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Tag: East Coast Rap
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): #8 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And if you want beef, then bring the ruckus.
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head: #21 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You think that you can front when revelation comes?
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever: #27 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses can’t define how I be droppin’ these mockeries.
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill: #41 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No sleep ‘till Brooklyn.
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.
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.
GZA – Beneath the Surface: #462 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Move swift as light, a thousand years in one night, in flight with insight.
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.
GZA – Liquid Swords: #117 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now gone off the mental plane, to spark the brain with the building to be born.
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale: #122 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’m a singer, dancer, we bulletproof brothers. Wu-Tang got the answer.
Run-D.M.C. – Tougher Than Leather: #132 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who’s house? Run’s house.
Cappadonna – The Yin and the Yang: #133 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dart clapper, ran like a snapper, watch out for Cappa.
Wu-Tang Clan – Iron Flag: #145 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Superbad, who am I? Dolemite classic.
The Beatnuts – Take It Or Squeeze It: #179 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody let’s git doe.
Wu-Tang Clan – Chamber Music: #182 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ain’t nothing gon’ stop kid from getting his due. No, your feets not big enough to fit in his shoe.
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Collective: #194 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What is there to talk about? You was just frontin’, now it ain’t nothin’, ain’t that somethin’?
The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death: #207 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Beef is when I see you, guaranteed to be in ICU.
Nas – Illmatic: #209 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Represent represent.
Cappadonna – The Pillage: #212 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My slang is editorial explicit material, briefcase yo, live in stereo flow.
Run-D.M.C. – Raising Hell: #235 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In New York, the people talk and try to make us rhyme, they really hawk, but we just walk because we have no time.
Inspectah Deck – Uncontrolled Substance: #274 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My poems were found next to dinosaur bones, perform by the elders before the kings thrown.
Camp Lo – Uptown Saturday Night: #299 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is it, what? Luchini pouring from the sky.
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.
Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead: #312 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hip hop just died this mornin’ and she’s dead, she’s dead.
Method Man – Tical 0: The Prequel: #748 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Woke up in the morning, like ten A.M. Walked passed the Listerine, went straight for the gin.
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture: #327 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Formed in a very strong advanced post, east to west coast, ahead of time, competition not even half close.
Wu-Tang Killa Bees – The Swarm: #348 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yo, my words should never fail, shootin’ darts sharper than a carpenters nail.
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.
PRhyme – PRhyme: #362 of best 1,000 albums ever!
PRhyme, PRhyme, I’m in my permanent prime, I ain’t never falling off.
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.
Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives: #380 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m shrewd about decimals and my man’ll speak patois, and I can speak rap star.
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.
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Back: #393 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Bass in your face, not an eight track, gettin’ it good to the wood so the people give you some a dat.
Immortal Technique – Revolutionary, Vol. 2: #407 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is the point from which I could never return, and if I back down now then forever I burn.
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu Music Group Presents Pollen: The Swarm, Pt. 3: #422 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In the hood, it’s against all odds, you spit 16 bars.
Run-D.M.C. – Run-D.M.C.: #424 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t ask me, because I don’t know why, but it’s like that, and that’s the way it is.
Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele: #425 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spotlight hits the metal mic, majority stare – heard the Wu snare, while my iris cut down the glare.
DMX – The Definition of X: Pick of the Litter: #448 of best 1,000 albums ever!
X gonna give it to you.
Wu-Tang Clan – The W: #452 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Watch your step, kid (yo, you best protect ya neck).
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.
G-Unit – Beg For Mercy: #471 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every hood that we go through, all the gangsters around know my whole crew.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version: #473 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay, gimme the mic so I can take it away.
Cappadonna – The Struggle: #489 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s not a game – you play chess with life, end up in the flame.
Gang Starr – Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr: #503 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now I’m a start collecting props, connecting plots. Networking like a conference, ‘cause the nonsense is yet to stop.
Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow: #544 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The most duplicated, anticipated, validated urban legends in the books with the ones who made it.
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory: #551 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Brothers front, they say the Tribe can’t flow, but we’ve been known to do the impossible like Broadway Joe.