The proper Hip Hop appreciation thread.

[Mac_Black]

I love that feeling you that just overwhelms you when you discover an old hidden gem like this, sounds fresh still, 22 years on.
Blueprint - 1998
Just found that through YouTube, after listening to an old favourite, Mr Lif - Phantom

So come on, I know who's clued up around here, please non of this singstar, auto-weezy faggotry.
Drop bombs, real hip hop, preferably from the golden era itself!

Cheers,
Mac.

[virus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk

Gotta love the prof
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[GhostRider]

Ahhh yeah, funnily enough I stumbled over Jay-Z's "Song Cry" just the other week after completely forgetting about it and remembered what a good album Blueprint was, and I've never even been a fan of Jay-z.

I could keep this thread going for days, however lets kick it off with some Mos Def:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyTzjJDeCk

and whilst we're on the subject of Mos Def, there's this all time favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrmop7g2cU

Ahhh man such good memories, it sickens me to think of the garbage that's touted as hip hop these days.

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[dogbot]

Have you heard Print's album from this year, Adventures In Counter Culture?

Well worth a listen, imo:

Radio Inactive
Go Hard or Go Home (Printnificence)

Rhymesayers rule the roost this year.

Grieves - Bloody Poetry

From Together/Apart, album of the year round here.

Hail Mary Mallon - Meter Feeder

Aesop Rock, DJ Wiz and Rob Sonic make an album better (imo) than anything they've done before.

Also worth a listen to the Atmosphere album, and Evidence has his first album for RHE out shortly.

And I've got tickets to see them all and Brother Ali in November.

Meanwhile, also from Minnesota, Sims of the amazing Doomtree had an early contender with his 2nd solo LP, Bad Time Zoo...

Sims - Burn It Down

And Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul & Oldominion rocked us early in the year, too, with his Hold on For Dear Life long player...

Onry Ozzborn - That Good

And I've not even mentioned Wugazi.

Yeah, 2011's been a pretty good year for it, tbh.

[dogbot]

Billy Woods & Priviledge, aka the Super Chron Flight Brothers...

A Million Little Pieces

Guy Fawkes (feat Trife Da God)

from Emergency Powers, an amazing, sprawling, story telling slab of concept album. Not just one of the best hip hop records of the last decade, but one of my favourite records ever.

And I'm still not entirely sure that Cape Verde, last year's follow up, isn't the better disc.

[TheDonUK]

"Nine - Whutcha Want?"

Summer Choone, I wonder if DMX heard his voice and thought... hrmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCdKjSpcEIM
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[flat spot]

This was off one of my fave albums at the time "Black Sunday"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyRbCgjF18Y&feature=related

Another fave album of the time ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IFOcybFyNw&feature=related

[anthony_r6]

Not old school, but I've been listening to Machine Gun Kelly a lot lately, dude is awesome.

Salute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9H0YmWIzs

Chip Off The Block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWgr_p0ykwo

One Hundred Words And Running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQWXjpNil2Q

Definitely one of my favourite rappers right now.
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[Mac_Black]

FFS, not already.
John get out of here with you're ludicrously proper trolling!

Sorry AnPhonEh*, that ain't hi Hip Hop mate
Rap it may be, but poor IMO, Wankster's like that get boring real quick, Why do you wanna subject yourself to listening to someone feed their ego
Before they forget about what they just desire as an image and go leeching onto their next cash concept?
Shit like this has very near killed Hip Hop, arrogance, imitation, bastardisation, greed, laziness, call it what you will, just not Hip Hop.


This Blueprint I'm really feeling...
Nice to see a few classics already, nice also to see a bit of newer stuff with the right sort of vibe, with flow, with something decent to say.

*I'm not attacking you, just putting it as I see it.. and I can find music to be just as much baffling and an annoyance as I can pleasurable.
Simply because I believe it should have at very least a soul; a vibe, a meaning or a message, a story, a truth or some humour behind it..
Real music has allot of power and influence on a communal, and a self basis, and people don't get exposure to this because it tends to get diluted behind, frankly, allot of shite.

[dogbot]

Cecil Otter & POS (both also from the mighty Doomtree):

Travelling Dunk Tank

"I like to dream..."

[dogbot]

And something abstract, a little odd and dark as fuck...

Dalek, a duo from NJ:

Paragraphs Relentless

Street Diction

Content to Play Villian

[Mr_Cynical]

[dogbot]

Mighty Mos...

Mos Def - Auditorium (feat Slick Rick)

[mistergixer]

I'm not normally a big fan of Uk hip-hop, but i've been listening to Caveman a lot this week, coming straight out of Wycombe:

Caveman - Positive Reaction
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Originator.

DJ Kool - Let me clear my Throat.

https://youtu.be/_o5Bujo5kWk
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[Mac_Black]

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