Lyricist Lounge Vol.2
 From Amazon.com: Biggie is back again--freestyling like only a dead man can on the intro to this second volume culled from the archives of NYC's Lyricist Lounge. You have to wonder why hip-hop can't let the man rest in peace? Must be something to do with [... more]
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Amethyst Rock Star
From Amazon.com: Performed by a raucous sextet made up of beats, bass, guitar, cello, viola, and griot, Saul Williams hip-hop sounds like modern chamber music. It's music informed as much by Hendrix's star-strangled striations and Miles Davis's [... more]
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Our Soulshave . . .Black Poets
From Amazon.com: A very smartly assembled two-disc compilation of African American poetry, Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers digs deep to unearth a wealth of unheard and rare material spanning almost the entire 20th century. The collection [... more]
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Slam
From Amazon.com: It's nice to see that a film that places so much value in the spoken word went out of its way to fill up the soundtrack with accomplished rappers: most everyone here has demonstrated on more than one occasion that he has something to say [... more]
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Black Star
From Amazon.com: Mos Def has done his time in the hip-hop trenches, apprenticing with Native Tongue before hitting with his first big single, "Body Rock" (with Q-Tip, off the Lyricist Lounge, Volume One compilation). He's learned well, and it [... more]
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Relax, Relate, Release
From Amazon.com: El Da Sensei, of the much missed duo the Artifacts, played a major role in the development of "backpack rap," the mid-'90s music of choice for many a young hip-hop head. Along with the dissolution of brother act Organized [... more]
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