Most Underrated Hip Hop Album Ever

So, I'm going through my chest of old CD's the other day, looking for songs to load into my iPod, when I come across this. I'm still not sure how this isn't listed as one of the classic hip hop CD's of our time. I mean, come on, this is essentially the first real supergroup that we had, although at the time, I guess not many knew it. The RZA, Prince Paul, that guy from Onyx. Granted, this was coming out of the golden age of hip hop, and it probably did get lost in the wierdness of "death rap",or to some "horrorcore" alongside of such (forgotten) artists as Natas, Esham, and the Flatlinerz. (so that's where the edgy mispellings came from.) The lyrical content is a little over the top, "1-800-Suicide", "2 Cups of Blood" "Death Trap", but I'm pretty sure that this was just an over the top in-joke. The beats are staggering, with organic drums propelling acoustic jazz bass, old blues guitar, and some really great horn stabs, with the obligatory horror music synth and theremin, just for good measure. The album was produced by Prince Paul (De La Soul, Handsome Boy Modeling School), once again showing his sick genuis on just about every track. (At the time, the Wu-Tang was just getting some recognition, so the RZA sat production duties out until the next album, The Pick, The Sickle, and the Shovel, which is good, but doesn't quite hold the musicality of the music on this.) The rhyming is superior to most, if not all, of the so called artists of the present, with lyrics concerning, you guessed it, dismemberment, mass murder, suicide, and your general splatter and gore, but all done tongue in cheek (you hope). If your'e a hip hop fan, and you haven't heard it, check it out. It's a hidden gem lost in the shuffle that, in retrospect, is musically sound, complicated, and humorous. I played the shit out of this disc when I was a kid, and it's surprising how well it holds up, especially in the present cookie cutter hip hop world. It even comes off as groundbreaking if you are hearing it for the first time. But in the current hip hop scene, it seems that the past is where to look for innovation and talent; to hear music instead of product.