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Beatles - The White Album (1968)

"Rocky Raccoon...that's a gangster song"

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

"It felt like listening to our own Beatles, or our own Beach Boys when they did Pet Sounds"

Radiohead - The Bends (1995)

"It doesn't really make sense, why it's so good"

Nas - Illmatic (1994)

"I didn't feel an emcee so alive since when I first heard Rakim"

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (1992)

"They just carved out three different genres...the party rap, the artistic rap, and then with the jazz, kinda like white noise, anything, we're just gonna do it"