To cap our first series on the best three-album runs in 90s hip hop we had to reach out to one our favourite rap channels out there for a roundtable chat - we’re delighted to bring on the Dead End Hip Hop crew 🔥 We speak on runs from MF DOOM, El-P, 8Ball & MJG, The Roots, Nas, Jay-Z and many more! So get ready for some dope chat on classic runs (inside and out of the 90s) with Ken, Rod, Beezy, and Myke.

 

Show Notes

• Ice Cube and Tupac’s album runs (02:25)
• The Roots and Gang Starr’s album runs (05:20)
• 8Ball & MJG and UGK’s runs (10:03)
• Master P’s album run (17:25)
• Mobb Deep’s album run (21:24)
• What makes a good album run? (25:40)
• MF DOOM, Ka and Roc Marciano’s album runs (28:10)
• El-P’s three-album run (37:10)
• OutKast’s album run (38:39)
• What about Nas and Jay-Z? (44:00)
• Lil Wayne’s album run and who is capable of dropping a classic run now? (47:46)

 

Also, the Crate 808 Patreon is coming 🚨 To make sure you keep updated on the launch and amazing new hip hop shows we’ll be bringing, go to crate808.com and subscribe to the newsletter - we’ve got episodes looking at hidden gems albums from the 90s, the catalogues of MF DOOM and J Dilla and a new series focusing on the Wu-Tang Clan. Yes, it’s gonna be big, so subscribe to the newsletter for all the news 💯

 

For the next mailbag episode, we’d love to hear from you guys, so email us at [email protected] with your takes on…

 

🔲 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper

🔲 Where’s the weirdest place you’ve met a rapper?

🔲 What’s the best AND worst merch you’ve ever bought?

🔲 What rapper’s swag would you wear to a wedding, funeral or job interview?

🔲 You have to get a rap song tattooed on you…which one, where and why?

🔲 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?

🔲 Best and worst rap memorabilia?

 

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And our last series talking best 3-album runs in rap can be found here…

Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)

Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)

De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)

Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)

A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)

Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)

OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)

Mobb Deep with Chris Mitchell from Breaking Atoms (http://shorturl.at/zHIKO)

 

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Slept-On Wu-Tang Bangers Playlist: https://spoti.fi/32QtAQG

Sample Corner Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3eYfhMd

 

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