Best 3-Album Runs in Rap with Dead End Hip Hop | Ep. 98

To cap our first series on the best three-album runs in 90s hip hop we had to reach out to one our favourite rap channels out there for a roundtable chat - we’re delighted to bring on the Dead End Hip Hop crew 🔥 We speak on runs from MF DOOM, El-P, 8Ball & MJG, The Roots, Nas, Jay-Z and many more! So get ready for some dope chat on classic runs (inside and out of the 90s) with Ken, Rod, Beezy, and Myke.

Show Notes
- Intro (00:00)
- Ice Cube and Tupac’s album runs (03:10)
- The Roots and Gang Starr’s album runs (06:25)
- 8Ball & MJG and UGK’s runs (11:54)
- Master P’s album run (19:15)
- Mobb Deep’s album run (24:46)
- What makes a good album run? (30:00)
- MF DOOM, Ka and Roc Marciano’s album runs (35:55)
- El-P’s three-album run (41:50)
- OutKast’s album run (43:25)
- What about Nas and Jay-Z? (49:46)
- Lil Wayne’s album run and who is capable of dropping a classic run now? (52:38)

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🔲 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper
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🔲 What’s the best AND worst merch you’ve ever bought?
🔲 What rapper’s swag would you wear to a wedding, funeral or job interview?
🔲 You have to get a rap song tattooed on you…which one, where and why?
🔲 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?
🔲 Best and worst rap memorabilia?

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And our last series talking best 3-album runs in rap can be found here…
Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)
Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)
De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)
Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)
A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)
Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)
OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)
Mobb Deep with Chris Mitchell from Breaking Atoms (http://shorturl.at/zHIKO)

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