Hey guys looking for some recommendations. I know next to nothing about hip-hop, one of my friends is really into it and has introduced me to some artists that I like a lot. I'd love for you guys to suggest some stuff, classics as well as overlooked
Love: MF DOOM, Blue Scholars, Cunninlynguists, Common Market
Really don't like: Eminem, Snoop Dogg
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
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Hey guys looking for some recommendations. I know next to nothing about hip-hop, one of my friends is really into it and has introduced me to some artists that I like a lot. I'd love for you guys to suggest some stuff, classics as well as overlooked
Love: MF DOOM, Blue Scholars, Cunninlynguists, Common Market
Really don't like: Eminem, Snoop Dogg
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
Hey guys looking for some recommendations. I know next to nothing about hip-hop, one of my friends is really into it and has introduced me to some artists that I like a lot. I'd love for you guys to suggest some stuff, classics as well as overlooked
Love: MF DOOM, Blue Scholars, Cunninlynguists, Common Market
Really don't like: Eminem, Snoop Dogg
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
Seems we have similar tastes in hip hop. Some stuff you might like:
Blackalicious
Aceyalone (and Freestyle Fellowship)
Jurrassic 5
Del the Funky Homosapien and his various projects (Deltron 3030, Hieroglyphics)
Gang Starr and related (Jazzmatazz)
I'd suggest making a Pandora station based on something you like and go from there. You sure aren't going to hear anything along the lines of what you like on the radio.
I do not think I have ever seen anything of Rah Digga freestyling or performing live (just checked out her work back in the Flipmode Squad days and now with Classic). I will have to check out what else is out there. Thanks for the link.
Also, I will fourth the Lupe Fiasco recommendation.
I do not think I have ever seen anything of Rah Digga freestyling or performing live (just checked out her work back in the Flipmode Squad days and now with Classic). I will have to check out what else is out there. Thanks for the link.
All the suggestions to pots+pans look good to me I would also add Lootpack, Soul Position, and Murs. I'm also curious what it is about Snoop and Em you don't like. Because I'd like to recommend Crooked I, who I've been bumping much lately, as well but I suspect it's an antipathy to gangsta rap (which isn't really where I'd put Em but that's a whole other discussion). However if it's something else, which now that I think about it might be hard to define for someone new to hip-hop, I'd say check him out. Oh yeah, and Ras Kass, check out Ras Kass. Because while Crooked and Ras will kick it gangsta, it's a particularly intelligent brand of gangsta.
As to books, horrible title but "How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC" by Paul Edwards is a good place to start even if you have no intention of ever trying to bust a flow. The guy really does a fantastic job of breaking down the structure of rap (chart a MF DOOM verse like the dude shows you and you'll appreciate what he's pulling off sooo much more than you already do) and the book's full of input from a ton of different artist's from across the spectrum adding to whatever point he's making. Almost any artist quoted in that book is worth checking out as well so that should add to your list of people to investigate. For those who've been going nuts over her this page, Rah Digga is quoted in there frequently.
So, 2010 has been the year of getting into rap for me. Now, I'll say right now, I'm sure I'm on entry level shit at this point, and come out fully claiming to have no real knowledge of the genre. That said, I've been listening to only rock, Eminem, and various other rap kibbles and bits my entire life to this point, but something this year flipped a switch in me. Now again, entry level type stuff, but here's the stuff that's getting me going.
Eminem - Recovery, and the rest of his catalog
Kanye West - MBDTF, and everything else, though haven't heard 808's
Drake - Thank Me Later
B.o.B. - Adventures...
T.I. - Paper Trail, kinda digging No Mercy so far
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Kid Cudi - End of Day, Mr. Rager isn't really clicking yet
aaand A Broken Silence, who I kind of blame for transitioning me from rock to rap. A sample of their work... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPn-KCeWss
Now, with those out of the way, I've also sampled Lil Wayne, Snoop, and Jay-Z, but haven't had success with anything outside of a few singles. So two questions. One - is there a certain entry point for those guys I need to shoot for? Two - What else would you recommend for someone with these tastes?
if you like Eminem check out Royce da 5'9" and the rest of Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I)
try a track like Session One from Em's album, or Bad Meets Evil
theres really noone else like Kanye, but I recommend Lupe Fiasco to everyone, he's probably the most talented cat in the game right now. check for Food and Liquor (1st album), The Cool (2nd album), Fahrenheit 1/15 (his 1st mixtape) Fahrenheit 1/15 pt 2: Revenge of the Nerds (2nd mixtape), Fahrenheit 1/15 pt 3: A Rhyming Ape (3rd mixtape of Lupe rapping over Gorillaz beats), Enemy of the State (4th mixtape, Lupe over beats from '09)
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
Things Fall Apart is probably their best album, I'd start there.
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
Things Fall Apart is probably their best album, I'd start there.
such a good album
"eyes are crevices, life like a double negative"
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B.O.B. dropped a new mixtape, No Genre. Some really hot tracks on there. I'm particularly fond of Beast Mode.
In terms of rap for this year, I've been enjoying Big Boi's album a LOT. Bun B's is pretty good. I think Freddie Gibbs's came out this year? If so, that's pretty solid. TSOL is really fucking awesome. Bunch of mixtapes too. Big K.R.I.T., J. Cole, Wale, Royce da 5'9''.
Pots+pans, might I recommend Clipse? They have a really nice stripped down raw sound. I'd say start with Lord Willin', but Till the Casket Drop and Hell Hath no Fury are both really good too.
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Love: MF DOOM, Blue Scholars, Cunninlynguists, Common Market
Really don't like: Eminem, Snoop Dogg
I've been reading through this thread, seems like the Roots will be right up my street, where's best to start with them? Also is there a book about hip-hop you'd particularly recommend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlr1H_iV6qs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNyr6BJZuI
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Seems we have similar tastes in hip hop. Some stuff you might like:
Blackalicious
Aceyalone (and Freestyle Fellowship)
Jurrassic 5
Del the Funky Homosapien and his various projects (Deltron 3030, Hieroglyphics)
Gang Starr and related (Jazzmatazz)
I'd suggest making a Pandora station based on something you like and go from there. You sure aren't going to hear anything along the lines of what you like on the radio.
I do not think I have ever seen anything of Rah Digga freestyling or performing live (just checked out her work back in the Flipmode Squad days and now with Classic). I will have to check out what else is out there. Thanks for the link.
Also, I will fourth the Lupe Fiasco recommendation.
I think my all-time old favorite is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ber4G3tJAs
carrying my daughter on my back just to fool y'all
Are you kidding me with these guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utf856lIKoU&feature=player_profilepage
YAKFilms songs are always flawlessly chosen. I had never even heard of this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lHawNMhvhk
As to books, horrible title but "How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC" by Paul Edwards is a good place to start even if you have no intention of ever trying to bust a flow. The guy really does a fantastic job of breaking down the structure of rap (chart a MF DOOM verse like the dude shows you and you'll appreciate what he's pulling off sooo much more than you already do) and the book's full of input from a ton of different artist's from across the spectrum adding to whatever point he's making. Almost any artist quoted in that book is worth checking out as well so that should add to your list of people to investigate. For those who've been going nuts over her this page, Rah Digga is quoted in there frequently.
Eminem - Recovery, and the rest of his catalog
Kanye West - MBDTF, and everything else, though haven't heard 808's
Drake - Thank Me Later
B.o.B. - Adventures...
T.I. - Paper Trail, kinda digging No Mercy so far
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Kid Cudi - End of Day, Mr. Rager isn't really clicking yet
aaand A Broken Silence, who I kind of blame for transitioning me from rock to rap. A sample of their work...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPn-KCeWss
Now, with those out of the way, I've also sampled Lil Wayne, Snoop, and Jay-Z, but haven't had success with anything outside of a few singles. So two questions. One - is there a certain entry point for those guys I need to shoot for? Two - What else would you recommend for someone with these tastes?
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try a track like Session One from Em's album, or Bad Meets Evil
theres really noone else like Kanye, but I recommend Lupe Fiasco to everyone, he's probably the most talented cat in the game right now. check for Food and Liquor (1st album), The Cool (2nd album), Fahrenheit 1/15 (his 1st mixtape) Fahrenheit 1/15 pt 2: Revenge of the Nerds (2nd mixtape), Fahrenheit 1/15 pt 3: A Rhyming Ape (3rd mixtape of Lupe rapping over Gorillaz beats), Enemy of the State (4th mixtape, Lupe over beats from '09)
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Things Fall Apart is probably their best album, I'd start there.
such a good album
"eyes are crevices, life like a double negative"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvuLAl99ec
In terms of rap for this year, I've been enjoying Big Boi's album a LOT. Bun B's is pretty good. I think Freddie Gibbs's came out this year? If so, that's pretty solid. TSOL is really fucking awesome. Bunch of mixtapes too. Big K.R.I.T., J. Cole, Wale, Royce da 5'9''.
Pots+pans, might I recommend Clipse? They have a really nice stripped down raw sound. I'd say start with Lord Willin', but Till the Casket Drop and Hell Hath no Fury are both really good too.
i'm a rapper, a killer, a seller, and a geologist
damn
soal spits that hot fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Le7xL-WFA
also thing song makes me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwyoVOpkoe8
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I'm going back in
black thought is so good
ghost is neato too I GUESS
Ras Kass - A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Spittin')
Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse EP
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Now I don't even remember what videos I wanted to post.
Let's start here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGM2gqFrhVQ&feature=feedf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wiXjsd-U9A
Really positive, insightful, relatable stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CyMuBi-kH8
Because this is crazy.
I've been so addicted to OFWGKTA, lately
That performance was absolutely insane.
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That may have been the best late night performance I've seen. By anyone ever.
I came into here looking for some The Roots or maybe MF DOOM...
...did not expect that.
Also, http://opwgkta.tumblr.com/
Son I am disappoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JygWdmp6iw8
come on now
(edit: produced by 40 & Omen, apparently)
All of them available for free.