Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
To be fair, hip hop MCs have it tough.If they don't have a decent MC name, they almost certainly have a shit real name.
Clifford Smith = Method Man.
Reggie Noble = Redman.
Alvin Joiner = Xzibit.
Calvin Broadus = Snoop Dogg.
GZA = Gary Grice. Sounds like a plumber. "Gary Grice's pipe and drain, cheap as you like.".-AC
I just choked on my saliva 😂
brought back great memories 😄
Summer needs to hurry up and arrive so I can sit in a bean bag outside making smoke rings and bumping this.
Classic sunny tune. Ignore the irritating skater kids.
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20465
God Damn Andre!
some songs that i use to listen to all the time.
Originally posted by Healing Artisan
some songs that i use to listen to all the time.
Used to? Mean you don't give it a spin at least once a week?? Even when I'm not in a hip-hop mood, I'm always feeling that track.
It's been a lengthy battle, but recently Jeru has overtaken GZA as my favourite MC. Best voice in hip-hop (along with Ice Cube).
Premo's nicest non Nas/Gang Starr/Jeru beat, and nicer than most he did for them...forgotten classic:
Originally posted by Deathblowi dont know. listening to more relaxing chill music. mostly russian and armenian.
How come, chum?
stuff like this.
Originally posted by Deathblow
Summer needs to hurry up and arrive so I can sit in a bean bag outside making smoke rings and bumping this.Classic sunny tune. Ignore the irritating skater kids.
That whole album is chill as f*ck.
Originally posted by Healing Artisan
i rarely listen to hip hop anymore. i lost interest.
Same here; sort of.
I haven't listened to any new hip-hop at all. I've only heard the new Wu album a couple of times. I still listen to hip-hop from time to time but it's pre-2003 most of the time.
Still, I haven't really listened to hip-hop at all. I only have one hip-hop artist on my last.fm page (top 50).
I still love hip-hop of course, but I've lost interest with all the new shit that has been coming out.
I think hip hop is just too polar right now.
Everyone is either selling themselves out for a club hit, or trying too hard to be underground and smart that they've forgotten to make good music.
It's in times like this that the genius of albums such as Blackout! by Meth & Red will truly be appreciated. Two mainstream MCs making a genius album that's fun and still articulate.
-AC
i agree hip hop has lost a lot of its fire, it's obviously well past it's peak by now. but i still listen to rap on the daily basis. i can't help it, it's just the kind of music i listen to. rock doesnt interest me nearly as much. classical? yea right. so i'm pretty much stuck on rap. and i'll really listen to any rap out there i dont care how shamelessly mainstream it is. i downloaded rick ross's newest cd and i been listening to that, its not like that kind of music will ever match up to the greats like jay-z or dre or the wu, but it's entertaining enough for my taste to hold me over between high points.
i think jay's american gangster has got to be one of the best hip hop albums i've heard in quite some time, maybe even the best rap album for me post-y2k. i think as long as it never turns into all rick ross and no jay-z i'll be ok. or maybe i'll get bored of it regaurdless, who knows. but i been on rap since a pre-teen and aint let up since.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauriim not shackling myself i happen to like rap the most. i dont choose what i like and dont like. i like other music too, don't get me wrong it's not like it's strictly rap for me. just it's always been my favorite.
That's precisely why shackling yourself to one genre is silly.By saying "I AM A HIP HOP FAN!". You should just be a music fan who primarily happens to enjoy hip hop. If you attach it as a sweeping statement, you are including all the shit.
-AC
and phat j let me continue to shock and amaze you with my hopelessness and say that not only was jay-z responsible for the best album of the millenium but i happen to believe personally that he's the best rapper of all time.
oh i aint catch offense im just lettin you know, that it shouldnt come as a suprise that i think jay-z made the best album this century (rap wise).
i mean its not like it's a clear cut choice. there are other candidates to me.
50 cent's get rich or die tryin is up there to me. know he gets a lot of hate but this is just a good album **** the haters far as im concerned. cannibal ox cold vein ranks up there if only for production value alone. not to overlook the lyrcism involved though. snoops newest album blue carpet treatment was dope as **** to me. pretty much tops anything he's put his name on since doggystyle. t.i. - king get's a maybe at best, i play it a lot and i think t.i. has got some skills but deep down i know this album cannot **** w american gangster.
a lot of people don't like jay-z, it's the inevitable result of mass appeal and popularity. i'm not callin you a hater though just sayin i know so many people dont like him. he isn't my personal favorite (snoop is) i just think he has the most skill. he says things i dont catch the first time around, i'll know it sounds dope but i wont really get what it means, then on the 2nd,3rd,4th listen i'll pay closer attention and be like ohh shit.
it's not all about being poetic or deep to me, first things first you gotta make your music SOUND dope to even make it worth anything beyond a neat little poem, then if you can manage to put some thought into your lyrics to make them fluid yet not predictable, intelligent yet coherent and understandable then that's what i call going the extra mile in rap. takin the time to make your lyrics more complex than your average fan will grasp, without making them feel stupid. jay-z could just say commere ***** lemme rub on yo ass and do the same numbers in the charts but he chooses to make it sound like that kinda music, with more to it beneath the surface that most of his fans will walk right past without even noticing. that's what i like about him. he's egotistical as **** and obsessed with money yet doesnt throw a hissy fit over being overlooked (see: kanye west).
annyone who feels jigga's got nothing to say i'd suggest listening to "ignorant shit" of his newest cd. listen close to the 2nd verse. to me thats about as good as rap gets nowadays. but... like you said to each his own.
anyway lemme shut up and post a video. after all name of the thread is hip hop not dickride jay-z.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FMsy_UNaRCw
i dunno how to put the video in my post so here
i will admit that i havent listened to too many jay-z songs over and over again so maybe im missing out. i havent listened to most of the albums you mentioned there actually so maybe im wrong about those as well. when it comes down to it though its all in a persons taste and most of those guys i dont like enough personally to listen to their albums.
ill download that song though and tell you what i think.