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- play0
Some good ones:
Strange Fruit Project
People Under the stairs
Foreign Exchange
- Ramanisky20
the early
Swollen Members albumsgood stuff
- filfury0
US rap is done with.
Start checkin the beats Uk side.
Check out our grime/hiphop scene.
With rappers like Skinnyman, Rodney P, Plan B and Klashnekoff, you'll soon find love for the street beats again.
Check http://www.suspect-packages.com/…
Peace
- Ramanisky20
Legendary
haha I remember this
- flavorful0
Dan the Automator's new album 2K7
Ramanisky2
(Oct 11 06, 12:09)... I imagine you don't know that 2K7 is actually referencing NBA Live 2K7, and that the album is fucking garbage.
Have you even listened to it?!
- znort0
yeah i agree, i guess that dave matthews thing really sucks
- set0
Not sure if its been mentioned but The Roots' new album "Game Theory" is pretty good.
But your original post is spot on, its all gone very stupid.
Hip hop was originally about putting aside gang wars and hate and getting together and making music, it didnt matter wether you were a skinny wimp with no money as long as you could make good music.
All these new weirdos dont seem to understand that.
And yes it must be insecurity and peer pressure.
Morons!
- DrHuxtable0
oh shit!
can't forget J-Live, and can't believe i forgot to mention MF Doom.
Mr. Lif, Akrobatik ... there are a lot of other great suggestions already posted.
Also will always love Kool Keith and his 25 alter egos.
- blackspade0
in reply....
"For millions of young people, all around the world, the face of Black America (and increasingly, Blacks almost everywhere urban) is 'gangsta.'
This is seen in clothes, heard in speech, and even observed in how people walk on the streets. What we are witnessing is the power of culture to move across boundaries, and also, the power of America's entertainment empires to push these images to the farthest reaches of the Earth.
In some ways, it also reflects certain realities of urban life at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. It reflects the continuing power of Black culture to set the parameters of coolness, for to be Black in a society constructed upon the illusion of whiteness, is the ultimate degree of Otherness; the polar opposite.
What has spread, from coast to coast, is nihilism, anger, anti-Black violence, and the economic engine of the drug business, which is but a chemical weapon against Black communal life.
Now, the power of media projects the most mindless image possible of such people. They are mindnumbingly materialistic, sexist, and revel in the imagery of violence against their communities. And, as our loving fascination for things expands, our caring about people decreases. Things matter. Bling matters.
Videos project, not our wealth, but our inherent poverty, for it is only poor people who feel the *need* to flash; for the truly wealthy have learned that to flash is the sign of the nouveau riche; those to whom wealth is newly acquired.
Moreover, there is a deadly twist in the lure of gangsta life; it opens the door to prison, or the grave, and feeds the containment industry -- the prison industrial complex -- the institutional descendant of slave plantations, that feeds on Black pain and Black loss.
Meanwhile, the biggest Gangsta on the planet, the U.S. Empire, gobbles nations like bon-bons; invades countries like crossing the street, and treats the Constitution like toilet paper.
Now, *that's* gangsta!
Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal * "
- Concrete0
Stumbled across these guys earlier this year. The EP is good.
- Ramanisky20
Dan the Automator's new album 2K7
Ramanisky2
(Oct 11 06, 12:09)... I imagine you don't know that 2K7 is actually referencing NBA Live 2K7, and that the album is fucking garbage.
Have you even listened to it?!
flavorful
------------------------sorry I was reffering to the track
"Don't hate the player, Hate the Game" off of that album
- fr0st0
thanks for the info, i was just about to d/l that album!
- Rae50000
Prefuse 73
Madlib
Quasimoto
El-P
Arsonistcheck it!
- flavorful0
Fuck Rap.
It's all about the Clipse and Dip Set.
That's basically it.
Wu transcends Hip-Hop to me, they are just by themselves off to the side uncomparable to anything, anyone has ever done.
- Seff0
doseone is weird enough for me to get onboard
- nevbaver0
Mainstream Rap is dead!
but there is a lot of good rap/hip hop music out there, like most of the posts above. Two that were missed and probabally my favorite are:
Crown City Rockers:
http://www.crowncityrockers.com/…and Omega Watts:
http://www.myspace.com/ohmegawat…
- Ramanisky20
HELL YEAH
- grunttt0
is crown city rockers only instrumental music? clicking through the tracks on their site and i've yet to hear a word?
- nevbaver0
no, Crown City has a dope lyricist, Raashan Ahmad.
Check out their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/crowncity…they have samples there.