The 25 greatest East Coast hip-hop albums of the 1990s

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No. 6 The Infamous… by Mobb Deep (1995)

As dark as any hip-hop album ever recorded, Prodigy and Havoc’s second release took the gritty aesthetic of Wu and married it to a youth nihilism that was provocative and unsettling. Harrowing street tales of robbery and murder are backed by amazing production from Havoc himself and Q-Tip.


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Todd "Stereo" Williams, entertainment writer based in New York City. He co-founded Thirty 2 Oh 1 Productions, an indie film company.
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