When it comes to underground hip-hop it's usually the other way around, though. Amazing lyrics but average beats.
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I hear "Real big" by Mannie Fresh and I cant help but notice how HORRID his lyrics are. But the song is so catchy.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
haha, that's mainstream for ya. As long as a song has a hot beat it will sell.
__________________ 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 know, but for a diehard fan of rap, it ruins the song.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
Rogue Jedi i know what ur saying for the most part old school rap dominates the new school shit especially when it comes down to the number of quality joints on the cd's, example muddy waters,liquid swords, 36 chambers, pauls boutique, breaking atoms, ready to die, stress: extinction agenda, word life, fear of a black planet, cuban linx midnight mauraders to name a few are dope straight thru. The only recent shit that ive heard that doesnt have any skippable tracks are: marco polo- port authority, mf doom - mm.food(yes i enjoy the cluster of skits in the middle of the cd) blackalicious - nia, madviallainy, jurassic 5 - quality control, ghostface - fishscale, can ox - cold vein, and thats quite literally it, and most of those are atleast 3 or 4 years old.
However saying that theres a shit load of dope underground emcess like aesop rock, murs,binary star, el-p, cuninglynguists, immortal technique, tech nine, madlib etc but none of their cds i would ever consider classics.
unrelated but wut u peeps think of kayne west new shit?
I think RJ is talking about older artists than that. Pre 1994.
Haven't heard the new Kanye and don't care to. Have you?
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na i havent heard the new kayne but ive seen the music vids of the 2 singles out and they have both been dope. I'm also interested in the new madlib, new wutang and the ghost doom collabo
Oh No's new album is surprisingly a lot better than Madlib's.
__________________ 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
__________________ 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
wut u guys opinion on kool g rap and krs one, who u like better, are either goat worthy, favorite tracks and best cd.
i personally like kool g rap better and think hes one of the top 3 mcs of all time. Live and let die is def his illest cd and straight jacket is one of the bst songs ive ever heard.
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