Slum Village

To say the group essentially stayed the course on Deli -- with light neo-soul beats and sex raps -- isn't to say that the album is boring. The appropriately-titled "Dirty" finds Wu Tang wildman ODB propositioning girls who are "flexible, intellectual and bi-sexual," while the Kanye West-produced single "Selfish" received significant airplay on urban radio.

When Slum Village first began rhyming around Detroit in the late Nineties, they earned
comparisons to underground rap luminaries such as De La Soul and the Pharcyde. Three
albums into their career, they've ditched some of their unflashy, austere indie-rap
trappings -- not only does Detroit Deli include a cameo from Dirt McGirt (a.k.a. Ol' Dirty
Bastard), it also features overly sleek, synth-heavy production, including the Ka... More >