The Rap/Hip Hop Appreciation Thread!

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soran

30-07-2013

This may not appeal to you all, but I love really old skool rap/hip hop. I mean late 70's and 80's stuff.

Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock(1981)

Grandmaster Flash - The Message(1982)

Slick Rick - Children's Story(1988)

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks(1980)

Cold Crush Bothers - Fresh, Fly, Wild and Bold(1984)

Spoonie Gee - Love Rap(1980)

Not forgetting of course the grandaddy of rap/hip hop:

Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight(1979)

JuliusH

31-07-2013

I think Kendrick Lamar has it all as a rapper: amazing technique, great ideas and ways of putting them and loads of feeling for the music. He's also an intersting person with a gangster and a sensitive side.

Sex, I like your post saying it feels like you're in the hood when you listen to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. I think the albums gives such a multifaceted portait of Compton, showing the hoodlums but also family life, religion, relationships... Great production as well.

I did a mashup of Kendrick's Money Trees with Alt-J's Intro. I'd love to know what you guys think: http://soundcloud.com/julius-hinks/i...money-trees-by

musicfreak10

31-07-2013

Originally Posted by mialicious:
“Talib Kweli feat Miguel - Come here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1aAQdE3lY”

I heard this song on Love and Hip-Hop(my guilty pleasure

) a few weeks back. Can't stop listening to it!! Has such an old skool sound to it!

carlito000

22-01-2014

Originally Posted by doom&gloom:
“I think the artists highlighted in the OP's post are the reason rap and hip-hop are pretty much dead because they made the genre too commercial.

I started listening to rap in the mid-eighties, Schoolly D, EPMD, Eric B and Rakim, Leaders of the New School, A Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, De La Soul, BDP, that was the great era for me, I stopped listening to it after The Wu Tang Clan's disappointing second solo albums.”

Rap can now be loosely divided into commercial "club rap" and "underground rap". If you listen to the underground stuff you might be pleasantly surprised. On the other hand the OP mentioned Notorious BIG, if you didn't like his stuff then I'm not quite sure what to say

Lushness

14-08-2015

Sorry for bumping an old thread but just been listening to Public Enemy's, It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back. That album is just art - fantastic!

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