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Hip Hop World Cup is the podcast that pits golden-age hip-hop tracks and albums against each other in a contest to find the ultimate champions!
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REPLAY #7: Mobb Deep ‘The Infamous’ vs Big L ‘Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous’ (1995) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault! This episode features a heavyweight clash between two of 1995’s biggest and best rap albums. Mobb Deep’s The Infamous is an absolute behemoth, regarded by many as one of the best hip-hop albums ever made – a sentiment we share here at HHWC HQ. Its bleak, brutal beats and Havoc and Prodigy’s chilling street tales make for a compelling listen, garnished by me
REPLAY #6: Snoop Doggy Dogg ‘Doggystyle’ vs A Tribe Called Quest ‘Midnight Marauders’ (1993) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault! Well shizzle my nizzle – Replay makes its first visit to 1993 as we look back at the best battles from the first series of Hip Hop World Cup. This hike through hip-hop history sees Snoop Doggy Dogg ’s hugely anticipated debut album Doggystyle bump up against A Tribe Called Quest ’s boom-bap behemoth Midnight Marauders – an album that many consider to be one
REPLAY #5: Ice Cube 'The Predator' vs Das EFX 'Dead Serious' (1992) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault! Chiggidy check it! We delve into the Hip Hop World Cup archives once again for this biggidy-beast of a battle between Ice Cube and Das EFX from our 1992 episode. DJ Muggs' fingerprints are all over Ice Cube's third album The Predator , including the single Check Yo Self, which features – you've guessed it – Das EFX, who square up to Cube with their debut al
REPLAY #4: Common Sense ‘Resurrection’ vs Method Man ‘Tical’ (1994) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault! In 1994, the USA hosted the FIFA World Cup, the most memorable part of which was during the opening ceremony when Diana Ross shanked a penalty wide that inexplicably still made the goal split in half. Even more memorably, 1994 saw a huge number of incredible hip-hop albums hit the streets, with the likes of Nas, Biggie, Jeru, O.C. and Gang Starr dropping je
REPLAY #3: A Tribe Called Quest ‘The Low End Theory’ vs NWA ‘Efil4zaggin’ (1991) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault! In this episode we take a trip back to 1991 (an incredible yet strangely overlooked year in hip-hop history) for a battle between two of the greatest hip-hop groups ever: A Tribe Called Quest and NWA . When these sophomore albums faced each other in our 1991 tournament, it was an agonising decision for our hosts. Tribe’s The Low End Theory is regarded as on
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