Sumbi’s lyrical gymnastics and truly unique flows were unlike anything previously heard in Hip-Hop, and their lyrical stylings were truly light years ahead of their time. Aceyalone, Mikah 9, P.E.A.C.E, Self Jupiter, and J. Originally released by indie label Sun Music (which has no other release credits to its name here on Discogs), Freestyle Fellowship’s debut whooshed right past the majority of the Hip-Hop listening audience due to not having the advantage of major label distribution or promotion, as well as only being available on vinyl and cassette. Sons Of The P is arguably DU’s best album.įreestyle Fellowship – To Whom It May Concern Kiss You Back was a minor hit, the importance of recognizing the achievements of those still on this plane are discussed in Heartbeat Props, and 2Pac makes a couple early appearances, once for writing and once for vocals. The truth, however, is that Shock G brought a level of musicianship and creativity rarely paralleled in the genre, even to this day. Unfortunately, DU has largely been relegated by the masses as a novelty due to early hits like The Humpty Dance and Doowhutchyalike. Which makes perfect sense, as Digital Underground was group leader Shock G’s envisioning of a Hip-Hop version of the Parliament and Funkadelic collective. And like I Wish By Brother George Was Here, Sons Of The P also wears it’s P-Funk influence on its sleeve. Like Del, Digital Underground also emerged from Oakland. On his debut, Del finds a way to keep the “fun” in Funk without ever being corny.Īfter a few years of everybody mining James Brown’s catalog, the early 1990’s was the era of George Clinton and P-Funk to become the primary source of the Funk for a multitude of Hip-Hop producers. The divisions in style were not nearly as wide as they’d become in later years. This album perfectly exemplifies the beauty of Hip-Hop 1991: the most hardcore rapper on earth can present an album by his eccentric, “alternative” cousin, and it was all just Hip-Hop. Bombay, Del drops story raps that many of us can relate to: from the woes of The Wacky World Of Rapid Transit to that fool that’s always Sleepin’ On My Couch that you just can’t shake. In addition to party classics like Mistadobalina and Dr. Although related to Ice Cube, lyrically I Wish My Brother George shares much more in common with early De La Soul than N.W.A. Executive-produced by his cousin Ice Cube, and produced by Cube’s cohort Boogiemen, I Wish My Brother George Was Here wears it’s P-Funk influence on it’s sleeve just check the reference to George Clinton in the title. The sound of Del’s debut is 100% about the Funk – not just any Funk, but the P-Funk. While this album has definitely achieved cult-classic status amongst Hieroglyphics fans, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien’s debut is often overlooked in favor of his sophomore album, No Need For Alarm (1993), which was the precursor to the sound he’d cultivate for much of the rest his later output, even amongst Hiero fans.
Do you have any lesser discussed favorites that you feel should’ve made the list? Let us know in the comments!ĭel Tha Funkee Homosapien – I Wish My Brother George Was Here We wanted to dig a little deeper and shine a light on some albums that don’t get brought up in these conversations quite as often. are all some of the best Hip-Hop records ever created, but they’ll make everyone else’s best of ’91 lists. It would be too easy to compile of a list of albums that attained classic material status and are now considered to be standards of the genre: The Low End Theory, De La Soul Is Dead, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, Cypress Hill, Breaking Atoms, One For All, etc. In this edition, we’ll be focusing on what we consider to be essential but sometimes overlooked Hip-Hop releases. It seemed like a new dope album was constantly dropping, and it was not difficult to cop at least a couple new rap tapes a month that would stay in heavy rotation throughout the bulk of the rest of the year. Being right smack dab in the middle of the Golden Era of Hip-Hop, 1991 was undoubtably a prime year to be following the genre. For this installment, we’ll be listening back to some of the finest Hip-Hop releases of that year. In the month of May, we’re looking back at some of the best records released 25(!) years ago: 1991.
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