Ниже дан список знаковых исполнителей и их альбомов, определяющих сущность джазового рэпа:
A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Aceyalone: All Balls Don't Bounce
Beat Assailant: Hard Twelve
Bop City: Hip Strut
Buckshot LeFonque: Music: Evolution, Buckshot LeFonque
Common: Resurrection
Crown City Rockers: Earthtones
Miles Davis: Doo-Bop
Deda: The Original Baby Pa
Digable Planets: Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time & Space), Blowout Comb
Dream Warriors: And Now, the Legacy Begins
Freestyle Fellowship: To Whom It May Concern..., Innercity Griots
Fun Lovin' Criminals: 100% Colombian
Galactic: Ruckus (production by Dan Nakamura)
Gang Starr: No More Mr. Nice Guy, Daily Operation
Guru: Jazzmatazz (Vols. 1-3)
Herbie Hancock: Dis Is Da Drum
InI: Center Of Attention
Jazzkantine: Jazzkantine
Jungle Brothers: Straight Out the Jungle, Done by the Forces of Nature
Jurassic Five: Quality Control, especially the track Swing Set
Justice System: Mobilization
Little Brother: The Listening
Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen
MC Solaar: Prose Combat
Nas: Illmatic
Nujabes: Metaphorical Music, Modal Soul
O.C.: Word...Life
OutKast: Stankonia, The Love Below
Greg Osby: 3-D Lifestyles
Ozomatli: Ozomatli
Pete_Philly_and_Perquisite: Mindstate
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Mecca And The Soul Brother, The Main Ingredient
Pete Rock: Petestrumentals
The Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Q-Tip: Kamaal the Abstract (Unreleased)
Quasimoto: The Unseen
The Roots: Organix, Do You Want More?!!!??!, Illadelph Halflife
Souls of Mischief: "93 'til Infinity"
The Sound Providers: An Evening With The Sound Providers
Spearhead: Home
Stetsasonic: On Fire, In Full Gear
US3: Hand On The Torch, Broadway & 52nd
Philo Taaveti:love and the human...