MEGA: Rap/Hip Hop DISCUSSION thread.

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Top THREE? Ugh! So hard to choose but I'll try:

1. Bone thugs-n-harmony (up to and including BTNH Resurrection)
2. Ol' Dirty Bastard
3. Sage Francis
 
I think the real question is, 'How did POPULAR MUSIC get to the state it's in?'

Used to be you could turn on the radio and hear a string of good songs from every genre, now it's all over-produced assembly-line BULLSHIT.

Not that good music doesn't exist; it does, but you have to work to find it. I don't even listen to the radio, MTV, VH1 or BET or watch any of the shitty awards shows. Haven't since about 1999.
 
bunnintreez said:
but the best thing that ever came from wu in my opinion....(i dont mean the clan, like who they founded) was the

GraveDiggaz (RZA, Prince Paul, Frukwan aka the Gatekeeper, Too Poetic aka the Grym Reaper)
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Gravediggaz are not a product of any wu tang thng...

It was the brainchild of PRnce Paul to begin with..

Once he got together with the other guys they decided what they wanted to do... Rza only produced 1.5 songs on the first album
 
Kool Genius of Rap
Eazy E
The Gza
As was discissed earlier in the thread the Gza is mad talented and very underated
Jay Z can't come close to G Rap when it comes to that New York shit.G Rap and DJ Polo were smashing it back in 87.
 
because, in general, when someone likes a genre of music and then that genre changes, the person claims that the corporations took it over and nothing is as good now as it was then.

there's lots of great music out there. some of it (lupe fiasco, wale, big boi) is even popular.
 
The Gza is called the Genius for a reason/....he is a Grandmaster.... he was Masta Killa's mentor...

that is why Masta Killa is SO FUCKING AMAZING as well
 
I Like more local shit and underground

kevin gates
max minelli
c loc

others
ugk
8ball mjg
z ro
cham
papoose
pac
devin the dude
BG
soulja slim
haystak
jelly roll
nas



thats just some off my head im mostly into alotta southern shit but not the wack shit
 
Today, white people keep The Blues going strong by taking vacations to Memphis, forming awkward bands, making documentaries, and organizing folk festivals. Blue and Jazz music appeal mostly to older white people and select few young ones who probably wear fedoras. But that doesn’t mean that young white people aren’t working hard to preserve music that has lost relevance. No, there are literally thousands of white people who are giving their all to keep old school Hip Hop alive.

Even as you read this, white people are telling other white people about the golden age of Hip Hop that they experienced in a suburban high school or through a viewing of The Wackness.

If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about “Real Hip Hop.” They will quickly tell you about how they don’t listen to “Commercial Hip Hop” (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer “Classic Hip Hop.”

“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”

Calling this style of music ‘old school’ is considered an especially apt name since the majority of people who listen to it did so while attending old schools such as Dartmouth, Bard, and Williams College.

What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it. They would have been Alan Lomax or Rick Rubin. Now the best they can hope for is to impress an older black person with their knowledge.
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from that article that kultron posted. the part that i felt was most relevant to this thread.
 
I notice in this thread apart from 2pac their is a serious lack of love 4 west coast talent in fact i think i was the only person 2 reference N.W.A.
The D.O.C basiclly wrote most of Eazy and DRE's lyrics and 4 that alone he is one of the greatest .
If u want go check NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER by the D.O.C that was one of DRE's finest production efforts as well.
D.O.C was in car crash in the early 90's and his vocal chords wetre fucked up cos of the crash he was always DRE's top ghost writer.but .
Yeah i know D.O.C was from Dallas originally but that ain't the point!
 
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“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”
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lol, do people still do this?

Underground, commercial, socially conscious, bling, emo, gangster, insightful, bangers. It's all good.
 
brimz said:
I notice in this thread apart from 2pac their is a serious lack of love 4 west coast talent in fact i think i was the only person 2 reference N.W.A.
The D.O.C basiclly wrote most of Eazy and DRE's lyrics and 4 that alone he is one of the greatest .
If u want go check NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER by the D.O.C that was one of DRE's finest production efforts as well.
D.O.C was in car crash in the early 90's and his vocal chords wetre fucked up cos of the crash he was always DRE's top ghost writer.but .
Yeah i know D.O.C was from Dallas originally but that ain't the point!
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TRUE THAT... I'm glad some one said it... I would have him in my top ten... "No One can do it Better" is a classic...

Sick flow and beats... go cop the album
 
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