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Consumer Guides by Set: Hip Hop (T)

Hip hop.

Artists

  • Skatemaster Tate and the Concrete Crew:
    • Do the Skate [1991, 4th & Broadway] *
  • Timbaland:
    • Tim's Bio [1998, Blackground/Atlantic] Neither
    • Timbaland Presents Shock Value [2007, Blackbround/Interscope] Choice Cuts
  • Timbaland and Magoo:
    • Welcome to Our World [1997, Blackstreet/Atlantic] A-
    • Under Construction Part II [2003, Blackground/Universal] A-
  • Tone-Loc:
    • Loc-ed After Dark [1989, Delicious Vinyl] B+
  • Too Short:
    • Life Is . . . Too Short [1988, Jive] B+
    • Short Dog's in the House [1990, Jive] Choice Cuts
    • Shorty the Pimp [1992, Jive] C+
    • Get In Where You Fit In [1993, Jive] Neither
  • Total:
    • Kima, Keisha and Pam [1998, Bad Boy] *
  • The Treacherous Three:
    • "The Body Rock" [1981, Enjoy] A-
    • Old School Flava [1993, Wrap/Easylee] B+
  • A Tribe Called Quest:
    • People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm [1990, Jive] B+
    • The Low End Theory [1991, Jive] ***
    • Midnight Marauders [1993, Jive] A-
    • Beats, Rhymes and Life [1996, Jive] ***
    • The Love Movement [1998, Jive] Choice Cuts
    • The Anthology [1999, Jive] A
    • We Got It From Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service [2016, Epic] A+
  • Trick Daddy:
    • Book of Thugs: Chapter A.K., Verse 47 [2000, Slid-n-Slide/Atlantic] Choice Cuts
    • Thugs Are Us [2001, Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic] **
    • Thug Holiday [2002, Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic] Dud
  • TTC:
    • Ceci N'Est Pas un Disque [2002, Big Dada Disques] **
  • 2 Black 2 Strong:
    • Burn Baby Burn [1990, In Effect/Clappers] ***
    • Doin' Hard Time on Planet Earth [1991, Relativity/Clappers] B+
  • Two Kings and a Cipher:
    • From Pyramids to Projects [1991, Bahia] *
  • The 2 Live Crew:
    • As Nasty as They Wanna Be [1989, Skyywalker] C
    • Banned in the U.S.A. [1990, Luke/Atlantic] Dud
  • 2Pac:
    • Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. [1991, Interscope] Choice Cuts
    • Me Against the World [1995, Interscope] C+
    • Greatest Hits [1998, Death Row/Interscope] *

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