A Hip-Hop Favorite

Sorry to the hip-hop fans who clicked here, but I'm kind of a hip-hop wimp. The only groups I actually listen to repeatedly, which fall into this category, are tame white-boy type groups such as Trik-Turner (below) or the hip-hop efforts (mixed among the punk and reggae) offered by the Sublime family of bands.

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Planting Seeds, a local group out of Oakland, CA, snuck through my defenses by combining Hip-Hop with Reggae, a feat which I'm surprised isn't attempted more often. They have a lot of good, down-home lyrics as well. Like Trik-Turner, these guys are very tame compared to somebody like, for example, Public Enemy or Outkast. Some people might argue that the groups I like are 'watered down'. But in my case, their innovation succeeded where big-ticket phonies such as Vanilla Ice failed: to persuade a mainstream dude like me to give up my longstanding prejudice against the entire musical genre. Outkast may find his way onto my MP3 player later.
I can't talk about Hip-Hop lyrics without mentioning Sir Mix-A-Lot's classic "Baby Got Back"... but that's been so badly overplayed, I don't dare say anything further.

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