Crooklyn's Early 90's Fav's

A Few of My early 90's Fav's .........


The Coup - Kill My Landlord (1993) Whenever I listen to this album, I think "This is the funkiest stuff ever." Boots creates irresistably groovy compositions that rely on no more than a live bass line, some drums, and some on-point piano stabs. If this album was simply instrumental, I'd buy it. But the lyrics are as impressive as the music.

UMC's - Fruits Of Nature (1991) Awesome B-Boy Hip Hop,this early 90's gem comes from an era when jazzy beats and flowing and rhyming with intelligent lyrics were the rule rather than the exception like todays mainstream hip hop, definately a lost classic.If you are a teen or someone in their early twenties who likes Pop Hiphop like Cam or 50 Cent who seem to only rap about bling,money and shooting people, you probably will not appreciate just what an brilliant album this is.

Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature (1991) If you want to hear one of the best rappers of the 90's tear up dope track after dope track, then grab this album.Treach shows he is one of the best MC's from this time in rap with his amazing talent on the mic. And the beats were solid. Lyrics are dope. And a flow you can't describe nothing else but amazing. A classic old school rap album.

YZ - Sons of Tha Father (1990) This is one of my favorite secret old school record that was made in 1990... Many tight production including the all time classic "thinking of a masterplan". But beware, he may kick a wack rhyme or two?

Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard - Give Em The Finger (1993) Believe it or not the beats here are handled by the Trakmasterz. These guys make pop rap these days but back in 93 they were pretty cool. Thing is, although the beats are heavy, the production is still a little bit too polished compared to a lot of the gritty sounding street stuff that was coming out back then. Pudgee himself is an emcee of MAJOR skills