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and the Anonymous Nobody – De La Soul

01/03/201828/02/2018 marcus 0 Comments Album Art, De La Soul

The alternative version doesn’t include the MC either. All the singles’ artwork derives from this one, with various characters reproduced.

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Midnight Marauders – A Tribe Called Quest

28/02/201810/03/2018 marcus 0 Comments A Tribe Called Quest, Album Art

The RBG figure, continuing from Low End Theory, is cool enough, but the inclusion of ATCQ’s contemporaries, heroes and up-and-coming

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Ecstatic – Mos Def

27/02/201828/02/2018 sunny 0 Comments Album Art, Mos Def

Still from the seminal ‘Killer of Sheep’ film.

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Biz’s Baddest Beats – Biz Markie

27/02/201828/02/2018 marcus 0 Comments Album Art, Biz Markie

He is such a child. Which is why we love the Biz.

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Like Water For Chocolate – Common

26/02/201828/02/2018 marcus 0 Comments Album Art, Common

So. Many. Things.

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Tetsuo and Youth – Lupe Fiasco

26/02/201828/02/2018 sunny 0 Comments Album Art, Lupe Fiasco

And painted by Lupe Fiasco himself…

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Doggystyle – Snoop Dogg

25/02/201828/02/2018 sunny 0 Comments Album Art, Snoop Dogg
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Blood, Sweat & No Tears – Stetsasonic

25/02/201828/02/2018 marcus 0 Comments Album Art, Stetsasonic

The worst advert for baby shampoo ever

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The Roots Come Alive – The Roots

24/02/201828/02/2018 marcus 0 Comments Album Art, The Roots

Says everything

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Bl_ck B_st_rds – KMD

24/02/201828/02/2018 sunny 0 Comments Album Art, KMD
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A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing – Black Sheep

22/02/201828/02/2018 sunny 0 Comments Album Art, Black Sheep

Just the best

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  • #1 - Ranking the Wu

    #1 - Ranking the Wu

    Nov 5, 2020 • 1:17:42

    From the release of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan have been one of the most

  • #2 - Posse cuts

    #2 - Posse cuts

    Dec 19, 2020 • 1:14:47

    Who doesn’t love a posse cut? If you’re not sure what they are, they’re when a group of MCs come

  • #3 - Women rappers

    #3 - Women rappers

    Jan 23, 2021 • 1:05:31

    It’s fair to say that women rappers haven’t had the opportunities that male rappers have, and given the misogynistic nature

  • #4 - Aliens

    #4 - Aliens

    Mar 2, 2021 • 1:15:41

    On this episode we are joined by a special guest, Andy, who posed us a tough question: If you met

  • #5 - Great beats, bad rhymes

    #5 - Great beats, bad rhymes

    Mar 26, 2021 • 1:10:24

    Hip-hop is littered with basslines and melodies that shakes you out of your seat or have you nodding until your

  • #6 - Best Guest verses

    #6 - Best Guest verses

    Apr 21, 2021 • 1:21:33

    We’ve all been there, listening along to a track, when BOOM, on comes a guest artist and blows the track

  • #7 - Most consistent hip-hop artist

    #7 - Most consistent hip-hop artist

    May 18, 2021 • 1:15:10

    Who is the best MC? Who has the best bars? Best tracks? As fans of hip-hop, these are often the

  • #8 - Underrated artists

    #8 - Underrated artists

    Jun 16, 2021 • 1:27:24

    So what does it mean to be underrated in hip-hop? Is it a lack of commercial success, widespread notoriety, or

  • #9: Starting blocks

    #9: Starting blocks

    Jul 7, 2021 • 1:29:32

    Open the wrapping, insert the disc into your CD player, and press play. This episode looks at albums that hit hard from Track 1.

  • #10: LGA - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are... Black Star

    #10: LGA - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are... Black Star

    Aug 19, 2021 • 1:49:09

    After a discussion about the Fugees' The Score as a classic album, we started to consider what other albums released afterwards could be deemed as classics. So this is the first in a mini-series we are calling 'the last great hip hop album'. When Mos Def and Talib Kweli first…

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