MEGA: Rap/Hip Hop DISCUSSION thread.

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Max Power said:
Perhaps this is too obvious, but no one has mentioned Liquid Swords yet . .
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shimazu said:
the first time I listened to Liquid Swords I was just getting into rap and my friend was showin me all these songs by Ja Rule and Nelly and then I picked up the Liquid Swords cd and he was like "idk about that one its my brothers I dont think its that good" but I put it in anyway and thats what got me into the older shit.
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I forgot you dont read any of my posts, way to post the shittiest song off the album too

 
Hip hop fans, check dis out!

Yo yo for the last few months been hanging out on http://plug.dj/the-boombox/. It's basically just a website where you take turns picking songs to play, or you can just listen. The hip hop played there is really fucking good and they've really got me into hip hop in a way I wasn't before. The community is pretty cool and they even have a facebook group of approximately 130 people and many many regulars that are in the room more or less most days.

How good it is is dependent on what time you go on, since most of the regular community are europe based you get a lot of people stumbling into the room trying to play Lil-Wayne and getting away with it without any bouncers to skip those tracks at 5am UK time, but it's definitely worth checking out regardless of what time zone you live on sundays. Sundays are always themed to chill sunday and you can only play mellow hip hop and it's so nice to be in there on a comedown smoking a spliff or two. Sometimes they also do Hardcore/Raw fridays and they're currently trying to think of more themed days so if you have any thoughts feel free to suggest ideas.

The same guys that run that room also have a reggae and blues/jazz room however at the moment there aren't enough people that go to them so their mostly empty, which is a massive shame because they would be great with a few more people I'm sure. But yeah do check it out, they've made me appreciate hip hop more than I thought was possible.
 
Lovin' that beatbox style, cheers mate.

I started throwin' bass, she started throwin' back mid-range.
 
To EVERYONE who holds ugly, jealousy hate infused ignorance & prejudice against today's mainstream rappers such as Lil Wayne, keep it up lol. His bank account only gets bigger by the second. In no way is this me praising him or blowing him, or whatever feeble hollow insults you throw at me.

I am simply only stating this; The man is a legendary icon & biggest focal point of todays mainstream Hip/Hop scene/culture etc. Like it or not, dudes a mega superstar, nobody can touch him today. Strictly speaking of status. His prolific amount of work being put out this past 2 years, & his total amount of work put out in ratio to amount of time & efficiency. I, personally, do NOT love his music ( every know & then a song comes out that is catchy) or like him as a person at all. But I DO respect him. His work ethic. There's not one person in this world who is aware of what music is, has heard of his name before or is his fan.

In my opinion, his talent as a rapper is horrendously overrated. Even back in his younger days, his flow, metaphors, word play etc was a lot better than what he spits out today, but even at that he was decent. Subject matter in his lyrics are horrible, today is all about style/swag/delivery, no substance is required for today's listeners. Once again, not a fan but obvious things are obvious and credit is always due where its due.
 
Credit were credit is due, Hitler was fucking good at what he did too.

^I appreciate I violated godwins law just there but I think you see the point I'm making.

I don't hold a prejudice against him, let's define the word shall we? "An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts." I just think he's a talentless nob because I've listened to his music and his lyrics. That's all there is to it.

Also really sure what you're trying to say with that post, you're saying you don't like most of his music or as a person, you're giving him credit for being famous, successful and his "work ethic"? Seeing as being famous and successful is basically how society gives credit for someone for what they do you're giving him credit for other people giving him credit for his work? What? As for work ethic, have you listened to his lyrics? They don't sound like there's that much work being put into it. I could write a song a week if I had a whole team of people producing beats for me and my lyrics consited of lines like "“I get money to kill time.... " wait for the clever word play.... "....dead clocks.” And after all is it not quality not quantity? If it is the other way Lil B is the best rapper alive, he averages like 10 mix tapes a year.

He literally just said words.... To quote Hopsin in an interview "There's a trend right now to have those metaphors where you go "I'm so fly.... plane"". He managed to think of that on the spot, it really isn't that hard to do spit out a song if that's you're writing. I don't like Hopsin that much, but I've got to give him credit for taking the piss out all of the shit rappers :D

Now I'm not running round telling everyone that lil wayne is shit, I don't have anything against him specifically, compared to other crap mainstream artists like 2chain and what not, however if someone plays a crap song by him, I'll tell that I think it's shit.
 
Hip hop passion

Ok so i love hip-hop and i am going to name my favorite artists in somewhat accurate order.

1. Eminem
2. Nas
3. The Game
4. Tupac
5. Hopsin
6. Scareface.
7. Jay-Z
8. Mac miller
9. Wiz khalifa
10. A$AP Rocky
11. Joey badass
12. 2 Chainz
13.Lil wayne
14. Dr. Dre
15. Big Sean
16. Immortal technique
17. Brotha Lynch Hung
18 Tech n9ne
19. Meek Mill
20. Yo Gotti
21. Trae the Truth
22. Meek Mill
23. Gucci
24. 50 Cent
25. Andre Nickitina

Like i said too lazy too think about the order. Good ass rapper some will hate and thats understood but dont post fuck weezy or gucci because no shit most of their stuff is garbage but they got some good shit and its pointless to hate on someone who doesnt know who you are or give a shit cuz the have so much money.
 
Gangstarr (good) caliber rappers

Yo I love rappers like Gangstarr, Atmosphere, AZ, NaS, shit the list goes on... but like yeah any new good kinda rappers out these days that got that "underground" flow... I found this one guy called Cool Calm Pete ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT4jQld_FiE) who is pretty tight. I need to find other but don't know where to look ya know.. so if you guys could help me out post some new or old 90s rap songs that I can discover. w0rd%)
 
RIP to Chris Kelly of Kriss Kross. 34 is too young to be dead. No cause of death known yet.
 
Found this the other day and I really like it. Anyone else know something else like it to recommend me?

 
Immortal technique is pretty famous, anyone who says they like hip hop will have heard of technique. I know people that don't listen to any hip hop other than him. He was also one of the first rappers I really liked. Haven't properly listened to his newest album though.

Edit: If you like technique, check out akala and lowkey, kinda like british versions of him.
Edit 2: Flobots also mainly deal with political topics though they're quite a different style.

I'm trying to make the ultimate chill hip hop playlist, anyone have suggestions?

 
Any 3 6 mafia, juicyj , dj paul fans ?

Any people who listen to them ? they are still the closest ones to rap in my opinion, not like lil wayne or 2 chainz, what are your favorites on to ride to ?
 
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