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Suggest a Rap song
I got an idea for hopefully a good solid thread..
Everyone posts their favorite rap song, or just a rap/hip-hop beat in general they really enjoy. Maybe we can help provide some people who are looking for some new beats a good song or two. I will start it off... Beatnuts - Watch out now Beatnuts - Se Acabo I will post some more later, check those out they are very good.. |
Check out anything by Buck 65, 'Batchelor of Science' or 'Pants on Fire' in particular. I'm also quite partial to 'Soopa Feen' by Del tha Funkee Homosapien, absolutely hilarious song about a delusional crack addict who thinks he's a super hero.
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I'm not really a fan of rap, though I love the Licensed to Ill album by the Beastie Boys.
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If you want REAL rap, listen to Public Enemy.
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Atmosphere - Save the Day
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Definition Gang Starr - Moment of Truth |
NO! SLEEP! TILL BROOKLYN!
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8pt Agenda by The Herbalizer feat. Latryx
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Binary Star 'New Hip Hop'
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I could list songs for days. But I wont :).
Blackalicious - Deception Actually, even easier. Everything on Nia and Blazing Arrow (the two Blackalicious albums*) Mos Def - Miss Fat Booty Mos Def - Umi Says Big L - Holdin It Down Big L - Put It On feat. Kid Capri J5 - What's Golden J5 - Concrete Schoolyard J5 - Quality Control J5 - Unified Rebelution ATCQ - Can I Kick It ATCQ - Award Tour De La Soul - Me, Myself and I De La Soul - Buddy feat. ATCQ, Monie Love and Queen Latifah Slum Village - Raise It Up Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness Roots Manuva - Join The Dots feat. Chali 2na Dj Format - We Know Something... feat. Akill and Chali 2na Dead Prez - Hip Hop Latyrx - Lady Don't Tek No Blackalicious - Swan Lake Gang Starr - Full Clip Gang Starr - Ex Girl to the Next Girl Gang Starr - Royalty Gang Starr - Skillz Black Twang - So Rotten feat. Jamahli The Pharcyde - Drop The Pharcyde - Oh Shit MF Doom - Dead Bent MF Doom - ? (Question) Masta Ace - Take A Walk Swollen Members - Take It Back Swollen Members - Lady Venom Swollen Members - Deep End Swollen Members - Bless and Destroy Company Flow - End to End Burners El-P - Deep Space 9mm Aesop Rock - Daylight Aesop Rock - Boombox Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy Cannibal Ox - Ox Out The Cage Cannibal Ox - A B-Boys Alpha Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes To Worst Dilated Peoples - Self Defence Dilated Peoples - Heavy Rotation feat. Tha Liks Dilated Peoples - Live On Stage Dilated Peoples - Proper Propaganda Jedi Mind Tricks - Contra Jedi Mind Tricks - I Against I The Roots - The Seeds The Roots - The Next Movement The Roots - What They Do * - I know Blackalicious have another EP, only availible in Asia atm iirc. It's not a full album and tracks are hard to find on the net so I left it out. ATCQ = A Tribe Called Quest J5 = Jurassic 5 To be honest, you should buy all the albums the above songs come off. I left out loads of songs because I'd be here all night, but we'll call this part 1. ;) Oh and if you haven't heard of most of the above artists then shame on you. :p [edit] Actually Blackalicious have 2 Eps. I totally forgot about A2G Ep, which has some gems on it. Another fantastic song is Alphabet Aerobics, listen to it and you'll know what I mean. Mind blowing. Gift Of Gab I bow before your lyrical skills. If you get a chance to see Blackalicious live dont miss them. Best concert I've ever been to. [/Edit] |
NWA - express yo'self
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Eiresol, you have awesome taste!!!
The best almost never heard rap song is What's Up Fat Lip? by Fat Lip (formerly of the Pharcyde) Please let me know if you find any legitimate way to buy this song. I've only found it online, but I would love to support Fat Lip. |
Sage Francis - Makeshift Patriot
It's the only intelligent rap/hip-hop I've ever heard. The rest is just worn out commentary about who can kick who's ass and who has more money. It's not talent, it's trash. |
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BTW IM impressed by your choice cuts Eiresol, much respect due. Alot of rap these days is some homey talkin about one or all of the following: 1. How much money he has. 2. Fucking ability, frequency or technique. 3. Drugs & guns. 4. "Life on the streets" 5. How he is the greatset rapper EVAR. 6. Pimping, playing, hustling. Its booring & unimaginative (sp?) I loose respect when an "artist" settles for this subject matter. There are of course exceptions. If youre so inclined I highly recommend going old school, back when innovators were doing something creative rather than following a formula, IMO its the golden age of hip hop & you can learn alot about how the music evolved by picking up a few of these gems: Stetsasonic: Talkin' All That Jazz (A song about sampling) De La Soul, 3 feet high & Rising (album) Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, The message (A classic) Sugarhill Gang, Rappers Delight M.A.R.R.S. - Pump up the volume. (hip hop/dance tune) Incredible Bongo Band, Apache (gives me goosebumps) Also keep an eye out for: Beastie Boys early stuff, but not too early, they were a punk band to start with. Mantronix Run DMC (minus Jason Nevins) RIP Jam Master Jay. Kurtis Blow Doug E Fresh Public Enemy Rahzel (beatbox king) Im big into Turntablism but Its an acuired taste & sometimes is too technical to appeal to someone who doesnt scratch so, If youre interested here are a few: Camel Bobsled Race, Qbert & Dj Shadow. (24 minute session) MixMaster Mike A Trak Invisibl Skratch Piklz THe Beat Junkies Rob Swift Dj Babu Kid Koala The X-Ecutioners (The X-Men) Dj Noise Newer school Hip-Hop: DJ Shadow: Words cannot describe how good this guy is, If you want a taste check out. Stem/Long Stem, Organ Donor, The Number Song, Six Days and anything live. Beatnauts (J-Lo should fuck off) Jurassic 5 Saul Williams - Originally a poet, his lyrics are inspiring & command attention, very unique style. Latyrx, Check out Lady don tek no. Quannum: Lyrics Born, Chief Xcel, Gift Of GAb, Lateef the Truth Speaker & Shadow (see above) The Breezeblock mix is mindblowing. Thats all I got for now. |
magpie, spektr, eiresol. great choices. i would make a list myself but you guys have pretty much covered anything that i think is worth listing.
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Anthing by Dan the automator is worth a listen, or vanilla ice for that matter!
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Large Professor- The Mad Scientist
Jeru Da Damaja - Playin' yaself Fu-shnickens - La Schmoove (I went to the wayback bachine for that one) Common & the Roots - HipHop(Love of my Life) More to come in the future.. |
Not enough talk about Tribe Called Quest on this thread.
The entire Low End Theory album is great, but if I had to pick one cut, it would probably be "Jazz" And KWSN is right. P.E. is the shizznit. |
Aesop Rock - How to be a Carpenter
Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil J-Live - Them That's Not J-Live - The Best Part J-Live - Like This Anna J-Live - The 4th 3rd RJD2 ft Copywrite - June Sage Francis - Rewrite Sage Francis - Runaways Sage Francis - Inherited Scars |
the humpty dance
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Anything by Souls of Mischief is good.
My personal favorites are "93' Til Infinity" and "Cab Fare" though. |
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Also, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
Generally all of the "classic" artists are consider classics for a reason. LL Cool J Run DMC Eric B & Rakim KRS One Too Short I can go on & on. But one of my absolute favorites from back in the day is: MC Breed - Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin' I guess goosebumps whenever I hear it still! |
I'm so glad that the likes of Nelly, DMX and Ja Rule didnt come up in this thread.
Magpie is right, Dj Shadow is amazing. I left him out though because his music is more instrumetal / turntable orientated and may not be to everyones liking. Organ Donar (Extended Overhaul) is probably in my top 5 favourite songs of all time. A couple of other ones I thought of Cage - Agent Orange Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers Smut Peddlars - Bottom Feeders Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity (like Sketchy said) Blackalicious and J5 - Concentration Lyrics Born and Poets of Rhythm - I Changed My Mind For a little bit more mainstream, Biggie's Ready to Die album is pretty good too. Poets of Rhythm are worth checking out if you like Jazz orientated music. Also RJD2 and Dj Vadim, Herbaliser. Fuck it, buy everything you can from Ninja Tune. See Xen Cuts for a good guide to Ninja Tune artists. Now go out and buy some music and support some real musicians. :) |
Actually for turntabalism you must and I stress must check out Dj Shadow and Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze.
HOLY SHIT And then try and figure out all the songs they used. |
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the click - out my body
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i'm not really a fan of rap, but i like bone crusher's song "never scared." i don't think it's really all that good, but i saw them perform it live on carson daly's late night show (so horrible...) and the performance was pretty funny.
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pretty much anything by:
Too Short NWA Easy E Dre Wyclef Jean Eminem Black Eyes Peas Ice-T Boogie Down Productions Slick Rick Run DMC |
blackalicious - alphabet aerobics
This song is lyrically incredible. Also, check out RZA - Mantis Style. RZA has such great flow. |
Speaking of the Rza... I recently picked up "Rza Hits". Not a dud in the bunch!
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Anything at all by DMX........if all you've heard is his commercial stuff, then youve really missed out. Nas is a genius, almost anything by him is good too. And I think that Mos Def is probably the most lyrically gifted artist out there. I don't go for that mindless "booty shaking" shit either. So this is really the only rap I like that much anymore. But sometimes I like to turn my brain off and rock some Ludacris or Nelly.
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"Get by" by Talib Kwali has been on repeat a lot on my system...i saw it on BET, but can't seem to find a mp3 of it with out the "PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY" voice over halfway through the song. I'm waiting for Itunes to save me...
Other favs: Passion by Blackalicious Cryptic Souls Crew by Len Dirty South by Outkast and for fun...Gin and Juice covered by The Gourds |
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Hell On Earth and Still Shinin'
Anything by the Wu Tang Clan (solo and group efforts) Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full (album) Also agree with most tunes already listed above. |
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Quality is a great CD, go out and buy it, you cheapskate. Lot's of good stuff here. I'd have to add a few suggestions: Soul Position EP - Great little disc from RJD2 and Blueprint Illogic - This guy is a great MC, but he hasn't had the best production on his CDs. He's one of the best at legitimizing comparisons between the blues and hiphop. Check out the following Stop Lyin Hate In A Puddle guest on Aesop Rock's One Brick I should also mention Quasimoto as great if you can handle the mixture of sounds My girlfriend hates it because it gives her a headache after 30 seconds |
Anything by Jurassic 5(they were AWESOME at Lollapallooza) and if DJ Shadow is in this category go buy every one of his CDs especially the first and the last he has incredible talent.
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If you dig turntabilst action you must check out Morse Code out of Arizona. 3dj's and two emcee's, they keep it live. Check them out www.turntableband.com
I dig that Soul Position tune "Unlimited" as well as the Maroons single "Lester Hayes" (Lateef & Chief Xcel) .....and I'll plug my group as well...www.ostrichhead.com Check our site out and listen to some tunes, it's all free. |
great to see other hip hop heads. this is my first day on here, usually other boards if you try to talk about hip hop everyone flames you. it really sucks...
right now i'm listening to deadringer by rjd2... cut chemist - cuttin' class is an INCREDIBLE mix by the white dj of jurassic 5. you can only order it from www.hiphopsite.com, it's worth the 10 bucks. i listen to all hip hop, mainstream and underground. i enjoy most of it. some of it does really suck, obviously, but there's so many artists out there dying for exposure who actually make good music. the soul position EP is dope. other great underground stuff includes Little Brother (and their amazing producer 9th wonder), Murs, Copywrite, 7L & Esoteric, Masta Ace,... my favorite MC right now is jay-z. i don't care if he's mainstream. he can flow, has great producers at his fingertips and really dominates live shows. |
Anything by J5, they are truly awesome. Not only do they sound good, their music is about freedom and important stuff, not money, and how they are the best.
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C-Bo - Bald head nut
Dre Dog - Killa Whale Dre Dog - Muthafucka Dre Dog - Smoke Dope And Rap Brotha Lynch Hung - Liquor Sicc Brotha Lynch Hung - Locc 2 Da Brain Brotha Lynch Hung - Season Of Da Siccness and ANYTHING from Cougnut(R.I.P)/I.M.P |
There is a really cool Aussie Guys who do some really great stuff.
I'm not really into Rap or Hip Hop, but these guy is pretty good. Aussie Hip Hop without all the ganster scene and annoying crap, Just cool rhymes and beats and a bit of a laugh too! Matty B - Fridays Two Up - Why Do I try So Hard Both are on your Fav P2P so have a listen! :p |
Mr. Lif - Home of the Brave
basically anything from Mr. Lif is worth a listen, but thats a favorite of mine inparticularly. Another good one is Live From the Plantation. Check this guy out. He's out of boston with Defenative Jux (El-P, Insight, etc.) Intelligent rap about issuses that matter. |
Wu Tang!!!
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Lil Jon-Get Low. That is a fucking badass song, with a great beat and a good club feel. Good song to get a lap dance to :) A lot of bass too, if you like that. David Banner's CD sucks, just download Get Down (Like a Pimp) with him and Lil Flip. Anything by Flip is good, he is the best rapper IMHO. My favorite rap song is Da Summa (Remix) by Three 6 Mafia.
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Anything by Ja Rule.
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Public Enemy "Bring The Noise"
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Black Eyed Peas "Fallin Up"
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Can't go wrong with
2pac Bionic Jive - Pump(whatcha trippin on) (very rap rock, but the MCs are much better then the average Fred Durst/Linkin Crap) Method Man - the whole Tical cd. Tical2000 blows don't even bother Dr. Dre Keith Murray LL Cool J Ying Yang Twins |
OutKast - The whole world
Tu Pac - Hit em' up Bone thugs n harmony - Crossroads Bone thugs n harmony - first of the month KRS-1 - Can't stop, won't stop Public Enemy - Bring the noise (with anthrax) Public Enemy - Welcome to the terrordome Run DMC - King of Rock Dr.Dre - Still D.R.E. Dr.Dre - What's the difference (love the tune/beat in that one) |
hmm... we'll i think the song with the illest beat (i mean it's sick!!) is B-Boy document 99, Mos Def is in it... worth looking into!!
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company flow-8 steps to perfection
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lil flip isn't even the best rapper from houston (scarface) :)
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Hands down, it's gotta be Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Runner up....Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part 2 |
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The Roots !! The Roots !! The Roots !! The Roots !! hmm thats about it ... |
Domino Geto Jam
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Cannibal Ox - Raspberry Fields
Anything by Jedi Mind Tricks Cunninlynguists - Seasons, 616 Rewind, Appreciation (Remix) Anything by Atmosphere Demigodz - Sureshot Affair Binary Star - Reality Check, Honest Expression Aesop Rock - Sick Friend Eyedea - Monster Inside I have more but others already mentioned what I'd recommend. |
bone thugs n harmony - days of our lives, crossroads
outkast - so fresh so clean, hey ya, B.o.b dub pistols - cyclone the roots - adrenaline, essaywhuman, seeds jurassic 5 - swingset run dmc - tricky, christmas in hollis beastie boys - 3 mc's and 1 dj, futtermans rule nwa - express yourself, straight outta compton |
For beats you have to go with Timberland then Neptunes is a far second. As for rap artists, you have to go with Outkast, Method Man, The Roots, 2Pac, 8ball & MJG, Talib Kweli, e-40, b.i.g., just to name a few(sorry not good with song names but i could tell you the track number)
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Stutter Rap by Morris Major and the Minors- undeniable classic
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Rewind - Nas
Just an incredible song Outkast - I forgot what it's called, the song after Hey Ya on The Love Below, it's great |
T.I. -Be Easy
"Where da piano at shawty??!" |
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Gonna go oldschool here....gimme that nut by easy e
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Sometimes I Rhyme Slow -- Nice N Smooth
What's up Doc? (Can We Rock?) -- Fu-Schickens and Shaq just kidding about shaq |
cant do just one but two of my favs...
Tribe Called Quest -- Can I Kick It 8Ball and MJG -- Buck Bounce |
Outkast - Liberation, Crumblin Erb
Makaveli - Hail Mary, Krazy Bionic Jive - Ricochet, I Shot Lucifer Ice T - Pusher Big Pun - Anything off Capital Punishment Talib Kweli & Bahamadia - Chaos BlackStar - Thieves in the Night, Respiration |
Hey Eyronic---I own the CD Maxi-single for What's Up Fatlip? Good stuff, he was the funniest dude in The Pharcyde.
By the way, check out the song "Walk With M" by DA Smart. Unreal cut about Chicago Gangs from 8 or 9 years ago, you will love it... |
Tech N9ne-Planet 2k rock down south
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Beatie Boys- Flute Loop
A Tribe Called Quest- Award Tour |
Wow! That's quite an extensive list of artists, and I agree with everyone of the selections. I really can appreciate the "underground" hip hop music. These are the ones telling the real stories.
Latryx --"lady don't tek no" one of the best songs to get down to IMO. |
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or whole Afu-Ra CD |
check out Raw by Big Daddy Kane. He seems to be getting more forgotten as the years pass, which is a shame. He was the shiat back in the late 80s.
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copywrite and rjd2 - june
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Beastie Boys - Get it together
Beastie Boys - Root Down Beastie Boys - Sure Shot Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn Cypress Hill - Cock the hammer Cypress Hill - Hits from the bong Cypress Hill - I ain't going out like that Dr.Dre - Forgot about Dre Dr.Dre - Still D.R.E. Dr.Dre - The Next episode Dr.Dre - What's the difference Public Enemy w/Anthrax - Bring the noise Fatboys - Wipe out :lol: OutKast - The Whole World |
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