I remember back when it first came out, my friend grabbed the first Tony Hawk's Underground game for PS2. I hadn't heard of it, but I played it, dug it, got it. (it's a great game too, by the way) The soundtrack has a lot of rap shit, and at the time I wasn't into rap at all, but I remember some of it I kinda liked...Nas doing "The World Is Yours", Jurassic 5 doing "A Day At The Races".... Those are some of my favorite rap tracks even today. Just the other day I played it again, and godDAMN, it has a great soundtrack. All the Tony Hawk games do, actually....they make some pretty out-there choices for a mainstream game; tons of real underground rap. Looking back on it, it's funny; half the stuff I didn't even remember being there, but there's a ton of stuff on there I've discovered and gotten into since...MF Doom, Deltron 3030, Aceyalone, Busdriver. So respect to THUG for having a fucking great soundtrack and helping get me into rap. Also, driven by the Mr. Lif track, "I Phantom", on there, I'm gonna jump into some Def Jux (big time avant-garde/experimental hip hop label). I never dug what I heard before, but upon taking a scan now, much of it sounds great, so I'm gonna grab a few albums and posts here will ensue.
Here's the Lif track...love that beat; dense and noisy as fuck.
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