No Cypress Hill yet? Their recent stuff, well pretty much everything after Black Sunday, hasn't been all that great, but their first couple of albums were damn good. In fact it was hearing 'Hand on the Glock' when I was like 13 or 14, I guess, that really got me listening to rap. At the time, it was so raw and violent and rebellious to me, not like anything else I'd ever heard; the pre-fab rebellion and angst of the Nirvanas and the Pearl Jams that just came off as fake. I was like, "Wooooow! This will make my mother insane. She's gonna absolutely hate this." Plus there's no other sound in hip-hop that can compare to B-Real's nasal twang.
And another group that I think were just a little too early to get the kind of credit they deserved was Das-EFX. They were kind of exploring the area that Wu-Tang and Redman really brought to the forefront, that trademark East Coast, stripped-down rhyme, gritty style, just a little earlier than everyone was ready for. If they had peaked maybe a year later, I think they would have gone a lot further.
Hey man, "Labcab..." ain't no slouch.
I didn't get into it as much as BizarreRide. And then, I think, they went their separate ways and started producing? A shame really.
I keep thinking of more things to add. Can we put Eminem on this list? Of late he's become a cartoon character, that's true, but his rhymes are awesome and his flow is impeccable. I would think he at least has to get consideration.
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