Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault!

Well shizzle my nizzle – Replay makes its first visit to 1993 as we look back at the best battles from the first series of Hip Hop World Cup.

This hike through hip-hop history sees Snoop Doggy Dogg’s hugely anticipated debut album Doggystyle bump up against A Tribe Called Quest’s boom-bap behemoth Midnight Marauders – an album that many consider to be one of hip-hop’s true masterpieces, blessed with bangers like Electric Relaxation and Award Tour.

But with a peak Dr Dre on the boards for Snoop’s extraordinary G-Funk odyssey, this one definitely wasn’t a walkover for Tip and the lads. Hits like Gin & Juice, What’s My Name and Doggy Dogg World made this a stone-cold classic that demanded constant rotation.

In fact this was one of the most bruising debates the world of hip-hop podcasting has ever witnessed, so why not kick back, pop some Tanqueray into your cup, fire up a blunt and hit play.

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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault!

Chiggidy check it! We delve into the Hip Hop World Cup archives once again for this biggidy-beast of a battle between Ice Cube and Das EFX from our 1992 episode.

DJ Muggs' fingerprints are all over Ice Cube's third album The Predator, including the single Check Yo Self, which features – you've guessed it – Das EFX, who square up to Cube with their debut album Dead Serious.

What ensues here is a robust discussion between Danny, Steve and James about the merits of each album, touching on Dray and Skoob's trendsetting, tongue-twisting style and where The Predator stands in the Ice Cube pantheon.

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Welcome to Hip Hop World Cup REPLAY – your chance to revisit classic matches between golden-age rap albums from the Hip Hop World Cup vault!

In 1994, the USA hosted the FIFA World Cup, the most memorable part of which was during the opening ceremony when Diana Ross shanked a penalty wide that inexplicably still made the goal split in half.

Even more memorably, 1994 saw a huge number of incredible hip-hop albums hit the streets, with the likes of Nas, Biggie, Jeru, O.C. and Gang Starr dropping jewels that would change the landscape of hip-hop forever.

In this Replay episode, we’re revisiting a match between two more classics from this seminal year – Resurrection by Common (Sense) and Tical by Method Man.

When these two albums faced each other in our 1994 episode, the crowd erupted and so did our hosts (not literally) – Resurrection is one of Danny and James’ all-time favourites, while Steve is a serious Wu-Tang stan who holds Tical in very high regard.

What happened next? Who won? Were anyone’s opinions as wide of the mark as Diana’s shite penalty? Listen to this Replay episode and find out.

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