The Erik Torenberg list of rap music I should listen to

Here goes:

• Lupe Fiasco — The Cool (2007 Lupe’s peak as an artist, this and Food & Liquor. He has a tragic fall from grace in the rap game)
• Blu — Below the Heavens (Also an older classic underground album, Blu was a prodigy who never quite made it)
• Phonte — Charity Starts at home (Phonte from Little Brother’s first and only solo album)
• Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (The best of two legendary MC’s)
• J Cole — Forest Hills Drive
• Homeboy Sandman — First of a Living Breed (My favorite artist because he’s a true poet.)
• Common — Be (Common produced by Kanye in 2005)
• Chance the Rapper — Acid Rap (Chance’s first mixtape that propelled him to the national spotlight)

Some of it I knew already, in any case I thought these were very good selections…