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Tag: Alternative Rap
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head: #21 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You think that you can front when revelation comes?
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill: #41 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No sleep ‘till Brooklyn.
Jurassic 5 – Feedback: #59 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is the future sound.
Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival: #77 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sit right back and hear a tale of a hustler ’round my way.
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control: #80 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My quality control captivates your party patrol.
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty: #86 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Another dimension, new galaxy, intergalactic planetary.
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication: #94 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop.
Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask: #105 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s just that I’m old school like that, roll that rap over soul loops like that.
Fugees – The Score: #111 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh la la la, it’s the way that we rock when we’re doing our thing.
Madvillain – Madvillainy: #164 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Obviously, they came to portion up his fortune, sounds to me like that old robbery extortion.
Gorillaz – Gorillaz: #181 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag.
MF DOOM – BORN LIKE THIS: #155 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tillin’ the wasteland sands, raps on backs of treasure maps, stacks to the ceilin’ fan.
Black Eyed Peas – Behind the Front: #234 of best 1,000 albums ever!
That’s the joint, that’s the jam, turn that s— up, play it again.
MF DOOM – Operation: Doomsday: #243 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I sell rhymes like dimes.
Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers: #297 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We holding onto what’s golden, on a stage I rage and I’m rollin’.
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead: #304 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Five days you work, one whole day to play. Come on everybody, wear your roller skates today.
Digable Planets – Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space): #353 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m cool like dat, I’m cool.
U-God – The Keynote Speaker: #370 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I want leverage, ice cold beverage, money I can’t count, I blacked out standing on Mount Everest.
Beastie Boys – To the 5 Boroughs: #378 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dear New York, I hope you’re doing well. I know a lot’s happened and you’ve been through hell.
RZA – Birth of a Prince: #387 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you attack, I fall back in the wind like the lotus – put the soul in the track like my name was Otis.
Busdriver – Temporary Forever: #434 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you cross my mind, you best look both ways ‘cause my personality’s bigger than yours.
Cunninlynguists – Will Rap For Food: #439 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feelin’ my wrath, venturing through parts of the South so dirty you’ll want to be given a bath.
RZA – Afro Samurai: The Album: #454 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When they see me, they say, “Who dat ovah there?” Just a lil dude with a head full of hair.
De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising: #463 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody wants to be a DJ, everybody wants to be an MC, but being speakers are the best.
OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: #466 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shake it like a Polaroid picture.
Madvillain – Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix: #540 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey bro, Day Glo, set the bet, pay dough before the cheddar get away, best to get Maaco.
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor: #565 of best 1,000 albums ever!
First got it when he was six, didn’t know any tricks. Matter fact first time he got on it, he slipped.
Madlib & Freddie Gibbs – Bandana: #569 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, I been struggling my whole life, yeah. I pour it up and get my soul right, yeah.
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: #576 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Guys you know you better watch out – some girls are only about that thing, that thing, that thing.
Gorillaz – Demon Days: #749 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It will, I suppose you could say, make you (sha, sha-ba-da) feel good.
Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee (Pt. 2): #757 of best 1,000 albums ever
Still making some noise, still hilarious, still the Beastie Boys.
RJD2 – Magnificent City Instrumentals: #820 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To not dig this one would be mad, man.
Q-Tip – The Renaissance: #902 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The best solo album by the great Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest (and many collaborations) fame.