Flying Lotus - 1983

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Cunninlynguists - Strange Journey Volume One

One of my favorite hip-hop groups, this is their newest stuff due to hit stores in May some time. I'm in the process of listening through it but so far it seems a bit darker than their earlier stuff, which is a great thing. It's awesome. They're awesome. It also has a live recording of "Lynguistics" and remixes of "K.K.K.Y" and "Georgia" and the ending tracks are all instrumentals, I love that stuff. Don't sleep on this.

Strange Journey Volume One Part One

Strange Journey Volume One Part Two

Atmosphere - Godlovesugly

One of the first albums to get me into hip-hop that wasn't played on MTV. I still love it but I guess mostly for nostalgic reasons, if 7 years ago can be considered a nostalgic time. "Fuck You Lucy" and the title track are still brilliant though.

Godlovesugly LP

Ras Kass - Soul on Ice

Crucial for anyone into 90's hip-hop. "Nature of the Threat" is so goddamn good, that track alone should be enough to make you get this. 

Soul on Ice LP

Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation

I believe this came out in 2007. It's exactly what it says, a collaboration between Talib Kweli and Madlib with the former doing vocals and the latter production. I haven't listened to this in a looong time but I remember thinking it was good but you already know that - Madlib can do no wrong.

Liberation LP

Wu-Tang Clan - Legend of the Wu-Tang

It goes without saying that 36 Chambers is the best Wu-Tang's done, but if you were to gather up all their greatest songs off separate albums then you'd get this, The Legend of the Wu-Tang. Along with a few other songs that I don't think are on any other release, one of them being my favorite song by them, "Shaolin Worldwide". Aaaand there's also a Run DMC cover. If I were new to Wu-Tang, I would get this after 36 chambers if I wanted to hear songs from all periods of their career. 

Legend of the Wu-Tang Comp Part 1

Legend of the Wu-Tang Comp Part 2

The Last Emperor - Music. Magic. Myth

Any rapper who references Seinfeld, Star Wars and The Godfather is ok in my book. But there's more to The Last Emperor than badass references: good and underrated music. This is his debut that came out in 2003 and he's since released some more and currently working on an upcoming one. FUN FACT: He's done a song with Zack de la Rocha and KRS-One which can be heard and seen here. TLE does the middle verse.

Music. Magic. Myth

Eyedea & Abilities - First Born

This is the debut of Eyedea & Abilities' collaboration. Eyedea vocally, to me, sounds like a blend between early Aesop Rock and early Eminem. Don't let that scare you off though (don't know why it should, they were both pretty good early on) because he's better than both of them. Combined. Abilities' production makes this so good too. 

First Born Part 1

First Born Part 2

Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth

I was lucky enough to get to see Brother Ali when he came around here last year with Atmosphere. He killed it. Such fucking presence. In retrospect, I'm close to saying he was way better than Atmosphere. Anyway, he's signed to Rhymesayers and he's very, very good. If you can sit completely still to the first track of this, there is something wrong with you.

The Undisputed Truth

Canibus - Rip the Jacker

This came out when I was 13 and became my favorite hip-hop album almost instantly. It stayed that way for a few years. It's fucking magic and nothing I could say would do it justice. Stoupe (of Jedi Mind Tricks) produced this and fucking sampled like... fucking... Portishead, Twilight Zone (the TV show), Philip fucking Glass and a lot of other crazy shit. Canibus never did anything better than this, the lyrics blew my mind then and have a tendency to still do so. Just listen to "Poet Laureate II", FUCK.

Rip the Jacker

Mobb Deep - The Infamous

Must-have. It's slightly over 100 mb so I had to use megaupload but whatever. Must. Fucking. Have.

The Infamous

The Roots - Game Theory

I couldn't hate this album even if I tried. Not only are The Roots awesome at what they do, but this album also features an eight minute ending track which is really just a long tribute to J Dilla, sampling one of my favorite songs by him ("Time: The Donut of the Heart") and on top of that, these guys actually pull off sampling Radiohead 

("You and Whose Army?") which is one of my favorite bands ever. Awesome.

Game Theory

Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens: In Hell Happy With Your New Imaginary Friend...

Extremely underrated. This is the debut album of Blu & Exile, Blu being the rapper and Exile the producer (except for him joining in on the track "I Am"). I'm pretty sure I had this in my top 5 of 2007. I'm trying to think of someone to compare them with but I can't think of a good comparison so just get it and be happy... with your new awesome hip-hop album...

Below the Heavens: In Hell Happy With Your New Imaginary Friend...

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

I'm pretty sure everyone into hip-hop already knows about A Tribe Called Quest (if not, you should) and given the fact that The Low End Theory is widely regarded as their best, I'm guessing most people already have this. Just in case, here it is anyway.

The Low End Theory

Blue Sky Black Death - A Heap of Broken Images

A friend sent me this shortly after its release in 2006 and it's still one of the best collaborations I've heard. A Heap of Broken Images consists of two CD's, the first one being completely instrumental and the other one featuring guest vocals from rappers like Jus Allah (Jedi Mind Tricks), Guru (Gang Starr), Sabac Red (Non Phixion) and Holocaust (Warcloud). Both CD's have some really great tracks (for instance "From Sun's Angle" on CD1 and "I Catch Fire" on CD2) so you should get them both. 

A Heap of Broken Images - CD1

A Heap of Broken Images - CD2

Cloud. - Pimp Steak

I found this gem on blog that I frequent called Strictly Beats. It reminds me of J Dilla's Donuts a bit in terms of the samples that are used and the length of the songs.

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Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

My first post in a long time will be one with one of my personal favorite beatmakers around right now, Flying Lotus. He mixes jazz, electronic sounding stuff, and latin music, and he does a really good job of it.

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Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

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Tracklisting:
1. Iron Galaxy
2. Ox Out the Cage
3. Atom
4. A B-Boy's Alpha
5. Raspberry Fields
6. Straight Off the D.I.C.
7. Vein
8. The F-Word
9. Stress Rap
10. Battle For Asgard
11. Real Earth
12. Ridiculoid
13. Painkillers
14. Pigeon
15. Scream Phoenix (Bonus Track)

This album generally heralded as one of the best Independent Hip-Hop albums, ever. Yes, the first track, "Iron Galaxy" was on Tony Hawk's Underground and it kicked ass, much like the game.

P.S.
Sorry for uploading to RS. It was just barely too large for Mediafire and I'm too lazy to make split-archives.

MF Doom - Special Herbs, Vol. 1 & 2

Torrented this a while ago and just gave it a listen last week. I've been listening to it all the time since then. The Special Herbs Box Set is instrumental versions of Doom's songs, which in my opinion, is the best part.

I'll probably upload volumes 3 & 4 tomorrow or later today.

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