TenderLovingKiller®
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ATCQ is an all time fave of mine also. I prefer Midnight Marauders a tiny bit more but LET is probably their defining album. Like a you said early 90s Hip Hop is my favorite era. The yin- yang of the West Coast G-Funk, the gritty East Coast Boom Bap rap, and the proto-backpack artist you mentioned in De La, ATCQ, and Beasties was all I needed.I always enjoy listening to this, but I don't need a full listen to review... to me, this is the peak of golden age production and lyrical invention. The features are outstanding. This was the moment I noticed Jazz in hip hop. Scenario is still my favorite posse cut.
It occurs to me while thinking about the album, that like Ill Communication and Stakes is High, I really dig these albums where the fun hip hop of my youth grew up. (Tribe did it a little quicker than De La and the Beasties).
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