Boogie Down Productions · 1988 Spin it Again - After Scott La Rock was killed, KRS-One didn't retreat — he loaded up on Malcolm X samples and made the hardest political rap album of the 80s.

Public Enemy · 1988 Spin it Again - This album proved hip-hop could be as dangerous as rock and as smart as punk, by treating the sampler like a machine gun and the studio like a war room.