“I Got A Love”–Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

[Photograph by Matt Molloy]

Hard to imagine it’s been three years since Guru passed away. Now, he’s gone but still, it’s mostly the voice…

Take that Kangol off.

[Photo Via: -Circa]

Happy 49th, Biz.

And the remix.

[Featured Image Via: It’s a Long Season]

Boom.

Bap.

Pick up a book and read now I’m wise.

[Picture by Bags]

Lucy, I remember Lucy…

[Image Via: Immagini]

Picking up on yesterday’s Beat of the Day thread where Bluenatic and Chyll Will listed their 20 favorite Hip Hop albums, I figured I’d pick 20 more, careful not to repeat any of their selections. They already took many of my favorites records: from Slick Rick and EPMD–damn you Will for making it a tie!–Tribe, Pharcyde, Nas, Common Sense.

So, with all due respect to killer records by Biz, P.E., Ice T, Dr. Dre, Uncle L, Snoop, 3rd Base, Leaders of the New, Black Sheep, Ultramag, Jay Z, MC Lyte, Ice Cube, Artifacts, Quasimoto, Nice and Smooth, Kurious, and J-Live, here’s my 20:

“Any Any Means Necessary” BDP

“Straight Out the Jungle” The Jungle Brothers

“Unfinished Business” EPMD

“The Sun Rises in the East” Jeru the Damaja

“Three Feet High and Rising” De La Soul

“Funky Technition” Lord Finesse

“Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop” Diamond D

“Daily Operation” Gang Starr

“Life of a Kid in the Ghetto” Ed O.G. and the Bulldogs

“Breaking Atoms” Main Source

“Muddy Waters” Redman

“The Beatnuts” Beatnuts

“It’s a Big Daddy Thing” Big Daddy Kane

“Straight Outta Compton” N.W.A.

“21 and Over” Tha Alkaholiks

“Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)” Wu Tang

“People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm” A Tribe Called Quest

“The Infamous” Mobb Deep

“Enter Da Stage” Black Moon

“Runaway Slave” Showbiz and AG

“Word Life” O.C.

Everybody Must…

[Image Via: Ghost in the Machine]

I stay on shorties domes like them beauty parlor dryers.

I Can’t Be Your Lover…

[Illustration by MH Jeeves via This Isn’t Happiness]

Ain’t. No. Half-Steppin’...

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Spend a little time with your rhymes…

Egotrip gives Diamond D’s all-45s set.

[Photo Credit: Steven Siegel]

“Feelin’ Alright” — The Jungle Brothers

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My grandma and your grandma…

I mean…

No, I mean:

Wait, I’m sayin’…

[Drawing by Daniel Stolle]

Tame and El…

Present tense means you dig it, past tense means you dug it.

[Photo Via: New York Shitty by way of This Isn’t Happiness]

Boomin’ in your, boomin’ in your, boomin’ in your Jeep.

[Painting by Andrew Judd]