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EL-P's FAVORITE LPs YOU THOUGHT WERE WACK BUT REALLY WEREN'T
1.X-Clan-"Xodus"(1992) The thing abouot Xclan was that their music was always stronger than their image. They fell victim to the fact that audiences were moving on from their (pro-black) image, but Brother J is one of the nastiest emcees out there. Paradise was a nasty producer. They played all theri critics on the intro where a racist news reporter says, "There's more to the Xclan the red,black and green but I'm still rolling with the red,whit and blue.
2.D-Nice-"To Tha Rescue"(1992) This is a thorough album. People just slept completely. It came out when he was in between crews-he was disgraced from being kicked out of BDP and he wasn't down with Flavor Unit yet. The collaborations are bizarre but dope: D-Nice and Too Short,D-Nice and Marvelous. The song with D-Nice and Treach, "Time To Flow," was nasty. If these albums were judged on the merits of some of their, they would have sold.
3.Audio Two-"I Don't Care, The Album"(1990) I guess I was the only one who ran out to the store when Milk and Giz's second album dropped. Though I had the cassette, I never owned the CD with the homoerotic pictures. What I love about Milk is that he's one of the original ignorant emcees. In addition to "Get Your Mother Off The crack," a classic ignorant song, this album also has "Worse Than A Gremlin," the only song Giz ever rhymed on.
4.Milk-"Never Dated"(1994) On "get Off My Log" and "Go To Hell," Milk displays his "I'm not gonna rhyme"-style at its finest. Like "Top Billin'," it's the same fuckin' ignorant emcee with the same fuckin' style. Milk had a non-rhyming style before anyone else. For example, he'd rhyme "AIDS" with "IKE." He was on some "I don't care" shit. He'd wear busted sneakers. I liked that about him. People complain that his voice is high, but it was always high. Milk's definitly on my Top 10 list of emcees of all-time. He never fell off.
5.The Afros-"Kickin' Afrolistics"(1990) This is the nastiest that Hurricane (a/k/a the Beastie Boys' DJ) ever rhymed. "Kickin' Afrolistics" was nasty. They had some classic ignorant rhymes. This was back in the day when you could do a gimmicky record without being gimmicky, but that probably hurt them in the long run. Since they didn't take themselves seriously. Tragically, (real) afros came back in style and they ended up being hip instead of just being funny.
6.RUN-D.M.C.-"Back From Hell"(1990) This is Run-D.M.C. before they found God. They were drinking crazy 40s and were fuckin' lost in the smoke and the beer. Unfortunatley they ki9nda went new-jack-swinging on this album, meaning that you have that pop shit beside some real hardcore Hollis, Queens shit. But the two joints that were good weren't just good, they were classic. D.M.C. shines on "Groove To The Sound" with a crazy, hard flow. "the Ave." was classic. "P Upon A Tree" wasn't really classic, though
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