OFFICIAL HIP HOP THREAD(Lil B Worship Throd)

[veganshinigami]

Fuck yeah!!!

Here are some of my all time favorite hip hop albums...

Dead Prez - Lets Get Free (my favourite hip hop album of all time, rapping, beats and lyrics - everything is perfect)

Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep

Nas - Illmatic

Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math

Big L - Lifestylez of the Poor and Dangerous


..and recently, I must say I really enjoy Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor...

[RICE510]

Originally Posted by stabwound

When did they stop calling it rap?

Originally Posted by Crucified Coma

The name doesn't really matter. Rapping is just one part (or "element") of the hip hop culture. I guess to an extent some prefer calling it hip hop to separate it from all the garbage mainstream "rap" shit that's out there.

Hip hop used to mean graffiti, rap music, breakdancing and fat shoelaces. Language sure has changed in 22 years. It's funny though because when I think of the word "hip hop" NOW, I think of puff daddy, 50 cent, the fugees and whatever cheesy R&B set to rap "beats" is going on these days. When I think of the term "Rap" I think of non-commercial stuff. Especially since nobody says rap anymore.

I've had low-brow frat boy wiggers asking me if I listen to "hip hop", but never "rap" music.

[KillingAddiction]

I sometimes listen to rap-music like:

EPMD - first 2 albums

Wu-Tang Clan - first album

Onyx - first 2 albums

NWA - first album, some tracks from niggaz4life & solo stuff from Eazy, Ice Cube

Mobb Deep - The infamous

GZA - Liquid swords

plus a bit of the early Ice-T (until OG)

...

celebrities like Eminem, 50 cent, Puff Daddy, other sexy playboy fags and r&b in general is the worst...same goes for german rap

[sakaali]

Originally Posted by Crucified Coma

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth, Labor Days
Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Deltron 3030
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Cage - Movies For The Blind, Hell's Winter
Leak Bros. - Waterworld
Brother Ali - Shadows On The Sun, The Undisputed Truth
The Rza Presents - Afro Samurai (The Soundtrack)
Non-Prophets - Hope
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
The Roots - Game Theory
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale, More Fish
Mr. Lif - Mo Mega
R.A. the Rugged Man - Die Rugged Man, Die
The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon
etc.

I've got a couple of those, good stuff. Now to check out the rest of that shizzle.

a side note: 6 feet deep by the gravediggaz is the best rap album ever.imoimoimo.

[Henrik]

Bumping dis shit instead of starting a new thread.

I've been listening to GZA/Genius's "Liquid Swords" more or less exclusively the last couple of days. I checked it out last year due to its receiving heavy praise from various posters on this forum - was a little disappointed at first, because I was expecting a very accessible album that would grab you by the balls from the first listen (like Jedi Mind Tricks' "Visions Of Gandhi"). What I found was a very dark and gritty album with relatively simple beats, and I couldn't really get into any of the songs save for the title track.

However, after repeated listens, I realised that this album in fact is pure genius in its simplicity, featuring some of the darkest and most twisted beats ever put on record, insanse lyricsmanship and a fantastic flow to boot. GZA's "matter-of-fact", laidback rhyming is a pleasure to the ear. Worship!

Best songs: Labels, Swordsman, Liquid Swords, I Gotcha Back.

[Woody]

big l

[Javi]

theres a official hiphop thread? nicee haha

Listen to Psycho Realm:



http://www.myspace.com/psychorealmsicksiders <--some fan page(dont think the 1st song is theirs)

www.myspace.com/th3inan3pychos

[Coma]

Originally Posted by Henrik

Bumping dis shit instead of starting a new thread.

I've been listening to GZA/Genius's "Liquid Swords" more or less exclusively the last couple of days. I checked it out last year due to its receiving heavy praise from various posters on this forum - was a little disappointed at first, because I was expecting a very accessible album that would grab you by the balls from the first listen (like Jedi Mind Tricks' "Visions Of Gandhi"). What I found was a very dark and gritty album with relatively simple beats, and I couldn't really get into any of the songs save for the title track.

However, after repeated listens, I realised that this album in fact is pure genius in its simplicity, featuring some of the darkest and most twisted beats ever put on record, insanse lyricsmanship and a fantastic flow to boot. GZA's "matter-of-fact", laidback rhyming is a pleasure to the ear. Worship!

Best songs: Labels, Swordsman, Liquid Swords, I Gotcha Back.

Agreed. Such a perfect album.

[IdetrimentI]

mike smiths rap album was pretty awful.

[Coma]

I don't even need to hear it to agree.

[Odious Anthony]

I've been listening to alot of artists from the Anticon collective right now...I listen to Doseone on a daily basis, Sole, Jel, Why?, Reaching Quiet, Clouddead, Greenthink, Subtle, 13 & God, Themselves, also Face Candy (improvisional jazz hip hop band with freestyling mc's. really good) Eyedea & Abilities, Abzorbr, Sector7G, Saturday Morning Soundtrack, Atmosphere, The Dyno Spectrum.

I Listen to more hip hop than metal right now...

[novareaper]

wiggaz

[SiegeEngine]

Originally Posted by Henrik

I Gotcha Back.

BUT CHA BESTA WATCH YA FRONT

CUZ ITS DA NIGGAZ IN FRONT, THAT BE PULLIN STUNTS

[A Social Grace]

Reks' "Grey Hairs" just leaked. Go dl/buy it or somethin'.

[Grindmasterflesh]

I like shitty german gangster/horror/porno hip hop from time to time.

[Tzimisce]

Originally Posted by m138jewski

i hate hip hop with every fiber of my being

does not compute...

[Nökkvi]

I like:
Wu tang
Mobb Deep
Immortal Technique
Necro
NWA
GZA
RZA
U-God
Masta Killa

Old school hip hop rules

[Kris]

ugh, fuck this thread. Im sure theres fuckin 50 cents forumz and shit for yall cats who get down. but if i wanted to see this shit, i'll switch to mtv, but this isnt the case (yo)

[A Social Grace]

Pretty much everything mentioned on this page isn't the type of music you'd see on MTV (except maybe on Yo MTV Raps a long time ago...) or BET or anything. There's a huge difference between Shawty Lo and a dude like Big L. Almost completely different forms of music, really. On a sidenote, 95% of the dudes who listen to mostly hip hop shit nowadays probably wouldn't even know the majority of the rappers listed by Anthony. Anyways, some hip hop in the mainstream is by no means bad, a lot of dudes seem to just associate all popular hip hop with Rick Ross or something, which is sad.

[Javi]

theres so much trash in the mainstream. my friends play it all the time haha
but shit whatever, it makes money$

[A Social Grace]

Yeah there's a lot of horrible music played on the radio and TV, but I don't really see how it matters in the overall scheme of things. The underground will always be solid, if not grow stronger, and the popularity of most of these rappers who are "making it big" right now is extremely fickle. And, of course, it's all about pumping up corporate profits.

[Javi]

theres been great underground artists thank god. i dont know many but the ones i do know shit all over "solider boy" & "T.I.". haha i saw THE GAME performing at a import car show, the whole set was basically singing over 2pac and biggie songs "sending his respects" and umm.. "G-uNOT". that was a waste of time but this guy behind us was high and extremly excited made us laugh

[A Social Grace]

Hahah yeah that G Unot shit got annoying pretty quick, but he did release some killer diss tracks. His best stuff is basically all on mixtapes, his "official" albums are just flat out boring IMO. His new album might do the trick though, the tracklisting seems solid and the two singles he's put out so far have been good.

[Henrik]

Originally Posted by Grindmasterflesh

I like shitty german gangster/horror/porno hip hop from time to time.

Some German hiphop acts are pretty killer; for instance Fettes Brot, Die Fantastischen Vier, Eins Zwo, Toni L & Def Cut, Blumentopf and Fünf Sterne Deluxe. Any similar artists you'd recommend?

[EndlessCure]

Originally Posted by Wakeness

I'm into good HipHop.
aka Smif 'n'Wessun, Heltah Skeltah, Black Moon and dark shit like that.

YES!!

[Scrote]

Big L - The Big Picture ftw.

[Woody]

Originally Posted by Scrote

Big L - The Big Picture ftw.

Lifestyles is better but that album is awesome too

[sideslash]

why? - alopecia is incredible, will probably end up in my top 5 of the year.

i've been listening to lupe fiasco - food & liquor pretty much non-stop in the last week or two. such a fucking great album.

two of my favorite tracks from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ukY5RmL1o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz70hx6xIN0 (last verse is genius)

[A Social Grace]

Eh I can't really get into any of that anticon stuff. I kinda feel weird just listening to it. When it comes to some of the more recent hip hop to come out of Northern California though...

http//youtube.com/watch?v=lcQjZO0oiYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfSk0qMibso

[Lichtbringer]

Originally Posted by Henrik

Some German hiphop acts are pretty killer; for instance Fettes Brot, Die Fantastischen Vier, Eins Zwo, Toni L & Def Cut, Blumentopf and Fünf Sterne Deluxe. Any similar artists you'd recommend?

That's some legit stuff you listed there. You might want to check out Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt or Absolute Beginner's 'Bambule'. That's among the only HipHop I could ever stand.
I actually can't believe I'm posting in this shitty thread.