Easily top 5 for me.
Diplomats
three 6
Camp lo
USDA
Bone round out the top 5
I still have their albums in constant rotation (made a comprehensive collezione of over 200 bone tracks, features, b sides, remixes, unreleased, etc. that i took with me on a two month trip to the orient : prolly played this the most honestly).
Huge bone fan and their material sounds better/less dated than most of yalls top 30 groups.
And i never bring this up because u either hate em or love em and im not here to argue/debate tastes: but obviously urs suck if they aint in your top 5; i just listen in silence and enjoy true elite human level art in recorded music form.
Gimmicky?
Mr. Wallace, Mr. Wright and Mr. Shakur didnt seem to think so.
Neither did the goat, Sir Collins.
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