My Problem with rap and hip hop

Yup, I converted my friend to a hip hop head a few years ago...I think a lot more people would claim to be hip hop fans if they heard some of the "true" hip hop that they've never heard, and that's still being released.

 

Try some Talib Kweli like Listen, More or Less, Everything man.
Also i noticed ur name was genius so try some GZA.

 

Moon Juice List is good also check out

Godfather Don - The Nineties Sessions
Chino XL - Here To Save You All
Ill Biskits - Chronicle of Two Losers
Boogie Monsters - Riders Of The Storm
Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion<-their debut & Stress The Extinction Agenda
Channel Live - Station Identification
Common - Resurrection
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
DJ Honda - H
Defari - Focused Daily
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst - aka (Kool Keith)
Elzhi - The Preface
Masta Ace- Entire Catalog all his album are dope check out Disposable Arts & A Long Hot Summer
Wordsworth - Mirror Music
LMNO - Leave My Name Out


check out this blog it has all underground hip-hop
www.etalonhiphop.blogspot.com

 

Yea like others have said in this thread, you most likely just despise mainstream rap.

I know I still do, and always have. I like only a select few mainstream rap acts/songs.

A lot of people have already nailed who to check out, and you seem to enjoy the groups that I would've suggested.

Madvillain is a great one. Jedi Mind Tricks are amazing. Cunninlynguists, army of the pharoahs, company flow, cannibal ox, aesop rock, clipse, nas, heiroglyphics, deltron 3030, a tribe called quest, dead prez, el-p, gza, wu-tang clan, jurassic 5, madlib, main source, method man, mr lif, black star, raekwon, rjd2(specifically deadringer) are all worth checking out in my opinion.

 

is anyone else cracking up at how easily impressed the OP was. if only more rap haters could come to recognize the same things.

give this a try

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3YRJxK8T4"]YouTube - Canibus - 103 Jamz[/ame]

and this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQidZIRmOI"]YouTube - devin the dude doobie ashtray[/ame]

and this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5SI3DG4coA"]YouTube - Nas - Shootouts[/ame]

 

Canibus all day, I don't know one dude who don't like that shyt How We Roll

 

never heard the canibus song but 2 great songs there.

 

Nas-shootouts, great song on a great album(although I like illmatic a bit more)...was just bumping on my speakers earlier.

 

to be honest i think the how we roll is kind of weak (for canibus that is) except it has that one line, you know which one im talkin about if youve heard it, probably my favorite rap punchline of all time

 

Psssh you just a hata

 

Listen to this song and if you don't like rap/r&b/hip hop then you will never like hip hop.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLB_U0YPOg"]YouTube - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins - Home[/ame]

Enjoy that.

 

i unno...might like this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyW3J9ZxR6M"]YouTube - Bone Brothers - Hip Hop Baby[/ame]

 

oooohh shit i just came home really really high and decided to go on a canibus track hunt. i swear he is the fuckin illest of all time.......listen to THIS shit op if your tryin to get into hip hop. this is what its about.

but BEFORE YOU LISTEN, remeber those 'the good news is you have Geico' comericals or whatever they were? ya he has a sick punchline about that just making sure you remeber because i had to look it up because i wasnt sure if it was real. bear with me here



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVmMtTAcJI&feature=related"]YouTube - Canibus Yeng Meng[/ame]

 

i listen to chamillionaire, pimp c (R.I.P.), boosie, dj screw, nd alot of other ppl but i've been listenin 2 cypress hill nd kottonmouth kings alot now

 

i kno everybody kno dis song. god i hate it wen da bitch starts talkin it ruins the song when ur high but wateva.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Bz7UTwCmM"]YouTube - Weed Song[/ame]

 

It's not about finding something in a genre.. It's about finding something you like regardless of what it's 'classified' under.

I listen to rap all day.. I like stuff people hate on for whatever reason.

Vibed to pretty much everything mentioned in this thread at one point or another.



TECH N9NE look him up.. haven't seen it in here yet i just skimmed through though.
His older albums, Absolute Power and Anghellic are real good.. newer ones are more of an acquired fanbase you could say.. but i think it's all good.

Good energy good lyrics... really puts effort into compiling a track is all I can say

 

Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil
MF Doom - Doomsday

 

since you like atmosphere.. check out mac lethal
they are basically the only rap I listen to.