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Rap/Hip-hop

#81
@ChrisBowsman
Based on what you’ve posted in this thread, our tastes have a lot of overlap. I really like Dr Syntax. Give this a listen, I think you’ll really dig it.


Or, this is the first track that got me into him...Cheers, Supadope.
 
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#82
ChrisBowsman said:
Much to the dismay of my dad and many metal-centric friends, I’ve loved rap since I was a little kid. The problem is, I still only love what I listened to then. My wife and I (pre-marriage) used to cruise around with a bumping stereo, smoke rolling out the windows, blasting Cypress Hill, Dr Dre, DMX, and the like. This would’ve been 99-00.

Shortly after getting married, we found out our first son was on the way, so the smoke cleared up, and the subs came out of the trunk. Getting into any newer rap unintentionally went with it. The newest stuff I really know is the first three or four Eminem albums, so very early 2000s.

Anybody have any recommendations? 20 years later, I’m driving my 7 yr old daughter to school, and she LOVES rap, but I’d like to play something newer than Outkast, Dr Octagon, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, I’ve Cube, etc...
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The part I hear missing from your repertoire is the early 2000s east coast - Tribe Called Quest, Mosdef, Talib Kweli, Blackstar, Biz Markie,

Check out the newest Tribe album for some thing newer - that thing took over my life,
 
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#83
(While General Quarters are sounding and the watertight doors are being shut . . . . . . this won't be the last time I'm the circle in a square world, to borrow a turn of phrase from Marty Stuart )

After having spent a lifetime in and around music, the consuming passion of my life, listening and learning and being moved by great instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, and composers, when it comes to rap, I simply despise it.

When I think of all who moved and drove me, from Louis Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Miles, Marvin, Smokey, Stevie, and the hundreds of other black artists and musicians who nailed me in the heart time after time, to have lived long enough to see this become 'the thing' is beyond disappointing, and quite disheartening.

One old man's opinion.





 
#86
Alfonso Alba said:
- Blackalicious
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Love Blackalicious, seen them play in Brighton, Gab sat on the stage after a chatted away to me and my girlfriend as she melted in front of him. I think that's a great call for kids, it's child friendly, great vibes, good messages, soulful rap.

Also love Lyrics Born and saw and met him after as well. If I thought my girlfirned melted in fron of Gab, she was just a blob with Lyrics born.

I also like his collaboration with Lateef as Latyrx. Lateefs later album was great too.




 
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JW56789 said:
(While General Quarters are sounding and the watertight doors are being shut . . . . . . this won't be the last time I'm the circle in a square world, to borrow a turn of phrase from Marty Stuart )

After having spent a lifetime in and around music, the consuming passion of my life, listening and learning and being moved by great instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, and composers, when it comes to rap, I simply despise it.

When I think of all who moved and drove me, from Louis Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Miles, Marvin, Smokey, Stevie, and the hundreds of other black artists and musicians who nailed me in the heart time after time, to have lived long enough to see this become 'the thing' is beyond disappointing, and quite disheartening.

One old man's opinion.




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I'm sure the OP's kids will be delighted to hear you came into a rap/hiphop thread to express this thought.
 
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#90
From the other side of the pond: Sleaford Mods, The Streets
More an industrial vibe to it: Techno Animal
Strange no one mentioned these: Ho99o9, one of the best contemporary acts of the moment.
And still a milestone: Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five
 
#93
ChrisBowsman said:
Given her age, about the raciest thing she gets to hear is "Mama Said Knock You Out." She really loves Dr Octagon, and there will occasionally be something a little inappropriate, but most of his lyrics are so nonsensical that it gets missed.
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“You need a bad operation.” “You have bees flying around your rectum.”
Gotta love Dr. Octagon
 
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#97
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
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Since 1970 the Last Poets to me ushered in the acceptance of music and word which we accept now as rap. Bernard Purdie and Alex Blake set this 1977 tune off. Also recommend "Bird's Word"






"Sir Mannequin, the Android Jin" ; "If I could fire one quick blazer from my fingertip Laser"

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