1. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Every couple of years a collective comes out and people compare them to the Wu, but they never get close. 36 Chambers was the only album my rock friends and my hip hop friends could agree on listening to when we were drinking, they are pure badass-ness.
2. Outkast – Aquemini
I could have just chosen five Outkast albums but I decided to only pick one. Andre 3000 is one of the best rappers to ever live and Big Boi (though forever in his shadow) is not far off. Aquemini was the first Outkast album I bought, but I love them all. There’s reports that a new album is in the works? Yes, please.
3. Eminem – Infinite
This was Eminem before he had invented Slim Shady. He was broke, desperate and rapping his arse off. These were my anthems of being 15 and lost. The album failed commercially and Eminem rarely mentions it when talking about his discography, but who cares what he thinks, it’s a great album.
4. MF Doom – Mm..Food
Doom has so much great music but Mm.. Food has always been my favourite. Ten years later I still listen to it and pick up on new lyrics I hadn’t understood before. There would be no Earl Sweatshirt without MF Doom, and I definitely owe a lot of my style to him too.
5. Little Brother – GetBack
Before you go all crazy, I know that GetBack isn’t even Little Brother’s best album. But it was the album that had the most effect on me. When I was working in a record store in Adelaide it was the only Little Brother album we stocked, so I l listened to it every day. These days Drake is one of my favourite artists, but how could I include Drake without the group that influenced him/
Catch ALLDAY at the Push Pop Up Stage at Moomba Festival, Speakers Corner, Birrarung Marr on Monday March 10 (Labour Day Holiday). Other guests include Remi, The Smith Street Band along with the FReeZA Push Start Band Comp Grand Final including Alkali Fly, Baking Blind, Residual, Darcy Fox, Listerdale, The Rims, Bel Air, Worship The Fallen and Great John Himself. Tickets are free. He also plays the Youth Week 2014 event at the Ukraniane Hall, Essendon on Saturday April 5 alongside The Jungle Giants, Lunatics On Pogosticks and Chiefs.
