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RATING ARTIST * TITLE (LABEL) YEAR
Above the Law * Livin' Like Hustlers (Ruthless/Epic) 90
Afrika Bambaataa * Planet Rock - The Album 1981-1984 (Tommy Boy) 86
Afrika Bambaataa * Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) (Tommy Boy) 86
Afrika Bambaataa * The Decade Of Darkness (1990-2000) (EMI) 91
9+ Anti Pop Consortium * Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark) 00
Apache Indian * No Reservations (4th & Broadway) 93
Apache Indian * Make Way for the Indian (Island) 95
9- Arrested Development * Three Years, Five Months & Two Days in the Life of . . . (Chrysalis) 92
9+ Erykah Badu * Baduizm (Universal) 97
9+ Basehead * Play With Toys (Imago) 92
9+ Basehead * Not In Kansas Anymore (Imago) 93
9 Basehead * Faith (Imago) 96
9 Beastie Boys * Licenced To Ill (Capitol) 86
9+ Beastie Boys * Paul's Boutique (Grand Royal) 89
10- Beastie Boys * Check Your Head (Grand Royal) 92
9+ Beastie Boys * Ill Communication (Grand Royal) 94
9+ Beastie Boys * Hello Nasty (Grand Royal) 98
Big Daddy Kane * Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin') 88
Big Daddy Kane * It's a Big Daddy Thing (Cold Chillin') 89
9+ Blackalicious * A2G EP (Quannum) 99
10 Blackalicious * Nia (Quannum) 00
9 Black Sheep * A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Mercury) 91
Black Sheep * Non-Fiction (Mercury) 94
9 Black Star * Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Rawkus) 98
9 Mary J. Blige * Mary (MCA) 99
Kurtis Blow * Kurtis Blow (Mercury) 80
Kurtis Blow * Best of Kurtis Blow (Mercury) 84
10 Boogie Down Productions * Criminal Minded (B-Boy) 87
10- Boogie Down Productions * By All Means Necessary (Jive) 88
9 Boogie Down Productions * Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (Jive) 89
9- Boogie Down Productions * Edutainment (Jive) 90
9- Boogie Down Productions * Live Hardcore Worldwide (Jive) 91
8 Boogie Down Productions * Sex and Violence (Jive) 92
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. * New Funky Nation (4th & Broadway) 90
Boss * Born Like Gangsterz DJ (East-West) 93
The Brand New Heavies * Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 (Delicious Vinyl) 92
Brand Nubian * One For All (Elektra) 90
Brand Nubian * In God We Trust (Elektra) 93
Brand Nubian * Everything Is Everything (Elektra) 94
9- Busta Rhymes * When Disaster Strikes (Elektra) 97
9 Busta Rhymes * Extinction Level Event (Elektra) 98
9- Neneh Cherry * Raw Like Sushi (Virgin) 89
9 Neneh Cherry * Homebrew (Virgin) 92
9 Neneh Cherry * Man (Virgin) 97
9- Chocolate Genius * Black Music (V2) 98
9 Common * One Day It Will All Make Sense (Relativity) 97
9+ Common * Like Water For Chocolate (MCA) 00
9 Company Flow * Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus) 97
Compton's Most Wanted * It's a Compton Thang (Capitol) 90
Compton's Most Wanted * Straight Checkn' 'Em (Orpheus) 91
Compton's Most Wanted * Music to Driveby (Orpheus) 92
9+ Cypress Hill * Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse) 91
9 Cypress Hill * Black Sunday (Ruffhouse) 93
9- Cypress Hill * Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (Ruffhouse) 95
Da Lench Mob * Guerillas in Tha Mist (Atco) 92
9 D'Angelo * Brown Sugar (EMI) 95
9 D'Angelo * Voodoo (Virgin) 00
9+ Das EFX * Dead Serious (East West) 92
9 Das EFX * Straight Up Sewaside (East West) 93
8 Das EFX * Hold It Down (EastWest) 95
9 Deee-Lite * World Clique (Elektra) 90
8+ Deee-Lite * Infinity Within (Elektra) 92
9- Deee-Lite * Dewdrops in the Garden (Elektra) 94
10- De La Soul * Three Feet And Rising (Tommy Boy) 90
9+ De La Soul * De La Soul Is Dead (Tommy Boy) 91
9+ De La Soul * Buhloon Mindstate (Tommy Boy) 93
9+ De La Soul * Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy) 96
DFC (Da Funk Clan) * Things in tha Hood (Big Beat) 94
Da Lench Mob * Planet of Da Apes (Priority) 94
Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics * Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (Polygram) 92
9 Digable Planets * Reachin': A New Refutation . . . (Pendulum) 93
9 Digable Planets * Blowout Comb (Pendulum) 94
9 Digital Underground * Sex Packets (Tommy Boy) 90
9- Digital Underground * Sons of the P (Tommy Boy) 91
8+ Digital Underground * The Body Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy) 93
9 DJ Krush * Strictly Turntablized (Mo Wax) 94
9+ DJ Krush * Krush (Shadow) 95
9+ DJ Krush * Meiso (Mo Wax) 95
9+ DJ Krush * Milight (Mo Wax) 97
D-Knowledge * All That and a Bag of words (Qwest) 95
DJ Muggs * Presents the Soul Assassins 97
The D.O.C. * No One Can Do It Better (Ruthless) 89
7- Tha Dogg Pound * Dogg Food (Death Row) 95
9 Dr. Doom (Kool Keith) * First Come, First Served (Funky Ass) 99
8 Dr. Dre * The Chronic (Priority) 93
9+ Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith) (Bulk) 96
Tim Dog * Penicillin on Wax (CBS) 91
Dream Warriors * And Now the Legacy Begins (4th & Broadway) 91
Duce Duce * A Sip of the Duce (Delicoius) 95
10- Missy Misdemeanor Elliott * Supa Dupa Fly (East/West) 97
10- EPMD * Strictly Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh) 88
9 EPMD * Unfinished Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh) 89
9- EPMD * Business As Usual (Def Jam) 91
8 EPMD * Business Never Personal (Def Jam) 92
9+ Eric B. & Rakim * Paid In Full (4th & Broadway) 86
9 Eric B. & Rakim * Follow the Leader (Uni) 88
9- Eric B. & Rakim * Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (MCA) 90
8+ The Fat Boys * The Fat Boys (Sutra) 84
8 The Fat Boys * The Fat Boys Are Back! (Sutra) 85
8+ The Fat Boys * Krush On You 1984-1987 (Blatant) 88
Fat Joe Da Gangsta * Represent (Relativity) 93
Fat Joe * Jealous One's Envy (Relativity) 95
The Firm All Stars (Aftermath/Interscope) 97
Freestyle Fellowship * Innercity Griots (4th & Broadway) 93
Doug E. Fresh * Oh My God! (Reality) 85
Doug E. Fresh * The World's Greatest Entertainer (Reality) 88
9 Fugees * Blunted On Reality (Ruffhouse) 94
9 Fugees * The Score (Ruffhouse) 96
Funkdoobiest * Brothas Doobie (Immortal) 95
9 Warren G * Regulate . . . G Funk Era (Violator) 94
9 Gang Starr * No More Mr. Nice Guy (Chrysalis) 89
8+ Gang Starr * Step In The Arena (Chrysalis) 90
9+ Gang Starr * Daily Operation (Chrysalis) 92
Gang Starr * Hard To Earn (Chrysalis) 94
9 Gang Starr * Moment Of Truth (Empire/Noo Trybe) 98
9+ The Genius/GZA * Liquid Swords (Geffen) 95
Geto Boys * Grip It! on That Level (Def American) 90
Geto Boys * Geto Boys the Best Uncut Dope (Rap-A-Lot) 92
9 Ghostface Killah * Ironman (Epic)
9+ The Goats * Tricks of the Shade (Ruffhouse) 92
8 The Goats * No Goats, No Glory (Ruffhouse) 94
9+ Goodie Mob * Soul Food (WB) 95
9 Goodie Mob * Still Standing (LaFace) 98
9 Goodie Mob * World Party (LaFace) 99
10- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five * Best Of 1980-1984 (Rhino) 84
Grand Puba * Reel to Reel (Elektra) 92
9 The Gravediggaz * 6 Feet Deep (Gee Street) 94
9 The Gravediggaz * The Pick, the Sicke and the Shovel (Gee Street) 97
9 Macy Gray * On How Life Is (Epic) 99
9+ Guru * Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Chrysalis) 93
9 Guru * Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (Chrysalis) 95
9+ Handsome Boy Modeling School (Prince Paul & The Automator) * So...How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy) 99
Heavy D & the Boyz * Big Tyme (Uptown) 89
Heavy D & the Boyz * Peaceful Journey (Uptown) 91
9+ Hedfunk * Hedfunk (Shadow) 95
9 Lauryn Hill * The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse) 98
9+ House of Pain * House of pain (Tommy Boy) 92
House of Pain * Same As It Ever Was (Tommy Boy) 94
Hurricane * The Hurra (Capitol) 95
9 Ice Cube * Amerikkka's Most Wanted (Priority) 90
Ice Cube * Death Certificate (Priority) 91
Ice Cube * The Predator (Priority) 92
8 Ice-T * Rhyme Pays (Sire) 87
9 Ice-T * The Iceberg, Freedom of Speech . . . Just Watch What You Say (Sire) 89
9- Ice-T * Power (Sire) 89
9+ Ice-T * O.G. Original Gangster (Sire/WB) 91
7+ Ice-T * Lethal Injection (4th & Broadway) 94
Intelligent Hoodlum * Tragedy - Saga of a Hoodlum (A&M) 93
9 Jeru the Damaja * The Sun Rises In The East (Payday/ffrr) 94
9 Jeru the Damaja * Wrath Of The Math (Payday/ffrr) 96
10- The Jungle Brothers * Straight Out The Jungle (Warlock) 88
10 The Jungle Brothers * Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB) 89
10- The Jungle Brothers * J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB) 93
Kam * Neva Again (East-West) 93
Kam * Made in America (East-West) 95
9+ Kelis * Kaleidoscope (Virgin) 00
Kid Frost * Hispanic Causing Panic (Virgin) 90
Kid Frost * East Side Story (Virgin) 92
9 Kid Koala * Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Ninja Tune) 00
Knucklehedz * Strictly Savage (East-West) 94
Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo * Live and let Die (WB) 92
9 Kool Keith * Sex Style (Funky Ass) 97
9 Kool Keith * Black Elvis/Lost In Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia) 99
Kool Moe Dee * Kool Moe Dee (Rooftop-Jive) 86
Kool Moe Dee * How Ya Like Me Now (Rooftop-Jive) 87
Kool Moe Dee * Knowledge Is King (Jive/RCA) 89
Kool Moe Dee * Greatest Hits (Sequal) 89
KRS-One * Return of the Boom Bap (Jive) 94
KRS-One (Jive) 95
K-Solo * Tell the World My Name (Atlantic) 90
K-Solo * Time's Up (Atlantic) 92
Leaders of the New School * Future Without a Past (Elektra) 91
The Last Poets * The Last Poets (Douglas) 69
Leaders of the New School * Future Without A Past (Elektra) 91
Lightnin' Rod * Hustlers Convention (Douglas) 73
Lord Finesse * Funky Technician Wild (Pitch) 90
Lord Finesse * Return of the Funky Man (Giant) 92
Lords Of The Underground * Keepers Of The Funk (Pendulum/EMI) 94
9+ L.L. Cool J. * Radio (Def Jam) 86
9 L.L. Cool J. * Bigger and Deffer (Def Jam) 87
8- L.L. Cool J. * Walking with a Panther (Def Jam) 89
9+ L.L. Cool J. * Mama Said Knock You Out (Def Jam) 90
9- L.L. Cool J. * 14 Shot to the Dome (Def Jam) 93
9 L.L. Cool J. * Mr. Smith (Def Jam) 95
9 Lucsious Jackson * In Search of Manny EP (Grand Royal) 93
9 Lucsious Jackson * Extra Ingrediants (Grand Royal) 94
9- Craig Mack * Flava In Ya Ear (Bad Boy) 94
Mad Flava * From tha Ground Unda (Priority) 94
Main Source * Breaking Atoms (Wild Pitch) 91
9+ Massive Attack * Blue Lines (Virgin) 91
9+ Massive Attack * Protection (Virgin) 94
9+ Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor * No Protection (Circa) 95
9+ Massive Attack * Mezzanine (Virgin) 98
Masta Ace Incorporated * Sittin' On Chrome (Delicious) 95
MC Breed * Big Baller (Wrap) 95
MC Lyte * Lyte as a Rock (First Priority) 88
MC Lyte * Eyes on This (First Priority) 89
Mellow Man Ace * Escape from Havana (Capitol) 90
Metalheads * Angel EP (Synthetic) 93
Metalheads * Inner City Life (ffrr) 94
9 Method Man * Tical (Ral/Def Jam) 94
Mobb Deep * The Infamous Mobb Deep (Loud) 95
9 Money Mark * Mark's Keyboard Repair (Mo Wax) 95
Monie Love * Down to Earth (WB) 90
Monie Love * In a Word or 2 (WB) 93
9 Morcheeba * Who Can You Trust? (Discovery) 96
9+ Mos Def * Black On Both Sides (Rawkus) 99
Movement Ex * Movement Ex (Columbia) 90
M People * Living (Epic) 93
8 M People * Bizarre Fruit (Epic) 95
9 Nas * Illmatic (Columbia) 94
Naughty by Nature * Naughty by Nature (Tommy Boy) 91
Naughty by Nature * Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy) 95
9+ Me'Shell Ndgeg‚Ocello * Plantation Lullabies (Maverick) 93
9+ Me'Shell Ndgeg‚Ocello * Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick) 96
Shara Nelson * What Silence Knows (Cooltempo) 93
Nice & Smooth * Ain't a Damned Thing Changed (RAL/Columbia) 91
Nikki D. * Daddy's little Girl Def (Jam/Columbia) 90
9 9 Lazy 9 * The Herb (Shadow) 95
The Notorious B.I.G. * Ready to Die (Bad Boy) 94
N.W.A. * N.W.A. and the Posse (Priority) 87
10 N.W.A. * Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless) 88
9 Ol' Dirty Bastard * Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Elektra) 95
9 Ol' Dirty Bastard * Nigga Please (Elektra) 99
Onyx * Bacdafucup (RAL/Columbia) 93
Organized Konfusion * Organized Konfusion (Hollywood Basic) 91
9+ Organized Konfusion * Stress: The Extinction Agenda (Hollywood Basic) 95
9 Outkast * Southernplalistincadillacmuzik (LaFace) 94
9 Outkast * Atlients (LaFace) 96
9+ Outkast * Aquemini (LaFace) 98
9+ Paris * The Devil Made Me Do It (Tommy Boy) 91
9+ Paris * Sleeping with the Enemy (Scarface) 93
7+ Paris * Guerilla Funk (Priority) 94
9 The Pharcyde * Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (Delicious Vinyl) 93
8+ The Pharcyde * LabCabInCalifornia (WB) 95
9 PM Dawn * Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross... (Gee Street) 91
9 PM Dawn * The Bliss Album? (Polygram) 93
PM Dawn * Jesus Wept (Polygram) 95
Poor Righteous Teachers * Holy Intellect (Profile) 90
9 Prince (WB) 79
10- Prince * Dirty Mind (WB) 80
9 Prince * Controversy (WB) 81
9+ Prince * 1999 (WB) 82
9 Prince * Purple Rain (WB) 84
8 Prince * Parade (WB) 86
10- Prince * Sign O' the Times (WB) 87
9- Prince * The Black Album (WB) 88
9 Prince * Lovesexy (WB) 88
8 Prince * Diamonds And Pearls (Paisley Park) 91
8- Prince * The Love Symbol (Paisley Park) 93
10 Prince * The Nasty Hits/B-Sides 1978-1993(Paisley Park)
7 The Artist People Formerly Cared About * Emancipation (Paisley Park) 96
9 Prince Paul * Psychoanalysis: What Is It? (Tommy Boy) 97
9 Prince Paul * A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy) 99
9+ Public Enemy * Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Def Jam) 87
10- Public Enemy * It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam) 88
10 Public Enemy * Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam) 90
10 Public Enemy * Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (Def Jam) 91
9+ Public Enemy * Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Def Jam) 94
9+ Public Enemy * He Got Game (Def Jam) 98
9+ Queen Latifah * All Hail the Queen (Tommy Boy) 89
9- Queen Latifah * Nature of a Sista' (Tommy Boy) 91
9- Queen Latifah * Black Reign (Motown) 93
9+ Raekwon * Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Loud) 95
RBX * The RBX-Files (Premeditated) 95
9+ Redman * Whut? The Album (RAL) 92
9+ Redman * Dare Iz A Darkside (Def Jam) 95
Req * One (Skint)
9 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth * Mecca and the Soul Brother (Elektra) 91
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth * The Main Ingrediant (Elektra) 94
Romanthony * Fall From Grace (EastWest) 93
9+ The Roots * Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC) 95
9 The Roots * Illadelph Halflife (DGC) 96
9+ Run D.M.C. * Run D.M.C. (Profile) 84
9- Run D.M.C. * King Of Rock (Profile) 85
10- Run D.M.C. * Raising Hell (Profile) 86
Saint Etienne * Fox Base Alpha (WB) 91
Saint Etienne * So Tough (WB) 93
Saint Etienne * Tiger Bay (Sire) 94
Salt-N-Pepa * Hot, Cool & Vicious (London) 87
Salt-N-Pepa * A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (London) 88
Salt-N-Pepa * Black's Magic (London) 90
Salt-N-Pepa * Very Necessary (London) 93
Scarface * Mr. Scarface Is Back (Rap-a-Lot) 91
Schooly D. * The Adventures of Schoolly D (Rykodisc) 85
Schooly D. * Saturday Night (Schooly D.) 87
Showbiz & A.G. * Runaway Slaves (Payday/London) 92
Slick Rick * The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Def Jam) 88
9 Sly & Robbie * Rhythm Killers (Island) 87
Smif 'nþ Wesson * Da Shininþ (Wreck) 94
6+ Snoop Doggy Dogg * Doggystyle (Death Row) 94
9- The Solsonics * Jazz In The Present Tense (Chrysalis) 94
9- Soul II Soul * Keep On Movin' (Virgin) 88
8+ Soul II Soul * Vol. II: 1990, A New Decade (Virgin) 90
8 Soul II Soul * Vol. III: Just Right (Virgin) 92
Stereo MC's * Connected (Polygram) 93
Stetsasonic * On Fire (Tommy Boy) 86
Stetsasonic * In Full Gear (Tommy Boy) 88
Stetsasonic * Blood, Sweat & No Tears (Tommy Boy) 91
Strictly Roots * Begs No Friends (Friends) 92
The Sugarhill Gang * Rapper's Delight (Sugar Hill) 80
Terminator X * Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beats (RAL) 91
3rd Bass * The Cactus Album (Def Jam) 89
3rd Bass * Derelicts of Dialect (Def Jam) 91
9+ Timbaland & Magoo * Welcome To Our World (Atlantic) 97
Too Short * Born to Mack (Jive) 88
Too Short * Shorty the Pimp (Jive) 92
9+ A Tribe Called Quest * People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (Jive) 90
10- A Tribe Called Quest * The Low End Theory (Jive) 91
9 A Tribe Called Quest * Midnight Marauders (Jive) 93
8 A Tribe Called Quest * Beats, Rythms & Rhymes (Jive) 96
10- Tricky * Maxinquaye (Island) 95
9 Tricky * Overcome EP/Black Steel EP (Island) 95
9+ Tricky * Pre-Millenium Tension (Island) 96
9+ Tricky * Angels With Dirty Faces (Island) 98
10 Trouble Funk * Drop The Bomb (Sequel) 82
Twinz * Conversation (Def Jam)
Ultramagnetic MCs * Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau) 88
Ultramagnetic MCs * Funk Your Head Up (Mercury) 92
Urban Dance Squad * Mental Floss for the Globe (Arista) 90
Urban Dance Squad * Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover (Arista) 91
9+ US3 * Hand On The Torch (Blue Note) 94
9- Whodini * Greatest Hits 1982-1984 (Jive) 90
8 Whodini * Escape (Jive) 84
WithOut Reservation * Are You Ready For W.O.R.? (??) 94
Wrecks-N-Effect * Wrecks-N-Effect (Atlantic) 91
9 Wu-Tang Clan * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud) 93
9 Wu-Tang Clan * Wu-Tang Forever (Loud) 97
8+ The X-Clan * To The East Blackwards (4th & Broadway) 89
The X-Clan * X-Odus (Polydor) 92 9+ X-Ecutioners * X-pressions (Asphodel) 97
Yo-Yo * Make Way for the Motherlode (East-West) 91
8+ Young Disciples * Road To Freedom (Talkin' Loud) 93
9+ Various * Abstrakt Workshop (Shadow) 95
9 Various * Giant Steps (Blue Note) 94
Various * The Great Rap Hits (Sugar Hill ) 80
10- Various * Headz: A Soundtrack of Experimental Hip Hop Jams (Mo Wax) 95
9 Various * The Jazz Headtrip: funked up...Trip Hop & Acid Jazz (Moonshine) 95
9+ Various * 110 Below: Trip To The cHip sHop (Below 2) 95
Various * The Rebirth of Cool Vol. 1 (4th & Broadway) 92
Various * The Rebirth of Cool Vol. 2 (4th & Broadway) 94
9+ Various * Return of the DJ Vol. II (Bomb Hip-Hop) 97
10- Various * The Sugarhill Story 1979-1985 (Rhino) 96
10- Various * Tommy Boy Greatest Beats 1981-1996 (Tommy Boy) 96
9+ Various * The Trip Hop Test Part One (Moonshine) 95
