Me again. I'm the guy asking about Diverse a while back.
Anyway, I'm still looking to broaden my Hip Hop playlist. I don't listen to the radio anymore, and listening to the same thing gets boring after a while.
My favorite mainstream artists are the entire Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, Kanye West, Lil' Wayne (Shut up), Nas, and as of recently, Lupe Fiasco. I also dabble with Atmosphere, Out Kast, Common, Diverse, Mos Def, Kurupt, Nyt Owl, and Kid N' Play, among many others.
I'd also like to thank Wicked in advance for introducing me to both Aesopp Rock and Sage Francis.
Anyone else have any suggestions? I'm willing to listen to anything once.
edited 31st Mar '11 1:15:43 PM by IWasJustPassingBy
Don't ask what's wrong with me, because I don't know either.late response is late
If you like Eminem, try Cage. Movies For The Blind and Hell's Winter are his best releases.
The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox is required listening for any underground fan, so go do that.
And that's all for now.
In Wicked news, I finally gave Tyler, The Creator a whirl and now I feel ashamed of myself for giving into Hype Aversion.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!I think, personally, that he tries to be deliberately offputting, which is incredibly frustrating, because he's talented enough to not have to do that, and he does anyway. Because fuck if I know why.
I can only hope he drops the "[CONTENT WORTHY OF A HIP-HOP /b/]" angle at some point.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....Okay, no.
I'm sorry, I take it all back. The "Evil Fucking Walrus" makes up for everything.
Honestly, I have to say, after a few sampled listens, I get the hype. These are our people (I swear I heard an Adventure Time shout out at some point, I'd be wholly unsurprised to find out one or more of these guys were tropers) and they're in our age bracket too, they're listening to the same hip-hop as young heads, so there's a good connection. I'm kind of excited, these guys seem pretty cool.
Tentatively, I'd make a comparison to a very early Wu-Tang Clan (a comparison they themselves foster) even though it's not an exact match, the setups are similar, as is the approach to album release.
This should play out interestingly.
edited 3rd Apr '11 8:58:53 PM by SpainSun
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....Bump.
Odd Future. /fapfapfap
I just acquired Atmosphere's new album. It already sounds pretty dark compared to their previous album.
http://www.last.fm/user/BlueGhost60Odd Future: I listened to Bastard recently, it's astronomically better than what I was expecting.
So... I heard "Show Goes On" without knowing who it was... i felt violated when I found out.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!It's a decent album so far. Very instrument driven compared to previous efforts. There's also very little happiness in the songs. Which is also good.
I'm stoked for Goblin, man. STOKED. (I fully intend to duel with my red Magic deck while playing it.)
http://www.last.fm/user/BlueGhost60Odd Future are far better than I was expecting. And Domo and Tyler's "Supermarket" is the funniest thing I've heard from the genre in awhile.
Still don't think they're the future of hip-hop, but o-well.
Atmosphere has a new album? I thought ''When Life Gives You Lemons...." was still their most recent. Speaking of Atmosphere, I found this the other day, and it's bitchin'.
edited 12th Apr '11 6:34:52 PM by SpainSun
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....I thought you thought Odd Future was lame. :/ Or maybe my recall is awful from last year.
Anyway, welcome aboard! :3
Yeah, Atmosphere's new album dropped just yesterday. The beats/instruments aren't typical hip-hop (or at least, typical Atmosphere). Just heard it on my daily journey to Jewel/grocery store, and it's pretty cool. nice, more depressing lyrics, more bleak sounding, etc. Up my alley. 8/10
http://www.last.fm/user/BlueGhost60Well, they are incredibly immature. Their lyrics are shitty, no question, but they do have amazing skill when it comes to flow and beats. I really hope they don't sell out (too quickly.)
http://www.last.fm/user/BlueGhost60Being the Rap nerd I am, I have listened to over 1200 albums and that's just Hip-Hop and its subgenres. I came to the conclusion that much of the stuff that made me love Hip-Hop still resides very high on my list, even I don't play the "Top 5-10-15-25-whatever" game.
I got into Hip-Hop via my cousin who gave me tapes of Ice-T, Run DMC and Cypress Hill when I was 5, before that I only listened to classical music such as Händel, Bedrich Smetana, Brahms, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. I loved the rawness of the music immediately. Ice-T remains one of my favorite M Cs, who, along with the then emerging Eminem also indirectly inspired me to pick up the pen myself at age 10 in the year 1999. Still an active writer with enormous love for my craft, under the name "Concrete Cee" I have released two independent albums in 2008 and 2010 and plan to keep making records. I listen to music very thoroughly - not just based on like or dislike but on rhyme techniques, deliveries and conceptual execution of albums. To list the artists I respect based on their skill or single contributions would blow this page apart.
The albums I enjoy listening to most (a fraction of them):
- Mobb Deep: Hell On Earth
- Sean Price: Monkey Barz
- Killah Priest: The Offering
- MF DOOM and Madlib: Madvillainy
- Ice-T: Power ; Iceberg (Freedom Of Speech)
- Eminem: The Slim Shady LP
- Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
- Canibus: Mic Club (The Curriculum) ; Rip The Jacker
- Beanie Sigel: The B.Coming
- Outkast: AT Liens ; Aquemini
- Ice Cube: War And Peace Vol. 1
- De La Soul: The Grind Date ; Art Of Intelligence (Mosaic Thump)
- Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 1 & 2
- Z-Ro: I'm Still Livin'
- Trae: Same Thing Different Day ; Restless
- Curren$y: Pilot Talk 1 & 2
- Kanye West: Late Registration ; My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Vinnie Paz: Season Of The Assassin
- AZ: The Format
- Devin The Dude: Just Tryin Ta Live ; To Tha X-Treme
- Gangstarr: Moment Of Truth ; Hard To Earn
- Jay-Z: American Gangster ; Vol. 3: Hard Knock Life
- Jedi Mind Tricks: Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell
- Ghostface Killah: Fishscale ; Supreme Clintele
- Heltah Skeltah: D.I.R.T.
edited 14th Apr '11 1:52:13 AM by BrotherGil
Any gil drops from at least an inch above my wide open palm. Thanks in advance.I can't believe I actually meet someone that things rap and hiphop are 2 different genres. Hiphop is the genre, rap is the delivery style
Untitled Power Rangers StoryI would say Hip-Hop is the main music genre, and then you have subdivisions (Gangsta Rap, Conscious Rap, Hipster Rap and so on). Most of the time though I don't really care what is what, I call it how I feel about it at that moment.
Any gil drops from at least an inch above my wide open palm. Thanks in advance.

So, Champion Sound is proving to be a little disappointing.
Does it get to be a little less "bitches 'n blunts" some time in?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!