Awesome Hip-Hop

metalladdd · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2011 9:29 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmZ6WDkuj0

If any of you are into hip-hop or want to see a different side of it, you need to click on that link.

:dio:

Goat · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2011 10:06 pm

Dear lord, this is awful. Here's some hip-hop that manages both to be different and can be listened to without wincing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i789TMw49rE

metalladdd · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2011 10:13 pm

Well that's definitely more...atmospheric, and I like that synthesizer thing going on at the end, but the beat is a lot weaker compared to Death Grips. Less aggressive too.

North From Here · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 1:26 am

Goat wrote:

Dear lord, this is awful. Here's some hip-hop that manages both to be different and can be listened to without wincing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i789TMw49rE

Thanks for that Zad. Maybe the genre isn't always so bad after all...

Wintermute · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 2:06 am

Ghostface Killah! He's angry! And good at rapping!
MF Doom!
Ghosface Killah's work with MF Doom!
Dr. Octagon!
Del the Funkee Homosapien!
A Tribe Called Quest! They like smoking pot and women, but not guns!
Phi Life Cypher ("I pull the ground from beneath your feet and leave you sky-walking like Anakin")!
Aesop Rock!
Nas (at least Illmatic)!
The Roots are all analog, which should appeal to those who don't like sampling.

There's lots of awesome rap, guys. And don't we already have a rap thread, entitled "Rap Thread?"

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 6:02 am

Dälek
Spearhead
Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy
Lewis Parker
Mike Ladd
etc...
(And I'll second Dr Octogon)

There's plenty good "arty" hip-hop around.
All you have to do is look for it.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 8:10 pm

We already have a rap thread but Immortal Technique, Mos Def and K'naan are more than I'd ever need.

huskerc7 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:58 am **Posts:** 17458

Can't stand rap. I remember when I was a pothead and I tried listening to that shit for a while.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

I'd much rather listen to New Jack Swing.

As for Rap I don't mind hearing the shit they played on MTV back in 1992, when honestly the A&R would not stand for being off-key, having no melodic instruments or generally being unappealing to people with pop sensibilities. They had synthesizers and catchy choruses back then, which I don't hear today. I hear rap has been trying very hard to incorporate melody in recent years with mixed results, but the whole genre has been such a nuisance, I'd rather not bother.

metalladdd · **Posted:** Sun May 22, 2011 6:20 am

Adveser wrote:

I'd much rather listen to New Jack Swing.

As for Rap I don't mind hearing the shit they played on MTV back in 1992, when honestly the A&R would not stand for being off-key, having no melodic instruments or generally being unappealing to people with pop sensibilities. They had synthesizers and catchy choruses back then, which I don't hear today. I hear rap has been trying very hard to incorporate melody in recent years with mixed results, but the whole genre has been such a nuisance, I'd rather not bother.

You don't have to worry about any kind of pesky melody with Death Grips.

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