His most influential record might have been the Jansport-igniting Soundpieces: Da Antidote, and you can't ignore the mossy dank of Madvillain. Nor is Otis Jackson at his jazziest on Beat Konducta Vol. That's his mushroom-motored Quasimoto character. This isn't Madlib at his most psychedelic. So let's just dedicate this to those down since day one. It's a place where the Golden Age always glimmered in blood red and marine blue.
It's bong-ripping backpackers, gangsta rap and granola. is both the army of Uncle Jamm and Chronic at picnics. So everyone from Xzibit to Above the Law is absent. In our infamously splintered city, all-inclusiveness is impossible. After all, no music issue could be complete without dialing his beeper number. Dre, the Asklepios of local rap, whose fingerprints fall upon nearly half the albums in our Top 20. Surprisingly, it occurred largely without the efforts of Dr. This has happened through the efforts of experimentalists like Odd Future and the purveyors of Low End Theory, now cultural arbiters to the country writ large.
So while we watched the tubes for Detox, Los Angeles quietly won the West, for the first time in a quarter-century.
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But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list below. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A.