Good Rap

[sassafrassquatch]

Recommend some that isn't of the greedy sexist criminal variety. Preferably not so obscure I can't find it.

[Jack Flak]

Not at all what you're asking for, but I had to post it anyway.
YouTube - Schooly D - King Of New York (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDXr4MUzPs&feature=related)

[CaptainChick]

YouTube - Atmosphere - Lovelife (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJ_KY08Qpw)

YouTube - People Under the Stairs - Acid Raindrops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhz4z_ztAw)

[CaptainChick]

^lol, those are pretty F-ish, you may not like.

[sassafrassquatch]

I kind of like the sound of modern rap but the lyrics are painfully stupid. I'm not really a lyrics person anyway, my main concern is that the lyrics don't interfere with the music.

[Negative_]

Rhymesayers and DefinitiveJux artists in general would probably be what you're looking for. Also, Sage Francis, Blu & Exile, Outkast, The Specifics, Qwel....

[pure_mercury]

YouTube - A Tribe called quest - check the rhime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrM6tfOHds&feature=related)

[Brendan]

"The Seed (2.0)" by The Roots

[pure_mercury]

"The Seed (2.0)" by The Roots

Well, that one is kinda nasty, but it's a great song. This was the first Roots song I ever heard:

YouTube - The Roots - What They Do (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdWOoL31IJc)


I've since met a few of The Roots at parties and shows in Philly (I got high with Malik B., actually). Cool cats.

[Modern Nomad]

YouTube - 2pac: Krazy ft. BadAzz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFqYE3SUL9E)

90's rap is still the best

[Falcarius]

Immortal Technique.

[sassafrassquatch]

Been poking through Download.com's MP3 stash, I think R&B might be what I'm looking for and not rap.

[Edahn]

MF Doom, underground hip hop, great lyrics

[Alpha-6]

Immortal Technique.

Hotstyles- Lookin Boy

Pendulum- Tarantula

Black Eyed Peas- Pump It

Outkast- Bombs Over Baghdad, Ghetto Musik

Busta Rhymes- Gimme Some Mo

Master P- Make em say Uh

69 Boyz- Hootchie Mamma

Gritz- My Life Be Like

Gorillaz- 19-2000 Soulchild Remix

Those are all the rap songs on my list.

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I was going to recommend The Roots, but they're sort of pushing the boundary of what's considered rap. If you're looking for R&Bish hip hop, they're definitely for you.

[Thursday]

YouTube - Aesop Rock - Coffee ft. John Darnielle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsj653088E)

[Samuel De Mazarin]

Talib Kweli... someone linked to A Tribe Called Quest... they're good too...

[Magic Poriferan]

I'm not really a lyrics person anyway, my main concern is that the lyrics don't interfere with the music.

I really see where you're coming from with this.


And you're an INTP now?! When will it end?
Also, I thought you use to list yourself as 6w5...

[disregard]

Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Sage Francis
Aesop Rock
Eyedea & Abilities
Atmosphere
People Under the Stairs
Aceyalone
Abstract Rude
Swollen Members
Living Legends
Dr Octagon
Devin the Dude
A Tribe Called Quest
Jedi Mind Tricks
Dan the Automator
Zion I
Grouch
Eligh
Pharcyde
Fugees
Andre Nickatina (although, he does rhyme about bitches, crime, and drugs, he has integrity, talent, originality)

[Gish]

disregard knows of what she speaks. I'd also like to add Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip to the list.

[pure_mercury]

Dälek is awesome, too.

[OneWithSoul]

The Old School rap is good, nothing later then like 1995...I'd say

[pure_mercury]

The Old School rap is good, nothing later then like 1995...I'd say

Gotta disagree here.

[Aimahn]

Biggie- Has a lot of good songs. Very Ne seems almost like an entp, very quick wit you can sense his intelligence in all of his songs. His subject matter may not be to your liking but you can't deny his talent.

-Victory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jX0kbzVdw) feat P.Diddy

-Juicy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTvdpAYeHE)

-Running feat Tupac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1e9hz11IjY&feature=related)


Thugz Mansion Acoustics -Tupac
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tZcekwASc) more poetic than straight rap.

Hostile Remix-Joell Ortiz, Taleb Kwelli, Blu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZAffD6ozqk)

[evan]

HIEROGLYPHICS
tech n9ne is awesome too (most talented rapper i know of), but he's extremely vulgar. like, extreme.

[rhinosaur]

YouTube - Bad Man - MURS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWTZWtE2yM)

[GZA]

Black Star!!!

[PinkPiranha]

I'm destroying some Run DMC right now. Rock Box!

"Don't want nobody's name on my BE-hind!"

[disregard]

Equipto (http://www.myspace.com/equipto)

[iwakar]

Cryptic One - Anti-Mobius Strip Theory - Intro (sample clip) (http://www.emusic.com/artist/11598/11598769.html)

[animenagai]

you know what, shame on all of you! no lupe fiasco? cmon. before you say 'i don't like rap about skateboards', his best stuff are the ones that MTV etc. don't show because it's 'too intelligent'.

American Terrorist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NgzB-PLzc)

Little Weapon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdyV1OFeTw)

Intruder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7DfqqTfr9k)

Good shit. i love the depth and i wish all hip hop was like this.

[LadyJaye]

Luchini - Camp Lo - one of my favorites

[disregard]

Dr Octagon -- Halfsharkalligatorhalfman

[Metamorphosis]

Eminem - When I'm Gone

[Hexis]

Not exactly rap but you might like it.

YouTube - dan le sac VS scroobius pip "Thou Shalt always Kill" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4)

They only have like 4 songs out at the moment but more to come soon.

[BlueWing]

YouTube - Eminem & Tupac - When I'm Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gVu9JuqUk)

[murkrow]

Brooklyn Zoo.

[disregard]

Visionaries
4-Tay

[Metamorphosis]

YouTube - Eminem & Tupac - When I'm Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gVu9JuqUk)

Yes.

[murkrow]

Brooklyn Zoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9U6hYTLlA)

For someone who hated white people and loved religion I really enjoy ODB.

I actually enjoy being called the devil. I like how it's my race which tempted man to freedom. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml5M9O_2Ngg&NR=1)

Freestyling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE3wuOw-k8&feature=related)

[disregard]

Jurassic 5

[pure_mercury]

Brooklyn Zoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9U6hYTLlA)

For someone who hated white people and loved religion I really enjoy ODB.

I actually enjoy being called the devil. I like how it's my race which tempted man to freedom. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml5M9O_2Ngg&NR=1)

Freestyling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE3wuOw-k8&feature=related)

I drive by the McDonald's in Grays Ferry (Philadelphia) at which he was arrested for crack possession all the time.

[Lithium]

blackalicious

[V Profane]

Encore - Love and Hate

[EJCC]

I usually really dislike rap, but I'm really in love with this cd by The Roots called "Game Theory". I highly recommend it. :headphne:

[EJCC]

YouTube - Bad Man - MURS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWTZWtE2yM)

THIS SONG IS AWESOME. Then again, I was in the drumline in marching band, so... yeah.

[Oso Mocoso]

MC Paul Barman (nerd rap)
Akhenaton (French rap)
Del the Funky Homosapien

[Ivy]

I just found out about Shad and I can't stop smiling!

The Old Prince Still Lives At Home

I don't really like to

[Ivy]

MC Paul Barman (nerd rap)
Akhenaton (French rap)
Del the Funky Homosapien

All great suggestions- also, you mentioned French rap, which reminded me of a trip-hop artist I used to listen to a lot and had totally forgotten about, DJ Cam:

I love hip hop

And Wax Tailor is cool:

Positively Inclined

[pure_mercury]

Back in the Mud - Bubba Sparxxx

Sweet.

[Ivy]

This will be more fun if you played text adventure games:

It Is Pitch Dark

[disregard]

dilated peoples

[Geoff]

This will be more fun if you played text adventure games:

It Is Pitch Dark

That's awesome. Thank you, made my day. I cut my teeth on flashing green cursors.. Muds, Text adventures and roguelikes. A grue rap is long overdue.

Geoff sits down and starts singing about gold.

[Alpha Prime]

I enjoy this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG5La6k6eTI), when snowboarding, or riding the waves of life..

[mlittrell]

knaan

[disregard]

Illogic
Blueprint

[pure_mercury]

I usually really dislike rap, but I'm really in love with this cd by The Roots called "Game Theory". I highly recommend it. :headphne:

I've smoked a blunt with one of The Roots, and I also went to a St. Patrick's Day party at their studio. Cool guys. Lots of druggies around them, though.

[GZA]

YouTube - Shad "Rock To It" (live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4ZZtoviXA)

and this is his current hit

YouTube - Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives at Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH8SDiPPjoc&feature=related)

My favourite part is the end...

Getting big in Canada.

Probably impossible to find in the US though, but screw it, give him a listen. I think he's fantastic, personally... he has good skills and good flow, and his style is very sort of canadian, for lack of a better term. It's suburban like that, I guess. He actually comes from the same town as me, went to a rival high school.

[GZA]

I've smoked a blunt with one of The Roots, and I also went to a St. Patrick's Day party at their studio. Cool guys. Lots of druggies around them, though.

Which one did you smoke with?

I got into the Roots a few months ago, great band.

[Ivy]

Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting.

[Gish]

For the bitches and the bling, I'd say.

[pure_mercury]

Which one did you smoke with?

I got into the Roots a few months ago, great band.

Malik B., who is no longer with the crew, due to his awful drug habit. :( I've also seen Skratch beatbox with G. Love (of G. Love and Special Sauce) and partied with Black Thought at the St. Patrick's Day party. All of the original guys were students at CAPA in South Philly. That is the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Their new white-guy bassist (Owen Biddle) is the scion of one of Philly's richest and oldest families, and he was in The Trolleyvox, an indie-rock band who played my house in West Philly. I've partied with so many musicians and actors, I am practically a Philebrity at this point. :yes:

Here is a video from the ultimate Philebrity:

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - I Think I Could Beat Mike Tyson

[ajblaise]

There's only one rapper impressing me right now. I think his name is MURS, or something like that. He's the guy with the weird hair.

Also, I heard a rapper named Papoose do a rap where he went all through the ABC's and back, only rapping with words that started with A, then B, and so on. Very impressive.

[Ivy]

As far as I know, MURS has no hair. Are you talking about Shock G? He did a video with MURS, and also brought his alter ego, Humpty Hump.

YouTube - Murs - Risky Business(ft. Shock G and Humpty) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixrdnlKSA)

Edit: NVM, Murs has weird hair now too. But perhaps not as weird as Shock G's. He was hilarious on Loveline a couple of months ago btw.

Edit again: that video is NSFW.

[ajblaise]

As far as I know, MURS has no hair. Are you talking about Shock G? He did a video with MURS, and also brought his alter ego, Humpty Hump.

YouTube - Murs - Risky Business(ft. Shock G and Humpty) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixrdnlKSA)

Edit: NVM, Murs has weird hair now too. But perhaps not as weird as Shock G's. He was hilarious on Loveline a couple of months ago btw.

This is MURS. I'm pretty sure. I tried to do a image search for Shock G, but all i get back is those damn watches.

http://inversehiphop.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/murs.jpg

edit: and Ivy knows about hip-hop?! Whodda thunk it.

[Ivy]

Gah! Anybody who read this thread or any of my music posts over the last two years! :angry:

[ajblaise]

Gah! Anybody who read this thread or any of my music posts over the last two years! :angry:

Yeah okay, OG Ivy the Anybody Killa.

[Ivy]

BTW you can see a bald MURS as well as a funny-hairded Shock G (and of course HH is always fun) in that video I linked to.

EDITED to add: NSFW

[Aimahn]

Alphabetical Slaughter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLklnMWl63k) - Papoose

He is/was deff one of the big underground mixtape artists out there. If your interested I have a bunch of songs by him.


Lets play monopoly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM9eo6pKvlQ) - Papoose feat Mario( I actually don't mind him singing the chorus in this, granted it is ripped from one of his most commercial songs, which by the way i hated)


Head of State (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIulJ8ZjH4) - Papoose and Saigon

[ajblaise]

BTW you can see a bald MURS as well as a funny-hairded Shock G (and of course HH is always fun) in that video I linked to.

EDITED to add: NSFW

I liked that video. Humpty is hilarious, especially his opening rap. Hopefully this kind of rap starts to replace what mainstream rap has going on now.

[Gish]

Sage Francis - Escape Artist

Probably my favorite Hip-Hop artist, anything under the Strange Famous Records label is worth checking out.

[Grayscale]

YouTube - Snoop Dog -Batman And Robin

[ed111]

Recommend some that isn't of the greedy sexist criminal variety. Preferably not so obscure I can't find it.

Public Enemy - Fight the Power

Rap with a real message.

YouTube - PUBLIC ENEMY - FIGHT THE POWER (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTi9UZtPbw)

To quote a youtube user:

"If Obama wins I'm gonna drive around blasting this shit on max, if he loses I'm gonna drive around blasting this shit on max. "

[CaptainChick]

YouTube - The Balance by Aceyalone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybONcyD9AUI&feature=related)

:yes:

[ajblaise]

Public Enemy - Fight the Power

Rap with a real message.

YouTube - PUBLIC ENEMY - FIGHT THE POWER (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTi9UZtPbw)

To quote a youtube user:

"If Obama wins I'm gonna drive around blasting this shit on max, if he loses I'm gonna drive around blasting this shit on max. "

I saw that this song got #1 on the 100 Best Hip-Hop Songs on vh1.. I was glad but kind of surprised it got #1. I wish there was some more politically aware or even socially conscious rap in the mainstream.

[ed111]

I saw that this song got #1 on the 100 Best Hip-Hop Songs on vh1.. I was glad but kind of surprised it got #1. I wish there was some more politically aware or even socially conscious rap in the mainstream.


Good for VH1! Either the editor or the viewers have got good taste. I only came across this track through watching a Spike Lee film in which the character Radio Rahim had it playing none stop on his stereo system (until he got it smashed in by Sal).

[meanlittlechimp]

Dead Prez
YouTube - Dead Prez "Hip Hop" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNyr6BJZuI)

Joell Ortiz
YouTube - Brooklyn Bullshit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIx_L757_A)

Big L
YouTube - Big L Put It On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBrzEVJwYFg&feature=related)
YouTube - big l-Flamboyant NOT JUST PICS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zpnp-QcuVM)

Lootpack
YouTube - Wildchild (Lootpack) - Weededed / Episodes feat. Kazi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9bMiWik9A)
YouTube - lootpack - when im on da mic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7tSGgo9kA&feature=related)

Mobb Deep
YouTube - Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. Ii (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeuEGr_UTzg)
YouTube - Mobb Deep -- Quiet Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1Sz-RozpQ)

Jeru
YouTube - Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5dOCSBBEI)

Pharcyde
YouTube - The Pharcyde - Runnin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZKN4AZ63g)

Dangermouse and Jemini
YouTube - Ghetto Pop Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mjg71CASbE)
YouTube - The Only One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge4-Kb3J-Eg&feature=related)

Immortal
YouTube - Immortal Technique -- Point of No Return (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igt-jW4e8ts&feature=related)
YouTube - Immortal Technique - Peruvian Cocaine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrBRJVGLRPo&feature=related)

[01011010]

No one mentioned Blackalicious. What is wrong with you people. First video is for the scientists...

YouTube - Blackalicious - Chemical Calestenics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph59l6XAKWg)

YouTube - Blackalicious' Alphabet Aerobics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dJ6xbrWHQ)

[rhinosaur]

YouTube - Music 2000 - Antony Carmichael (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8qtxts1jY&fmt=18)