I guess there's still some shit to talk about Rawkus, 20+ years after the fact, but goddamn, they could put together a solid ass comp.
This isn't on the level of the first release...hell, most comps aren't. But there's still a great cross section of millennial hip-hop, headlined by Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kool G Rap, and Dilated Peoples. Oh, and Biggie leads off with "16 Bars", as good a selling point in 2000 as you could find.
I'm racking my brain, trying to figure out how I managed to not own a copy of this until 2022, when I found it in a stack of backpack hip-hop CDs at a Value Village. "Supreme Clientele", "Black On Both Sides", "Amplified"; they all came out around the same time, they were all records I bought new from work the week they dropped. Did we not buy Rawkus releases at the record store I worked at that year? Maybe not.
Still, not much of an excuse. A mistake that was easily corrected for $2.
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