N.W.A. - Greatest Hits (1996)

It's NWA. All I gotta say.

1. Live Intro (1989)
2. Arrested (Insert)
3. Gangsta Gangsta
4. F*** Tha Police (Insert)
5. F*** Tha Police
6. Compton's in the House
7. Break Out (Insert)
8. Straight Outta Compton - (Extended Mix)
9. If It Ain't Ruff
10. Real Niggaz
11. I Ain't Tha 1
12. Alwayz Into Somethin'
13. Don't Drink That Wine
14. Just Don't Bite It
15. Cash Money (Insert)
16. Express Yourself - (remix)
17. 100 Miles and Runnin'
18. B**** Iz a B****, A
19. Real Niggaz Don't Die

HERE

Prince Ali - I Miss 1994 (2007)

01 Incistroduction
02 Grew Up Feat. Louieville Sluggah
03 On Our Way
04 Material Posessions
05 Righteous Scrolls Feat Tragedy Khadafi
06 Beat Knock
07 Incisimission
08 Rap Author Feat. Craig G
09 Respect Feat Thieven (Sense I)
10 Movements Feat. Kev Brown
11 Rap Author Feat. Craig G (Remix)
12 Outro (Incise)

HERE

Superstar Quamallah and Taj Infinite - All Souled Out (2005)

1. Intro
2. Midnite (Over You)
3. Niggah Song
4. Watch Out! (Interlude)
5. All Souled Out
6. Love I Never Knew
7. Clowns
8. Favorite Things
9. Nuthin
10. Doc's Freestyle
11. Rock With Me feat. Lloyd Jones
12. I Want More
13. Reflection
14. Ride (Cry)
15. Get Home

HERE

King Tubby - Crucial Dub (2000)

01. Zion Dub
02. Soundboy Massacre
03. Drop Dub
04. Waterhouse Rock
05. Farmyard Dub
06. Herbal Dub
07. Dubbing My Baby
08. Shining Dub
09. Laser Rock
10. The Border
11. Conqueror Dub
12. Dubbing It Right
13. The Best Is Lose
14. Blow Down Babylon
15. African Roots
16. Dub Of A Woman
17. Dub Experience
18. A Truthful Dub
19. Watch This Version
20. Dub You Can Feel
21. Roots Of Dub
22. King Tubby's In Fine Style

Part 1
Part 2

Phat Kat - Carte Blanche (2007)

5 tracks from Dilla. 4 tracks from Black Milk. Rest of production measures up. Detroit, you motherfucker.

01. Nasty Ain't It? (prod. by J Dilla) 02:39
02. Get It Started (prod. by Young RJ) 02:06
03. My Old Label (prod. by J Dilla) 02:29
04. Cold Steel (feat. Elzhi) (prod. by J Dilla) 03:47
05. Danger (feat. T3 & Black Milk) (prod. by Black Milk) 03:35
06. Vessels (feat. Truth Hurst) (prod. by Nick Speed) 04:37
07. Lovely (feat. Melanie Rutherford) (prod. by Young RJ) 03:14
08. Cash Em Out (feat. Loe Louis) (prod. by Black Milk) 02:20
09. Game Time (prod. by J Dilla) 03:38
10. Survival Kit (prod. by Black Milk) 02:31
11. Nightmare (feat. Guilty Simpson) (prod. by Nick Speed) 03:09
12. Hard Enuff (feat. Fat Ray) (prod. by Black Milk) 03:13
13. True Story Pt. 2 (prod. by Young RJ) 04:05
14. Don't Nobody Care About Us (prod. by J Dilla) 04:27

HERE

Nas-Original Demo Tape (1989?)

If I have to say anything about why this would be good, you don't know shit about hip-hop and should smack yourself promptly.

1. Understanding
2. Life Is Like A Dice Game
3. Just Another Day In Projects
4. Deja Vu
5. Back To The Grill (Feat. MC Serch)
6. Everthing Verything Is Real
7. Im A Villian
8. Number One With A Bullet (Feat. Kool G Rap & Whiteboy)
9. Nas Will Prevail

HERE

Tego Calderón - El Abayarde (2002)

I have a love/hate relationship with reggaeton and artists that do that type of music, but Tego can actually rap and doesn't stick to the generic, repetitive timbre beats.

1. Intro
2. Abayarde
3. Al Natural
4. Poquito
5. Pa' Que Retozen
6. Interlude
7. Loiza
8. No Me La Explota
9. Interlude
10. Guasa, Guasa
11. Dominicana
12. Cumbumbo
13. Salte Del Medio
14. Tus Ojos
15. Los Difuntos
16. Lleva Y Trae
17. Bonsai
18. Gracias
19. Plante Bandera

HERE

Spice 1 - 187 He Wrote (1993)

One of the definitive west coast gangsta rap albums, this shit is so negative that too much listening will make your face red (if you white).

1 "I'm the Fuckin' Murderer"
2 "Dumpin' Em In Ditches"
3 "Gas Chamber"
4 "187 He Wrote"
5 "Don't Ring The Alarm (The Heist)" feat Boss
6 "Clip & The Trigga" feat Ant Banks
7 "Smoke Em Like A Blunt"
8 "The Murda Show" feat MC Eiht
9 "380 On That Ass" feat Havikk the Rhime Son & Prodeje
10 "Mo Mail" feat E-40
11 "Runnin' Out Da Crackhouse"
12 "Trigga Gots No Heart"
13 "Trigga Happy"
14 "RIP"
15 "All He Wrote"

HERE

Max Romeo And The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (1976)

1 One Step Forward
2 Uptown Babies Don't Cry
3 I Chase The Devil
4 War Ina Babylon
5 Norman
6 Stealing In The Name Of Jah
7 Tan And See
8 Smokey Room
9 Smile Out A Style

HERE

Black Uhuru - Red (1981)

1 Youth of Eglington
2 Sponji Reggae
3 Sistren
4 Journey
5 Utterance
6 Puff She Puff
7 Rockstone
8 Carbine

HERE

Augustus Pablo - Rockers Meet King Tubby In A Fire House (1980)

1. Rockers Meet King Tubbys Inna Fire House
2. Short Man Dub
3. Zion Is A Home
4. Dub In Matthew's Lane Arena
5. Jah Say Dub
6. Son Of Jah Dub
7. Simeon Tradition
8. Selassie I Dub
9. Jah Mouly Ital Sip
10. Son Of Man Dub*
11. Rasta To The Hills*
12. Twin Seal Dub*
13. House Of Dub Version*

HERE

Mississippi Fred McDowell- Live At The Gaslight (1971)

set one
1. Shake 'Em On Down
2. Fred's Worried Blues
3. Jesus Is On The Mainline
4. Mercy
5. When The Saints Go Marchin' In
6. Someday Baby
7. The Lovin' Blues
8. White Lightnin'
9. You Got to Move
10. Louise
11. Baby Please Don't Go

set two
1. Goin' To The River (Carry My Rocking Chair)
2. Shake 'Em On Down
3. 61 highway
4. John Henry
5. My Babe
6. I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby
7. Red Cross Store
8. Levee Camp Blues
9. Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl
10. Don't Mistreat Nobody (Cause You Got A Few Dimes)
11. Get Right Church
12. Good Night (Spoken Outro)


Part One

Part Two

T-Model Ford - Pee-Wee Get My Gun (1997)

1. Cut You Loose
2. T-Model Theme Song
3. Been A Long Time
4. Turkey and the Rabbit (selected track)
5. Can't Be Touched
6. Nobody Gets Me Down
7. I'm Insane
8. Where You Been
9. Feels So Bad
10. Sugar Farm
11. Let Me In

HERE

Uncle Tupelo-Still Feel Gone (1991)

1. Gun
2. Looking For A Way Out
3. Fall Down Easy
4. Nothing
5. Still Be Around
6. Watch Me Fall
7. Punch Drunk
8. Postcard
9. D. Boon
10. True To Life
11. Cold Shoulder
12. Discarded
13. If That's Alright

HERE

Uncle Tupelo-No Depression (1990)

Perhaps the only album of it's kind I have ever cared fir, this raw, noisy country punk classic joint is the soundtrack for disgruntled farmhands and factory workers everywhere...

1 Graveyard Shift 4:43
2 That Year 2:59
3 Before I Break 2:48
4 No Depression 2:20
5 Factory Belt 3:13
6 Whiskey Bottle 4:46
7 Outdone 2:48
8 Train 3:19
9 Life Worth Living 3:32
10 Flatness 2:58
11 So Called Friend 3:12
12 Screen Door 2:42
13 John Hardy 2:21

HERE

Junior Kimbrough - God Knows I Tried (1998)

1. You're Gonna Find Your Mistake
2. How Do You Feel
3. I Gotta Try You Girl
4. I'm in Love With You
5. I Cried Last Night
6. Keep on Braggin'
7. Tramp
8. All Night Long [Instrumental]

HERE

Sly And The Family Stone-The Essential (2003)

Disc One

1. Underdog
2. I Cannot Make It
3. Dance To The Music
4. Are You Ready?
5. Fun
6. M'Lady
7. Life
8. Love City
9. Stand!
10. Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
11. I Want To Take You Higher
12. Somebody's Watching You
13. Sing A Simple Song
14. Everyday People
15. You Can Make It If You Try
16. Hot Fun In The Summertime
17. Everybody Is A Star
18. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again

HERE

Disc Two

1. Family Affair
2. Luv N' Haight
3. Poet
4. (You Caught Me) Smilin'
5. Runnin' Away
6. Brave & Strong
7. Just Like A Baby
8. Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
9. In Time
10. If You Want Me To Stay
11. Frisky
12. Skin I'm In
13. Babies Makin' Babies
14. If It Were Left Up To Me
15. Time For Livin'
16. Loose Booty
17. I Get High On You

HERE

Funkadelic-America Eats Its Young (1972)

A1 You Hit The Nail On The Head (7:10)
A2 If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause (3:43)
A3 Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time (5:50)
B1 A Joyful Process (6:10)
B2 We Hurt Too (3:47)
B3 Loose Booty (4:45)
B4 Philmore (2:40)
C1 Pussy (5:00)
C2 America Eats Its Young (5:45)
C3 Biological Speculation (3:00)
C4 That Was My Girl (3:41)
D1 Balance (5:25)
D2 Miss Lucifer's Love (5:50)
D3 Wake Up (6:20)

HERE

Funkadelic-Maggot Brain (1971)

One among many excellent P-Funk releases. Every summer I get stuck on this album.

1. Maggot Brain - 10:20
2. Can You Get to That - 2:50
3. Hit It and Quit It - 3:50
4. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks - 3:36
5. Super Stupid - 3:57
6. Back in our Minds - 2:38
8. Wars of Armageddon - 9:42

HERE

La Coka Nostra-Brand Name Dope E.P. (2009)

These whiteboys got heat! Also, check out their new joint, A Brand You Can Trust.

01. La Coka Nostra - I'm An American ft. B-Real
02. La Coka Nostra - Box Cutta
03. La Coka Nostra - Fuck Tony Montana ft. B-Real & Sick Jacken
04. La Coka Nostra - I'm A Goon
05. La Coka Nostra - Say I Was Slaine
06. La Coka Nostra - Revolution
07. La Coka Nostra - That's Coke

+ CD Bonus Materials
08. La Coka Nostra - I'm An American ft. B-Real.mp4 (Music Video)
09. La Coka Nostra - That's Coke.mp4 (Music Video)

HERE

AZ-Decade (1994-2004)

Criminally slept on.


Decade CD 1:

1.Life's a Bitch - (with Nas)
2.Sugar Hill
3.Your World Don't Stop (Original Version)
4.Uncut Raw
5.Do or Die - (remix, with Raekwon)
6.Mo Money, Mo Murder - (with Nas)
7.Sosa
8.Payback
9.How Ya Livin' - (with Nas)
10.Birth, The - (with RZA)
11.Love Is Love - (with Nature)
12.Affimative Action - (with The Firm)
13.Affimative Action - (remix, with The Firm)
14.Firm Biz - (remix, with The Firm)
15.Phone Tap - (with The Firm)
16.Hey Az
17.Problems
18.At Night
19.Let Us Toast
20.I Don't Give a F**K
21.I'm Back
22.Hustler
23.Paradise
24.Flyest, The - (with Nas)
25.Essence - (with Nas)
HERE

Decade CD2:

1.Thoro
2.Final Call
3.Magic Hour - (with C.L. Smooth)
4.Hold No Grudge
5.I'm Your Man
6.Side to Side
7.We Gone Make It Right - (with Mase)
8.Sunshine
9.Everything Is Everything - (with Nas)
10.Platinum Bars
11.Time - (with Nas)
12.Life Goes On - (with Common)
13.It's Yours - (remix)
14.Enjoy Yourself
15.Redemption - (with Cormega)
16.Gangsta Shit - (with Doo Wop)
17.Fan Mail
18.I'm Ready - (with Trav)
19.Let Me Know
20.Stretch Armstrong Freestyle
21.Gimme Yours - (remix)
22.Rather Unique

HERE

Cormega-The Realness (2001)

The title of the album says it all. This ain't none of that watered down pop bullshit

1. Dramatic Entrance
2. American Beauty
3. Thun & Kicko feat.Prodigy
4. The Saga
5. R U My Nigga?
6. Unforgiven
7. Fallen Soldiers
8. Glory Days
9. Rap's A Hustle
10. Get Out My Way
11. You Don't Want It
12. 5 For 40
13. They Forced My Hand feat. Tragedy Khadafi
14. Fallen Soldiers (remix)

HERE

Nas/9th Wonder-God's Stepson (2002)

Better than the real album. Nas ain't been great at choosin' beats lately anyway...

1- Get Down
2- The Cross
3- Made You Look
4- Last Real Nigga Alive
5- Hey nas (feat. kelis & claudette ortiz of city high)
6- I Can
7- Book Of Rhymes
8- Thugz Mansion (feat. tupac & j. phoenix)
9- Mastermind
10- Warrior Song (feat. alicia keys)
11- Revolutionary Warfare (feat. lake)
12- Ether
13- Second childhood (bonus track)

HERE

KMD-Black Bastards (1994/2001)

One of a flurry of albums pushed back, trashed or shelved indefintly in response to hip-hop continuously pushing boundaries/creating controversy, this gem didn't surface until some shady ass bootleg lookin label put it out in 2001. Featured MF Doom before he rhymed like an autistic robot.

1. Garbage Day #3
2. Get-U-Now
3. What A Nigga Know?
4. Sweet Premium Wine
5. Plumskinnz (Loose Hoe, God & Cupid)
6. Smokin' That S*@%!
7. Contact Blitt
8. Gimme!
9. Black Bastards
10. It Sounded Like A Roc!
11. Plumskinnz (Oh No I Don't Believe It!)
12. Constipated Monkey
13. F*@# Wit' Ya Head!!
14. Suspended Animation
15. What A Nigga Know? (Remix feat. MF Grimm)

HERE

Gang Of Four-Entertainment! (1979)

Marxist post-punk that influenced a million lesser bands. Really their only good album.

1. Ether
2. Natural's Not In It
3. Not Great Men
4. Damaged Goods
5. Return the Gift
6. Guns Before Butter
7. I Found that Essence Rare
8. Glass
9. Contract
10. At Home He's A Tourist
11. 5-45
12. Anthrax
13. Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time (Bonus Tracks)
14. He'd Send in the Army (Bonus Tracks)
15. It's Her Factory (Bonus Tracks)

HERE

Prodigy-Return Of The Mac (2007)

This album redeemed P from all the wack shit he was puttin out prior to this. The Alchemist comes through and laces some serious joints on this one. Only complaint is that it ain't a longer album/mixtape.

1. The Mac Is Back Intro
2. Return Of The Mac (AKA New York Shit)
3. Stuck On You
4. Mac 10 Handle
5. Down & Out In New York City
6. The Rotten Apple
7. Madge Speaks (feat Madgesty)
8. Take It To The Top
9. P. Speaks
10. 7th Heaven (feat Un Pacino)
11. Bang On ‘Em
12. Nickel And A Nail
13. Legends
14. Stop Fronting

HERE

Suicidal Tendencies-Freedumb (1999)

I consider this a "Sorry" for the horrible hair metal and thrash bullshit that they put out in the late 80s and 90s.

1.Freedumb
2.Ain't Gonna Take It
3.Scream Out
4.Halfway Up My Head
5.Cyco Vision
6.I Ain't Like You
7.Naked
8.Hippie Killer
9.Built to Survive
10.Get Sick
11.We Are Family
12.I'll Buy Myself
13.Gaigan Go Home
14.Heaven
15.Don't Take No

HERE

9th Wonder-145 Beats

Massive collection of instrumentals from 9th Wonder. Some of these have never been rapped over, while some have, and other I think have emerged on some folks albums. Hard as fuck drums and soulful samples, coutesy of Fruity Loops...

1 - Unreleased Beat
2 - Unreleased Beat
3 - Thugs Mansion (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
4 - Make Your Move - Heiroglyphics
5 - Sun Splash
6 - The Sun Is In The Sky
7 - Hidazzle - Little Brother
8 - Dollars Circulate
9 - If We Ever Stop
10 - Slippin - Buckshot
11 - The Rain - Murs 3:16
12 - When The Rain Comes Down - Jean Grae, Jeanius
13 - Pardon You - Jean Grae, Jeanius
14 - So High - Jean Grae, Jeanius
15 - Groupie
16 - Unreleased Beat
17 - Made You Look (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
18 - Unreleased Beat
19 - Unreleased Beat
20 - Unreleased Beat
21 - Night Riders (remix) - Boot Camp Clik
22 - Scars - Joe Scudda
23 - Against The Wall - Black Album Rejects
24 - Sixth Sense (remix) - Common
25 - Unreleased Beat - (co-produced by Pete Rock)
26 - Unreleased Beat - (co-produced by Pete Rock)
27 - Unreleased Beat - (co-produced by Pete Rock)
28 - Last Real Nxgga (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
29 - Do I See
30 - The Pain Is Gone
31 - That's Us - Spectator
32 - The Cross - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
33 - Clapper
34 - Just For You
35 - Don't Go
36 - Close Your Eyes
37 - Unreleased Beat
38 - Unreleased Beat
39 - Love Shine
40 - Whatever You Say - Little Brother
41 - Unreleased Beat - (co-produced by Pete Rock)
42 - Unreleased Beat
43 - Away From Me - Little Brother
44 - Speed - Little Brother
45 - Love Joint Revisited - Little Brother
46 - Shorty on the Lookout - Little Brother
47 - Unreleased Beat
48 - Unreleased Beat
49 - The Yo Yo - Little Brother
50 - More and More - Little Brother
51 - Mastermind (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
52 - Revolutionary Warfare (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
53 - Book of Rhymes (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
54 - Hey Nas (remix) - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
55 - Heart of the City - Big Pooh
56 - Unreleased Beat
57 - Each Morning - Jean Grae, Jeanius
58 - Unreleased Beat
59 - Unreleased Beat
60 - Take You There (remix) - Pete Rock
61 - Ether - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
62 - Warrior Song - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
63 - Light It Up - Little Brother
64 - Righteous Way To Go
65 - No Comparison - Buckshot
66 - I Don't Know Why - Buckshot
67 - Sidetalk - Buckshot
68 - Live Life - Big Pooh
69 - Strongest Man - Big Pooh
70 - Good Memories - The Thyrday
71 - Jeanius Intro - Jean Grae, Jeanius
72 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
73.- Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
74 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
75 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
76 - Should Have Been There - Kaze
77 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
78 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
79 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
80 - What More Can I say (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
81 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
82 - Alright - Memphis Bleek
83 - Keep It Thoro (remix) - Prodigy, Mobb Deep
84 - Good Old Love - Masta Ace
85 - The Ghetto - Buckshot
86 - Don't Rush Me - Jean Grae, Jeanius
87 - Second Childhood (remix) - Nas
88 - Unreleased Beat - (co-produced by Pete Rock)
89 - Unreleased Beat
90 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
91 - Get Down - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
92 - Gotta Get Dat - Little Brother
93 - One Love (remix) - Nas
94 - Fall In Love (remix) - Amerie
95 - I Can - God Stepson (Nas Godson remixes)
96 - My Purpose - Jean Grae
97 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
98 - And This Is For - Murs 3:16
99 - Freak These Tales - Murs 3:16
100 - Moment of Clarity (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
101 - Brush Ya Shoulders Off (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
102 - Threats (remix 1) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
103 - December 4th (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
104 - Allure (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
105 - Threats (remix 2) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
106 - My First Song (remix) - Black Is Back (Jay Z/Black Album remixes)
107 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
108 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
109 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
110 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
111 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
112 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
113 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
114 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
115 - Crouching Writer - Legacy
116 - Warning Shot - The Thyrday
117 - Unreleased Beat
118 - Unreleased Beat
119 - Unreleased Beat
120 - Unreleased Beat
121 - Unreleased Beat
122 - Home - Little Brother
123 - Nighttime Maneuvers - Little Brother
124 - The Listening - Little Brother
125 - So Fabulous - Little Brother
126 - The Way You Do It - Little Brother
127 - Nobody But You - Little Brother
128 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
129 - For You - Little Brother
130 - The Look of Love - Little Brother
131 - Unreleased Beat - Jean Grae
132 - Unreleased Beat - Jean Grae, Jeanius
133 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects, Jeanius
134 - Murs 3:16 - Murs 3:16 (Title Track)
135 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
136 - Unreleased Beat - Black Album Rejects
137 - Stay A Customer - Kaze
138 - For The Record - Kaze

HERE

Black Milk-Popular Demand (2007)

One of the best beatmakers out right now, Black Milk is outta Detroit and sounds like updated Dilla. Dude's drums are hard as fuck. This is what hip-hop is all about.

1-01 Popular Demand
1-02 Sound The Alarm F Guilty Simpson
1-03 Insane
1-04 Lookatusnow F Phat Kat
1-05 U F Ty And Kory*
1-06 Shut It Down F Ahk
1-07 So Gone
1-08 Say Something F NameTag, Slim S.D.H.
1-09 Play The Keys
1-10 Watch Em F Fat Ray, Que Diesel, Slim S.D.H.
1-11 Three+Sum
1-12 Action F Baatin, Slum Village
1-13 Luvin It
1-14 One Song
1-15 I'm Out
1-16 Take It There (Bonus Track) F One Be Lo

Broken Wax Instrumentals
2-01 Broken Wax (Instrumental)
2-02 Pressure (Instrumental)
2-03 Keep It Live (Bonus) F Mr. Porter
2-04 U's A Freak B*tch (Instrumental)
2-05 Home Of The Greats (Bonus)
2-06 Tell Em (Bonus) F NameTag
2-07 Danger (Instrumental)
2-08 Sound Of The City (Instrumental)
2-09 Outro (Instrumental)

HERE

Crass-Penis Envy (1981)

Crass was just fucking musically horrendous. Even for punk rock, they were just horrible. The production on their albums were often equally horrid. Sometimes sounds like an old tape being eaten in your stereo while some type of electrical interference combines with it to create a godawful sound.

That being said, a lot of their essay-like lyrics were pretty good, even if they were a bunch of vegan, pacifist, individualist lifestylist dicks (no pun intended).

1. Bata Motel
2. Systematic Death
3. Poison In A Pretty Pill
4. What The Fuck?
5. Where Next Columbus?
6. Berkertex Bribe
7. Smother Love
8. Health Surface
9. Dry Weather
10. Our Wedding

HERE

Funkadelic-Let's Take It To the Stage (1975)

During the summer of 2005, I got heavily into funk. Ebay + credit card = buying up the entire Parliament and Funkadelic discography, as well as numerous other compilations and groups. This might be my favorite Funkadelic record, and one I jacked the drums from often when I was dabbling in production.

Good To Your Earhole (4:30)
Better By The Pound (2:40)
Be My Beach (2:35)
No Head, No Backstage Pass (2:36)
Let's Take It To The Stage (3:32)
Get Of Your Ass And Jam (2:00)
I Owe You Something Good (5:43)
Stuffs & Things (2:11)
The Song Is Familiar (3:05)
Atmosphere (7:05)

HERE

Sick Symphoniez - Sickside Stories (2005)

This has some good joints on it, but overall, it's not my favorite from The Psycho Realm camp. Production is slipping and some of the choruses and song structures are just plain wack.

1 The Beginning
2 Cointelpro
3 #1 Target
4 Tax Evaders
5 Ghetto Sport
6 In This Lifetime
7 Times We're Living In
8 If It Happened To You
9 Fuckin Robots
10 S.S. International
11 I Can't
12 Black Hole
13 Reason to Fight
14 Streets Up

HERE

The Coup - Steal This Album (1998)

Communist hip-hop from the Bay Area. First time I heard of Boots Riley and Pam The Funkstress was in some Thrasher magazine from '99-00 that I checked out from the library because they had some cool pix of graffiti in there. This is good stuff and I'm adhering to the album title's order.

1. The Shipment
2. Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night
3. 20,000 Gun Salute
4. Busterismology
5. Cars & Shoes
6. Breathing Apparatus
7. U.C.P.A.S.
8. Pizza Man (Skit)
9. The Repo Man Sings For You (Feat. Del The Funkee Homosapien)
10. Underdogs
11. Sneakin' In
12. Do My Thang (Skit)
13. Piss On Your Grave
14. Fixation
15. What The Po-Po's Hate
16. Swervin'

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Sick Symphonies Presents...Sick Jacken & Cynic - The Terror Tapes Vol.1 (2006)

Actually haven't got to listening to this, really. So I guess it's time I do, huh? It's from The Psycho Realm crew, can't go wrong with that.

1. 2 Sides To Every Story
2. Committed So Deep. (feat bacardi riam & planet asia)
3. Fuck Cake
4. See The Light
5. Sovereign States
6. Ten Wheel Drive. (feat ill bill)
7. Heat
8. Coneccion Del Ano. (feat sinfull el pecador)
9. One Love
10. Surprised Im Alive. (feat chace infinite & defari)
11. Not Guilty. (feat frank black)
12. Decade Of Dope
13. Life Of A Drug Dealer
14. CIA Murder Me. (feat chace infinite)
15. They Say Nothing
16. Chart Music
17. Grapples Of War. (feat donnie castro)
18. Children Of The Night

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DJ Muggs vs. Sick Jacken - Legend of the Mask & the Assassin (2007)

DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill and Sick Jacken from The Psycho Realm teamed up to drop an album full of smoked out beats and bars laced with conspiracy theories. Highly recommended.

01. The Initiation
02. Mask And The Assassin
03. Ciclon
04. Land Of Shadows
05. God's Banker
06. Reptilian Renaissance
07. Praying Mantis
08. El Barrio
09. Interlude
10. Unorthodox Blocks
11. The Hole (P.O.W.)
12. Stairs To The Beast
13. Black Ships Listen
14. Rebel Angels
15. Silent Crimes
16. 2012

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The Psycho Realm-Unreleased (2001)

Unofficial(?) release of tracks from b-sides, soundtracks, obscure compliations, radio drops and the vaults. There's 2-3 versions of this floating around, but they are mostly the same tracks, just in a different order.

01. All Along The Watch Tower
02. Forget The Faces
03. False Prophets
04. Needful Things
05. Sick Side Drop (Psycho Realm & Delinquent Habits)
06. Drop (Psycho Realm & Street Platoon)
07. Envisions
08. Killing Fields
09. Lunatics In The Grass
10. Midnight Spin (Sick Jacken & Delinquent Habits)
11. Poison Rituals (Pow Wow)
12. The Flow (Drop) (B-Real & Sick Jacken)
13. Stone Garden (Pete Rock Remix)
14. Scandalous
15. Seditious Beats (Seditious Drop) (Psycho Realm & Delinquent Habits)
16. Sick Side Uniforms
17. Dead Lines (Street Platoon & Sick Jacken)
18. Circles Of Sin
19. Pig In A Blanket (Psycho Realm & Videodrone)

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The Psycho Realm-A War Story Book 2 (2003)

I remember when this dropped, it kinda came out of nowhere. I already done had some of these tracks, as they were floating around the internet, but after Duke's shooting, Jacken apparently went back into the studio and did some shit to finish up this album. Not as good as the first one, but still worth the time of day.

01. Street Terrorism
02. The Enenmy Strikes Back
03. Wasted
04. The Killing Field
05. Art Of Execution
06. Palace Of Exile
07. First Day Of Freedom
08. Poison Rituals
09. Unknown Soldier
10. Soul Sacrifice
11. Dysfunctional
12. Good Times
13. Lifestyle
14. Concrete Jungles
15. Gun Control

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Street Platoon-The Steel Storm (2001)

Sort of a Psycho Realm side project, this was the first official project to come out after Big Duke's shooting. Looking back, I kind of wonder how in the hell we even tracked this record down, because our access to the internet was somewhat limited and this shit wasn't exactly at most music stores. Somebody must have had Napster or Audiogalaxy (remember that shit?)

1. Downtown Daze
2. Dead Lines
3. Mean Streets
4. Drug Lab
5. Sick Of It All
6. Pink
7. Great Downfall
8. Street Revolution
9. The Funeral March
10. Friction
11. Traffic
12. Animal Factory


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The Psycho Realm-A War Story Book 1 (1999)

To me, this is, like a perfect hip-hop album. Tales of revolution, gang bangin', government repression, Big Brother, cholo talk, over menacing beats. Probably my favorite duo of all time. Sick Jacken is still putting things out, but his bro Big Duke got blasted a while back and his been out of the game for a minute, although I heard he's making beats now.

01. The Crazy Area 05:15
02. Order Through Chaos 04:57
03. Pico-Union District 02:44
04. Enemy Of The State 04:00
05. Conspiracy Theories 04:29
06. Tragedy.Com 06:28
07. Earthquake Weather 03:01
08. The Wind Of Revolution 03:25
09. Moving Through Streets 05:22
10. Street Platoons 06:11
11. Sick Dogs 05:33
12. Show Of Force 04:10

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His Hero Is Gone-Fifteen Counts Of Arson (1996)

"Yes, they're from Memphis, Tennessee, but don't expect any Elvis imitators; His Hero Is Gone's songs are powerfully incendiary blitzkriegs of fierce anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, anti-consumerist rage. This band harnesses a hardcore metal pathos that rivals Neurosis and Napalm Death, and like those bands, His Hero Is Gone's music serves as a vehicle for searing, declamatory, far-left social commentary. The music is brooding, primitive and, at times, almost crushingly heavy; the songs range from sluggishly slow to blurry fast, and they are short, incisive, and unapologetically caustic. Guitarist Todd Burdette does the primary roaring and decrying while his brother Paul pounds out propulsive drum rhythms, Carl Auge supplies the epic bass lines and handles the rest of the vocals, and Yannick Lorrain plays a searing razor-edged second guitar."

1. Professional Mind Fuckers - 2:07
2. ...And We Burn - 0:53
3. Unleash - 0:25
4. Leash - 1:54
5. Sterile Fortress - 1:44
6. Good Samaritan - 0:29
7. Hand That Feeds - 0:21
8. Rain Dance - 2:42
9. Voluntary Amputation - 0:52
10. Anthem For The Undesirables - 0:58
11. Scalor - 1:54
12. Concrete Cage - 0:37
13. Abandoned - 1:25
14. Thieves - 1:30
15. The End Result Of 11 Months In The Mental Hospital - 4:42

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Joell Ortiz-Covers The Classics (2009)

One of the few great Rican MC's spitting over 80s and 90s beats? I'm there, downloading that shit for free. Well, that's pretty much the only way to get this, since its a mixtape...

01. Intro
02. Rappers Delight (feat. DJ Enuff)
03. Know The BK Ledge
04. Somethin for Hot 97 (feat. DJ Camilo)
05. Strictly the Bizness
06. Treat Me Right
07. Industry Enemy #1
08. Brooklyn Children’s Story
09. I Can’t Go Broke
10. Live At Cooper Day BBQ
11. Uptown Anthem
12. U.N.I.T.Y.
13. T.R.O.Y.
14. Primo Tribute
15. Just To Get A Check
16. Mass Appeal
17. Act Like They Don’t Know
18. The Whut (Animal Shit)
19. BK Get Money
20. Got My Mind Made Up
21. Drop A Gem On ‘Em
22. Intercourse
23. Cell Therapies
24. High Roller
25. Brooklyn Ghetto Child
26. What They Do (Root’s Tribute)
27. Renee’s Revenge
28. Goin To Miami (feat. DJ Khaled)
29. What Happened To Hip Hop
30. 4,3,2,1
31. Recognize
32. 24HRS
33. Rican Ebonics 09

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Fucked Up-Epics In Minutes (2004)

Collection of songs from EPs, 7", tapes, B-Sides, compilations and other assorted sources from the much hearalded hardcore turned experimental hardcore band. This was before they made 8 minutes songs and were into 80's style hardcore that sounded like Poison Idea resurrected. Check out the later stuff, too, of course, but this is my favorite stuff from em.

Oh, I also saw them play at a show, but it was almost ruined by hipster fucks who just stood there like the fucking Dave Matthews Band was playing...

1. Color Of Removal
2. What Could've Been
3. Baiting The Public
4. Last Man Standing
5. Litany
6. Police
7. Circling The Drain
8. Reset The Ride
9. A Light That Never Comes On
10. Generation
11. Red
12. Dance Of Death
13. Cult Radio Set
14. Demo

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Choking Victim-No Gods/No Managers (1999)

The predeccesor to Leftover Crack, this ska/hardcore/death metal group made songs about alienation, drugs, killing pigs and other great topics. Makes me wanna just start throwin 'bos in a line of riot cops.

01. 500 Channels
02. In Hell
03. Crack Rock Steady
04. Suicide
05. In My Grave
06. Fucked Reality
07. Money
08. Hate Your State
09. Fuck America
10. War Story
11. Five-Finger Discount
12. Praise To The Sinners
13. Living The Laws

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Los Crudos-Discography

1990's Latino hardcore punk band from Chicago. That's right, there's 74 songs on this bad boy. That should give you an idea of what this sounds like. Fast hardcore in Spanish. Wonderful shit.

01 Tiempos De La Miseria
02 Me Robarron
03 Crudo Soy
04 Las Madres Lloran
05 Eliminacion
06 Desde Afuera
07 Asesinos
08 Se ve en tu Cara
09 Cipayos, Traidores y Vendidos
10 Sin Caras
11 No Estoy Convencido
12 Curiosidad
13 Porque
14 Tu Lo Ensenaste
15 Lucha Para Que Te Escuchen
16 Corrido Jodido
17 Escaleras
18 Llegan Empujando
19 Nada Cambia
20 Achicados
21 En Mi Opinion
22 No Te Debo Nada
23 Levantate
24 La Caida de Latino America
25 Nos Quieren Como Siempre
26 No me Vengan a Salvar
27 Dejanos En Paz
28 Tierra De Libertad
29 Victorias Y Ganancias
30 Unidad Prohibida
31 That's Right We're That Spic Band
32 Poco a Poco
33 Sueltalo
34 Migra Violencia
35 Viejos Pateticos
36 Del Pasado a el Presente
37 Esto no trae precio
38 A los Inseguros
39 Tomando Los Golpes
40 No Existen Palomas Blancas En Mi Barrio
41 No Va Haber Revolucion
42 Quien Es El Pendejo Mas Grande
43 Que Paso Con La Paz
44 Metiendo Sal En La Llaga
45 Vas a Regresar?
46 HardcorEgoismo
47 Naciste Con Voz
48 llegal Y Que
49 Identidad Perdida
50 Vendedores De Dolor
51 500 Años
52 Ahora Quién se Queja?
53 Lengua Armada
54 Que Paso Con La Paz
55 Peleamos
56 Escupiendo Tu Propia Cara
57 Que Te Conviene
58 Me lo Paso por el Culo
59 Cobardes
60 Desde El Barrio
61 Sin Titulo
62 Somos Peligrosos
63 Poem-Crudo Soy
64 Se ve en tu Cara
65 Cipayos,Traidores Y Vendidos
66 Sin Caras
67 Peleamos
68 Las Madres Lloran
69 Asesinos
70 Illegal y Que
71 Vendedores de Dolor
72 Eliminación
73 Me Robaron
74 500 Anõs

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Snapcase - Progression Through Unlearning (1997)

Ever wonder why all those metalcore bands came about? Well, this album is one of the reasons. But, rest assured, this is no generic bro moshpit muzak or brokenhearted whining, this is what metalcore is supposed to be. By the way, this mawfucka's vocal chords had to be shredded into pulp after recording this. My lordskees.

01. Caboose
02. Guilty By Ignorance
03. Harrison Bergeron
04. Priceless
05. Zombie Perscription
06. Killing Yourself To Live
07. She Suffocates
08. Weak Tyrant
09. Vent
10. Breaking And Reaching
11. Mr. Peewee Herman

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From Ashes Rise-Nightmares (2003)

Man, I used to hate crust and d-beat. Just wasn't my thing. I heard a lot of shitty bands before I got to one I genuinely liked. From Ashes Rise was that band. Dark, depressing, guttural, angry, hopeless, political, etc. G'yeah!

01. Reaction
02. Hell In The Darkness
03. They
04. Final Goodbye
05. On The Fray
06. Nightmares
07. Noise
08. Inner Beast
09. Interlude
10. Mandate
11. Bloodlust
12. In A Free Land

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Career Suicide-Anthology Of Releases: 2001-2003

Snotty, distorted fast 80's style hardcore from Canada. Honestly, I couldn't find the Anthology for 2004-2005, which is better, but this is still excellent.

01. - Quarantined -
02. - Sucker -
03. - Part And Parcel -
04. - While You're Ahead -
05. - Fall-Out -
06. - Hapless -
07. - Brought To The Brink -
08. - Out Of Hope, Out Of Rope And Out Of Time -
09. - Bend At The Crease -
10. - Stay Right Here -
11. - Jonzo's Leaking Radiation -
12. - Punitive Damage -
13. - Let It Go -
14. - Look The Other Way -
15. - Day By Day -
16. - You Call This A Life? -
17. - Catch Up -
18. - Ruin And Wreck -
19. - Who's Walking Who? -
20. - Another Sigh, Another Year -
21. - Moron -
22. - Closed Eyes -
23. - Affectations -
24. - Shut Up -
25. - Career Suicide -
26. - Urban Slobs -
27. - Stay Away -
28. - Social Circle -
29. - The Last Word -
30. - Like All The Rest -
31. - Square One -
32. - Bloodtype X (Chronic Sick) -
33. - Dicta-Flag -
34. - Shut Up -
35. - Metal Threat -
36. - Doom Ryder -
37. - Spleengenerate -
38. - That Other Song -
39. - Todd Killings (Angry Samoans) -
40. - Leftover Bonus Crap -
41. - Closed Eyes -
42. - Too Much -
43. - Moron -
44. - Shut Up

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The Jacka-Tear Gas (2009)

Hmm, the best hip-hop album of 2009 from the Bay Area? Quite possible. The Jacka spits that shit you wanna listen to at 4AM, still up after a hard night. I could go on and on about how he's the best on the west (with an actual album out, sorry Crooked I) right now, but just check the album and find out yourself.

01.Summer Ft. Rydah J Kydah, Matt Blaque [03:50]
02.Just A Celebrity Ft. Sky Balla [03:57]
03.Glamorous Lifestyle Ft. Andre Nickatina [03:57]
04.Greatest Alive Ft. E-40, Mitchy Slick, Jynx [03:38]
05.They Dont Know Ft. Freeway [03:40]
06.Dream Ft. Ampichino, Zion I [04:23]
07.Wont Be Right Ft. Cellski [04:13]
08.Keep Callin Ft. Devin the Dude [04:09]
09.Girls [03:44]
10.Scared Money Ft. Krondon, Ap. 9 [04:06]
11.Get it in Ft. Paul Wall, Masspike Miles [03:35]
12.Whats Your Zodiac Ft. Phil Da Agony [03:50]
13.Dopest Forreal [04:05]
14.Callin My Name Ft. Mistah F.A.B. [03:43]
15.What Happened to the World [03:55]
16.The Movement Ft. Planet Asia [03:26]
17.Storm Ft. Cormega [03:06]
18.Our Heroes Ft. Dubb 20, J. Stalin [03:28]
19.All Over Me [03:32]

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Jay Electronica-What The Fuck Is A Jay Electronica? (2008)

If Nas was the second coming of Rakim, Jay is the third coming. Too bad he may never come out with a proper album, but this compilation of tracks has been holding me over.

1. Spark Em Up (Intro)
2. Renaissance Man
3. My World (Nas Salute)
4. Extra Extra
5. Abaracadabra
6. Uzi Weighs A Ton
7. A Prayer For Michael Vick and T.I. (We Love You Family)
8. Dimethyltriptamine
9. Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
10. Bitches And Drugs
11. Trolley Stop
12. Hard To Get
13. Girlfriend
14. Be Easy
15. Dealing
16. Get Em
17. Victory Is In My Clutches
18. Somethin To Hold On To
19. I Feel Good
20. So What You Sayin
21. Walk With It
22. Katrina The Levees Broke

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Born/Dead-The Final Collapse (2007)

Reading reviews of Born/Dead's records in Maximum Rock N Roll years ago, I knew immediately that this would be a band I would cherish. A couple years later when I got a hold of Endless...Repetition (CD collection of various splits and 7"), I found that assumption to be quite true. This is crust the way Allah intended: dark, heavy, and pissed. Even the fact that they have primitivist type politics isn't enough to keep my ears away from their music. Even when in 'nothing but hip-hop' phase, I'll still throw these cats on.

01 Barricades
02 Years Of Death
03 Nuance/The Final Collapse
04 Bomb Factory
05 Anamnesis/Sirens
06 Eulogy

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