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Essential Hip Hop Albums East Coast

Super Cool Album, probably my second favorite so far, I love there flow and the rapping is great throughout. The sampling was also really amazing and really added to tracks like It’s My Thing, and You Got To Chill

Essential Hip Hop Albums East Coast

This album was not very good in my opinion. The tracks where I actually enjoyed will smiths rapping were very rare and this album is way to long for its own good.

Essential Hip Hop Albums East Coast #15/63
I was ready to mark off this album as just ehh until the last song came on. Beautiful sample and surprisingly introspective lyrics for the time I think “Don’t You Know” is the biggest hidden gem I’ve found doing this so far. This album is still however heavily held back by the rest of the songs nothing else really stood out to me, and I thought the whole concept felt a bit like a gimmick at times especially on tracks like Chunky ... read more

Essential Hip Hop Albums East Coast #14/63
According to AOTY this is only one of 6 must hears in the 80s, and it was the earliest album to ever hit Must Hear status and it’s for a really good reason. This album is terrific, Paid In Full and I Ain’t no joke in particular stood out this is definitely my favorite album I’ve heard so far but I still can’t see myself coming back to it too often, and there are a few lowlights like Chinese Arithmetic.