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Greatest Hits
(1998)
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2Pac
Greatest Hits is a strange release. Sure, Tupac Shakur had more than enough hits to make a terrific compilation, but its appearance in the fall of 1998 felt a bit like another opportunity to milk his catalog, simply because of the plethora of releases, from previously unheard recordings to interview discs and bootlegs. Even with these misgivings ...
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All Eyez on Me
(1996)
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2 Pac
Maybe it was his time in prison, or maybe it was simply his signing with Suge Knight's Death Row label. Whatever the case, 2Pac re-emerged hardened and hungry with All Eyez on Me, the first double-disc album of original material in hip-hop history. With all the controversy surrounding him, 2Pac seemingly wanted to throw down a monumental epic ...
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The Chronic
(1992)
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Dr. Dre
With its stylish, sonically detailed production, Dr. Dre's 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, transformed the entire sound of West Coast rap. Here Dre established his patented G-funk sound: fat, blunted Parliament-Funkadelic beats, soulful backing vocals, and live instruments in the rolling basslines and whiny synths. What's impressive is that Dre ...
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The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
(1996)
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Makaveli
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Greatest Hits
(2004)
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
The third time Cleveland's quick rapping Bone Thugs-N-Harmony get compiled by their former label Ruthless starts out clever, but the packaging, lack of input from the band, and too-long run time make it nothing to get excited about. Kicking off with the short and dramatic "Carole of the Bones" is a clever move, but where are the liner notes, and ...
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The Gift
(2001)
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Bizzy Bone
Three years after Bizzy Bone quietly released his largely unheard debut album, Heaven'z Movie, the soon-to-be-ousted Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member followed with a similarly personal and at times confessional album, The Gift. Bizzy's ties to his Bone colleagues had become frayed by this point, and he consequently seems a bit distant and alone here. ...
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Eternal E [Bonus Tracks]
(2003)
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Eazy-E
Eazy-E enjoyed only a brief recording career, but the few albums and EPs he did release -- on his own as well as with his group, N.W.A -- were tremendously influential, setting the stage for the proliferation of West Coast gangsta rap in the early '90s. Showcasing some of the pioneering gangsta's most influential recordings, Eternal E serves as a ...
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2001
(1999)
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Dr. Dre
The Slim Shady LP announced not only Eminem's arrival, but it established that his producer Dr. Dre was anything but passé, thereby raising expectations for 2001, the long-anticipated sequel to The Chronic. It suggested that 2001 wouldn't simply be recycled Chronic, and, musically speaking, that's more or less true. He's pushed himself hard, ...
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R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
(1997)
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2 Pac
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Tha Last Meal
(2000)
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Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg leaves much of his gang-banging past behind him in favor of preened pimp posturing on his final album for No Limit Records, The Last Meal. Snoop's increasingly old-school pose suits his gracefully aging self well. Despite his former affiliation with Death Row Records and his much-publicized murder trial, Snoop never seemed like much of ...
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Bad Boys
(1995)
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Original Soundtrack
The soundtrack to Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's action comedy, Bad Boys, is a collection of mainstream contemporary R&B and hip-hop. While it's consistently strong throughout, nothing on the album stands out; nevertheless, fans of the genre will be pleased with most of the material. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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E 1999 Eternal
(1995)
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Following the surprise success of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's summer 1994 anthem "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," the group returned a year later with E 1999 Eternal, an impressive debut full-length that dismisses any notion that the group was merely a one-hit wonder. From beginning to end, the album maintains a consistent tone, one that's menacing and somber, ...
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Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
(2006)
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Snoop Dogg
You can look at the hard-hitting Tha Blue Carpet Treatment as a reaction to the crossover-minded R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece, an album that featured Justin Timberlake and the mega-single "Drop It Like It's Hot." Since that polished -- some would say "watered-down" -- effort put him over the top (again), Snoop was seen shilling for ...
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Murder Was the Case
(1994)
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The soundtrack to an 18-minute film inspired by Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Murder Was the Case" provides more thrills than the average hip-hop release. Again, Dre relies on his standard production tricks and crew, introducing a couple of new members to the mix. But the result sounds anything but stale -- it ranks alongside The Chronic, Doggystyle and ...
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Bad Boys II
(2003)
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Rare is the feat that a hip-hop movie soundtrack can be explosive and feel as if it's a solid cohesive album, rather than a showcase for various artists to use throwaway tracks as cash cows. But Bad Boys II breaks both of these rules by assembling a mighty lineup that could very well be unprecedented in terms of sheer commercial star power. The ...
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Regulate...G Funk Era
(1994)
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Warren G
Anchored by the laid-back G-funk anthem "Regulate," Warren G's appropriately titled Regulate...G Funk Era embodies the mid-'90s era of Cali sunshine, endless blunts, and switch-hittin' lowriders with a welcome and somewhat surprising sense of kind-heartedness. Unlike most of his West Coast G-funk peers, Warren doesn't celebrate drive-by gang ...
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Next Friday
(1999)
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The sequel to Ice Cube's Friday includes music from the star himself plus a great roster of hip-hop superstars including Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, Dr. Dre, and Lil' Zane, plus tracks from Pharoahe Monch, Krayzie Bone, and Ron Isley. Keith Farley, All Music Guide
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The Art of War
(1997)
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
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Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
(2002)
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Snoop Dogg
Though Snoop Dogg never slipped from the charts, Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ smacks of a comeback, and it's a great one. After finally being released from No Limit (he's still distributed by Priority), Snoop Dogg drafted a set of great producers for his sixth album, as well as a varied cast of featured guests capable of drawing in just about every ...
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2002
(2001)
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Tha Dogg Pound
Yet another of Death Row's vault releases, tha Dogg Pound's 2002 follows the precedent set by Snoop Dogg's Dead Man Walkin' and 2Pac's Until the End of Time, both of which were released a few months before this album. Like those albums, 2002 compiles a disparate collection of leftover tracks, in this case culled from Daz Dillinger and Kurupt's ...
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Tha Doggfather
(1996)
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Snoop Doggy Dogg
A lot happened to Snoop Doggy Dogg between his debut, Doggystyle, and his second album, Tha Doggfather. During those three years, he became the most notorious figure in hip-hop through a much-publicized murder trial, where he was found not guilty, and he also became a father. Musically, the most important thing to happen to Snoop was the parting ...
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Dead Man Walkin
(2000)
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Snoop Doggy Dogg
As he'd done with 2Pac's leftovers, Suge Knight dug up some of Snoop Doggy Dogg's (remember he was still a "Doggy Dog" back then). He then dressed them up with ample production and released them on Death Row Records under the guise of newness, perhaps not coincidently just as No Limit Records was marketing its final, much-awaited Snoop release, ...
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War & Peace, Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
(1998)
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Ice Cube
Considering that he hadn't delivered a full-fledged solo album since 1993's disappointing Lethal Injection, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise that Ice Cube returned hard in 1998 with War & Peace, Vol. 1 (The War Disc), since five years is a long, long time to stay quiet. What was a surprise was how ambitious the album was. The first ...
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Loyal to the Game
(2004)
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2Pac
Loyal to the Game, the ninth 2Pac album released by his enterprising mother-turned-executive producer, Afeni Shakur, is one of the more unique entries in the martyred rap legend's extensive catalog. Produced entirely by Eminem, it carries on with the approach the man otherwise known as Marshall Mathers took with his production contributions to the ...
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Music & Me
(2001)
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Nate Dogg
Music & Me technically isn't Nate Dogg's debut album. That would be G-Funk Classics (1998), a mishandled double-disc album released as an afterthought during the waning days of Death Row Records. But since G-Funk Classics was such a hodgepodge, and also since it fell upon deaf ears, it's understandable that Music & Me feels like Nate Dogg's solo ...
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