^^^this comment stuck out most to me, prolly most biasis statment in thread but anyways....Aesop...I am a fan of so don't get it twisted I lvoe his shit but he isn't the lyrical genious people paint him as....people jus don't understand him...if your fairly intelligent you'll see alot of his metaphors are tedious an he over words stuff unnecessarily for effect...instead of saying "jesus" he says "a certain virgin mary womb occupant" come the fuck on!..with that said...Labor Days & Float are classics..I wont deny that at all but the rest are jus above average an bazooka tooth? c'mon now...Atmosphere..another group I'm a fan of but people gotta learn how to be realisitic about they fav. artists..however Atmosphere I'll give u..they technically never dropped a bad one but have had a slew of average ones.
Others don't kno.

my list goes:

Rakim
Murs
Cannibal Ox
Cunninglyguists
Redman
Atmosphere
Sage Francis(If you get what he's doing)
The Roots(so slept on)
Little Brother(slept on harder than roots)
Pharoache Monch(Including his Organized Konfusion days)
Public Emeny
Kool G rap
Ludacris
Joe Buddens(including the mixtapes that were really albums)
Gangstarr
Brother Ali
Dead Prez
Hieroglyphics
and theres more but I'm done lol

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