Hip-Hop can't save your life: lists can.

A playlist by DJ Habett for 1999/05

The Herbaliser - Road of many signs (feat. the Dream Warriors)
( Very mercenary, 1999 )
hiphop neat clean organic instruments california dreams naive roots swell uplifting
Freestylers - B-Boy stance
( Sound of the nu skool, 1999 )
rap hiphop velocity energy bright matter draw spliff cocaine swell clean groove
U.N.K.L.E. - Rock on
( Rock On, 1998 )
essential soundtrack drums sampler steady triphop fear draw hashish nuclear autumn cold gray
Blackalicious - Deception
( A2G, 1999 )
rap pop easy linear joke piano phone median unity lining
Funki Porcini - Tiers of joy
( The ultimately empty million pounds, 1999 )
routine brainiac melody peace unity melancholy solitude hope bright clouds gray pale
Sam Sever and The Raiders of The Lost Art - Words of wisdom (They don't know, Wisdom mix)
( What's that sound, 1995 )
rap hiphop anthem roots elements foundation genre define loops dope beats sampler turntable 90s momentum
Nick Drake - Time has told me
( Five leaves left, 1970 )
folk statement epoch roots early afar blue moods flowers pastoral microphone acoustic
Cypress Hill - Interlude
( Black sunday, 1993 )
intro hiphop dope beats soul jazz darker loops sampler essential draw blue midnight late winter
Liquid Liquid - Let's hear it for the B-Boy remix
( Ape vs Mo'Wax, 1997 )
hiphop routine numbers sampler epic turntable groove steady eccentric mashup fusion
Hal Willner - Nyack oud dance
( Whoops I'm an indian, 1998 )
sountrack sampler odds epic travel trippy darker lunar draw mushrooms narcotics deviant twisted