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Recommend Me Some Hip-Hop
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Author: 11t1 on November 05 2008 Viewed 1266 times. 11 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I love old school hip hop, but I don't think I've bothered to really check out a new artist since the early 90s. I'm more into the relatively conscious stuff than anything else, so with that info, recommend me some decent stuff that's happened in the last decade or so that I should definitely take the time to listen to.
All time faves include PE (It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back), Tribe (Low End Theory), NWA (Straight Outta Compton), Beasties (Paul's Boutique) and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
I'm thinking of trying my hand at producing a rhymer, so I'm also curious what the newer stuff sounds like in that regard.
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Roshi
I'm woefully behind with hiphop.
I will mention that I really love the new flying lotus record and Beat Conducta Vols. 3 and 4, for instrumental hiphop albums
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FailedSitcom
Edan, Buck 65, Themselves (started as "Them"), Cannibal Ox, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif, Prefuse 73 (first two albums) and cLOUDDEAD.
There's a few, but I'm forgetting a lot.
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FailedSitcom
Ah, how could I forget Madlib (Madvillainy which he made with MF Doom is an obvious starting point).
Also try J Dilla (sometimes Jay Dee).
Busdriver also often has some really interesting production (not sure who does his stuff I'm afraid).
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tylth
link Keith Murray - U Ain't No Gangsta (From His Most Recent Album Intellectual Violence)
link The Alchemist & Prodigy - Key to the City (The Alchemist Beats Are Terrific)
link Busta Rhymes - New York ****
i  these tracks.
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delete
classic sounding stuff:
Non-phixion ("The Future is Now" is a good example)
Visionaries ("Pangea" is great)
Gangstarr (they still rock)
modern sounding stuff:
em411's Deceptikon makes some dope instrumental hip-hopey beats, like "Greater Cascadia"
Funkstorung - Appetite for Disctruction. i wish all modern hiphop was like that
one of the guys who performed at STFU Heidelberg called Elemental Zazen has a good album called "Silence of the Now"
some stuff by MFDoom as Viktor Vaughn on SoundiNK (SoundiNK in general)
also, avoid making stuff like what Stones Throw releases and calling them hiphop. you might piss some people off (like myself)
AND MAKE MORE TUNES LIKE "EVERYTHING YOU DO IS HAIKU". that is some fucking ace hiphop.
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adcBicycle
try El-P !!!
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(like failedsitcom mentions)
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EsromCole
Brother Ali
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Jedi Mind Tricks
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maybe Apathy too
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claudia
wu-tang wu-tang wu-tang, any of their first solo records are all just so dense, so dark and so amazing
first fugees record, old roots
yea, el-p is crazy, canibal ox which el-p produces, mr. lif
i love outkast, older though, atliens is unreal, production and lyrics, it still kills me, this minimal spacey sound WAY ahead of its time, still sounds good 12 years later
any/all dj premier
any/all j-dilla and madlib, mf doom which madlib has worked w/ a lot, i love j-dilla, was very sad when he passed, he was still doing beats in his hospital bed, that is inspiring to me
any/all pete rock and cl smooth
i like dangermouse
old nas, old jay-z, old busta, old notorious, his first album production wish is unreal, first mobb deep record is again, so dark, very cool
i love love blackalicious
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Per
i like the old stuff from De La Soul, even their newer stuff is quite decent
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jarvis
count bass d
beans
quasimoto (my fav of the madlib projects)
little brother
pugslee atomz
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frragile
Sage Francis's Personal Journals album is one of my favourites. Some really nicely beats produced by Sixtoo and others on it and Sage's lyrics are incredible. I'm not so keen on his other albums though.
No one seem to have mentioned Dabrye either.
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skab
MF Doom/Viktor Vaughn
Immortal Technique (the illest heir to the PE/Disposables legacy)
Common
Jurassic 5
Porn Theatre Ushers
Swollen Members
Mosdef
Dabrye - Two/Three
Goretex
The Grouch and Eligh
HiTek
Mr. Lif
Peolpe Under the Stairs
Prince Po
Prophetix
RJD2
Rob Sonic
Talib Kweli
The UN
Conflict (Japanese crew)
dDay One
Jean Grae
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tmns
Dead Prez (first album in particular)
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WhiteBox
Check out Hansom Boy Modelling School - White People - it's a classic.
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deltasleep
omfg count bass d is popular now?
That dude is on my AIM buddylist. He's great, you should check him out. You should also get the entire pete rock discography and commit it to memory. Talk about midas touch.
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