Favorite Hip-Hop/Rap Tracks

[Hambone 70]

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RATM: Bombtrack, Killing In the Name, Take the Power Back, amongst others.

Still some of my favorite workout tracks!

 

[Shuggy73]

I was in 6th grade when Rap was became somewhat popular in upstate NY. Because of this I gravitate towards Old School stuff. I love Rockbox by Run DMC, You Got's To Chill by EPMD and stuff along those lines. I also don't think there is/was a single MC who can match Rakim. That includes 2pac and that biggy. I stopped caring about anything new for the most part after The Chronic came out. I do like some Jurassic 5 however.

 

[ERicks]

Three tracks that I have always sounded great on a club soundsystem.

Offended by vulgarity? do not click below!

Car Thief - The Beastie Boys showcase tight record production. Did the Boys and DJ Hurricane invent the "gangster rap" sound here?



OPP- Naughty By Nature drop a Jersey rework of a Jackson Five classic for your barbecue soundtrack eternal. Nothing left unsaid in this track. You know you've danced to it!



How Do You Want It? - Tupac Shakur being Tupac, in the best way. Voices are most of R&B act Jodeci, recorded for this track.

That 'pac song is one of my favorites. I've said before that any musician could learn a lot by listening to his flow, his pocket is ridiculous for any type musician.

 

[MCS4]

Great thread. Very incomplete list off the top of my head:

"Dream Shatter" Big Pun
"Operating Correctly" Mr. Lif and Esoteric
"Eye for an Eye" Nas, Mobb Deep, Raekwon
"Protect Ya Neck" Wu Tang
"Let's Move" The Perceptionists
"Pandemonium" The Pharcyde
"Vaudeville Villain" Viktor Vaughn (MF DOOM)
"Mastermind" Deltron 3030
"Oakland Blackouts" Hieroglyphics

 

[socialleper]

I own exactly one rap CD. Cypress Hill's Black Sunday. I was a stoner and it was the 90s. Duh.

 

[Herbal]

de la soul
cypress hill

how does one play rap bass? What by definition would work best?
I have an 808 copy and like too noodle along with it, but maybe what I play is off the mark.?

 

[jacksonev94]

Here are some of my favorites from the past few years:

 

[Bob_Ross]

Deep Cut Alert: The only thing I know about this track is that it samples Portrait of Tracy. It's pretty tight.

You and I clearly have very different definitions of what the word "tight" means in a musical context.

 

[Ian Votaw]

Big fan of the whole album but these are my two favorite tracks

 

[bassliner50]

Shat-Na was always ahead of his time!

 

[knigel]

Old school



new school

 

[noahw1]

You can never go wrong with a Slayer sample:

 

[cnltb]

Not sure whioch track to post but Buck65 or Sage Francis generally work for me.

 

[roller]

+1 De La Soul, especially the album Three Feet High and Rising

 

[SplinteredSkull]

A playlist of some classics I made

 

[Felken]

Yeah, yeah, I was the one that started the "rap hating" How cruel of me.

 

[calebplaysbass]

There's a ton of awesome stuff coming out lately. Just found this Brit artist Stormzy, and I'm digging his album.

Noname

Open Mike Eagle

And yeah, I can't get over how awesome Chance the Rapper is (oh, yeah this has Noname on it too)

The last one is especially for the people who whine about rap just being samples and not real musicians playing. Oh, and the people who stereotype rap as vulgar as well.

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[ChefKen]

I am a progressive rock guy....You would not think Rap would interest me and you would be wrong. These two albums are among my favorites of all time. Rap/Prog Rock! RISE ROBOTS RISE

 

[NSJB]

One of my favorites -

Oh man, I love all of Aesop's discography.

If we're talking None Shall Pass, I have to say that I prefer



and

 

[Frank Tuesday]

Riders Against the Storm