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==This month's poll== |
==This month's poll== |
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+ | What United States region has the best hip hop? |
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− | Who is your favourite member of the Wu-Tang Clan? |
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+ | East Coast |
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− | Ghostface Killah |
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+ | Midwest |
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− | GZA |
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+ | Southern |
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− | Inspectah Deck |
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+ | West Coast |
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− | Masta Killa |
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− | Method Man |
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− | Ol' Dirty Bastard |
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− | Raekwon |
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− | RZA |
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− | U-God |
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Critical Beatdown is the debut album by American hip hop group Ultramagnetic MC's, released in 1988 on Next Plateau Records. Production for the album was handled primarily by the group member Ced-Gee, who employed the E-mu SP-1200 as his main sampler. Music journalists have noted the album for its innovative production, funk-based samples, self-assertive themes, ingenious lyricism, and complex rhyme schemes. Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterised by abstract braggadocio, stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and pseudoscientific terminology. Although it charted modestly upon its release, Critical Beatdown has since been acclaimed by critics as a classic album of hip hop's golden age and new school aesthetic. The album's abstract rhymes in strange syncopations laid on top of sampling experiments proved widely influential, from Public Enemy and The Bomb Squad to gangsta rap to several generations of underground hip hop artists. (Read more...) |
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