this on top of laswell might be enough to break my mailbox, but... for my money the first two djs in hiphop to rise above the trend and make truly great music were terminator x (public enemy's 'welcome to the terrordome') and prince paul (de la soul's 'three feet high and rising'). i then get bored for several decades, until timbaland came along. i don't listen to rap even 1/80th as much as i used to, so i'm sure there's a lot of stuff i'm missing. there's some great stuff in the documentary film 'scratch', if you're able to pull off showing that to your class. kg np: wfmu _________________________________________________________________ Check out the new MSN 9 Dial-up fast & reliable Internet access with prime features! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=dialup/home&ST=1