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3 Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s With the Most Unusual Crossovers

What do you get when you mix Jay-Z, Timbaland, and Ludacris with Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, and The Black Keys?

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The 2000s were already unusual as far as some of the music goes. But here we’re just scratching the surface of totally wack hip-hop crossover albums.

The following three albums merged rap and hip-hop with rock through features, mash-ups, and all sorts of surprising collaborations.

‘Collision Course’ by Jay-Z and Linkin Park

Collision Course is interesting for more than just being a hip-hop crossover album. By its nature as a mash-up, it transcends collaboration. It also goes further than a typical mash-up. Instead of just editing the existing tracks together, Jay-Z and Linkin Park re-recorded their songs in the studio. This technique resulted in a more natural-sounding mash-up, with all the pieces fitting together nicely.

Released in 2004, Collision Course remixed several tracks from Meteora and Hybrid Theory with others........

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