Best Rap & Hip-Hop
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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."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"became a viral sensation, I could barely process that audiovisual masterpiece then Sean Carter aka Jay Z drops the video and single "4:44". I was compelled to purchase the entire album...I'm not a true fan of Jay Z but I would guess this is his magnum opus. is too complex to describe in full detail but he drops some gems about investment strategies regarding community and personal assets. Jay said what every real man that has made a mistake for jeopardizing his family over some immature actions and cherishes his life partner and children. The fact he collaborated with Bey is a real bonus... "Bam" is just lit af. Keep in mind, if we don't learn from our histories we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes---. This is GROWN FOLKS HIPHOP (40+) just to be clear."
"Introspective album where he delves deeper then the surface on a number of relevant personal and societal topics."
"Very good album."
"GREAT CD."
"Too short of an album by j."
"Very good music!"
"I think it's solid work by Jay-Z."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Favorite tracks: Big Bank, Ride with Me, Get up to Come Down, Get Away, Keep the Devil Off, Drinking Sessions, Bury Me in Gold. These are two very different albums as well."
"As a long time K.R.I.T who has been listening to his work for nearly a decade the truth is this is the music that Young Krizzle wanted to make."
"Awesome music by one of my favorite artist."
"BIG KRIT LEAVING DEF JAM, WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS TO EVER HAPPEN TO HIS CAREER."
"Big kit is ironically legendary."
"This is all the great things about K.R.I.T."
"Awesome album that can be listened to from beginning to end with no skips!"
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."
"Amazon is like a Xmas Wonderland!! Great music store!!"
"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 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 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 Experimental Rap
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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
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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 International Rap
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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 Old School
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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."
Best Pop Rap
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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 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 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."