No. 19 De La Soul Is Dead by De La Soul (1991)
Many hip-hop fans rejected these offbeat Long Islanders’ D.A.I.S.Y. Age musings after their debut album, so Pos, Trugoy and Maseo returned with a slightly harder, angrier record. Still filtering hip-hop through their own idiosyncrasies, the trio delivered another oddball masterpiece–backed by producer Prince Paul.