Philly cheese

Hip-Hop is a broad church but time and again, people have disrespected the door policy by showing up and failing to represent. Whole cities for whole periods, too. Philadelphia spent a good twenty years shucking corn in New York's direction, while next door Newark was holding things down. If you think Philly's being unreasonably dissed here: Tracey Lee, The Roots, Jazzphatnastees, neo-soul in general, The Roots. Everyone up til Freeway. As Max Cavalera put it: Roots, bloody Roots.

The High and Mighty don't count, being ultimately pretty boring aside from the cover of that Air Force 1 record.
Neither do Cru, despite "Better call Cru, they probly in the studio, Phil Collins in the background, Su-su-sudio," such is the toll of wackness of Roots record after Roots record after self-important, pseudo-poetic Roots record.