HUS KINGPIN – Wavo Forever
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HUS KINGPIN – Wavo Forever

The best Wu-Tang Clan album since the glory days is not a Wu-Tang Clan album. It is the one that Hus Kingpin - that great 90s nostalgist - put together by compiling his varied collaborations with some of the group's members, affiliates, and a few others besides, all set to music that, with its string sounds, piano lines and soul samples feels more Wu than Wu itself. Wu-Tang Forever. Wavo Forever.
BILLY WOODS – Golliwog
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BILLY WOODS – Golliwog

Indie rap isn’t dead. By bringing in his longtime producers (El-P, Ant, Preservation, Kenny Segal, The Alchemist) and rappers in his vein (Bruiser Wolf, Elucid, Cavalier), by invoking Company Flow, MF DOOM, and Antipop Consortium, and by delivering a Black, committed, and experimental form of rap, Billy Woods carries on the underground tradition of the 1990s.
50 CENT & G-UNIT – 50 Cent Is The Future
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50 CENT & G-UNIT – 50 Cent Is The Future

The phenomenal success of 50 Cent and G-Unit starts here. It begins with this mixtape, on which the rapper and his crew hijack other artists' beats and make them their own. It begins with this masterfully executed release, that will become the soundtrack of the summer of 2002. It is here, also, that 50 Cent cements the image of the untouchable gangster that will define his career.