CD-Charts Position 11
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Rock 'n' Roll Jesus: Parental Advisory

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Kid Rock

Release Date July 28, 2008
After the master blasting of previous CDs I found this collection very disappointing. Unless you like pop rock or country and western, you'll feel pretty cheated. Where is the heavy rock, the hip hop ? Bring it back.

CD-Charts Position 12
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Dummy

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Portishead

Release Date June 18, 1999
put this on after you have got rid of all the losers or u have made it home from the pub.
it oooooozes class.

CD-Charts Position 13
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Pure Urban Essentials Summer 2008

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Various Artists

Release Date June 16, 2008
put this on after you have got rid of all the losers or u have made it home from the pub.
it oooooozes class.

CD-Charts Position 14
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Shock Value

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Timbaland

Release Date April 02, 2007
This is CD is amazing, i brought it as a bit of an impulse buy, and now i love every track on it!

CD-Charts Position 15
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Graduation

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Kanye West

Release Date September 10, 2007
like the title says a great album from kanye. I'm not going to compare it with curtis ans they re both great in their own right and really aren't compariable.
the best songs are;
- Good Morning
- Champion
- Good Life
- Can't Tell Me Nothing
- Flashing Lights
- Homecoming

CD-Charts Position 16
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The Black Album

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Jay-Z

Release Date November 19, 2003
To me, this was one of the best albums of 2003 (Speakerboxx/The Love Below won it for me). If you want to listen to hip-hop that steps outside of the box, this is definitely one you will like. While some tracks are better than others, there aren't really any that you will skip over straight away. Many albums have that (Kanye Graduation = Drunk and Hot Girls = Trash) so you've got to appreciate that Jay-Z put some thought into this instead of just filling the gap with generic tracks. Also this album has a HELL of a lot of highlights, including 'Public Service Announcement' (Which was meant to be an INTERLUDE!!!), and of course the well known 'Dirt Off Your Shoulders'. Other key tracks include 'Encore' (do you want more?), '99 Problems' (but a b**** ain't one) and the ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 17
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American Gangster: Parental Advisory

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Jay-Z

Release Date November 05, 2007
Since 1996, when he released his debut CD Reasonable Doubt, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, has been putting it down pretty much every year. My favorite tracks from "Reasonable Doubt" ended up being "Can I Live", "Can't Knock The Hustle" w/Mary J. Blige, "D'Evils" which was produced by DJ Premier, and "Brooklyn's Finest", a memorable collaboration between Jay-Z and the late, great Notorious BIG. 1997's "In My Lifetime Volume 1" was definitely influenced by Sean "Puffy" Combs with tracks like "Sunshine" and "I Know What Girls Like" w/Lil Kim, however, Jay-Z still managed to bring us some of the flavor from "Reasonable Doubt" with tracks like "Where I'm From", "Imaginary Player", "You Must Love Me", "Streets Is Watching" and "A Million & One Questions/Rhyme No More". Jay-Z clearly ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 18
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Hybrid Theory

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Linkin Park

Release Date October 30, 2000
I first heard Linkin Park's `Crawling' on a Saturday morning music show- I had never heard anything like It. I'd never really been into music before, but the angst ridden, thundering chorus of this song really spoke to me. On the strength of the single alone I bought the album and - to my delight - loved it!

Even though the album and band where bourn for an era where short-lived Nu-metal ruled the world, after which many bands failed to move on from the sound which popularized them and subsequently where soon defunct, linkin park have survived and have since built on the solid foundation of Hybrid Theory, pursuing various sounds and becoming one of the only successful bands to meld together rap and metal.

I'd be lying if I said I liked any of there ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 19
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The Odd Couple

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Gnarls Barkley

Release Date March 31, 2008
What an exceptional sophmore album! I had heard 'Run' on the radio many times, found it to be a really likeable piece of music, so i decided to give the album a chance. I was blown away! It exceeds any of my expectations, and has to be one of my albums of the year. It doesn't have the problem of St. Elsewhere in which one song overshadowed the rest, in fact in contrast I can honestly say that any song on the album could be released as singles, they are all THAT good!

The album starts with the infectious beat of 'charity case', which is a simple song, instantly loveable with its twinkly rhythm.
Next is 'Who's gonna save my soul', my personal favourite on the album. The production is stripped down to just a few guitar strings being plucked to allow Cee-Lo's fabulous voice to ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 20
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Meteora

CD-Charts > Music > Hip-Hop and Rap
by: Linkin Park

Release Date March 24, 2003
I hadn't heard of Linkin park until I heard "minutes to midnight" which I thought was an excellent and diverse album; however I got this last weekend and since then have had it blaring in my car constantly. As some of the other reviewers have said, it's really rock, with rap and metal elements, but just very very well done.

"from the inside" and "breaking the habit" are excellent tracks, but the highlight is "Numb", very in the same mould as "What I've done" from the later album, but if anything a sharper track, tighter backing with nicely done, understated scratches that are actually used as another instrument rather than just thrown over the top, and a truly awesome, angry chorus with the tagline "All I want to do, is to be more like me - and be less like you!"

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