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Album	You	Global	Diff
Paris 1919 John Cale	5	2.96	+2.04
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde The Pharcyde	5	3.13	+1.87
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco	5	3.14	+1.86
Vespertine Björk	5	3.19	+1.81
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.23	+1.77
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.29	+1.71
Liquid Swords GZA	5	3.29	+1.71
Sulk The Associates	4	2.35	+1.65
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	5	3.36	+1.64

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Album	You	Global	Diff
MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana	3	4.19	-1.19

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Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Radiohead	5	4.2
David Bowie	6	4
Pink Floyd	3	4.33

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Time is illmatic

Dang, hit me with Illmatic and then follow it up with Food & Liquor? It's amazing to witness the creativity, sincerity, and focused messaging from a kid coming out of Chicago in the early-2000s with such finesse given the hip-hop environment at the time, and with great beats to boot. I even love the mad long outro credit roll. While it's not my absolute favorite from Lupe (Tetsuo & Youth still lays claim to that even among his latest releases), it is still quintessential Lupe and a staple in the conversation of "classic hip-hop records" and substantive, lyrical hip-hop.

Another one of those critically-acclaimed, beloved albums that get lost on me, like with Lana Del Ray. I've given this work plenty of tries over the years, but it just doesn't take. I think it's a combination of 1) you have to have an inclination toward the genre, full-stop and 2) you had to have followed her career to understand the context of the lyrics and appreciate her progress from when she first started to her mid-career to now to be wowed by where she is now with BRAT. There's some songs I can get with, but not enough that I'd seek them out to listen. It's, overall, just lost on me.

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