Hip-hop covers by artists from other genres
Always entertaining to hear rap songs covered by non-rappers, sometimes to great effect, particularly these two:
Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFRy8jQ_0U
The Gourds - Gin & Juice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
More please.
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The Tragically Hip
Lissie - Pursuit of Happiness (Kid Cudi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmsbHGEB6UU&ob=av2e
I've always liked this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc
NWA's Straight Outta Compton covered by Nina Gordon from Veruca Salt. It sounds like Lisa Loeb.
So much this.
Absolutely lovely tune. Definitely get the Lisa Loeb similarity too.
Does this count?
Tricky - Black Steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDHl5djnYM4&feature=related
Yes it certainly does
you're probably a racist
(according to this)
http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism
the domain of educated, middle-class white people (like me—to be clear, I am one of those)
Ahm oot.
Unfortunate use of the word
Denigrating
This article is so bang on the money,
it's embarrassing
well the article is embarassing, but not bang on the money.
Yeah - terrible article
by the idiotic logic he employs in that article you could quite easily claim that the writer is racist for deciding as a white person what's racist and then writing an article for other white people to read. Some people are just too busy commentating on the world to actually understand the people in it.
does anthrax/public enemy count?
I don't care, I've gone and mentioned it now
And one of the worst...
I like Frank & Walters, I like Tone Loc, but this stinks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPOpzya0WQ
As bad as this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_BgzSDQNk
(Duran Duran do Public Enemy)
WOAH
It sounds like RHCP.
when i saw jeffrey lewis he did a good song i thought was new or i hadn't heard before. looked it up when i got home and it turned out to be an eminem cover. only recorded version is with LAURA FUCKING MARLING of all people but it was actually good
this is it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mbCbzzxEmU
Eels - Get Ur Freak On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeqZ3qPFWs
this cover is so so so brilliant
the best of is worth buying just for it
(also, lol at them going on some TV show, presumably to promote Souljacker, but playing that :D)
The Automatic - Gold Digger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdq8PIr2aGw
Just the absolute worst.
Dynamite Hack - Boyz N Tha Hood, originally NWA
http://youtu.be/aeL9gagV_VA
yes.
Supersuckers - 'Dead Homiez'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRmJ5_eTUY
i find them universally annoying and embarrassing
particularly the ben folds one
a while ago theshipment said you don't cover timbo,
but i reckon quantic's version of get ur freak on beats the original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAyT9vv6Q4
You tripping
That's better than the usual hip hop cover dross, but GUFO is a classic beat.
If that cover existed in place of the original I'd barely give a second thought to it.
never been mad on the original,
find the riff kinda oppressive, duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh.
quantic version is nice and subtle. maybe i'm a wet blanket.
couple of poppy covers
emily wells - juicy (biggie smalls) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZydBL_SFg
april smith - bottoms up (trey songz)://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZydBL_SFg
ALWAYS TERRIBLE
thanks
Travis Morrison - What's Your Fantasy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfbFawAL08
Duran Duran - White Lines
The Vines' cover of Ms Jackson
while the original isn't exactly hip hop... Best thing they (Vines) ever did though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMFJB4h30A
JJ - My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vGLI2YOJU
Does Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer's history of hip-hop count?
Richard Cheese (with Lounge Against the Machine)
Gin & Juice
http://youtu.be/draifMpM5ck
Baby got Back
http://youtu.be/f66kEastC58
Insane in the Brain
http://youtu.be/dzvC2JP8V2E
Stronger
http://youtu.be/opnjIcd4L8M