These folks are really good.
Warning some of these are dark as fuck.
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I find Blu boring a heck and always have.
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R.I.P. Heavy D.
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these are EMERALDS!!!
The first single of Roc Marciano's new album Marcberg: reloaded has been leaked and it's Emeralds with production from my homies Animoss and Don C aka the Arch Druids. This is that official Grimy shit, not for the faint of heart.
pass the mac 10 to my apprentice, while I get a pen and pad to print this.
… RIP Heavy D
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That wasn't all that grimy really.
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@Monkey:
That wasn't all that grimy really.
Like you'd know anything about it.
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Rhymesayers were here (in Brussels) yesterday, I really wanted to see Brother Ali on stage, but it sold out very quickly. My brother got in, and it was a nice show.
These 'underground' rappers should do more european tours, seeing how their shows get 'sold out' in a minute.
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Like you'd know anything about it.
Actually yes, yes I would.
Have fun, maybe you'll learn something.
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Take Care is great.
Album of the year, disagree if you want.
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@Monkey:
Actually yes, yes I would.
Have fun, maybe you'll learn something.
http://rateyourmusic.com/~ZephosSo because you like to write about hip hop that means you know what you're talking about? Give me a break, opinions are like assholes and you've always had diarhoea of the mouth as far as I'm concerned. Besides you're from CT, one of the only states I can think of offhand that doesn't have single legit city. Your entire home state is the burbs, how are you going to try and tell me what's grimy?
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So because you like to write about hip hop that means you know what you're talking about? Give me a break, opinions are like assholes and you've always had diarhoea of the mouth as far as I'm concerned.
My opinions are impeccable. I dare you to challenge any of them here.
Besides you're from CT, one of the only states I can think of offhand that doesn't have single legit city. Your entire home state is the burbs, how are you going to try and tell me what's grimy?
Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk etc.
Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford are post-industrial era cities that were as hit by the crack epidemic crime wave on the east coast as anywhere. There was major gang activity around there in the early 90's. Ever heard of the Latin Kings?
They're still not very nice places (though downtown New Haven and Hartford is pristine). I live next to Bridgeport, went to school from people basically out of there and I know a few crumbling neighborhoods dotted with old abandoned industrial era warehouses that I could drop you off in to give your little hilariously misinformed rant about Connecticut not having street cred or whatever to the residents.
You can explain to the poverty hit Africans and Puerto Ricans who live there about how they live in a white gleaming gated community state before they promptly shake your ignorant ass down for everything it's worth.
Or I could drop you in one of the of the roughshod rust belt valley towns like Ansonia, into a dive bar to get beat up by blue collar white people who got laid off from the factories, little taste of Cleveland and Detroit. Your choice.
Also mad immigrants everywhere, the essential urban experience of the Northeast if you know anything about how it is up here. Want me to go to a mall near New Haven and count how many recent arrivals and from how many countries I can find? You have no idea.Oh, and to top off how little you know about Connecticut, we are in essence a huge subsidiary state of New York City, much like New Jersey. My county is even in the New York metro area. I can drive into NY in like an hour if the traffic is kind lol. Where the hell do YOU live.
I know they're plastering this sort of garbage around about my state.
But in reality you can find some of the nastiest cities in the country in my neck of the woods.
Don't believe me?
Well have a look.
Come by, learn what's really here in our "not legit" cities.
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So apparently there's going to be a posthumous Nujabes album? I only found out about this today. It's coming out on Saturday 3/12.
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http://sinopticmusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-do-s-t-hip-hop-vol-4-freep
Sinoptic Music released "We don't do s**t hip hop vol. 4"!
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Hopsin is awesome. That is all.
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Earl Sweatshirt is soooooooooooooooooooo nasty
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Bringing this thread back from the dead for 2012!
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Of course, DJ Krush is great.
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New song from K.R.I.T. :
So soulful. I'm looking forward for his next release.
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Slaughter Rico is getting a lot of hype right now.
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Done? You know I'm swinging right back around to 1966 or so after I finish the first run through the Rock lists right?
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I'll be hitting up some side stuff alongside the second rock go through.
Like a Tom Waits list, a Stevie Wonder list, some jazz.Great! I'm looking forward to this!
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yo dudes I need some help. I just discovered Odd Future (and holy shit they are so fucking good) and thought that could someone who has listened them some more point me to the best songs (and solo projects). Where should I start? From tyler? or earl? or just the whole group?
helphelphelp
I just checked out their wiki and site, they have put out so much stuff that I just don't know where to start y'know?
Quite being such a douche, Life. And instead of lemons start giving me shit I need. Money for example.
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I don't know, but I downloaded Tyler's discography. Pretty sick. Speaking of which, I just caught Loiter Squad the other day on AS and I was pretty much laughing my ass off through the whole episode. Maybe it's just my immature sense of humor.
Anyone into Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover from COMMUNITY? Calls himself an oreo, because he basically is, and while his beats and instrumentals are pretty mainstream and somewhat generic, I like his work. But then again I like Drake (my favorite is Over) so I probably just have low standards (not necessarily the same as poor taste)
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I'm bumping this thread to notify everyone that they resurrected the wrong guy on Easter:
And also to ask if anyone knows what happened to the Deltron Event album. Has a release date been specified?
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Saw that earlier and despite me not being a big hip hop fan I think it's fucking amazing that they were able to do it. I think using it to have Tupac do a concert it pretty cool, and him performing with Snoop Dog was too.
I would have posted it earlier but didn't know where to do it and this thread didn't even come to mind.
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@Vicious(AndGreedy)Reptile:
yo dudes I need some help. I just discovered Odd Future (and holy shit they are so fucking good) and thought that could someone who has listened them some more point me to the best songs (and solo projects). Where should I start? From tyler? or earl? or just the whole group?
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I just checked out their wiki and site, they have put out so much stuff that I just don't know where to start y'know?
I'm not a really big fan of them, but I had a month or so where I downloaded all of their shit. In all of ODD Future, Frank Ocean's Nostalgia/Ultra is by far the best, but it's not rap. The best rap album is Earl, but it's short and very very dirty. (in a playful way, don't let your mom catch you listening though.)
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I'm bumping this thread to notify everyone that they resurrected the wrong guy on Easter:
And also to ask if anyone knows what happened to the Deltron Event album. Has a release date been specified?
Read on wiki it's due out June 2012, iirc. Of course, I could be wrong, and it is Wiki, so don't quote me.
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what happened i didnt watch the video, did he lose a rap battle, was he caught having sex with chilkdren or something
he hasn't made a good album since that one with the jedi mind tricks guy producing, no one will rememeber dumb beef or whatever
unless he actually did fuck children
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I agree with Zephos that AP needs more Hip Hop, here's some great Hip Hop that came out the past few years.
! For anyone currently following rap they probably heard of Action Bronson who sounds exactly like 90s Ghostface with a bit of influence from G Rap, Raekwon, and has heirs of Pun. He's like a smorgasboard of 90s rappers and is an obvious throwback, almost like if you threw all those listed rappers together in a blender and an albino comes out instead. He has that stream of conscious esque style and constantly references food in his music and is topically fare 90s hardcore rap though he does tend to take himself a lot less seriously than a bunch of rappers back than which is a positive.
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! Onra's second instrumental album tends to use Chinese samples instead of vietnamese this time around, and I'm not complaining. I'm not a huge instrumental only fan unless it's Nujabes but I do like his oriental esque sound in here.
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! There's a pretty sick remix of Wu tang rapping over one of his beats, I think the song might have been Ice Cream gotta check again! Copywrite's a battle rapper from Colombus Ohio who really has a battle rapper feel to him (i.e. great punchlines, vicious wit, and flow) and he's really a rapper for people who are seem to really like technical rappers (those who consistently line up their syllables and have a bunch of multies while having a complex flow). I do admit that he does sometimes bore me in some songs, and can create some straight up cheesy shit (his newest album sucks and isn't worth posting any songs from there) not to mention that he's also kind of a huge douche irl. He's also boys with Cage or was and had a small beef with Esoteric from AOTP
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! If you're a fan of his style than check out Diabolic who's also I.T. partner in crime and is pretty much known for his feature in Dance with the devil's epilogue where he ripped his verse to pieces. I find him somewhat monotonous at times but he's also really good when he's serious. He's mostly reknowned for his wordplay and rhyme schemes, though Engineer is a pretty good producer.
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!! For anyone who's interested in U.K. rap than I'd suggest listening to either Lowkey or R.A. The former being an I.T. type rapper, I'm not a huge fan of his subject matter but he's sorta like I.T. but touches upon the same subject with more tact and I find him much less irritating. And for people who can't stand U.K. accents in rap than you'd be pleasantly surprised that his accent isn't as egregious as the latter band of mcess hailing from the U.K. as well.
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! ^Lol I wonder what Zephos thinks of the premise of this song^
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! As for R.A. they are imo have some of the best wordplay I've heard in all of Hip Hop and practically turned every idiom into a punchline, however they do sound pretty bland soninically a ton of times. And if you're a not a fan of the U.K. accent you're going to HATE them, but yeah anyone a fan of horrorcore should listen to them.
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!! I'm not really a big fan of this next dude's actual rapping I'm about to post and find him too whiney and melodramatic with an obvious (Atmosphere influence in his music) but his beats are really good and come from Emancipator, who I believe had some relations with Nujabes? Anyone can verify this, and the dude's technical rapping is good I guess (multies out the ass, nice flow and all that) but I'm not interested at all in his lyrics and find his voice to be ear grating. Oh you know who Sadistik reminds me of, Prolyphic.
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! I do like this dude's mac lethal's verse in this song though, who's also the acclaimed "fastest rapper in the world, yes faster than Tech n9ne/Bizzy Bone, Twista, etc.
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! The next dude Grieves is actually alright, if not pretty good. He's from Seattle and has that whole Rhyme Sayers feel to him, the difference between this dude and the former dude this guy doesn't come of as corny. I don't know he feels authentic and pulls of this whole emotional rap without looking phoney. Highly recommended for Atmosphere fans
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!! Danny Brown's a rapper from Detroit who quite frankly looks like a black yelawolf albeit his music is buttloads better, I get like an Odd Future mixed with MF Doom vibe when I listen to him. He's definitely one of those weird rappers that aren't suited towards everyone, but if you like rappers who don't take themselves too seriously and like to branch out from the norm than he's worth checking out. His beatds definitely suit his odd way of rapping and if you're into rappers who have more charisma rather than those who focus on technical skill than he'll probably click with you.
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! Oh and he doesn't cosign Mac Miller so he's cool in my book, I'm not a fan of frat boy rap.
! Not to be outdone in weirdness or innovativeness is one of the most widely lauded rap albums of 2012, this album is getting critical acclaim in the hipster scene. People proclaiming that it's the Deltron 3030 of our generation or Madvillainy, and than you have those that don't take as kindly to it and find it to be a tired retread full of cliches done by other more innovative groups (Dalek). I'm partly split, I do widely enjoy a lot of the beats but the rapping is quite a turn off, and I enjoy Stream of Consciousness type lyrics as well, but it doesn't do much for me here.
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!! Dessa and Lauryn Hill aren't the only good femcees to bless hip hop's scene, the next rapper kinda sounds like Nicki Minaj albeit it a lot better and has a thick queens accent. Her beats are boom bapish and she has an obvious East Coast influence even though I believe she's from Michigan.
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!! This guy Kendrick Lamar is getting obscene amount of hype and a lot if it isn't unfounded though I do the question the validty to how true they are. He is a very talented lyricist however and his delivery has that nonchalant sound that makes him seem dispassionate but I kinda like it.
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! And I'm not even sure if Drake constitutes as rap as he does an obscene amount of singing, I'm also not his biggest fan but Take Care has some pretty nice songs I admit. I tend to judge him differently than I do other rappers for some reason and let him get away with being sloppy at times, maybe because of his singing? I don't know whatever the case erase any preconceived notions you may have towards Drake because Take Care is pretty good actually, though I don' think it's great.
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I really like Death Grips, I haven't listened to much rap that feels like theirs, and the beats are delicious.
I also see you lightweight dissed Lil B. I really don't think dude's a fad, he's so freaking interesting. Most of his songs are jokes, but he puts out so many that it's really tough to not like a couple. I enjoy him at least, his persona maybe more than his actual rapping.
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I don't hate Lil B as much as the groupies think, "Haw Haw I'm being funny and ironic by trending on an artist that sounds he like he has down syndrome, plus most of them abandoned ship a while ago." I feel Kreayshawn is also getting that effect to much leser degrees, and I actually non ironically like some of Lil B's songs like I Am The Hood (raps over One Mic Beat) and T Shirt and Buddens (Joe Budden Diss), I also like Kreayshawn's hook on the first song of hers I posted.
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Debating whether or not to post this in here or the general media thread, but more traffic for the Music forum I guess.
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/06/red-band-trailer-for-rzas-the-man-with-the-iron-fists.php
Makes me wanna trudge through some musty old storage boxes and find Enter the Wu-Tang again. Also, read the first comment for a laugh.
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I know much more hip hop and I know this is more relatively mainstream but it's still. GAGLE's my favorite japanese rap group. Main guy also does work as DJ Mitsu the Beats.
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Is anyone here into horrorcore? I discovered it relatively recently, but I think it's great stuff, really underrated too.
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[h=1]Does anyone know any good bachata music or spanish hip hop music for parties?[/h]
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Does anyone know anymore spoken-wordish hip hop or rap kind of like this?
I love this kind of stuff. And preferably without the weird high pitched vocals that so many people feel the need to put into their songs.
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Does anyone know anymore spoken-wordish hip hop or rap kind of like this?
I love this kind of stuff. And preferably without the weird high pitched vocals that so many people feel the need to put into their songs.
Check out Saul Williams I guess.
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I haven't fully checked out Progressive Era aside from Joey Bada$$'s 1999 project but they sound promising so far.
It's weird, conceptually this should be cheesy as fuck. A bunch of teenagers pretty much, squeezing beats out of guys past their prime like Lewis Parker, MF DOOM, and Lord Finesse, snatch up a spare Dilla track or two, and set out with their in-house producer to end up making some of the most convincing 90s NY sound I've heard in a while!!!
It's kinda weird to enjoy when you realize how young they all are. And yea I know Illmatic, but still these are kids born in the 90s.
