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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1996
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. GHOSTFACE KILLAH
      Ironman
 
 2. NAS
       It Was Written
 
 3. ROOTS
       Illadelphia Halflife
 
 4. SADAT X
       Wild Cowboys
 
 5. E-40
       In A Major Way
 
 6.  A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
        Beats Rhymes And Life
 
 7. JERU THE DAMAJA
       Wrath Of The

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1995
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. NAS
      Illmatic
 
 2. NAUGHTY BY NATURE
       Poverty’s Paradise
 
 3. MOBB DEEP
       The Infamous…
 
 4. RAEKWON
      Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
 
 5. WARREN G
        Regulate…The G Funk Era
 
 6. OL’ DIRTY BASTARD
       Return Of The 36 Chambers
 
 7. DIGABLE PLANETS
      

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1994
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
      Ready To Die
 
 2. PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH
       The Main Ingredient
 
 3. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
       Midnight Marauders
 
 4. SCARFACE
       The Diary
 
 5. WU-TANG CLAN
       Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
 
 6. GANG STARR
       Hard To Earn
 
 7. SNOOP DOGGY

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1993
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. KRS-ONE
      Return Of The Boom Bap
 
 2. PRIME MINISTER PETE & DADDY RICH
       Dust to Dust
 
 3. BASEHEAD
       Not In Kansas Anymore
 
 4. DR. DRE
       The Chronic
 
 5. SNOOP DOGGY DOG
       Doggystyle
 
 6. DE LA SOUL
       Buhloone Mindstate
 
 7. CYPRESS HILL

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1992
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
     3 Years 5 Months And 2 Days
 
 2. PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH
       Mecca & The Soul Brother
 
 3. CYPRESS HILL
       Cypress Hill
 
  4. BASEHEAD
        Play With Toys
 
 5. ERIC B. & RAKIM
       Don’t Sweat The Technique
 
 6. DISPOSABLE

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1991
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
   
 1. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
      The Low End Theory
 
 2. PUBLIC ENEMY
      Apocalypse ‘91: The Enemy Strikes Black
 
 3. DE LA SOUL
      De La Soul Is Dead
 
  4. STETSASONIC
       Blood Sweat & No Tears
 
  5. DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN
      I Wish My Brother George Was Here

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1990
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 

 
 1. ICE CUBE
      Amerikkka’s Most Wanted
 
 2. 3RD BASS
      The Cactus Album
 
 3. PUBLIC ENEMY
      Fear Of A Black Planet
 
4. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
     People’s Instinctive Travels & The Paths Of Rhythm
 
 5. ERIC B. & RAKIM
      Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em  

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1989
  
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
 1. DE LA SOUL
      3 Feet High And Rising
 
 2. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
       Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip -Hop
 3. KOOL MOE DEE
      Knowledge Is King
 
 4. ICE-T
       The Iceberg / Freedom Of Speech
 
 5. JUNGLE BROTHERS 
       Done By The

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FAVOURITE HIP-HOP ALBUMS – 1988
 
FOREWORD: Beginning in 1988, these yearly hip-hop charts rank my favorite albums bought or serviced during each calendar year.
 
 1. PUBLIC ENEMY
      It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
 
 2. JUNGLE BROTHERS
      Straight Out The Jungle
 
 3. ULTRAMAGNETIC M.C.’S
      Critical Beatdown
 
 4. EPMD
      Strictly Business
 
 5. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
      By All Means Necessary
 
 6. ERIC B. & RAKIM
      Paid In Full
 
 7.

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FOREWORD: Deeerhoof has managed to spread out its semi-avant experiments over several prodigious  albums. Though co-guitarist Chris Cohen left to concentrate on his own band, The Curtains, whose ‘07 release, Calamity, collected an eclectic array of proggish psych abstractions, Deerhoof survived as a threesome. ’05s Runners Four and ’07s Friend Opportunity proved to be just as pertinently irresistible as the bands’ predeccesors. I spoke to Cohen in ‘04 to promote Milk Man. This article originally appeared in Aquarian Weekly.

 

 Unafraid to challenge melodic preconceptions, extraordinary San

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Enjoyable frothy session beer allows candi-sugared yellow-fruited nature to inundate mild piney hop bittering to biscuit-y cornbread bottom. White grapefruit, yellow grape, and green lime complement tart lemon-seeded overture. Lively citric finish scatters floral, black pepper, and fresh-cut grass nuances below crystalline pilsner malting. 

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Trailblazing ‘70s punk combo, the Slits, paid the cost to be the most revolutionary female band in a male-dominated subculture. Having the innate ability to dress up artless guitar debris with minimalist dub-reggae rhythms, the innovative lasses were initially violently attacked and verbally assaulted because their rudimentary approach leaned towards Jamaican rude boy juvenility, seemingly at odds with the snotty nihilist rebellion the Sex Pistols’ ilk possessed.

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