After bursting onto the Canadian hip-hop scene 14 years earlier, Nova Scotia rapper
Classified scored the biggest hit of his career with his star-studded 13th studio album,
Self Explanatory. The 2009 follow-up to While You Were Sleeping features collaborations with Billboard chart-topper
B.o.B, indie rock vocalist
Joel Plaskett, and Detroit MC
Royce da 5'9", and includes the singles "Anybody Listening," "Trouble," "Up All Night," "Oh...Canada," and "Quit While You're Ahead." ~ Jon O'Brien