Today's "Rap/ Hip Hop" Playlist

[KDAC]

Eazy-E - Just tah Let U Know (Cassette Maxi Single)


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[KDAC]

EPMD - Business As Usual


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[KDAC]

KRS-One - D.I.G.I.T.A.L.


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[v8peters]

Nellyville

Nelly

2002 Universal / BMG Direct 440 017 747-2 / D144858
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My CD/LP/TAPE Collection

 

[MaxxVolume]

This is not a collaboration between the artists, but 2 separate performances spliced together very skillfully.

 

[KDAC]

Pharrell - Out of My Mind (Unreleased)


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[o_rod]

Constantly on queue in the truck...

 

[KDAC]

Constantly on queue in the truck...

"Raze It Up" was my joint from Onyx's Shut 'Em Down. As gimmicky as they may have seemed at times, this Queens, NYC-based outfit kept it unabashedly "street" and that's what I think contributed to their massive success between the early to late 90s. Bacdafucup was released in '93 and I'm still quick to turn up the volume on "Throw Ya Gunz." My favorite release by the group is 1995's All We Got Iz Us, with "Shout," "Punkmotherfukaz," and "2 Wrongs" being amongst my absolute favorite tracks by Onyx. Excellent pick.

 

[KDAC]

Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[dave1701]

 

[MaxxVolume]

Spinning the dial over to the World Beat channel....

 

[KDAC]

Ice-T - 7th Deadly Sin


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[KDAC]

Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (Bonus Tracks)


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[o_rod]

Ed O.G. - Wishful Thinking

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I've never been a fan of Boston, the city or its culture, but on the hip-hop front, this fellow is amongst the giants. Between this release and 2011's A Face In the Crowd, "Edo" proves once again that "it's not where you're from - it's where you're at." Ill lyrics/punchlines, tight tracks, and a thoroughly head-bobbing hip-hop album from a great New England-based M.C.

Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

This is wicked stuff! Reminds me of Sweatshop Union and old school classified.

 

[KDAC]

Eminem - The Revival


Straight... garbage. It's long past the time for "Slim Shady" to have hung up the mic. If you're going to "do hip-hop," get hip-hop producers - not Rick Rubin. At large, this album sounds like a disjointed mess, with the screamed "Untouchable" and sterile light rock/rap amalgamation "River (feat. Ed Sheeran)" serving as a prime examples. And he sounds completely uncomfortable/out of his element on the trap beat featured in "Chloraseptic (feat. Phresher)." Thank goodness I always keep my reciepts. Fence-riding to move units to white, suburban America interspersed with the occasional freestyle for the "urban" crowd simply doesn't get the job done. The nail in the coffin consists of attempting to flow over Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock and Roll" in "Remind Me." Either hit the block en route to the cipher with rhymes in your backpack or go home.

Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[KDAC]

Murs - Captain California


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[dave1701]

 

[KDAC]

Big Boi - Boomiverse


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[KDAC]

MC Eiht - Which Way Iz West?


Source: HP dc7600 Small Form Factor PC
Player: Winamp 2.95 with 250+ band Equalizer v1.62 for Winamp by Nevi
DAC: AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2
Preamplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. PT5
Amplifier: B&K Components, Ltd. ST125.2
Speakers: KLH 9154

 

[satkinsn]

Not a huge hip-hop fan, but I love the beats Madlib makes, bought most of the Medicine Show collection. Listening to this on Apple Music because I'm too lazy to dig out the CD, through my old Macbook and a pair of Grado SR-80s that need recabling.

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