Anyone else like Hip-Hop? (The Rap Thread)
BigBlindMax
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Is anyone else around here into Hip-Hop? I often hang around the "what band/artist are you listening to right now?" and I can help but notice that rap doesn't 'to get much love around here, compared to Techno and Metal.
So, I'm starting this thread as a home for all things hip-hop related. Feel free to discuss what you like/hate, list your favorite artists/songs, post videos, etc. Maybe we can get some good conversations going and broaden our horizons a bit...or maybe this will flop and wind up dead and buried, who knows? Anyway, I'll post a bit more about my favorites later, but for now I'll settle for posting this gem. Just a smooth, fun song by a little known group called Souls of Mischief.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9bvMzYRscVA
Be respectful and have fun. 
P.S. If you post a rap (or any rhyme, really) of your own, (?) BigBlindMax will think you're incredibly awesome!
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I bleed hip hop. I'll start off with "my" top 10 artists/groups
1) Notorious B.I.G.
2) Jay-Z
3) Wu-tang clan
4) Nas
5) Big Pun
6) Rakim
7) Eminem
8) Common
9) The Lox
10) Canibus
Snoop dogg for ever he is the fucking best
Nice! I'm tempted to make my own top 10, but it's gonna be hard to put them in order.
1-6 are all amazing, and there's probably at least one song by each that I know by heart (even more for the Wu.)
Em is good, Stan is an absolute classic song. His new song, Love Game with Kendrick Lamar was great too.
I'm not that familiar with Common, but I know that he got into (and won!!) a little diss war with Ice Cube back in the day. I've only really listened to I Used To Love H.E.R. and The Bitch In Yoo. Both of them were pretty good, but still they got nothin' on Westside Slaughterhouse.
Never listened to LOX, but I remember Can. It's kinda sad that he fell off so quickly.
Do you have a favorite Wu member? Mine is probably Ghost or the GZA.
Good choice. Gin & Juice and Murder Was The Case are absolute classics.
Ordering my favorite artists/groups is hard, but here it goes!
1) Wu-Tang Clan, 2) Nas, 3) A Tribe Called Quest, 4) Kendrick Lamar, 5) OutKast, 6) Westside Connection, 7) MF DOOM, 8) N.W.A, 9) Earl Sweatshirt, 10) B.I.G.
My least favorite rapper of all time is 2 Chainz. I can't stand him. I can't stand his music. Whenever I hear his dorky TUUU CHAAAYYNZ! Intro, I cringe because it means this monster has come to corrupt another perfectly good song.
Most underrated rapper is definitely R.A. The Rugged Man. He always kills his verses. For example, on this track he managed to completely bodybag Masta Killa and Killah Priest, both of whom are great rappers in their own right.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZHoroQLNNQ
Gin and juice is genius yes, do you know Lay Low and Woof Woof? Great songs
Just listened to em'. Woof ain't really my cup of tea, but Lay Low was great.
Definitely a east coast guy, but I still love the west and southern hip hop. A top 10 in hip hop is pretty difficult to make with so many talented artist (past and present).
As far as Common goes I feel he's a legend in the game. He definitely showed he can hold he's own with the "bitch in you" track. If I'm not mistaken he even performed it in Cali.
If your gonna listen to anything from the LOX, look up their "We Are The Streets" album. TUFF
My favorite Wu member? Its a tie between Meth and the Chef.
I can't even listen to Snoop anymore. His old stuff was good tho.
Nice list, love me some OutKast
I gotta agree 2 Chainz is garbage, but there are far worse rappers then him. Have you heard Young thug?
Oh gawd. "MAH DIAMONDS DEY SAY PIKACHU. DEY SAY...pikachu. Ima boss...I walk into the club and they...PEEK AT YOU.
He almost falls into so bad it's funny territory. 2 Chainz is just bad. He doesn't even act like he's trying!!
I don't really listen to too much rap. Mostly only insane clown posse, Twiztid, Boondox, dark lotus, big hoodoo, Axe murder boys, and Bukshot. Basically horrorcore rappers.
Lol, I remember when me and my brother first heard Young Thug on the radio. We burst out laughing. The dude sounds crazy.
I looked up ICP a while ago when Eminem was beefing with them. They're ok, not really my cup of tea. I never heard of the rest.
Heh, Gravediggaz is only horrorcore band I listen to. I do love some good ol' scary/menacingly songs though, which is probably why I like Westside Connection so much. I looked up the music video for that Westside Slaughterhouse song I mentioned earlier and it's one of most gutter things I've seen. You might enjoy it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1kGzaoOPnJE
Oh yeah, it's also the tune I used when I was writing battle raps against ClementineCultist. Gooood times.
Heh, nobody saw the The Bitch in Yoo coming, that for sure. Com was like the quiet sensitive kid who got bullied by some big meanie named Ice Cube...until one fateful day, he snapped!
I'm pretty sure they're all from ICP's label, except maybe Buckshot.
My father who grew up listening to all of the legends in the rap game feels lil Wayne is the best ever. What is this world coming to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nay31hvEvrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0BcYMwLBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8qgp3yT1rQ
Yeah, I do.
turn on the lights by lil wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWrjBeH7UU
One Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLG8iMhU-ns
schoolboy q man of the year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEMsjeq43_U
"Compared to techno" Wait, are you talking about me? I haven't seen anybody else into it haha
There are some hip-hop artists (what's the difference between hip-hop and rap again???) I like, mostly foreign - Diam's, Ana Tijoux (that song from Breaking Bad?). Aesop Rock blows hot and cold, but when he's good, he nails it. Sniper has a lot of really good songs too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1h6Vk2Q2h8
I love hip hop. although I still don't know all about it, even thought I have years that I listen to hiphop, I still pride myself that I have found my ear to listen to this awesome genre. I love music but to me hip hop is the best. I love almost every aspect of it, the producing is probably my favorite, just seeing how producers, real producers, sample, cut, mix and create classic joints amazes me. I love lyrical aspect to, that's why I hate all this new "hiphop" I don't even consider it Hip-Hop its garbage and pop bullshit. Hip-Hop is amazing and im glad I found it and im not ashamed how I first got into it, by Eminem, then I started getting more into it and over the years my ear and brain has found itself and appreciate Hip-Hop for ever. I don't want to name all my favorites cuz I get really stressed cuz theres a lot of artist that I just love. but maybe ill do it later.
hell yeah the rugged man is so underrated! man its a shame that he was at the time with biggie and he was never noticed or talked about so much
Have not much of RA....I use to rock "Kubrick" off of Soundbombing II and a few of the Smut Peddlers' tracks.
I don't listen much hip hop these days but when I do, its mostly Kendrick, Bad meets Evil EP, Big KRIT - 4eva n a day, Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap, Action Bronson, Outkast & the Roots.
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Tell the world that I'm coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ImCpNqbJw
Sup everyone. Since there's a hip-hop thread I'd like to share a few rap songs I find quite good. They're in Russian and I wonder how someone who can't understand the lyrics would like those (I mean flow, beat etc.). Maybe you'll enjoy it, or maybe it won't even sound like real hip-hop to you, but either way I'd appreciate it if you could spare some time to check it out and tell me what you think.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5z6nBdKbUQ&list=PL07F5D645FB9DADE6
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Not a huge rap fan or anything, but I love stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5vNZuoW0bo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfguhnvECc
In my opinion, the latter is a masterpiece (mainly parts 2-3, 5-6). I don't think I can get sick of this song.
I don't listen to alot of rap/hip hop, but i do like a few bands like Twiztid, Boondox, Bukshot, and some others. Just really got into this new band called The Killjoy Club (insane clown posse and Da Mafia 6ix and Young Wicked from Axe Murder Boyz* are the members)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snX8o3q5jPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u9p-Sliy88
Ah, the dichotomy of 2pac. Thug at one moment, warrior poet at the next.
5 Deadly Venomz is one of my favorite Pac songs, massively underrated.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QP5aqBxmq7g
Nice, there are some great foreign hip-hop artists. Sorta makes me wish that I spoke more languages.
IHip-Hop and Rap are very similar, except 'rap' is the actual performance art and hip-hop is the culture that surrounds it.
Aesop's wordplay is insane! I think he has the biggest vocabulary in rap. If you like his style, you'd probably like GZA too. Very wordy, intellectual flow.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7GNucGbfvY&list=PLF51740493D5452F9
Hell yeah, man. Agreed on all points.
Some of the old school producers are just insanely talented. Dre, RZA and Pete Rock are three that I remember best and that's just scratching the surface. Hip-Hop actually got me interested in Motown and Soul, which are great genres in their own right.
It sucks that Glam Rap is all that gets played on the radio, but it's beginning to lose traction. The way I see it, guys like Wayne and 2 Chainz are like hair metal in the 80's. It's so commercialized and over-saturated that people are getting sick of it. There are some diamonds in the rough though, like Ab-Soul, Childish Gambino and the like.
I was a punk-rock kinda guy up until a couple years ago. I was first introduced to (good) rap from video games; NWA/Gang Starr from San Andreas and Naughty by Nature from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Then I got my first taste of the Wu when I heard C.R.E.A.M. a year ago and the rest is history.
I know a lot of people who got into a HipHop through Em. I'm glad he's off drugs and back on his A game.
REALLY?! The guy soaked up the likes of Public Enemy, Wu Tang and Biggie and he still thinks Wayne us the best alive?!
I mean, don't get me wrong, when Wayne is hungry, he can spit fire. ('6 Foot, 7 Foot', for example) Thing is, he knows that he doesn't have to rhyme like that to sell albums. Yeezy has the same problem.