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REQUIREDAUDIO HEARD BEFORE THE HERD TEXT BYJOEL MARASIGAN

Manifest Destiny / UTD Stones Throw 101 Mix CD/DVD / Sometimes when folks release old Peanut Butter Wolf music it doesn’t have that same It’s just not fair. Peanut Butter Wolf is impact—unless of course you are Mos cheating. He gets to pick from his own Def and the crew released is Urban stash of Stones Throw shit and throw Thermo Dynamics. UTD is the raw tal- it down on one 42-tracker. Among oth- The Isley Brothers: Taken to the ent of Mos along with brother DCQ Joyful Rebellion / K-OS ers, MED, Quasi, Declaime, Madvillian, Next Phaze / Various Artists and good friend CES and back in ’95 This is THE hip hop album you YNQ, , , , Cut You know Mr. Biggs from al the R. they were the predecessor to Mos should be picking up next. This Chemist, Egon, Rels, Stezo, Breakestra, Kelly videos—he’s the one that and Talib’s Blackstar explosion. The Canadian Source Award winner for , and Funkaho all get their beats him up. Some of the most 14 cuts on this album are just as fresh “Best International Album” for his bars in to show the stable of talent the accomplished musicians in the busi- as they were almost 10 years ago. debut Exit incorporates his hybrid other side of has in ness, , will.I.am (Black Eyed Take notes on how to make a classic. genres of rock, jazz, funk, and reg- store. Stonesthrow.com

Peas), Rapheal Saadiq, Onda, Stuart gae to produce a potential double Mattewman, ?uest Love, take. His brand of hip hop versatility and Ignorants reconstruct 10 Isley makes it difficult to bound him by tracks to take them to the Next the narrow category of R&B or rap Phaze. The hits, taken from the 60s and a comparison to any other artist to the 80s, include songs like the is difficult at best—think the MC/har- electro-funk “Take Me To The Next mony of Lauryn Hill mixed with the Phase (Part 1 & 2)” (Ignorants f/ culture of Andre 3000 and Missy. Dead Rabbits), the ultra dreamy The first single “B-Boy Stance”, a “Summer Breeze” (Onda f/ Esthero), tribute to graf writers, breakdancers, the dancehall version of “Between and Djs—and actually sounds like it The Sheets” (Stephen “Lenky” was done in the Golden Age of hip Marsden), and the sure hit, neo-soul- 1st Infantry / hop—is a bad representation of the Legend of the Wu-Tang: Wu-Tang ful “Beauty In The Dark” (f/ Mos Def). When you’re one of the hottest, in- album (not NOT a bad song) simply Clan’s Greatest Hits / Wu-Tang I could go on and on about this cd demand producers in the industry because of the fact that every other Clan and how it could improve your love and have created anthems for some song is WAY better.— The Wu may never be the same life but a part of me doesn’t want to of the hottest rappers on the scene astralwerks.com crew they once were back in the let loose with the pimp game.—the- (, with “Got it day and you may not even realize isleybrothers.net Twisted”, with “Kiss of how may dope cuts they actually Death”, Snoop, ) had. Assembled as a nine-MC crew there comes a time when you say, (RZA, GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method “it’s time for my own shit to blow”. Man, Raekron the Chef, Ghostface The Nineteen cuts that fill this disc Killah, U-God, , and can best be described as “bangers” Masta Killa) they planned to release that feature artists like Game & as many solo projects after their , The Lox, & Illa Gee, album hit. Although some MCs got , Jae Hood & Mop, , more shine than others (Meth and Lloyd Banks, , Mobb ODB) they still brought legitimate Deep, Dilated Peoples, B-Real, and solos to the masses not to mention Chinky. —Kochrecords.com creating a buzz that still hums today. Now for all you young’uns that didn’t get a chance to collect the OG CDs here’s a sixteen cut shortcut for you to cop. Wutangcorp.com

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