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The album Dead Enz Kidz Doin' Lifetime Bidz was released by Young Black Teenagers.

It was an obvious statement on how Black kids were treated in the United States and how mainstream society viewed rappers. The kids liked to have fun. The song "Tap The Bottle" shows that all kids should be able to have fun.

The WhoRidas were from Oakland but found a home on the LA label, Delicious Vinyl. After the release of "Shot Callin' & Big Ballin'," they became massive on the West Coast, which was a far cry from the g-funk dominated radio of the time. The WhoRidas proved that shot callin' and big ballin' wasn't only for the disciples of Dre.

The song "Playaz Club" emerged as a g-funk classic, the sort of song that was an immediate appeal but also appeared on compilations collecting West Coast classics long past its release date in the 90s. The song uses an excellent sample from Judy Clay and William Bell's 1968 hit "Private Number" with a guitar line that highlights Rappin' 4- Tay's silk voice, equal parts mysterious and confident.

One of the best hip hop songs of the 90s.

By 1999, Slick Rick was 15 years into his career and looking for a boost for his final album.

OutKast helped turn "Street Talkin'" into a street ready anthem that instantly introduced the young audience to the legendary smooth-talking rhymes of Slick Rick.

Heltah Skeltah has always been credited with “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka,” but the song's chorus lays out all the main players: “Yes yes y'all (yes y'all)/OGC, Heltah Skeltah be the best y'all (best y 'all)/Fab 5 slam from East to West y'all.” The trio of OGC, along with the duo of Skeltah, made up The Fab 5. They were all part of a group called Boot Camp Clik, which meant that they had a number of connected crews.

The MC was invited to appear on the group's song "West Up!" by WC a year before he left the circle.

The track is a departure from the g-funk of the era in favor of a more melodic sound and a lot of back-and-forth verse.

3X Krazy didn't hide their intentions with their hit, " Keep It On The Real." The song is an unabashed West Coast classic, and is exactly what 3X Krazy set out to do with " Keep It On The Real."

Mack 10 humorously compares himself to the East Coast hip hop community on the show. Mack interrupted Ice Cube and said, "Wait a minute, that ain't how the West Coast rock!"

The song shifts beats, and it becomes a g-funk banger, the antithesis to the glossy beats and easy boom-bap of the East Coast. The line in the sand was drawn by Mack 10 and Ice Cube with their song.

C-Knight, Bo-Roc, and 2Scoops were Warren G's disciples. They made their debut on his seminal album, Regulate...G Funk Era, but they stand out on their own. Even though they admit to running with Warren G, the song's smooth and bouncy bass gives it a perfect summertime feel.

It's a song from the era, but quirky enough to inspire new generations of R&B writers.

The Bay Area B.U.M.S had a penchant for throwing the kitchen sink into their raps. The duo relied on lush samples and an R&B influence to subvert traditional West Coast hip hop. Many California MCs would rely on the approach of the chorus, called "Free My Mind", in the future.

The appeal of Low Profile's "Pay Ya Dues" lies in the fact that it mines the same territory as many of the other songs on this list. W.C. makes a sound like a cassette recording of Prince's drums on his song "Make a quick buck", which is about MCs trying to cut the line to make a quick buck. The ethos and spirit of the beat he raps over is still alive and well, even though it fell out of fashion in the early 90s.

If Wreckx-N-Effect released the video for "Rump Shaker" in the 2020s, it would be a big deal. MTV banned a hip hop song from their air because it was so provocative in the 1992 video for "Rump Shaker".

Wreckx-N-Effect member Markell Riley recruited his brother Teddy for a verse, who asked a young Pharrell Williams to help with his bars.

Erule was a midwestern bred MC who blended aspects of classic 90s East Coast and West Coast hip hop into an eclectic style. On the song "Listen Up," he plays with loops, samples, and an eerie synthesizer that recalls the early days of Memphis' horrorcore style. These disparate styles are easily fused in Erule's hands.

MC Solaar introduced a new style of music to a generation of musicians in Paris. He came up in the early 90s and released a song called "Caroline", a love song that immediately established Solaar as a highly skilled rapper and a romantic. MC Solaar realized that some things are better left as mysteries and that rumors about who, exactly, Caroline was, were not true.

It was no offense to Showbiz, but re-upping the song with a new one was a good choice. The original was nice, but the beat by Premier became a sensation. It helped that the character in 8 Mile rapped over the beat in his first professional freestyle.

DJ Vadim got his hip hop education in England when he was a kid, and he's still celebrated as the hip hop voice to emerge from the Soviet bloc. Vadim's instrumental on "The Next Shit" sounds like it could have emerged out of the chopped-n-screwed era. It's the sort of song that shows how far hip hop traveled in the 90s, and how artists like Vadim helped bring about the renaissance of the beat scene in the 2000s.

Ghetto love is the law we live by.

That's the motto of Lost Boyz's hit single "Renee", a heartbreaking track that too accurately mirrors the struggles of trying to escape the hood. The song tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a young girl in law school and gets shot to death during a home invasion robbery. It became a huge hit because of its dedication to the violence that plagues neglected communities, without ever glorifying it.

Diamond D knew the secret to great hip hop music: surround yourself with brilliant friends. He cooked up a beat himself and versed from Fat Joe, LaReese, and Whiz One on his new track, "Best Kept Secret."

Of course, It's Diamond who comes through with the iconic opening bar: “Ya see I skip to my loo like Napoleon at Waterloo/My name is Diamond D, tell ya what I'm gonna do/I dip and I dab like a Mike Tyson jab/Even though there's flab I possess the gift of gab.”

3rd Bass talked about who they were talking about when they came for heads. MC Serch raps, “I guess it's the fact that you can't be artistic/Intricate raps, becomein' so simplistic/I gotta strong mind, it doesn't have to be spoon-fed/And I can read what doesn't have to be read.” They proved that intricate, high-brow songs could perform commercially and artistically with their song, "Pop Goes The Weasel."

Da King & I's song "Tears" has a lot of monumental moments, but few songs begin with a better four bar lyric.

"Sitting on my doorstep, thinking with my head down, a lone in my own world, with no one left around, then out of nowhere comes my partner Majesty, asking me, 'Yo, Izz why you look like there's been a tragedy?'" The image of a light skinned boy being hit on by a crush became a lasting relic of 90s hip hop.

Channel Live was established as the most exciting group from New Jersey outside of The Fugees.

The group's debut song, Station Identification, is a classic 90s boom-bap hip hop song, produced by KRS-One and featuring a featured verse. The duo and KRS muse on the magic of the "Izm," a sort of mystical power that makes them unable to beat any wack MC.

The freestyle fellowship established themselves as an alternative to traditional LA hip hop with Innercity Griots. The group's members were a part of the influential Project Blowed collective, which blended highly technical rap skills with the presence of Leimert Park's jazz scene.

A new underground in West Coast hip hop was established by this formula.

You had to come with twice as much talent as a female MC to be accepted into the boys club of 90s hip hop, so calling yourself the Boss takes serious swagger. The boss had a fountain of charisma and bars that made him jealous.

The Michigan MC's "Deeper" was one of the biggest hits of the 90s, anchored by her ferocious flow and relentless energy.

The West Coast supergroup was set up to compete with Dr. Dre and the other gangsta artists.

The group, consisting of Mack 10, WC, and Ice Cube, became a California sensation thanks in large part to the celebratory tour de force from the group that solidified their place as both individual stars and a collective triumph. Cypress Hill and Common were the real and imagined enemies of the group.

Group Home's title was used on albums like Livin' Proof, which features production from Gang Starr and Big Jaz. Absaloot, Big Shug, Guru, Jeru the Damaja, Jack the Ripper, and the Ghetto Child are some of the guests on the project.

The title track features a simple boom-bap beat with a barely-there synthesizer melody that allows each member to make their own New York sound. It's a classic Golden Age hip hop song that's still looking at life in the 90s.

The first woman of Def Jam is rightfully celebrated. Her album of hers, also titled Daddy's Little Girl, was the first record the label put out by a female hip hop artist.

The audience at Def Jam was introduced to a new side of the industry by playing with R&B, soul, and rap byNikki. She spits over lush strings and outlines the balance between who people expected her to be while standing out from her pack.

Ed O.G. was paving the way for hip hop in Boston, despite the city being slow to embrace it in the early 90s. “I Got To Have It,” his biggest unimpeachable hit of his, begins with a dusty groove before Ed kicks the crackly sample to the curb and spits over clean drums and a simple loop O.G. is a rare MC that is comfortable rapping over minimal beats, moving from demeaning his enemies'…manhood in one verse, before pleading for Black unity in the next. Ed O.G. brought it all on.

The ease of mind that comes after being able to retire from the streets is what makes heaven not the afterlife. It's an imagined paradise where the MC can smoke cigars and hang out with ladies while he pays the bills, and he can slinging drugs to pay the bills for a lifetime away.

AZ was one of the most imaginative lyricists of the 90s, and on Sugar Hill he paints a world that's impossible not to envy, though the struggle to get there is one few could endure.

Songs like "Psycho" were instrumental on multiple levels. N-I-P was a huge fan of South Park in Houston, Texas.

N-I-P's lyrics would help bring the horrorcore era of hip hop to the South. The movie "Psycho" was too rough for some people, but it inspired a generation of rappers angry at the status quo.

Geronimo was an associate of Irv Gotti from Murder Inc., but it was clear that he was going to be a star. His smooth delivery and ability to coast over perfectly grooving boom-bap beats is a seminal example. You believe him when he says "I be getting money till the day that I die"

The Nonce were one of the first groups to make progress out of the Project Blowed scene. The duo had a penchant for simple beats and rhymes that paid homage to hip hop.

The rise of this genre from the early days of slinging mixtapes to the time when freestyle cipher was a thing is chronicled in the book "Mixtapes". They did eventually.

Grand Daddy IU was as much of a character as he was an MC, which would in turn inspire a whole generation of rappers to place importance on signature deliveries. Biz Markie signed up to produce his music by IU because he could rap his ass off, like he did on "Something New."

Grand Daddy's look of a suit and tie helped create a world of possibilities for rappers following in his footsteps.

Biggie was known for more than being played in the limousine. "Now That We Found Love" was a huge success. "Now That We Found Love" is a dance track, but Heavy D's delightful bars cement the song into a bigger deal. The group created a song that was ready for the dance club and strip club.

Mase's "feel so good" is a great debut single. It was on the soundtrack of Money Talks. The song was produced by D-Dot and P. The beat was maximal as beats came in the mid-90s, with a horn section fit for a king, before Mase smoothly slides over a funky guitar part from "Hollywood Swinging."

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DJ Muggs stated that he originally made the beat for Cypress Hill, but B-Real didn't want to record it. It was then offered to Ice Cube, who refused it, before he took it to House of Pain, who made the instrumental into a massive hit. B-Real used the beat for a Cypress Hill song, "Insane in the Brain," despite his oversight.

The West Coast hip hop universe was influenced by "Ghetto Fabulous". The song was written by Dr. Dre and produced by Stu-B-Doo.

Ice-T made a appearance in the video. It was one of the best songs that showed the close ties of the gangsta rap scene in California.

El-P has helped change rap. He was a part of the underground rap renaissance with Company Flow, along with Mr. Len.

El and Company Flow married the grittiness of traditional NYC rap with a thrilling new POV on their tracks. The track has a beat that would make a skeleton nod its head and slick verse from both Jus and El.

Jeru the Damaja was a high school student who wanted to be a hip hop artist with two friends who were also aspiring DJs. Jeru was able to take advantage of this affiliation, but he worked hard to establish himself as a solo star, and "Come Clean," the centerpiece of his masterpiece, The Sun Rises in The East, remains a Golden Age classic.

The underground and mainstream were separated before the division was blurred by the wack MCs who tried to go commercial. Where you stood mattered to you.

The lyrics of the song criticize rappers who try to sell more by moving to R&B or pop. "Don't worry If There's a Hell Below (We're All Gonna Go)" was written by Roger Troutman and is a sample of the song "You Should Be Mine." Both Sermon and Smith can make hits without begging.

"U Can't Touch This" has an award shelf of its own.

The first hip hop song to be nominated for Record of the Year at the 33rd AnnualGrammy Awards was nominated for the Best R&B Song. The 1990 MTV Video Music Awards had Best Rap Video and Best Dance Videos.

The guitar line and melody they took from Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" would have made "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow" a hit, but it didn't hurt the chances of the song becoming a smash. The duo's slick bars made this 90s hip hop classic to the next level.

On his breakthrough, The Diary, Scarface used his blend of g-funk and horrorcore to accent his often remorseless lyrics about the violence he grew up with. He tells the story of a man who was released from jail but was unable to escape the trappings of the post-carceral system.

It's a tale that plagues too many Black males in this country, and on "I Seen a Man Die," Scarface brings it to a wide audience.