No. 5 Critical Beatdown by Ultramagnetic MCs
If you want to find a starting point for what music critics would later deem “alternative hip-hop,” its probably here. The Ultramags came out of left field with one of the quirkiest and most inventive hip-hop albums of all time. The production is as off-kilter and idiosyncratic as the rhymes, and this album marks the debut of one of rap’s greatest eccentrics, the legendary Kool Keith.
