From: M Elliot-Knight (fmcmurry_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 2004-01-22 19:26:35
for some positive hip-hop check out
Guru's Jazzamataz projects
select Tribe Called Quest tunes
De La Soul
Lauryn Hill
Arrested Development
Jungle Brothers
Digable Planets
P.M. Dawn
Spearhead/Disposable Heros of Hiphopricy/Spearhead
Jill Scott
The Roots
Afrika Bambaataa
Queen Latifah
Brand Nubian
Run-DMC (of course)
MC Solaar (he raps in French anyway)
Grandmaster Flash
lots of stuff from the UK that straddles the "trip-hop" genre - lots of cool
stuff on Grand Central records
Roots Manuva
Coldcut
Smith & Mighty
Soul II Soul
DJ Shadow
DJ Krush
Req
Dan the Autormator
Blackalicous
the Pharcyde
Jurassic 5
Lifesavas
Dilated Peoples
most of everything on Ninja Tune
Of course you should check the music out before playing it for your kids and
there is always the "clean" version CDs you can get if one or two tracks are
a bit scruffy with the language.
MEK
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