Atmosphere

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul ·1989

"Every one of their albums is amazing. This was the debut album, this was the album that changed a lot for me. It just kind of opened up a broad idea of how you could identify within hip-hop music."

The Thing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ennio Morricone ·1982

"I love all his anything he has. We both collect his stuff anytime we see his name we buy it, but this is special and there's a little bit of synthesizer stuff in here that I have tried to emulate at times."

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T ·1991

"I love his earlier stuff from the 80s but this was, I think this came out '90, '91 or something like that. But this record took it over the top to me. They have a lot of little songs that connect bigger songs and I don't know, it's pretty great. I think mostly it was done by DJ Aladdin, produced most of it and the scratching is amazing, the beats are great, all the topics are pretty great. It's my favorite record of Ice-T's."

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco ·2002

"This is the one if you're not familiar with Wilco, this is the one to listen to. It's kind of sad face rock in a weird way, you know, it's like good music to... it's kind of what rap sounds like today."