I don't care what you think hip hop is

[OutOfLine]

drake, mfdoom, asther roth (dont make fun) he is still hiphop

Asher roth? I hate but love that guy lol... he can be good but i love college is a shitty mainstream song.
Ughhhh eminems early stuff, dr dre, shwayze, madcon

[BAUER]

Asher roth? I hate but love that guy lol... he can be good but i love college is a shitty mainstream song.
Ughhhh eminems early stuff, dr dre, shwayze, madcon

listen to asther roths other songs,,his cd is ill. i love college is one of his worst imo

[jaxxstatic]

[Colton]

big l is and always will be the greatest


deez nuts, aussie hip hop trying his hand at hardcore. the two mesh together so fantastically. his lyrics are so ####### sick. hes just a great artist that puts out great music

[Aaron Breetwor]

Qwel has some great stuff

[Photographyphreak]

I've definitely become a huge fan of Atmosphere, P.O.S. and Buck 65 lately.

I highly suggest everyone check out The Beatific by Buck 65, I haven't found one person who dislikes it yet.

YouTube - Buck 65 - The Beatific

[RothToAnExtent]

listen to asther roths other songs,,his cd is ill. i love college is one of his worst imo

Haha I still like I love College. It's one of the only REALLY mainstream songs I've enjoyed lately. Just cause it's so fun loving.

Jaxx, great finds on those videos man. Pretty dope. I remember months ago, just looking through like all the DMC videos I could find. I don't know turntablism half as well as some people who consistently go to the shows, but I still love stuff like DJ Kentaro and DJ Def Cut. Here's one of my favorite Kentaro bits.

Shuriken Cut

Never heard of Deez Nuts. I can't quite remember, but I almost remember the terms from some Hilltop Hoods song. As in like it was part of the chorus and obviously pronounced "deez." Maybe it was a feature or something, I dunno.

Are you refering to Talib Qweli? If so, he's pretty sick. I enjoyed stuff like Mos Def better though.

Buck 65 is sick man! His voice reminds of a less pissed off and more talented version of DMX.

[Colton]

deez nuts on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

listen to sex sells.

[Loadedd]

Run DMC
The Treacherous Three
Boogie Down Productions (KRS-One)
Public Enemy
De La Soul
NWA
A Tribe Called Quest
Raekwon
Wu-Tang Clan
Cypress Hill
The Roots
The Notorious B.I.G.
Outkast
Nas
The Pharcyde
Masta Ace
Big L
Big Daddy Kane
Gang Starr
Slick Rick
Method Man
Fugees
Lauryn Hill
Warren G
Gravediggaz
Common
Jay-Z
GZA
Digable Planets
Onyx
Geto Boys
NWA
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
The Grouch
Scarface
Eric B. & Rakim
EPMD
Biz Markie
Mobb Deep
2Pac
Main Source
Black Moon
Jeru the Damaja
Souls of Mischief
MF Doom
O.C.
Brand Nubian
Dred Scott
Organized Konfusion
Method Man
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Kool G Rap
LL Cool J
Smif-N-Wessun
Goodie MOB
Keith Murray

I posted these in another thread. These are my favorite artists from the '80's and '90's.

[Thrash]

anything intentionally spelled wrong, called swaggy, that rips off famous quotes, in glorification of organized crime, has more than one z in the artist's name, or contains invalidated circular logic automatically sucks.

in the words of immortal technique- "just cause your record went platinum don't mean you rock, it just means a million people are stupid as f##k".

[BAUER]

POS is nasty too.

seeing him live was crazy

[mikee_7id]

Not a single meantion of K-Os yet???

What? Is there some sort of Canadian hate game I didn't get the memo for?

[rosewood thief]

Not a single meantion of K-Os yet???

What? Is there some sort of Canadian hate game I didn't get the memo for?

dude,

people have been hating on canada for years now. because we are jealous.

public enemy is awesome, too

[Loadedd]

anything intentionally spelled wrong, called swaggy, that rips off famous quotes, in glorification of organized crime, has more than one z in the artist's name, or contains invalidated circular logic automatically sucks.

in the words of immortal technique- "just cause your record went platinum don't mean you rock, it just means a million people are stupid as f##k".

Then you're missing out on a lot of amazing artists from the early 90's when Hip-Hop was being defined...

Then you go on to quote Immortal Technique... when all he does is spout hypocritical and nearly racist conspiracy theories? There are many past and present artists that are much much better than Immortal Technique.

[rosewood thief]

Then you're missing out on a lot of amazing artists from the early 90's when Hip-Hop was being defined...

Then you go on to quote Immortal Technique... when all he does is spout hypocritical and nearly racist conspiracy theories? There are many past and present artists that are much much better than Immortal Technique.

what he was trying to say is that the mainstream, capital record wanna be's are not rapping. the ones who are nearly on their hands and knees begging for attention and money, talking about things they dont know, and "rapping" about why they are better than you. these are the people who dont rap, these are the people who are controlled by agents and money and fans that they dont care about. they do what the average american wants them to, and the average american is stupid as hell.

immortals music is practically his diary, he actually sings about what he feels. people like immortal because he has been there, his songs are true. although i dont agree with that quote, i think its vague and not thought out. in some cases it's 100% true. but in others, its false, didnt the beatles make quite a few platinum records?

hip hop was not being defined in the 90's. hip hops reputation of being "gangster" was defined in the 90's. in jamaica and africa in the 60's and maybe even the 50's hip hop was being invented. as it became bigger in jamaica it began to spread to other countries, and finally in the 80's it hit america, hard. this is when american rap was invented, it was underground and began to creep upwards and into the 90's, when gang members and thugs were rapping, and people like tupac and biggie gave it the reputation it has today in america.

[Wells]

what he was trying to say is that the mainstream, capital record wanna be's are not rapping. the ones who are nearly on their hands and knees begging for attention and money, talking about things they dont know, and "rapping" about why they are better than you. these are the people who dont rap, these are the people who are controlled by agents and money and fans that they dont care about. they do what the average american wants them to, and the average american is stupid as hell.

immortals music is practically his diary, he actually sings about what he feels. people like immortal because he has been there, his songs are true. although i dont agree with that quote, i think its vague and not thought out. in some cases it's 100% true. but in others, its false, didnt the beatles make quite a few platinum records?

hip hop was not being defined in the 90's. hip hops reputation of being "gangster" was defined in the 90's. in jamaica and africa in the 60's and maybe even the 50's hip hop was being invented. as it became bigger in jamaica it began to spread to other countries, and finally in the 80's it hit america, hard. this is when american rap was invented, it was underground and began to creep upwards and into the 90's, when gang members and thugs were rapping, and people like tupac and biggie gave it the reputation it has today in america.

I know. Immortal would never rap about how much better he is than other people. He's just so, like, real. All those fake-ass mainstream "rappers" like Eminem never rap about their feelings.

[rosewood thief]

by main stream rappers i meant people like kanye and lil wayne. eminem is all good

[KookaSaurus]

Atmosphere
Black Star(Kweli & Mos Def)
Blue Scholars
Brother Ali, of course
Common
Common Market
Felt
Method Man & Redman
P.O.S
Typical Cats


Basically I like artists that have meaningful lyrics. I look for lyrics in a song before i listen to the beat. There are alot of artists, such as blue scholars, p.o.s, atmosphere, typical cats, etc. that don't get the amount of airtime or recognition that they deserve. But alot of them don't care, or want, alot of airtime. Which makes me respect them even more.

People such as Lil Wayne and other artists who rap about; cars, girls, money, and fame get more airtime than people who rap about the real problems in society. I just think alot of people have been conditioned to the point where they have a really hard time accepting genuinely good hip hop.

But whatever, i don't hate people who don't have open minds, because I'm not going to waste my time doing that. Rant

[Wells]

by main stream rappers i meant people like kanye and lil wayne. eminem is all good

Did you even listen to the last Kanye album? If dude doesn't talk about his feelings, I'll eat my slide gloves. He's deplorably self-indulgent, but he's the first hugely successful rapper to talk about being middle class and from the suburbs.

Say what you will about Lil' Wayne's outsize ego, but he's got nasty rhyming skills and a totally unique free-associative wordplay style of rapping. I wish I could do what he does with words.

If anything, we should hate on mainstream rap right now because it turned into boring, mediocre, insipid club music.

[rosewood thief]

that mofos gonna be bigger than the beatles!! he grew up in the suburbs, poor guy, like this one time, he pushed a guy because he made fun of the abercrombie distressed jeans his mom bought, on purpose! then he cried on his blog...

^^that says just about allll you need to know about kanye...

i agree with the lil wayne part