Hip Hop

[sidra]

I have never seen someone else in modding community that likes hip hop. ever. im not talking about G-unit MTV rap bullshit, im talking old school (and some new) hip hop.

No talking about how you think hip hop sucks, or how its "retards attempting poetry" or whatever gay anology you can come up with.

Rappers/Groups I like, bolded are my favorites

A Tribe Called Quest
AZ
Big Daddy Kane
Big L
Big Pun
B.I.G.
Black Star (Mos Def And Talib)
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Brand Nubian
Canibus
Chuck D
Common Sense
Cormega
Cypress Hill
D.I.T.C.
De La Soul
Dead Prez
DJ Quick
Dr. Octagon
Eminem (early stuff only)
EPMD
The Firm
The Fugees
Gang Starr
Herb McGruff
Jay-Z (old, not commercial)
Jedi Mind Tricks
Jeru the Damaja
The Juice Crew
Kool G Rap
KRS-One
Lord Finesse
Masta Ace
MF Doom
Mobb Deep (before Gunit)
NaS
OC
Onyx
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Pharoe Monch
Percee P
Ras Kass
Rakim
Redman
Royce
Run DMC
Scarface
Sugar Hill Gang
Stinky Fingaz
Terror Squad (old, not new one)
Wu-Tang Clan (especially GZA, RZA, Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa)

discuss

[compy905]

Yeah I am really into Wu. I also like a lot of old-school west coast rap. NWA, Dre, Snoop(when he was good), and Ice Cube. There isn't really any current rappers that I like. Lately I have been listening to a lot of Bone and Biggie. I can only imagine how much better Biggie would have been if Puffy was never involved. If you want to hear a really different rap cd check out Blue Eyes Meets the Bed-Stuy. Its Biggie songs mixed with Frank Sinatra songs. I know it sounds blasphemous to touch Frank Sinatra stuff but it really is good. But I like both artists so yeah...

[mabufo]

I like it, I just don't like what it's become.

[compy905]

I like it, I just don't like what it's become.

Exactly. It is so ridiculously horrible nowadays. I'm sure there is some good stuff on the underground but I cba to look since I would rather find good underground metal.

[Nz-Nexus]

I like hiphop jam.

[p1nkfl0yd1an]

There's a pretty and underground group called Atmosphere that a lot of guys i work with are into. I'm no big hip hop fan. The lyrics might not be as meaningful to europeans as a lot of their songs have to do with living in midwestern america... like minnesota.

[Mess]

Any hip-hop after 1998 isn't work listening to. When the hell are Tribe going to reform?

[compy905]

There's a pretty and underground group called Atmosphere that a lot of guys i work with are into. I'm no big hip hop fan. The lyrics might not be as meaningful to europeans as a lot of their songs have to do with living in midwestern america... like minnesota.

I heard of those guys. They have an alright song on Fight Nights Round 3.

[UberSpeed]

Bone thugs n harmony are my fav at the moment, I also like the Ying Yang twins >_>

[JamesL]

Any hip-hop after 1998 isn't work listening to. When the hell are Tribe going to reform?

Pfffft 198 8 more like.

All went downhill after 'A Nation Of Millions' imo

[NOCTVRNVS]

Uh...Redman and Run DMC is apparently not "MTV bulls**t"??

This thread is in the wrong forum if you ask me. This is for music -- not jungle sound effects.


EDIT:

Wait. Before I judge ALL hip-hop as one collective body of fecal matter, there is one sole man who is considered "hip hop" who I enjoy the mind and music of. That man is Saul Williams.

He's like the dadaist movement of hip-hop. His point is all about modern hip-hop being pointless and giving people a bad image. His writing is simply amazing and some of the lines he says on stage or in recordings simply blew my mind the first time I heard of him. He really changed my perspective on hip-hop "artists" -- now I like one of them instead of hating them all

[mabufo]

Check this guy out: DangerDoom

[p1nkfl0yd1an]

2 no 6 no 12, BAKERS DOZEN... i like that one.

[BigEyeGuy]

Dude ,
Beastie boys
Gravediggaz are bangin
Genius
Mos Def
Nas

[RSX WHEEEEEE]

any rapper in the song "Whack Rappers" by Afroman is indeed, whack.

Right now my faves are Chamillionaire and Pitbull, both i would probably list as up and coming, even tho pitbull is coming out with i think his 3rd album this yr, he still hasn't had a standalone hit, except Bojangles, which only plays in Miami and on my myspace.