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Quietly reaching his ninth solo album, Brooklyn’s underrated son AZ provides a nostalgic look at rap’s Golden Era on Undeniable delivering rhymes as slick and smooth as the beats that support them.

The duo of rapper/crooner Cee-Lo Green and producer Dangermouse that make up Gnarls Barkley return for a second serving of exotic tunes with Odd Couple, a thirteen-track bliss-ride into a dimension all their own.

Fat Joe’s new album, The Elephant In The Room, is another chronicle about life on the streets. Starting like a mix tape with “The Fugitive,” perhaps a gesture of keeping it real, this compilation doesn’t represent an experienced veteran in the hip-hop game.

Blending old-school soul samples, contemporary R&B vocals, live instruments, and chest-banging drums, Snoop Dogg’s ninth album weaves music like Beethoven’s masterpiece—the Ninth Symphony. In the intro to this 21-track epic Snoop said, “The only thing I love the most is making music.”  He wasn’t kidding.