Back in the mid-'00s, Harlem's Dipset crew was still huge (especially on the East Coast) and seemed to be putting out new material every other week. Purple City was founded in 2002 by Shiest Bub, who brought Agallah and Un Kasa into the fold. They released a ton of mixtapes (including The Purple City Family in Candyland, The Need for Weed, and Every Daze My Birthday) before dropping three official CDs. The last of them, The Purple Album, hit streets in the summer of 2006, and it's everything you'd expect from the Uptown crime-rhyme family. Bold and triumphant beats supporting simple but entertaining wordplay exclusively about thugging it up ("Gangsta," "Head Bust Open"), making that money ("Bank Roll," "P.A.Y.D.A.Y."), and staying lit 24-7 ("Fly High"). It's not exactly groundbreaking, but it's solid street rap nonetheless; check out guest verses from BG, Jim Jones, The Lenox Ave Boys, A-Mafia, Buddy Klein, and Den 10.