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hip hop recommendations?

#42
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb and Reachin' ...A New Refutation Of Time And Space.
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abso-frickin-lutely. saw them live, and man, what an incredible performance. their live band was just disgustingly good.
lately been digging cypress hill's first album, and immortal technique.
 
#43
I personally like the store at ughh.com (aka undergroundhiphop.com) ... a lot of the albums have preview tracks available, and so on. Not a specific recommendation per se, but I've found some good stuff there just browsing the new releases.
 
#45
Outkast - all albums
DJ Quik - mainly his 90's records. They have gone downhill since then
The Roots - everything
Mos Def - almost everything...his "Black Jack Johnson" project, with band members from Bad Brains and Living Colour, takes a little getting used to
 
#49
Vorago said:
El-P's 'I'll sleep when you're dead' single-handedly refutes all of those points. And this is just one album.

(first track of that album)

Saying 'rap' is bad is like saying 'rock music' is bad because you heard Linkin Park on the radio.
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Let me preface my following remarks with I love hip-hop.

But MIJ-VI has a valid point. Even with groups I like that usually stay away from the negative stereotypes of bubble-gum rap; usually have a song or two with horribly racist, misogynistic, criminal, and downright reprehensible lyrics.
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#51
waynobass said:
:rollno: Unlike rock songs which are always about puppies, flowers, and sunshine.
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Don't make me open that can of worms! I've already been browbeat on here for making the same type of claim against Nickleback. And their 50 songs about the perils of being a millionaire and 20 songs about strippers.

The claim could be made for a lot of modern music, I was just pointing out that he had a point. Ya, get my point? Point...
 
#52
Yeah sure, but I just saw an interview with Akhenaton, one of France's most important rappers, who asked 'why people always look at rap music as if it's a monolith? Why can't they acknowledge the differences in styles, subjects, influences, etc? Why always the broad brush?'

Is it because it's still not as 'accepted' as rock/guitar music?
 
#58
Great recommendations, everybody-

Mainstream Hip hop is similar to any genre of mainstream music in the sense that the most popular junk on the radio is produced in a music factory and seeks to appeal to the lowest common denominators of non-musically inclined people. However, there are dozens of artists that place a higher value on substance rather than flash. There is a huge difference between heartfelt hip hop songs and club music that calls itself hip hop.


Here's a few more that haven't been mentioned:

If you Like Del tha Funky/Deltron 3030, check out one of his old groups, Heiroglyphics:

Heiruspecs, uses live instrumentation (bassist is a huge guy who goes by "Twinkie Jiggles")


90% of the time you won't go wrong with anything on Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Strange Famous records... check them out.
 
#59
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, particularly valid for this thread due to the immortal line "Guns, b*tches and bling were never part of the four elements, and never will be..."

Unfortunately the mainstream media will always push negative stereotypes of hip-hop, I don't want to get into the whys and wherefores, and it saddens me that the point of this thread, hip-hop that defies those stereotypes, has been missed by people who obviously have no perspective on the genre as a whole other than a limited exposure and media based preconceptions, especially given the conscious and musical aspects encompassed by some many great artists mentioned here.
 

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