NE Heartbreak by New Edition The album version of this song is cool, but the version that everyone remembers is the one that they used in the video that was only put out on vinyl. When you go back and listen to this song, you can hear that Bell Biv DeVoe basically took the vibe from this remix, ran with it and made their first album Poison. LL Cool J ghost wrote Michael Bivins' rap verse. I know this because I have the this hard to find 12 inch in my personal collection.
Get The Fuck Out My House by The 2 Live Crew This is actually a really funny record off of As Nasty As They Wanna Be where Luke tells a woman she isn't shit for 5 solid minutes over a Hip-House beat. As much as this song makes me laugh I am glad Hip-House is just a footnote in music history. I listened to the whole album recently and it is amazing that this is what people were trying to ban as obscene in 1990. Some of the songs on this record are almost PG-13 compared to some of the music that is out now.
Gravity by Da Bush Babies This is one of those east coast groups that I feel got lost in the shuffle during the jiggy era. Gravity is a great album which featured a very un famous at the time Mos Def on a couple of songs.
Big Timer by Fiend I hated No Limit when it was popular. I am proud to say Master P did not get one dime out of me when he was dumping all of those garbage albums in record stores in the late 90's. That said, I would hear a song No Limit song every once and a while that did not make me want to punch the first person I saw with gold teeth. This was one of them.
Beat The Clock by Ghostface Killa No one else could do this song, or most Ghostface Killa songs for that matter. The Pretty Tony Album was so dope.
Bring It On by N'Dea Davenport I'm the only person I know who bought her solo album. If the name seems familiar she is also the lead singer for The Brand New Heavies. There is also a DJ Premier remix of this track.
It's Trick by Run D.M.C. As much as I like Run D.M.C., I HATE this record. It is one of those corny songs that white people who don't know anything about Hip-Hop get excited about whenever they hear it. I know that sounded racist, but I go out a lot and have seen this first hand too many times to count.
December 4th by Jay-Z The Black Album still sounds as fresh today as when it came out. I know a lot of people who like to argue about it being a classic or not. In my opinion it is. This song which features Jay-Z's mom is liked by even the biggest of Nas apologists.
Royalty by Gang Starr feat. K.C. & JoJo On paper this looked like a terrible collaboration. K.C. & JoJo were fresh off of pop star success with "All My Life" and we had not heard from Gang Starr in about 4 years, but it worked. I listened to this album front to back about a month ago and it is a problem that no one ever brings up Moment Of Truth when classic albums are discussed.
Let It Go by Little Brother feat. Mos Def This was off of the Seperate But Equal Mixtape that they did with DJ Drama. Luckily there was a a Drama free edition of this mixtape that you could listen to like a regular album without all of the yelling and gunshot. As much as I love the work Phonte is doing with Foreign Exchange, I would love another album with all 3 members of Little Brother working together again.
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