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Throw Your Hands In The Air
My Favorite Hip Hop Albums:
1. The Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
2. Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. Dr. Dre, The Chronic
4. A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory
5. Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
1. Yeah, I know how cheesy it is that my favorite hip-hop album was made by a bunch of rich white guys. But so what? It’s brilliant. This is what Santana’s Abraxas would have sounded like if hip-hop had existed in 1970.
2. I didn’t like hip-hop before I heard this album. To me, it was all silly gold chains and rapping about your sneakers. Then these guys changed it all. They are hip-hop’s answer to the Dead Kennedys. And Chuck D’s voice is a force of nature.
3. The ultimate partay album, even if all the songs are about killing people. And hey, it introduced the world to Snoop.
4. One world: SMOOOOOOOOTH.
5. The left field representative on this list. It was done by the same crew that recorded Gorillaz two years later, but it’s far superior. If the idea of a hip-hop concept album about a future dystopia where humanity rises up against its robot masters does anything for you, then pick this up immediately.
