me as some of their others...do not get me wrong, so, so Slipnot is still better than the best of many others :)."
"I was so surprised how cheap this was, I was sure that there was going to be something wrong with this CD but I was wrong!"
"Amazon is awesome because they send me the digital as well as the CD so I get the better quality music in the CD and the convenience of digital."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"One night, while flipping channels, I came upon Twenty-One Pilots on Palladia completely by accident. In a sea of crappy and cheesy music, Twenty One Pilots is a very tiny island very hard to find, but once you do...you will never want to leave!"
"I highly recommend this album for those who like to "go deep" and who love interesting, melodic adventures."
"In this record we see twenty one pilots digging deep into the human souls feelings and yearnings."
"It's, in a way, more poetic than their latest album, and I love the less commercial sound of it."
"It's Twenty One Pilots!"
"This album is the raw form of the twenty one pilots and the tracks get better one after the other."
"Twenty-One Pilots were good and have only gotten better."
Best Experimental Rap
![Lupe Fiasco's The Cool [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41mYgkUKj1L._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As an album itself, Lupe soars on tracks like Dumb it Down and Hip Hop Just Saved My Life with intelligent, sharp lyricism that separates him from hip hop’s current group of trap-happy, dull array of artists."
"Lupe really did a good job of maintaining a good feel throughout this album and it's what broke him in the public eye in my opinion because he was taken seriously as an artist. While there are some weak moments that seemed like filler, the grooves are really good on this album."
"I think this is his best work."
"Some other excellent tracks of note: The Coolest. Superstar. Hip-Hop Saved My Life. Intruder Alert. Paris, Tokyo. Streets on Fire. Dumb It Down. Hello/Goodbye (Uncool). The Die. Fighters. The Cool just keeps it going for the listener from issues about a soldier at war in Iraq to hip-hop and its reusing of the same flows/ideas and various other topics."
"Lupe Fiasco is one of the best rappers out there IMHO, he consistently has lyrics that are thoughtful and layered, weaving interesting metaphors and references with insight while never letting it get too egg headed."
"Songs like Gotta eat are simply genius, and are also love them or hate them, but i guess that basically applies for lupe fiascos music in itself, so no problem there."
"Lupe Fiasco."
Best Gangsta & Hardcore
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Fantastic!!"
"Love this CD."
"Product was delivered fast and contained Notorious B.I.G."
"Accidentally purchased when phone was in my pocket."
"Its BIGGIE.... you know its great!"
Best Alternative Metal
![The Sickness [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tYHEhhoFL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Now what I don't like about this CD is that the songs sometimes sound too similar, it's not neccesarily a bad thing but if you have it in shuffle with other artists it wont seem repetetive."
"This is a good album to rock out to if you like hard driving music."
"I was about to go on a short trip with a lot of driving, and I love listening to Disturbed while I drive, so I bought the entire CD from Amazon so I could burn it right before the trip."
Best Southern Rap
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love this CD!"
"LOVE THIS RECORD... BEST EVER!!!!!"
"Wayne really changed alot of points in his style going into this album and hereafter."
"Lil wayne is another one of my favorite rappers love the album Phone Home."
"Its definitely a trip, scared me at times."
"This is very nice!"
Best Bass
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I listened to this non-stop in high school, and listening to it brought back a lot of fond memories of great times spent with friends."
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"Love the clean version of this album."
"good drinking and partying music."
"Had to get it for my collection."
"Just as I remember it being, raunchy and awesome!"
Best International Rap
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for a family member who's from Haiti."
"Wyclef put a lot of thought and love into this album."
"The words are not included in the jacket, so it is really only good for listening, mostly as background music."
"Big shout out to Wyclef for kickin Haiten style."
"I really only bought this for one song I heard on the Chappelle Show."
"This is a great CD for anyone who love Caribbean music, especially Konpa Kreyol."
"As I've said in other reviews, I don't always agree with his public persona (in fact, I think familial allegiances currently, sadly have him on the wrong side of the Haiti independence/JB Aristide issue) but it's his musical output that resonates one million times and here is where Wyclef never fails to deliver. Sure, he's taken us into unproductive directions before (like the lackluster duet on Tanya Stephens' "Gangsta Blues" album), but he always rights the vessel and puts us back on the radical course we signed up for. Clef has provided previous musical hints of this creative undercurrent and I'm glad he finally found the time to pull it all together in one package. Clef appears to have taken the truest definition of the word "creole" to heart and mixed it all up in a gumbo/jambalaya that we can't help but love."
"So I bought this, my first of his albums, and I can't stop listening to it, especially when enjoying a drive in my car."
Best West Coast
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Where Dre and Snoop had the party records on lock, Spice 1 had the driveby and murder raps fully loaded and on automatic fire. And let's not forget the main single, which can also be found in the iconic film "Menace II Society", "Triggas Got No Heart"."
"He even spices the joints up with simulated gunfire and other lifelike effects, which is one of many reasons why his work stands out from that of other rappers, especially that of many of today's rap artists, and why this album is a classic."
"Spice 1 really put his all into this one."
"One of the best underground mc from the west coast."
"Classic hardcore gangsta rap."
"Wished Rap sounded like this today ..."
"I'M HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE."
"It has 1 classic, 2 near classics, 9 good songs, and 1 that's ok and 1 that I skip."
Best East Coast
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love this CD."
"Product was delivered fast and contained Notorious B.I.G."
"Accidentally purchased when phone was in my pocket."
"Its BIGGIE.... you know its great!"
"BIGGIE SMALLS is STILL da iLLest......this is my 4th CD in my stash."
Best Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"the Undead songs have the distinct Bobby Steele guitar sound also found on the Misfits "Night of the Living Dead" single, although he's more into social inequalities than horror themes. I would highly suggest this to anyone who has already explored the popular punk rock repitoire and is delving into more obscure bands, or local scenes and or the beginnings of Hardcore."
"I had this collection back in the day of "cassette only" ROIR releases, and it was my introduction to bands like Bad Brains and Adrenaline O.D., who have the best songs on this mix, as far as I am concerned. But aside from introducing some great names in punk rock, this collection also introduced me to the true insanity of punk. All the way through False Prophets screeching, "I am the Taxidermist," this collection offered me what I had only previously subconsciously wanted--music that my mom couldn't bop to, music that others would sneer at when I walked along the street with my boom box cranked up. and Bad Brains before, but you'll also find amazing stuff by False Prophets, Undead, Even Worse (whose "Emptying the Madhouse" is also one of the best tracks on this collection), and The Mad. So get this disc, and then get the soundtrack to _Desperate Teenage Lovedolls_ (don't worry, I haven't seen the movie either), then the soundtrack to _Return of the Living Dead_ (AND watch the movie--punk chicks stripping in graveyards!)."
"I am very very very happy with this and i recommened this to anyone who like this type of thing."
"Featuring artists like the Beastie Boys - with their first recorded material - Bad Brains, Kraut, The Stimulators and Adrenalin O.D., this is an incredible collection of 24 songs that demonstrates an emerging subculture is knocking down doors and demanding to be heard."
"This is a wonderful collection of New York bands that played hardcore punk in the early 1980s. It seems the world remembers the New York hardcore scene as the totalitarian dictators of rock and roll, all music utterly fulfilling punk's ethos of hard, fast noise."
"I gave this collection a 5 star.This is some old stuff but this is the way it was in the early 80's.Some of the recordings are just a little fuzzy but thses bands didn't have a ton of cash to pay for the high cost of recording in those days."
Best Old School
![DAMN. [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51jNytp9pxL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Best album out now."
"Great album!"
"This is one of my favorite albums right now."
"Love love love this album."
"I've been a fan of Kendrick Lamar since Section 80."
"Dopest album of the year."