DREAM TEAM 2: 1993 feat KRS-One, Wu-Tang, Ice Cube, Snoop, Black Moon and more!

Hip Hop World Cup

1993 was a special time in hip-hop. On the East Coast, it was the year of shouty choruses, bald heads, big coats and Tims – and that’s just Run DMC – while Wu-Tang and Black Moon launched their legendary debut bangers.

On the West Coast, Snoop’s first album took the hip-hop world from behind, the feud between Dre and Eazy got personal, and Ice Cube stayed up all night watching police helicopters.

In this episode, Danny, Steve and Larry take a trip back to this pivotal year and assemble a star team of 11 classic tracks from a squad of 22.

The songs are drawn against each other in a series of one-on-one matches, which we discuss and use the three-man vote to decide the winner.

After sorting the beats from the chaff, the 11 winning tracks earn a place on our Spotify playlist, which you can access using the link below. We also decide on the team's name, manager and star player.

THE 1993 SQUAD:

1. 2Pac ‘Point The Finga’ 
2. Apache ‘Gangsta Bitch’
3. A Tribe Called Quest ‘Award Tour’ 
4. Black Moon ‘Who Got Da Props?’ 
5. Del The Funkee Homosapien ‘Wrongplace’ 
6. DJ Shadow ‘Entropy’ 
7. Eazy-E ‘Real Muthaphukkin Gs’ 
8. Fat Joe Da Gangsta ‘Flow Joe’ 
9. Funkdoobiest ‘Bow Wow Wow’ 
10. Ice Cube ‘Ghetto Bird’ 
11. KRS-One ‘Sound Of Da Police’ 
12. Lords of the Underground ‘Chief Rocka’ 
13. MC Ren ‘Same Old Shit’ 
14. Original Flavor ‘Can I Get Open?’ 
15. Run DMC 'Down With The King' 
16. Snoop Doggy Dogg ‘Gin & Juice’ 
17. Souls of Mischief ’93 Til Infinity’ 
18. Spice 1 ‘Trigga Gots No Heart’ 
19. The Beatnuts ‘No Equal’ 
20. The Notorious BIG 'Party and Bullshit' 
21. Trends of Culture ‘Off And On’ 
22. Wu Tang Clan ‘C.R.E.A.M.’

DREAM TEAM 1993 SPOTIFY PLAYLIST:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6CeyJBzmRWAPKVshxD7ykm?si=06754a35dab640b6

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