His music is the only reason anybody who matters (we're not talking 13 year old wiggers) would like him nowadays. That style of hip-hop is long dead from the mainstream charts and the East/West thing has been over for years and years. Sure his death cemented his position as one of the hip-hop...
I tried
I tried Kyuss , Monster Magnet , Sleep and a few others.
They all resulted in the same this.
The realisation i'd rather be listening to Space Ritual or Volume 4 instead. Or even the first couple of UFO albums.
Who would guess that Eric Clapton (the post-1972 incarnation) made one of rock's great double albums (Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs)?
And then there's Stevie Winwood...
And post-Sun Elvis...
It's a long way down from Live At LeeRAB to Who Are You?