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I can get behind that completely. The production on RTJ4 is probably the best I've heard from them.

Ha, I didn't notice that! Part of me feels like you must've missed it though - there's gotta be at least one.

Yeah, perhaps not the most apt analogy, but all of their albums are explosive efforts to some degree.

RTJ is definitely one of my favorite rap duos of all time. They've got production like Outkast, they've got the class of EPMD, they've got the grittiness of Gang Starr, and they've got the style of Organized Konfusion.

Frownland

I like Shabazz Palaces, Armand Hammer, and Outkast better but aside from that RTJ's definitely the best modern hip hop duo.

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I don't know if I've ever heard of Armand Hammer, I'll have to check them out.

I've honestly become disillusioned with a lot of modern hip-hop. Maybe I'm just not listening to the right stuff, but I get this feeling that a lot of the same ideas are just getting retread.

My all time favorite hip-hop album is Tribe's Low End Theory. A lot of that golden age '90s hip-hop is near and dear. I rarely find hip-hop that gives me the same feelings that something like this does.



It's also a joy when I find new stuff that samples old school hip-hop or reworks it completely.

rostasi

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Annie Ross (1930 - 2020)



with Count Basie (piano), Freddie Green (guitar), Ed Jones (bass), and Sonny Payne (drums)

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Frownland

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The Batlord

I guess people's love for Eminem mostly amounts to his ability to project himself as a larger than life persona cause people relate to it, and yes he's amazing at doing that, but I suspect a song like this is probably closer to him than you'd ever guess cause it's a pure horrorcore track that I imagine he probably loved back in the day and turned to his friends in the trailer park and went "Damn, son, this is the hottest ****, this is what I wanna do".

I mean have you ever talked to dudes who listen to horrorcore? This is the track they all heard when they were in high school and lost their **** over and wanted to do themselves and I think this is Eminem doing exactly that and doing it better than those tracks he turned to his friends over. This is the song he the Detroit hip hop nerd wanted to make back when he'd never recorded anything and it sounds like he's having all the fun doing it.

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