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Hip-Hop/rap – recommend me some great records?

MrBones [Edit] [Delete] 49 replies 15:38 November 22nd, 2012

‘Ello, OK, so I’ve decided I like rap more than I thought, on my walk to work I want to start checking out some uplifting, euphoric, lyrically clever rap music. My INCREDIBLY limited taste so far means the only artists I have on my Ipod are:

Kanye West, Jay-Z, Biggie and Jhest … really like those though

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Recently started listening to Finally Famous by Big Sean

Loving it. I Do It is MASSIVE.

Aaron | 22 Nov '12, 15:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
well the obvious place to start is the 36 Chambers

then work your way from there

Severed799 | 22 Nov '12, 15:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

Antpocalypsenow this'd this
- always meant to listen to this. Will do.
  
  MrBones @Severed799 | 22 Nov '12, 15:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- also try this, my favourite song from Wu-Tang related stuff
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpIkOXgAmg
  
  JaguarPirate @Severed799 | 22 Nov '12, 15:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Severed799 this'd this
  - It's Gravel Pit. Stop pretending otherwise.
    
    BetterGayThanGuevara @JaguarPirate | 22 Nov '12, 15:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - lol no
      
      CrispinAlexander @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 17:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Gravel Pit is a tune.
        
        Lets not hear anything against it.
        
        littlebirds @CrispinAlexander | 22 Nov '12, 17:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Silkyskillz11 and Severed799 this'd this
        
        i wasn't
        
        but let's not be silly
        
        CrispinAlexander @littlebirds | 23 Nov '12, 00:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        it's a great pop song
        
        we can all agree on that
        
        Severed799 @CrispinAlexander | 23 Nov '12, 01:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
This thread is going to get pretty embarrassing pretty quickly.

Loads of middle class suburban white kids pretending they have any idea about a predominately black music genre (and culture).

Just stick with Liquid Swords by GZA (because he once played an ATP promoted concert).

BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 15:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- be constructive you beast
  
  MrBones @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 16:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  JaguarPirate this'd this
- Not sure if that's anywhere near as embarassing as spending your life trolling an internet forum
  
  of middle class suburban white kids.
  
  WhiteLightWhiteCity @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 16:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Who do you think buys the majority of hip hop records?
  
  bornin69 @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 17:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Bit racist
  
  El_Goodo @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 22:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientelle

and Fishscale are both amazing.

MF Doom is great to get into too, especially on Take Me To Your Leader by King Geedorah and Madvillainy by Madvillan.

Album of the Year by Black Milk is a great recent one.

For more experimental stuff Clouddead maybe?

Filip | 22 Nov '12, 15:59 | X | ^ This | Reply

plasticniki this'd this
The first 4 Outkast albums

Rhymenocerous | 22 Nov '12, 16:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Nah, just need the one that's got Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture on it.
  
  BetterGayThanGuevara @Rhymenocerous | 22 Nov '12, 16:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just put 36 Chambers on thanks to whoever said it

Haven't listened to it for about 2 years. Unreal.

Aaron | 22 Nov '12, 16:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Severed799 this'd this
I'd recommend Akinyele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBb35VGOFRY

whynot | 22 Nov '12, 16:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
and

GZA - Liquid Swords
i still like Guerillas in da mist by Da Lench mob, and the first two Pharcyde albums are "Dope".

bj72 | 22 Nov '12, 16:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- ^ THERE IT IS!
  
  BetterGayThanGuevara @bj72 | 22 Nov '12, 16:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Pharcyde are pretty much
    
    everything a suburban middle class white kid first getting into rap could want:
    - plenty of humour and silliness
    - social conscience without being preachy
    - introspective bedwetter rhymes
    - great beatz
    
    anal_schwarzenegger @BetterGayThanGuevara | 22 Nov '12, 16:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
MC 900 Ft Jesus - welcome to my dream

Gorkys_Forever | 22 Nov '12, 16:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- No one's got flows like this guy:
  
  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8bqpvSKvB1rz4w98o1_500.jpg
  
  BetterGayThanGuevara @Gorkys_Forever | 22 Nov '12, 16:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Roots - Things Fall Apart

I'm a big fan of How I Got Over by them too.

Otherwise, Illmatic by Nas, Tical by Method Man, Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx by Raekwon.

plasticniki | 22 Nov '12, 16:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
I know next to nothing about rap

But bloody love the first Jurassic 5 album and Spectrum by Quannum projects.

Sarlacc | 22 Nov '12, 16:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Madvilliany by Madvillain
  
  it Takes a Nation of Millions by Public Enemy
  Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim
  36 Chambers by Wu Tang Clan
  Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest
  Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop by Diamond
  Step in the Arena by Gang Starr
  Bizarre Ride II by The Pharcyde
  Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow
  
  Should do the job for starters on the classics.
  
  For up to date try Good Kid M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamaar
  
  bornin69 @Sarlacc | 22 Nov '12, 17:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ^ this to these suggestions
    
    this year I just can not get enough of El-P - Cancel for Cure. Looking like album of the year material.
    
    Si_Badvibes @bornin69 | 22 Nov '12, 17:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
uplifting, euphoric =/= lyrically clever

douchebag | 22 Nov '12, 17:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- 'Uplifting, euphoric' rap music sounds horrible.
  
  I dunno, whoever's collaborating with Calvin Harris this week. Or the shitefest that is Pitbull.
  
  in_limbo @douchebag | 22 Nov '12, 17:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Treat yourself to some classics, if you're just starting out

Get some of:

Outkast - Aquemini
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Mobb Deep - Infamous
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt/Blueprint
UGK - Ridin Dirty
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising/De La Soul is Dead
Scarface - The Diary
Nas - Illmatic
Wu-tang Clan - 36 Chambers
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Not exhaustive by any means, but that should give you a fairly good cross section of golden era rap.

If you're looking for stuff from the last couple of years, you can't go too wrong with

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, M.A.A.D city
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Danny Brown - XXX
Big KRIT - Krit Wuz Here
Action Bronson - Dr Lecter
Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes II
Roc Marciano - Reloaded

littlebirds | 22 Nov '12, 17:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

anal_schwarzenegger this'd this
- cheers !
  
  MrBones @littlebirds | 22 Nov '12, 17:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions

probably my favourite hip hop album of this year, next to Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music.

iizcallum | 22 Nov '12, 18:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

tphrthms this'd this
Starting List:

Wu Tang Clan- 36 Chambers
Madvillian- Madvillainy
GZA- Liquid Swords
Ghostface Killah- Iron Man
Mobb Deep- The Infamous
A Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
Danny Brown- XXX
Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, Mad city
Kendrick Lamar- section 80
Action Bronson- Blue Chips

FWBTS | 22 Nov '12, 18:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Also
  
  Death grips- The Money Store
  Shabazz Palaces- Black Up
  
  FWBTS @FWBTS | 22 Nov '12, 18:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Severed799 this'd this
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A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Q-Tip - Amplified
Outkast - Aquemini
Random Axe - Random Axe
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Talib Kweli - Quality
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Heiroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night (fucking youtube 'Luchini' :o )
Blu & Exile - Beneath the Heavens
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Arsonists - As the World Burns
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2 ('Jealousy' :o )
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II
Pete Rock and C.L Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Non-Prophets - Hope
Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik

obviously
Dr. Dre - The Chronic.
Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die

incandenza_ | 23 Nov '12, 00:32 | X | ^ This | Reply

Severed799 this'd this
- tried to stick to great ones that hadn't been mentioned
  
  not *strictly* adhering to OP, but just 'cause no-one else is.
  
  incandenza_ @incandenza_ | 23 Nov '12, 00:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - great list that
    
    Severed799 @incandenza_ | 23 Nov '12, 00:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Roots Manuva - Run come save me LP / Awfully Deep LP

De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising LP
Tone Loc - Loc'ed after dark LP

that is all

ryanwilson | 23 Nov '12, 00:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Anticon Records 1999-2004

Severed799 | 23 Nov '12, 01:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
second for the cold vein

one of my favourite albums ever.

has no one mentioned j dilla????? try donuts - mainly instrumental and amazing. also madlib (in all his guises).

j_hindsight | 23 Nov '12, 13:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
It's all good having big lists

But what is the one essential? Not including the obvs from Biggie, Dre etc.

Aaron | 23 Nov '12, 13:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- The Infamous
  
  douchebag @Aaron | 23 Nov '12, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ctrl+F Aesop Rock

Gah. Supreme middle class white boy here, but Skelethon is easily my album of the year. It has also unlocked the door to hip hop for me and its all i've been listening to fo the past week or two.

Pharyngeal | 23 Nov '12, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
Blackalicious

Both Nia and Blazing Arrow.

http://youtu.be/mAedkNCjnOQ
http://youtu.be/l1FME73L44o
http://youtu.be/P1nxxciXu5Q

I fucking love Blackalicious, one of my favorite acts of any genre, haven't seen them get much love on here though strangely.

didyousayhand | 23 Nov '12, 14:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Doesn't help that they've been on hiatus for over half a decade
  
  But they got nuff love when they were going, particularly amongst the indie crowd.
  
  Both really strong records though, for sure.
  
  littlebirds @didyousayhand | 23 Nov '12, 14:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
- You forgot this one, dude
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivhDaViGPNo
  
  Dan_S @didyousayhand | 23 Nov '12, 15:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
Five I always go back to one way or another:

Aesop Rock - Labor Days
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Nas - Illmatic

Recent stuff in the vein of those five:
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city and section.80,
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions,
Killer Mike - R.A.P. music,
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up,
Danny Brown - xxx,
El-P - c4c,
A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP,
Joey Bada$$ - 1999,
TheeSatisfaction - awE naturalE.

tphrthms | 23 Nov '12, 15:42 | X | ^ This | Reply

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