Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaosīeastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a GunĬypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill a Manĭe La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” Melle Mel & Duke Bootee (lumped in with Grandmaster Flash recordings) - Message II (Survival) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five feat. Some beats I could hear all day, like You Gots to Chill, I Got 5 on It, Passin' Me By, and The Message (whose beat is on here twice). Streight Up Menace? Cypress Hill's How I Could Just.? Newcleus's Jam On It? (I don't exactly lean toward early '80s stuff, but I really liked this one.) I don't think most people have heard Lil Rob's Summer Nights.
It looks like my axis point is 1992, but so, I'm not sure what if anything here is considered obscure. A lot of '80s and '90s stuff - including, yes, the pop rap. Here's a chronological list of some of my favorites, lumped by year.
