When Black Moon released Enta Da Stage, it was solid but I didn't love it compared to the other releases around that time but when the remixes started to drop, Buckshot was my favorite emcee. Yeah its only four songs but those songs had him above every emcee to me at that time. Nas included. Who was that dude for you?

I Got'Cha Opin (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtfEWcHu1xU

Reality (Killing Every...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbZg--VwS0

Buck'em Down (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6D4aPRjV6g

Murder MC�s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiUqKlUBFE

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

from one of his mixtapes before F&L to The Cool

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On & off the mic.

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

phemom's the name, all-star writer/
searching 4 journalistic fame, mindframe igniter....www.twitter.com/hayabusaage

http://twitter.com/collazo

BOBS, Black Star, Soundbombing, guest appearances like Double Trouble. Mos was killing it.

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Common--from "Resurrection" through "Be"...duke was just that nice...

Integrity is the Cornerstone of Artistry...

And Snoop 92-95 or so like maxxx said.

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werd.

...no doubt...still waiting on his new ish...supreme talent...

Integrity is the Cornerstone of Artistry...

>...no doubt...still waiting on his new ish...supreme
>talent...
Yes.

Kinda Qtip always.

With Mos Def a very close #2 during the same time period.


``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

Honorable mentions:

Cube-90-92
Rakim-88-90
Black Thought-2004-2010

*Aside from that guitar solo

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

>*Aside from that guitar solo

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(edit, still dope as hell, but its undeniably a different Prodigy)

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

I'm not saying that Prodigy isn't nice now but Mobb Deep had a pretty good streak of dope albums and Prodigy had a dope solo at the time, but once they released "Infamy" I knew it wasn't the same Prodigy like in the past but I did like that album, it's "Amerikaz Nightmare" where they started to slip, and don't get me started on the G-Unit albums.

I'm diggin' "The Safe Is Cracked" & "HNIC 3", (haven't heard the Prodigy & Alchemist album or the new Havoc album) but those two were good albums but like you said, Prodigy isn't the same as he use to be.

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"We in here talking about later career Prince records
& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

2001 - BP was fire.
2002 - BP2 was too long, but lyrically he killed it on this album.
2003 - Black album was fire.
04-05 guest spots were all fire.
2006 - Kingdom Come sucked. But at the time I wrote it off and gave him a pass, because he could do no wrong in my eyes.
2007 - American Gangster was fire, and the fact that it was gave me even more reason to give him a pass for Kingdom Come a year earlier.
2009 - BP3 was eh...and that's when I stopped giving him a pass, and the "do no wrong" thing stopped for me.

those come to mind.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

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spitta between pilot talk 1 and 2
doom madvillian period to food period
lupe first two albums
ye between im good and late registration

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

Phonte: 2003-2007 (not that he ain't nice now, cynicism hurts though)
Blu: 2007-2010
Quelle Chris: 2009-Current

Killer Mike still going hard hard hard, though.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

i think Nick meant in your life time

and i know we can all go back, but... well nevermind, lol

But if I say it, I'm a dick. So whatever.

But, yeah.


``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"for vini." http://bit.ly/19HQbtF
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

just for conversation's sake.

my first post is the only "official" one.

for the record I was 4 in '91 though! just two years away from hearing enter the wu-tang in the basement of my "bad neighbor"'s house while we played the crap version of Metal Gear on NES.

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Big Boi as well.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Didn't he have an incredible 2 year peak?

``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

um, don't forget wyclef's hand in that. what a shitbox of an album, from the cover on down.

>
>``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
>"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
>"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
>"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
>"wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
>"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

yeah, he was killing it for that time.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

>Didn't he have an incredible 2 year peak?
He ripped EVERYTHING he touched...just ridiculous rhymes
The lyrics on his album saved it from being total wackness

I gave him a pass up until the 3rd album, then I just smh as the Best Buy dude laughed at the purchase

Dude was (and still kinda is) a monster.

he BLAZED every guest feature and virtually every verse was damn near a hiphop quotable, then he solidified his greatness with Blackstar & TOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxUCAnQpJc What If

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedNnmN23EA Due Process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbuknzCwdhc Day by Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDIWGkqrGJ4 Time Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BE0mur1pQo Lunchroom Classics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_H8qJORHv8 Let Me See (remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etE5tA7M1j4 Great Expectations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuH68bsCyus Hiphop Worth Dying For

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Part of one of my top 5 favorite hiphop albums of all time with Train of Thought.

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But from the High School High joint through Things Fall Apart, dude was my favorite.

>the High School High joint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNDauBkkTU

Very underrated Roots track.


``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"jacques." http://bit.ly/17V33fa
"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI

in 1994 I wasn't really trying to hear that style where it was more about vibe.

when I heard this Thought verse on the High School High soundtrack I instantly thought "this dude is on some Nas type shit"

Then Illadelph dropped and it was over. BT absolutely destroys that entire album.

I remember copping Hell On Earth and Illadelph and my boy was asking me for a dub of Hell On Earth and I said "I gotta dub you this Roots too because this dude is crazy"in which my boy responded "who that dude Malik?"

Because really based off of DYWM, it was a toss up. And as ill as Malik is on Illadelph, he just can't keep up with Thought.

Every BT verse on that album is ridiculous with No Alibi taking the crown.

My God.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Meth: Tical era to his verse and hook on Liquid Swords
Common: ODIAMS to Electric Circus
Mos: Black Star to 2001?
Ghost: Forever to Pretty Toney
DOOM: Operation Doomsday to MM... Food
Pos: 96 to Grind Date

3Stacks and Black Thought, when rapping, have never been wack. 94 to the present

You didn't wanna include Resurrection.
That album was a ridiculous display of Com's early awesomeness.

In my humble opinion lol

>Meth: Tical era to his verse and hook on Liquid Swords
>Common: ODIAMS to Electric Circus
>Mos: Black Star to 2001?
>Ghost: Forever to Pretty Toney
>DOOM: Operation Doomsday to MM... Food
>Pos: 96 to Grind Date
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>3Stacks and Black Thought, when rapping, have never been wack.
>94 to the present
>

True Indeed!

it's my 3rd favorite album of Coms

>it's my 3rd favorite album of Com.

Gotcha. Respect.

I had heard it before One Day so..

>Meth: Tical era to his verse and hook on Liquid Swords

Meth could do no wrong all the way up until that Judgement Day video.

I don't think he ever reached his potential because for being up there with Nas, Big, etc early in his career, he still doesn't have that definitive classic album like the others.

But with that said, every Wu solo, he was the one you were checking for.

Even on Ironman and Forever. Deck somewhat took over on Forever but Meth was still people's favorite.

Then that video happened and he was just whatever. lol

the reason I only went up to Liquid Swords is because he was the definitive favorite up to that time i would argue. Once Ironman hit and (OB4CL was still marinating with 5 singles), you could "tell/feel" folks were starting to appreciate and like other members more.

Deck, Rae and Ghost owned Forever IMO and even RZA was respected on the rapping end.

add the he never had a classic LP (and I'm a BIG fan of T2) and his star just kinda waned.

Even with the no classic LP, I don't think any member (outside of maybe Ghost) can claim three as memorable and crossover songs (and videos) as "Bring The Pain", "You're All I Need", and "The Rockwilder"

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Kendrick Overly Dedicated to current
Gibbs 2011 - current
Danny Brown Hybrid to current
Bronson: Blue Chips to current

Ab Soul, Chance and eXquire all got my attention for whatever as well

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Planet Asia
Oddisee
yU
Uptown XO
Kokayi
Fashawn
The dude from Dag Savage (I always forget his name)
Co$$
Jamal Bufford
Magestik Legend
Has Solo
Chuuwee
Danny Brown
Homeboy Sandman

Anything the above do, I'm 99% with.

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I road for Fashawn for a lil bit, but kinda stopped checking after the TDE boys showed up

I mean you pretty much know what he's gonna rap about but it's always aggresive and the beats are typically gonna be dope

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I mean you pretty much know what he's gonna rap about but it's always aggresive and the beats are typically gonna be dope

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>I road for Fashawn for a lil bit, but kinda stopped checking
>after the TDE boys showed up

Why would you stop check for one artist due to another artist?

Fashawn was a lyrical miracle street kid who could do the punchline rap, story rap, girl track and introspective stuff very well. Yet his beat selection, while quality, at times was a bit too static. Also he lacked in the personality department.

In steps Kendrick and Ab and do what Fash does, in some cases better, and have a much better ear for beats while have "bigger" personalities on the mic.

Also with such a glut of music released in the past few years from old and new rappers, some get lost in shuffle, Fash was one of them for me. I def think he's a very good rapper tho

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>Kokayi
>Jamal Bufford
>Magestik Legend
>Has Solo, Has Lo???

>>Kokayi

A DC legend. Will be in the Mt. Rushmore of DC Hip-Hop. He's moved away from MC-ing as he does rock, EDM and other stuff but as a pure rapper and artist, he has few peers here or otherwise. I'll suggest some stuff. I got it all.

>>Jamal Bufford

Buff 1 was his former name. He and Magestik Legend are in a group called The Black Ops. Here's a free mixtape and they got a shit load of music out.

>>Magestik Legend
>>Has Solo, Has Lo???
>

I meant Has Lo. I always wanna hear what he's doing.

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http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/80z-babiez-to-the-2gz-the-experimix

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but I can see why you'd say that since he went to mostly original production on every project from that point foward.


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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

the warm up round.. even though i can't point to a wack verse from back then.. i just wasn't a huge fan of "Jet Files" or "This Ain't No Mixtape"... after that, *everything* was hitting in my book

His quality and consistency is ridiculoid:
Pilot Talk
Pilot Talk II
Covert Coup w/ Alchemist
Return To The Winners Circle
Weekend @ Burnies
Verde Terrace
The EP w/ Styles
Stoned Emmaculate
Cigarette Boats EP w/ Harry Fraud
3 Piece Suite EP w/ Terrace Martin
New Jet City
Bales w/ Roddy

Rapped along side Snoop, Jay Electronica, Stalley, Fiend, Freddie Gibbs, Prodigy, Big KRIT, Wiz, Styles P, Wale, Rick Ross, and Juvenile... and he sounds comfortable (not forced) with all of them

a BUNCH of different artists and a BUNCH of different styles... it's a shame more people aren't taking note... but it even took me a while "get" his rhyme schemes and slick lines.. but his prolificness and consistency is really unmatched (ever, right??).. i've seen prolific MCs and i've seen consistent MCs.. but never quite like the run he's on.. and as hard as it is for me to wrap my head around, i don't see it stopping any time soon.. shit's nuts.

There's very little of their material that I don't check for.
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