Prince Paul turned hip-hop production into something stranger and funnier, packing De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and his own Gravediggaz records with skits, oddball samples, and structural whiplash that hadn't really been heard on a rap record before. As a founding member of Stetsasonic and later Gravediggaz, he helped shape horrorcore even as he kept pushing hip-hop's sample-collage aesthetic toward the surreal. Few producers have been as consistently, gleefully weird.

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1994

Diary of a MadmanPrince Paul