To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now. One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. Geto Boyz member Scarface earned with the Blueprint Award for creating a. The uncredited mixing is fine, and not much about the selection is debatable - 'Fuck 'Em,' 'Gangster of Love,' 'Damn It Feels Good. 1of65Houstons Trae Tha Truth and Scarface were honored at the Congressional.
At the same time, he became part of the rap group Geto Boys comprising of other.
That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. Like similar Rap-A-Lot titles for Scarface, Devin the Dude, Yukmouth, and Pimp C, Best of the Geto Boys is a mixtape-style overview, not a track-in-whole compilation like 1992's Uncut Dope or 2002's Greatest Hits. He gained his primary education from the Woodson Middle School and was. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be.
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