Wu Did It Again … Has There Been A Hip Hop Thread?

Ahoy … Has there been a Hip Hop thread yet, probably has been on the wider forum , but Man, I can’t seem to get anything outta the search engine?

Anyway, if by some chance there hasn’t, then this thread could serve a purpose. I know roots is roots and old school is old school, but it would be cool, if this thread is used to refer more to current Hip Hop that really kicks … I guess no one is ‘awesome’ enough to say what is ‘real’ and what isn’t, but please, none of those 50 Cent / Soulja Boy flavours … although each to their own, I suppose

So I would dig to kick off with a track called ‘House Of Flying Daggers’, which is off the new Raekwon album … ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR7kVnh3PlI

On the reggae thread I mentioned my opinion that Wu-Tang Clan haven’t hit that standard they did in the earlier albums, but wow, no doubt they did it again on this Raekwon track.

The rest of the album is OK, and together with ‘8 Diagrams’ is a good reflection of the disagreements over direction that Raekwon and Rza have been having … it’s good to see what they were going on about now … and I can see where Raekwon was coming from, maybe Rza’s eclectic production interests aren’t that good for Wu business.

 

Mos Def
Talib Kweli
Kanye
Boogie Down Productions
Mr. Lif
Immortal Tehnique
Jedi Mind Tricks
Busdriver
Dead Prez
Fugees
MF DOOM
Promoe
The Roots

i dunno, thats off the top of my head, there's more.


o yea and fiddy cent. yea bwoy

 

Ahoy ... For Sure, Political …Dig It

Sabac Red

http://www.myspace.com/sabac

Comrade Malone

http://www.myspace.com/comrademalone

 

Uh, who shot Biggie Smalls
If we don't get them
They gonna get us all
I'm down for runnin' up on them
Crackers in they city hall

:cheers2:

 

My favourite rappers in no order;

Eminem
Kanye West
Tupac
Jay Z

 

that shit eint hip hop foo

edit- except for kanye. that fools got skills

 

That Raekwon song is the shit man. The video is one of the best I've seen... real creative and never really done on that level before.

 

thats not real hip hip that called top 40

 

Ahoy … some South African Hip Hop artists

Cape Town / Jo’Burg:

Ben Sharpa – ‘Hegemony’ and ‘Into the Black’ … (this Bro has some serious locks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQ8_L97MbQ

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6mpmk_ben-sharpa-into-the-black-remix_music

Cape Town:

Godessa – ‘ Social Illz’ and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lk18FpAoc

Godessa / Rogue Alliance – ‘Rogue State of Mind Tour’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRPjrBVc2Q

Rattex – ‘Welcome to Khaltsha’ and ‘Bread and Butter’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV4PNvhqiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDB_PMnyG0&feature=related

Rattex / Ben Sharpa – ‘The Government’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh7bmzouStk

KonFab – ‘Runonsentence’ and ‘This Is How We Roll (Feat. Jaak)’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3k09DbvbKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRhFV_p4CY

Cape Awake Records – ‘Skrik Wakke Anthem’

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55308537

Jo’Burg:

Skwatta Kamp – ‘Umoya’ and ‘Clap Song’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNLOSjC2jd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7QWio_iO8

Cashless Society – ‘Taxi Wars’ and Hottentot Hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_UXVNaFZDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcQ4ucxc4c

 

Ahoy … Man, I really dig Botswana Hip Hop collective, 3rd Mind … here are the tracks ‘Ngoma’ and 'Fatshe la rona ft Vee' … one day I hope fully will meet these peeps, hope fully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8IKTfbxB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGkX2g8FFcY

 

First, two Pittsburgh rappers:

I had English 101 with their drummer and they've done shows with the Roots.

Wiz Khalifa

Next, two white rappers:

MC Chris

MC Lars

And I was going to have two I was shocked to see on MTV, but YouTube is down. =P

 

I've been listening to the flobots and wanderlust dream lately

 

lol @ eminem/kanye in a "real hip hop thread"

even jay z and pac dont belong here, they were influential, but by no means what this thread is about. (in my opinion anyway)

not saying i dont like them, just saying they dont belong in a list labled real hip hop.

but yea, some of my favs would be

quick random list of artists i appreciate because i feel like they embody what hip hop should be.

the pharcye, nas, common, krs-1, mos def, taleb kweli, boot camp clik(and its members individually), sage francis, wu tang(all the memberes), roots, anybody who ever performed on the chappelle show, swollen members, dialated peoples, pharoah monch, mr lif, j5, bone thugs,

edit* i almost forgot wyclef

 

Ahoy … Nice Bro, Nice … it would be cool if things could be focused on actual Hip Hop grooves and it would be really awesome if we could learn about new artists … and old I suppose … from each other. Not having a go at anybody’s tastes either, or other ‘Fusion / R&B with a Rap being thrown in’ styles, but for sure, Hip Hop with MCs would be cool

Anybody dig The Pirate Signal? If you haven’t heard them, they have loads of tracks to listen to on their myspace page and their web site:

http://www.myspace.com/thepiratesignal

http://thepiratesignal.com/

 

Ahoy ... The Art Of War was the album for me, I worked in a national chain music store back when it came out; it was the kind of store that had one size fits all standards and music that was played and music that wasn't ... I used to jam TAOW every chance I could, pensively, in the hope that some head office spy or potentially problematic customer wasn't around ... Good Times!

 

I think he has to be the worst rapper (aside from the illegible Gucci Mane). I offer this terrible amateurism as evidence

 

Snoopy Dog is my fav hip hopper yo'
he drops wicked beatz on mah mummahs ghettoo booty

all other hop hip doesn't even compare mah niggaaaaherz!

 

Atmosphere
Brother Ali
P.O.S.
Doomtree
Sage Francis

 

Man, I just can’t get enough of the new Raekwon album, ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II’. Guess putting every track on the thread would be way over the top, but I just gotta chuck these two on … Give Thanks that there are still artists creating genuine Hip-Hop:

Surgical Gloves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fegOgRYyd2g

Broken Safety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZ-519YfJk

(PS. Youtube Vids Quality … obviously not as good as the real deal)

 

… Anyone else dig Mobb Deep? Don’t reckon being on G-Unit and releasing ‘Blood Money’ has done anything to portray any level of progression over the years. I mean, ‘Amerikaz Nightmare’ wasn’t exceptionally fantastic, but even it was better than what G-Unit released … G-Unit, jeez, ugh, 50 Cent, hmmm … phew …

Anyway, the point, I know I mentioned hoping this thread would get stuck into more recent Hip Hop, but Man, Mobb Deep’s album ‘Infamous’ is still Legend … still can’t get enough of ‘Shook Ones Pt. II’ … Yutube Vid … again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0wsET8__Y