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This was definitely a genre altering release…came out when G funk ruled and West Coast called the shots. A very underrated album this one. If am not wrong i still have the source magazine from 98 or 99 which named them in their top a hundred listing. A great achievement back then. 93, 94, 95, 96 and 97 were the best years for rap…lots of materials to choose from…i thank God i became a teenager in 96 and therefore took a front seat during hip hop’s best years…picture this…albums released in 93, all seminal works, include;
Here Comes the Lords by Lords of the Underground
Organix by the Roots
jazzmatazz by Guru
No pressure by Eric Sermon
Enter the Wu Tang
Midnight marauders by a tribe Called Quest
Black Sunday by Cypress Hill
Bacdafucup by Onyx
Coming out Hard by 8ball
Enter the Stage by Black Moon
Till Death do us apart by Geto Boyz
Get in Where you fit in by Too short
Federal by E- 40
Lethal injection by Ice Cube
Its On by Eazy E
Doggystyle by Snoop
Strictly for my NIGGAZ by Pac
And these are just but a few. Lets not even go to 94 which admittedly was a profound year for rap. The first time i came across hip hop was in 98- 99 after joining high school…and i got hooked kabisa! I remember buying album after album from 93 to 97. My room had huge posters of hip hop album covers hadi mzae akanipeleka kwa some uncles ati niongeleshwe…he was convinced i was into hard drugs…and i was not alone…alafu remember this was also the time we were watching MJ and Bulls…then uongeze Hollywood…the movies released in 94 were out of this world…hebu google them ujionee…and that explains why ALMOST all Kenyan middle class born 80s ended up in the USA after school…the influence was too much…kwanza Nakuru 90% ya born 80s wako States sai…siku hizi reunions mingi za maboy wa nakuru who are now in their 40s hufanyiwa States.
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90s hiphop shit was tha bomb.