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Mystikal - Mind Of Mystikal
Mystikal - Ghetto Fabulous
Mystikal - Let's Get Ready
Mystikal - Prince Of The South...The Hits
Assassin & Mopreme Shakur Present Black & Brown Pride
Best Of Rap City
Big Lurch - You Raaang!!!!!!
Big Lurch - The Big Lurch Mixtape
Blackstreet - Level II
The Corruptor
Disturbing Tha Peace - Golden Grain
E-40 - Loyalty And Betrayal
Eightball - Lost
Foxy Brown - Broken Silence
The Hit List
I Got The Hook-Up
JOE - My Name Is JOE
Light It Up
Ludacris - Word Of Mouf
MTV The First 1000 Years: Hip Hop
Naughty By Nature - Ninteen Naughty Nine: Nature's Fury
OutKast - Player's Ball (Thug Radio Mixtape)
R.B.L. Posse - An Eye For An Eye
Shaft 2000
Snoop Dogg - Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told
Snoop Dogg - Woof (Single)
Snoop Dogg - No Limit Top Dogg
The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2001
Welcome To Tha Chuuch Vol.8: Preach Tabarnacal!
The Wood
Originally one of the leading rappers on Master P's No Limit record label, Mystikal quickly evolved beyond the label's cliched thug trappings and found himself one of the Dirty South's most recognized rappers, alongside Juvenile. Like No Limit itself, Mystikal is a New Orleans native. He released an eponymous debut on the independent label Big Boy in 1995. It earned the attention of Jive Records, who signed him later that year. His official, major-label debut Mind Of Mystikal was released early in 1996 and became a major hit in the rap underground, falling just short of going gold. He then hooked up with Master P and No Limit Records; the union produced Unpredictable, which was released in the fall of 1997 and helped the rapper build a substantial following. Ghetto Fabulous followed in early 1999, falling just short of debuting at number one on the album charts. Consolidating his status as a hot property, Mystikal wasted no time in issuing a follow-up; Let's Get Ready appeared in the fall of 2000, eclipsing his preceding releases in sales terms, as expected. Driven by the James Brown-like "Shake Ya Ass" as a lead single — an MTV staple before the album even hit the streets — it had become increasingly difficult to trace Mystikal's roots back to the trademark sound and motifs of the thuggish No Limit camp. Let's Get Ready demonstrated the wide-reaching ambitions that had only been hinted at in successive releases, eliminating the No Limit stigma and finally making his unique rhyme delivery accessible enough to cross over to the masses. In 2001, Mystikal's bombastic rap stylings came together for a fifth album, Tarantula. "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" was one of 2002's hottest singles; the next year Mystikal garnered two Grammy nods for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Album. The hit-grabbing compilation Prince Of The South dropped in 2004 with the new single "Oochie Pop." — Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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