__________________ This is Hip-Hop: A Tribe Called Quest / Big Daddy Kane / De La Soul / Common Sense / Organized Konfusion / Eric B. & Rakim / Marley Marl / The Pharcyde / Public Enemy / Boogie Down Productions / EPMD / Kool G Rap / Brand Nubian / Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5 / NWA / Main Source / KMD / Farm Fresh / Wu-Tang / Gang Starr / Cormega / Freestyle Fellowship / Pete Rock & CL Smooth / Juice Crew / KRS-One / The Roots / Ultramagnetic MC's / Jungle Brothers / Blackalicious / John Smith / MF Doom / El-P / Supastition / mcenroe / Qwel / Cannibal Ox / Madlib / Company Flow / Black Star / Mr. Lif / Brother Ali / J-Live / O.C. / Count Bass D / I Self Devine
__________________ I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander out where you can't see
Inside my shell I wait and bleed....
i highlighted the only good ones. Old Oukast and Old school Dre were better. From that list i would say Common is best. Old school Nas was better also.
I highlighted the ones I like. Eminem is half and half, he used to make good music but doesn't any more. Same thing with Nas really. I was never a huge fan of Dre's rapping, but he's an excellent producer. The Beastie boys have my respect, but I'm not a fan of their music. Overall not a terrible hip hop list, better than I would've expected from you a day or two ago. But you have an absolutely appalling reggae list. I hate dance hall. Oh, and The Killers and The Used aren't punk rock. Even Green Day is questionable, but still not a bad band.
Because it's bad music. It's really nothing more than annoying club music. If it's at a party or whatever I don't have a problem with it, but as far as just sitting down a listening to it? No, hell no. Not a big fan of reggae anyway, but give me Bob Marley over any of those dance hall guys any day.
Not a big fan of R&B by itself, especially new R&b, though I like R&B samples in hip hop music. Alicia keys is a pretty talented singer though. Other than that, I haven't heard of Nivea or hip hop violinist, I don't like Beyonce or Ashanti, and Ciara isn't R&B, she's pop.