De La Soul and The Pharcyde as well.

Timebomb – P.E, greatest hip-hop track ever.

Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Beatdown, best album?

Jungle Brothers – Done by the forces of nature. Genius album from start to finish.
De La Soul – 3 ft etc. Under-rated since and derided as kids stuff. Big fail.
Tribe Called Quest – not 80s, but Low End Theory was their masterpiece. Best hip hop album ever?
Public Enemy. No further explanation required.
KRS One. Likewise.

And going off piste a little…
MC900ft Jesus?

No mention of Stetsasonic yet? 🙂

Love it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfpYZ3ZFnwA&feature=related

BDP
KRS 1
Hijak
3rd bass
De la soul
Ice T
2 live crew

Redhead Kingpin
Morris Minor and the Majors

WFT. No mention of Doom? Seriously?

Fat Lip
Pharcyde
BDP
Beastie Boys
Run DMC
Sage Francis
De la Soul
Tribe Called Quest
Gangstar
Sugar Hill Gang
Jurassic 5
to name but a few. I have to draw the line at Eminem and all the other bullS**t supposed Hiphop, thats made for white boys who think they are rebelious…

Dälek – Abandoned Language

Ultramagnetic MC’s.

I shared a stage with them back in the late 80’s!

Eminems career started in the 90’s, how old do you think he is?

Cypress Hill.
Roots.

funnily enough been youtubing some of my old Electro tape favourites like mantronix, DJ Kool (let me clear my throat), doug e fresh and slick rick (the show) etc

Young MC.

Ayeet.

Gold Chains, not to be confused with Goldie looking chains.

Cypress hill
Big Daddy Kane
Public Enemy

What about Dre and Cube?

Pharoahe Monche
Dialated peoples
Outsidaz

edit, sorry not 80s. Good though

osteotomy

I’m not entirely sure that everyone posting has read and understood the original post..

Some of the acts being listed weren’t even a twinkle in they mama’s eye back in the day..

+1 for loads of stuff on here already.

At the moment though it’s all about Jay Z’s Reasonable Doubt.

sorry I misread the title, I thought it said favorite hip-op

Eric B and Rakim. Paid in Full.

Jay Z? 80’s?

He can’t even rap, which is a bit of a problem if you’re a rapper.

no no no … osteotomy were a fantastic nerdcore hip hop act from the early 90s based in Turkey.. they were very well recieved on the underground scene in Munich and Michigan.. one of their best numbers was ‘talk about femoral head’ a scathing attack on the embryonic rap industry of that time that people are so fond of confusing with hip hop in the present day..

+1 for 3rd Bass. Must go for a dig in the vinyl…