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The MTV Hip-Hop Brain Trust: "The Greatest Groups Of All Time"

Tuma Basa - manager, MTV Music Programming
Bridget Bland - producer/ writer, MTV Radio Network
Tone Boots - creative consultant, MTV
Buttahman - director, music and talent, "MTV Jams"
Sway Calloway - on-air correspondent, MTV News
Rahman Dukes - senior producer, MTVNews.com
Sean Lee - supervising producer, MTV News
Joseph Patel - producer, MTV News
Shaheem Reid - hip-hop editor, MTV News
Kurt Williamson - producer, MTV



    Tuma Basa
    Representing: Africa and Iowa City, Iowa
    Picks:

      1. N.W.A
      2. Run-DMC
      3. Outkast
      4. Wu-Tang Clan
      5. Geto Boys
      6. A Tribe Called Quest
      7. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
      8. UGK
      9. De La Soul
      10. Salt 'N Pepa



    Bridget Bland
    Representing: ATL
    Picks:


      1. Run-DMC
      2. Outkast
      3. N.W.A
      4. Wu-Tang Clan
      5. Public Enemy
      6. Goodie Mob
      7. Fugees
      8. Salt 'N Pepa
      9. UGK
      10. A Tribe Called Quest



    Tone Boots
    Representing: New York City
    Picks:


      1. Run-DMC
      2. N.W.A.
      3. Public Enemy
      4. Outkast
      5. Wu-Tang Clan
      6. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
      7. A Tribe Called Quest
      8. Naughty by Nature
      9. EPMD
      10. Salt 'N Pepa



    Buttahman
    Representing: Baltimore, Maryland
    Picks:


      1. Run-DMC
      2. A Tribe Called Quest
      3. N.W.A
      4. De La Soul
      5. Public Enemy
      6. Wu-Tang Clan
      8. Fugees
      7. EPMD
      8. Salt 'N Pepa
      9. Mobb Deep
      10. Geto Boys


    Rahman Dukes
    Representing: Upstate New York and Queens, New York
    Picks:


      1. Run-DMC
      2. Public Enemy
      3. Wu-Tang Clan
      4. Black Moon
      5. Mobb Deep
      6. The LOX
      7. EPMD
      8. De La Soul
      9. Brand Nubian
      10. Beastie Boys


      Joseph Patel
      Representing: San Francisco, California
      Picks:


        1. N.W.A
        2. Run-DMC
        3. A Tribe Called Quest
        4. Outkast
        5. Public Enemy
        6. De La Soul
        7. EPMD
        8. Wu-Tang Clan
        9. Beastie Boys
        10. Freestyle Fellowship



      Shaheem Reid
      Representing: Queens, New York
      Picks:


        1. Run-DMC
        2. N.W.A
        3. Wu-Tang Clan
        4. Public Enemy
        5. Outkast
        6. A Tribe Called Quest
        7. EPMD
        8. Mobb Deep
        9. Salt 'N Pepa
        10. UGK




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