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

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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.


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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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