Results for "Mafioso_rap_albums"

• It Was Written

  the US Billboard 200 chart. It also heralded Nas' mainstream popularity, and followed the success of other mafioso rap albums such as Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... in 1995 and Reasonable Doubt in 1996. However

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• Life After Death

  It Was Written, Life After Death has been considered by music writers as one of the seminal mafioso rap albums, as well as a landmark in hip hop music. As of 2019, the album has

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• Mafioso rap

  as Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and Nas, to adopt the same themes on their albums Reasonable Doubt, Life After Death and It Was Written respectively. Though mafioso rap declined in the mainstream

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• Wu-Tang Clan

  The Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop group from Staten Island, New York City, NY. The group consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and

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• Gangsta Rap

  Gangsta rap or gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle. The genre evolved from hardcore rap into a distinct form, pioneered in the

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• Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

  number four on the Billboard 200 chart, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while selling 130,000 copies in its opening week. The album was certified gold by the

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• East Coast hip hop

  East Coast hip hop have ranged from lyrical consciousness by such artists as Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest to mafioso rap themes by rappers such as Raekwon, MF Grimm and Kool G Rap.

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• Raekwon

  of his own label ICEH2O Records. Raekwon is often cited as one of the pioneers of the Mafioso rap sub-genre. Main article: Raekwon discography 1995: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., 1999: Immobilarity, 2003: The

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• Doe or Die

  themes, the cover of Doe or Die portrays AZ as an honoree of an elaborate mob funeral, while the album's liner notes feature images of AZ counting money, drinking expensive wine and smoking cigars.

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• Capital Punishment

  critical acclaim, peaking at#4 on the Billboard 200 charts and#1 on the Top R&B Albums chart for two weeks. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards but

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• Hard Core

  at#11 on the US Billboard 200 and at#3 on the Billboard's Top R&B Albums, selling 78,000 copies in its first week, while reaching#26 of the Canandian Albums Chart. The

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• In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

  Records, giving the album a generally glossier sound than its predecessor. It displayed a shift from the mafioso rap themes of his first effort to the so-called "jiggy" era of late 1990s hip hop

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• I Am...

  I Am... is the third studio album by American rapper Nas, released in April 6, 1999 on Columbia Records. The album was originally a double album titled I Am... The Autobiography, but most of the

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• Live and Let Die

  and mafioso lyrics. The violence and sexual content are much more graphic on the duo's previous albums. Kool G Rap recruited several non-East Coast artists to assist him, such as West Coast artists

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• N.O.R.E. (album)

  from Nature, Cam'ron, Big Pun, The LOX members: Styles P& Jadakiss, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Kool G Rap, Spliff Star, Musalini, Maze, Kid Capri, Chico DeBarge and Carl Thomas. The album debuted at#3 on

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• 4,5,6

  The album was mostly received by neutrally among critics, but warmly accepted by underground fans. Despite the album's dark, gritty and grimy street sound, It peaked number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop

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• Pieces of a Man (AZ album)

  peaked at#22 on the US Billboard 200 and#5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Pieces of a Man sold 438,000 copies in the United States. Pieces of a Man

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• Kool G Rap

  one of the most influential vand skilled MCs of all time as he is a pioneer of mafioso rap/street/hardcore content and multisyllabic rhyming. On his album The Giancana Story, he stated that the

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• Road to the Riches

  album features braggadocio lyrics without the explicit mafioso or gangsta rap subjects of the title track. G Rap would begin expanding his vivid storytelling and organised crime themes on the duo's next albums: Wanted

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• Street Wise

  the path he chose. He formed a hip hop group called Mobstyle, with whom he released the albums The Good, The Bad, The Ugly in 1990 and Game of Death in 1992. Street Wise details

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• Infamous Mobb

  s 1995 album The Infamous, before having more prominent roles on Mobb Deep's Hell on Earth and Big Noyd's Episodes of a Hustla in 1996. Infamous Mobb has since released three studio albums.

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• The Album (The Firm album)

  He was replaced by rapper Nature prior to recording of the album. The Album is a concept album that revolves around the themes of mafia and the gangsta lifestyle. The songs on the album were

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