Today's "Rap/ Hip Hop" Playlist

[Rome]

Keith Leblanc -- "No Sell Out," 1990

Listening to it on one of my master cassette tapes.

Rome

 

[Brett a]

Timbaland - Shock Value

 

[Speakerbox]

NERD - In Search Of

 

[BostonDave]

Dr. Dre
The Chronic
Death Row
1992

 

[BostonDave]

Boogie Down Productions
Criminal Minded
B-Boy Records
1987

 

[BostonDave]

Public Enemy
It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Def Jam
1988

 

[ranf1970]

Ice Cube
Raw Footage

 

[BostonDave]

Above the Law
Livin' Like Hustlers
Ruthless
1990

 

[Speakerbox]

Above the Law
Livin' Like Hustlers
Ruthless
1990

One of my all time favorite west coast groups. Dr Dre OWE Big Hutch a fat check. Dre really studied Hutch production when they was label mates.

Big Hutch is also the nephew of the legendary Willie Hutch

 

[BostonDave]

One of my all time favorite west coast groups.

Big Hutch is also the nephew of the legendary Willie Hutch

On my favorites list too. Hutch's jazz training (and I guess having some music in the family) really comes through on the smooth grooves on this one.

 

[ranf1970]

Pete Rock
Underground Classics

 

[Brett a]

Welfare Poets - Rhymes for Treason

 

[BostonDave]

2Pac
All Eyez On Me
Interscope
1996

 

[BostonDave]

Nas
Illmatic
Columbia
1994

 

[tx_polkhead]

Eric B and Rakim, MC Solaar and Digable Planets are all cued up thanks to this thread. I sorted my music by Genre in iTunes to cue up some 'urban' tunes and between LL Cool J and MC Solaar was Lucious Jackson's Fever In Fever Out, hum ctrl-I and edit that little mistake.

 

[knives]

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2010

 

[BostonDave]

Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
BMG
1993

 

[BostonDave]

Run-D.M.C.
Raising Hell
Profile
1986

 

[Rome]

Def Jef -- "Droppin' Rhymes On Drums," 1989

Rome

 

[BostonDave]

Ice Cube
Death Certificate
Priority
1991