Creep-TLC

Now TLC is the ultimate classic, I mean these women had it goin' on all the time and they were so damn soulful. Their R&B/soul/hip-hop style attracted everyone back in the early 90s, they sold millions of albums world wide. The group consisted of Tionne ¨T-Boz¨ Watkins, Rozonda ¨Chilli¨ Thomas, and Lisa ¨Left Eye¨ Lopes (who died in 2002 in a car accident in Honduras). Though the death of one of the members of TLC didn't take away from their success, surprisingly. TLC came out with their album CrazySexyCool in November of 1994 and was ranked number 377 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the top 500 greatest albums of all time.

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                                                                   ¨Creep¨-TLC

Sun Won't Come Out-Pete Rock & CL Smooth

"Sun Won't Come Out" by Pete Rock and CL Smooth is a song my old coworker introduced me to actually on the day of my job interview. He probably showed me about a hundred different hip-hop artists that were all wildly talented, but Pete Rock and CL Smooth were two guys I already held real close to my heart. Just like Freddie Joachim, their music can manipulate your feelings like no other. "Sun Won't Come Out" was on the album The Main Ingredient (1994) after their debut album Mecca and the Soul Brother (1992). And I've got to say, their better work was definitely on The Main Ingredient. It's got a more soulful feeling because it feels like they'd discovered their style.

"Sun Won't Come Out" samples a song by the same name by Harvey Scales.

                        

                                                       

01 "In The House"
02 "Carmel City"
03 "I Get Phsyical"
04 "Sun Won't Come Out"
05 "I Got A Love"
06 "Escape"
07 "The Main Ingredient"
08 "World Wide"
09 "All The Places"
10 "Tell Me"
11 "Take You There"
12 "Searching"
13 "Check It Out"
14 "In The Flesh"
15 "It's On You"

                                      "Sun Won't Come Out" -Pete Rock and CL Smooth

Resurrection-Common

I heard this song in an hour long Vinyl Podcast by Freddie Joachim a couple of years ago, and I could not, for the life of me, figure out what song it was. Then I heard it in a friend's car recently and practically went brain dead from the relief. Common's been around as a rapper longer than I've been alive and that brotha has probably rapped about every social issue there is. His lyrics are intelligent he always makes them flow just right. He came out with his album Resurrection in October of 1994 and it's seen as one of his more underground albums.

01 "Resurrection"
02 "I Used To Love H.E.R."
03 "Watermelon"
04 "Book of Life"
05 "In My Own World (Check the Method)"
06 "Another Wasted Nite With..."
07 "Nuthin' to Do"
08 "Communism"
09 "WMOE"
10 "Thisisme"
11 "Orange Pineapple Juice"
12 "Chapter 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)"
13 "Maintaining"
14 "Sum Sh*t I Wrote"
15 "Pop's Rap"

                                                                  "Resurrection"

The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World-Keith Murray

Keith Murray was part of the rap group Def Squad that also consisted of Redman, and Erick Sermon. I found a tape of the live show "Survival of the Illest: Live From 125 N.Y.C." from 1998 at Salvation Army for fifty cents and Keith Murray's performance of "The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World" was recorded on the tape.

It's probably one of the most positive raps I've heard from back in the day and man he was killin' it. Murray put out his album The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World  in November of 1994, it actually made it to thirty-four on the US Billboard 200.

01 "Live from New York"
02 "Sychosymatic"
03 "Dip Dip Di"
04 "The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World"
06 "Sychoward"
07 "Straight Loonie"
08 "Danger"
09 "Get Lifted"
10 "How's That"
11 "The Chase"
12 "Take It To The Streetz"
13 "Bom Bom Zee"
14 "Countdown"
15 "Escapism"

                                           "The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World"