Player 1 & Bloody Bones — Crime Rate Sky-High

It's no surprise that one of the best hip-hop albums of 1994 comes from Memphis. Instead, it's a surprise that one of the best hip-hop albums of 1994 comes from Player 1 & Bloody Bones, rappers of the crew Frayser Click of Frayser, North Memphis.

Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge — Twelve Reasons to Die

In 2013, Ghostface Killah releases his tenth studio album, the first collaborative disk with American composer Adrian Younge. The guests are Wu-Tang Clan members Masta Killa, U-God, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, along with Wu-Tang affiliate Killa Sin and William Hart of The Delfonics.

YOD — Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition

Album released by Your Old Droog and produced entirely by Tha God Fahim. The beats are credited to Argov, Ewonee, Messiah Musik, Preservation and Roper Williams. The guests are Mach-Hommy, Tha God Fahim, Billy Woods, Tvoy (YOD alter-ego), Phonte, Black Thought, and El-P.

Trillmatic x Conway the Machine — Organized Grime EP

Immediately after "Everybody Is F.O.O.D. 3", Conway comes out with a second EP in April 2019: I'm not sure what the real function of Trillmatic is here, in any case the rapper from Buffalo uses a production that doesn't include the historic producer of Griselda Daringer, replaced by sounds chosen by Apollo Brown, Mephux, Farma, and Kyo Itachi. The Machine drops his classic braggadocio / gangsta lyrics, unfortunately the hooks aren't Conway's bread, otherwise this twenty-minute EP would be among his best works.

E.S.G. — Ocean of Funk

Debut for Cedric Hill aka E.S.G. (Everyday Street Gangsta), homonymous moniker of the NY group of the eighties who pulled out "UFO".

Intelligent Hoodlum — Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum

Percy Chapman's second album, last under the name of Intelligent Hoodlum, before finally changing the moniker to Tragedy Khadafi.