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Advantages: Mixture of genres
Disadvantages: aged content

...and its follow up album, Maximum Bass 2, although lacking a bit in the great DJ department, has the track selection to make up for it. Basically, if you like these genres, this album is a must have. But, Maximum Bass is missing something (not sure what), that Maximum Bass 2 compensates for. It's good to have one, but it's not good to have one with out the other. ... Read review

Advantages: Incredible lyricist
Disadvantages: a couple of turkey beats (sort of)

Immortal Technique is one of the greatest Mcees I have ever heard. He has an incredible talent of flow and rhyme construction and his content is easily understandable an highly intelligent. He is consistantly on strongly themed songs with relevant content. He can be very controversial- but generally only to "prove a point". If I could compare him to anyone (and thi will sound strange!!) it would be Eminem - due to both having very strong content ...
...than Em. His controversy is usually related to specific politcal or social issues and in the same breath he will display a deep understanding of them. He has also resisted signing major record deals, preffering to retain his control over content. His storytelling as shown on "Dance with the devil" is also top notch. He is expert at painting images with both sentimental and circumstancial detail. I would recommend him to anyone. A tru rapper using ... Read review

Advantages: Consistant quality
Disadvantages: No big single

"Golden Grain" is the debut album by the Southern Rap record label, Disturbing Tha Peace (DTP), which is owned by the Atlanta rapper Ludacris. It came out towards the end of 2002 (in between the release of Ludacris' second and third albums, "Word Of Mouf" and "Chicken-N-Beer" respectively). This album showcases the talent of everyone from his label, all of which come out with the style which Luda brought to the mainstream; Southern Rap, and in particular ...
...has the group working together on collaborations with each other, but also has other guests such as Too $hort, Scarface and Twista. At the time the label had the following artists signed up to it: Playaz Circle, Shawnna, Lil' Fate, I-20 as well as some lesser known artists and they all get a chance to show off what they have to offer before going into solo work with the label. 1. "Break Sumthin'" (feat. Ludacris, Shawnna, Lil' Fate, Tity Boi, I-20) ... Read review

Advantages: Nice guest rappers like Ghostface and Raekwon turn up at AFTERPARTY and THE TURN respectively.
Disadvantages: The lyrics from Method man are disgusting and the musical production is revolting! SAY WHAT?

...THE WU TANG CLAN ALBUMS: TICAL 0: THE PREQUEL The Method Man Album Collection - Part I Author: DJprimo Published by drkdjprimo for DIJEH inc. / Works of Art *********************************************************************** ***** INTRODUCTION Two years ago on Ciao.co.uk, I informed that Cappadonna is a Hip Hop artist who is native to Staten Island, a New York City suburb in the USA. I also mentioned in my music review ...
...numerous collaborations with Wu-Tang Clan lyricists on various classic records. Now meet Method Man ( real name: Clifford Smith ), another USA rapper who hails from Staten Island like Cappadonna. He is one of the original members the Wu-Tang Clan, an army of rap soldiers who released their exceptional Enter The 36 Wu-Tang Chambers album in 1993. Although Method Man is formerly a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, most British fans of mainstream ... Read review

Advantages: Pure and original
Disadvantages: Long tracks

Released in 1986, "Planet Rock" is the debut album release for Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force. The title for it comes from the first single, which launched their careers. Obvioulsy, looking at the year we are looking at very early Hip Hop, as the genre only came about as a proper style in the late '70s. Baambataa was a pioneer in making the Hip Hop movement get to the stge where it could be actually be recorded, rather than be listened to ...
...to do to make his music appeal to those who help Hip hop on it's way out of New York, and to a wider audience. 1. "Planet Rock" As the title track from the LP, and breakthrough in many ways (for Hip Hop, Afrika Bambaataa, Elctro-Funk, ect.), "Planet Rock" has to be considered one of few tracks in Hip Hop history which you couldn't dispute having it considered to be a classic. The beat which is brought was so simple, yet so original at the time, ... Read review