Girl Talk - Night Ripper

It's been a long few weeks - so just listen.

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The Roots - Phrenology

Tap into the skulljuice of The Roots in this fantastically complex hip-hop album.

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Wreckx-N-Effect - Hard or Smooth

All I wanna do is a zoom-zoom-zoom and a boom-boom.

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Christmas on Death Row

'Tis the season for gansta music.

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Busdriver - Temporary Forever

I was sold on this album years ago for two key reasons - one, the breakneck, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and two, "Kids, if you want to piss off your parents, show interest in the arts".

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P.O.S. - Never Better

P.O.S. is a hip-hop artist influenced heavily by bands like Black Flag and Fugazi, and his lyrics often incorporate that same kind of sarcasm and anger that punk would normally bring. He seems to be able to avoid the whole, almost obligatory, self-aggrandizing elements that rapping seems to call for, instead sticking to fast, intelligent lyrics.

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Subtle - For Hero: For Fool

Suppose you are driving down the road, into a vast alien expanse of what was once a city-scape. The otherworldly invaders have already taken root. They see you as no threat as you make your approach across the broken pavement, but they are no means friendly, either. You lean back into your seat, a devious smile splitting your skull. You've come to cause chaos to their chitinous hive-ships, and this album plays in the background as you approach.

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Afroman - A Colt 45 Christmas

It's impossible to escape it. Give up. There is no denying the power of Christmas. Everywhere you go, it shall follow. Even in the deepest dens of the most solitary of recluses, there still looms the threat of holiday cheer, be they from some cavalcade of carol singers who have traveled through time to sing at their doorstep, or some conspiracy kook trying to elaborate on his theories that our crude consumerism is a vast plot put into play by Soviet mind-control devices.

I'm already indoctrinated. It's too late for me. I think what did it was Afroman's warbling phrase "You better not pout, you better not shout, I'll slap your grandmama's denture's out". And while this album has all the mature subtlety of a wet fart, it, also much like a wet fart, is fun, especially in the right company.

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