Hip Hop: Your Favorites
 

i love weird loud music, whether it be punk in its various forms, ditto metal, noise, avant garde, industrial, idm, free jazz, avant jazz, shoegaze, mathrock, blah blah etc... and these are the types of music i usually focus on when creating music of my own, whether it be in a band, or recording on my trumpet/guitar on my own. But, I realize that when you are playing music in a certain vain, then it becomes easy to tire of this music. For instance, I was playing in this band last year and we were doing like a royal trux slayer type band, we were playing together and listening to tunes every day. i then found that on my own id be listening to more hip hop, dance, and pop music more than the stuff id be playing with the band, like the beatles, beach boys, curtis mayfield, lotta daft punk, and tons and tons and tons of hip hop. I however absolutley really love a lot of hip hop. Its a shame how bad mainstream has gotten, with the exception of lil wayne and kanye west, because in the 90's to early 00's it seemed as if hip hop was the BEST popular music. Anyways, what are your favorite hip hop artists and your favorite alblums by these artists...

Me:
Wu Tang Clan-Enter the 36 Chambers (the most important hip hop alblum ever, i said it)
Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Million to Hold Us Back (2nd most important), Fear of a Black Nation
Biggie-Ready to Die
Nas-Illmatic
Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus
Ghostface-Supreme Clientele, Fishscale
GZA-Liquid Swords
Raekwon-Only Built for Cuban Linx
ODB-Return to the 36 Chambers, Nigga Please
Madvillian-Madvilliany
Viktor Vaughn-Vaudeville Villain
Bone Thugs n Harmony-Crossroads
Camron-Purple Haze (he sucks bad now though)
Cannibal Ox-The Cold Vein (what happened to these dudes, this alblum was brilliant)
Clipse-Hell Hath No Fury
De La Soul-3 feet high and Rising
Dead Prez-Its Bigger than Hip Hop
Dr. Dre-The Chronic
NWA-straight outta compton
dr octagon-dr octagonecologyst
el p-fantasitc damage
goodie mob-soul food
eric b and rakim-paid in full
lil wayne-carter 2, dedication
mobb deep-the infamous
the roots-illadelph halflife
a tribe called quest-midnight marauders, low end theory
gravediggaz-6 feet deep, the pick the sickel and the shovel
ultramagnetic mc's-critical beatdown
boogie down productions-criminal minded

right now im listening to j dilla-the shining. godamn his beats were..... jesus, i dont even know, just so good. emotion-evoking.

Dr Octagon- Dr. Octagonecolagyst is my favorite hip hop album.

ninja rap- vanilla ice

hey it's the green machine
gonna rock the town without being see
have you ever seen a turtle get down?

by no means my favourite genre, i'm actually moving much more away from it as of late

nwa
wu tang
public enemy

and all of their minions..

Biggie-Ready to Die


The ultimate album.

Highly recommended



EXISTEREO

that fucker is really good

Arrghh....Artists and albums...hmmm..well here are some:
BDP - Criminal MInded
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Digable PLanets - Reachin'
Black Sheep - Sheep In Wolves Clothing
Dre Dog - I Hate You With A Passion
RBL Posse - Lesson To Be Learned
Wu Tang - Enter 36 Chambers
Genius - Liquid Swords
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Ultramagnetic Mc's - Funk Yo Head Up
Biggie - Ready To Die
Ultramagnetic Mc's - Critical Beatdown
Outkast - ATLiens
Mobb Deep - Infamous
Big L - Lifestyles Of The Poor & Dangerous
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
ODB - Return TO 36 Chambers
MF Doom - Is Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain

mf doom
gang starr
a tribe called quest
wu tang
public enemy
geto boys
MOP
diamond d
smiff n wessun
show & ag
blackalicious & quannum
de la soul
jungle brothers
grandmaster flash and the furious five
cold crush brothers
funky 4 +1
roxanne shante
scaramanga
kool keith
ultramagnetics
leaders of the new school
DiTC
anti-pop consortium
mike ladd
company flow
mr lif
alkaholiks
lootpack
mobb deep
nas
polyrhythm addicts
dj spinna
three 6 mafia
ghostface
stetsasonic
cannibal ox
godfather don
the odd squad
kool g rap
mf grimm
rodan
mr fantastik
biggie smalls
EPMD
redman
busy bee
quasimoto
audio two
snoop
ll cool j (80s era only)
invizibl skratch piklz
group home
percee p
organized konfusion

three 6 mafia
dälek
cage
el-p
a tribe called quest
nwa
public enemy
early ice cube solo
dr. dre
lil' wayne
some juvenile
snoop doggy dogg (i reiterate, snoop DOGGY dogg)
cypress hill (before rap metal)
rich boy - throw some ds
the wu tang
ghostface
rae
odb
gza
mobb deep
dmx
the geto boys
outkast (up until stankonia)
dj shadow
kool keith
mf doom
mf grimm
pharoahe monch

all i can think of right now.

...i don't see what's so special about clipse, sounds like a very average neptunes-produced band.

PUBLIC ENEMY - Nation of Millions, Fear of a Black planet, Apocalypse 91
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - people's instinctive tarvels, midnight marauders, low end theory
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High, De La Is Dead, Buhloon Mindstate, Stakes is High
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - Sex packets
ERIC B. & RAKIM - Paid In Full, Follow The Leader
BEASTIE BOYS - Paul's Boutique, Check Yr Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty
DIGABLE PLANETS - Reachin'
MC SERCH - Return of the Product
GANG STARR - Hard To Earn, daily ooperation, No More Mr Nice Guy
GURU - JAZZAMATAZZ
RUN DMC - Run Dmc, Raising Hell, King of Rock
GETO BOYS - Geto Boys, We Can't Be Stopped. Uncut Dope

public enemy is the pinnacle. the Bob Marley and the Wailers of Hip Hop.

Biggie Smalls was just a fat fuck turd looking to make money to feed his 10,000 a day calorie habit.
The Geto Boys make NWA and Dre and EZ look like the poser college boys they were.

Jay Z's The Blueprint is very good and reminds me of Gang Star's Hard To Earn with its deep, jazzy and soulful beats and heartfelt lyrics (well, there's still a bit of bragging and dissing but its confined to a couple of tracks and his lines are quite smart anyway). It's consistent: every song is strong, and its certainly not what I expected

Otherwise I just like the obvious ones though Alias's The Other Side Of The Looking Glass is worth a mention, its the best Anticon release that I've heard: the production is very full and 'musical' (violins, flutes, and electronic flourishes) which are underpinned by really crisp-sounding, hard beats which you would think would be incongrous but compliment it well.

Does anyone else think Fear Of A Black Planet, Apocalypse 91 and Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age (underrated!) are better than It Takes A Nation, which sounds tepid and weak (not the collage of sound that I like) and uses the same samples as loads of albums from that age (EMPD, etc)?

the Bomb Squad produced songs for a lot of albums of that time, which affects how we see PE's ioriginiality today

nation of millions is a fucking genius sampled album. everything in it is meant to agitate.
scrapes, squeals, sirens, screams, etc. No one has done it better since, partly because of the change in copyright laws after de la soul got sued
it is bullshit,.

I hate fucking hip hop samples where you can tell exactly what song it is from and that only samples one song so you are basically rappig over an instrumental version of a police song, or a tom tom club song. I fucking HATE that shit.

good list, and i obviously i know mf doom=viktor vauhn

so because he was fat makes him a bad mc? his flow and lyrics are both unfuckwithable. prolly my favorite mc ever. made the most violent of lyrics sound soulful and nonchalant.

But when I listen to It Takes A Nation Of Millions, I don't hear scrapes, squeals, etc. It's got a reputation as being 'noize!' but all I hear is ordinary-sounding hiphop songs based around funk samples (apart from She Watch Channel Zero), just like EMPD, etc.

Fear Of A Black Planet is the one where the songs are composed with many, many samples from all kinds of sources in a big abrasive noizy assault

I don't enjoy his rhymes, do not enjoy teh company he kept, do not enjoy his stupid themes, and cannot for the life f me stand the bullshit bullshit samples" his producers used. The Geto Boys would have killed that fuck with Mind of a Lunatic alone.
.

I also did not like that he used to sling crack rock. same reason I find Ice T a fucking joke, ex pimp, woman beater, asshole.

look at these dipshits


you reap what you sow