Adrenochrome Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Yeah, I've listened to Hip Hop for years but never been into the scene, and only seen bands at festivals. The main bands I listen to are/were fairly mainstream: De La Soul, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, NWA, and the Gravediggaz. I love funny put-downs and groovey old samples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScreencastTutor Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Hmmn we seem to have similar music tastes bubinga. I started off loving rap.hip-hop then wanted to play some of the bass. After some research I realised most were sampled from old funk/soul tracks and started listening to that. Favourite has always been Ice Cube. To be honest the beat/rhythm is the main thing for me. I don't really listen to lyrics. Strangely only recently discovered EPMD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sXDAVb_BE Supposedly the first rap (I think): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3313DhcB8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrammeFriday Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 To watch out for in 2014: RATKING Album out next week. Tipped! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBCXWKx4Tg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexicola Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 You have great taste in hip hop man. A few of my favourite albums are - A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother Nas - Illmatic Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Live and Let Die The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia Mobb Deep - The Infamous The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers Gza/Genius - Liquid Swords Goodie Mob - Soul Food Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises in The East Juggaknots - The Juggaknots Madvillain - Madvillainy O.C. - Word Life Smif n Wessun - Dah Shinin AZ - Doe or Die Binary Star - Masters of the Universe Black Moon - Enta Da Stage DJ Screw - All Screwed Up DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Outkast - Southernplayalistick InI - Center of Attention J Dilla - Donuts UGK - Ridin Dirty Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d4pIUkMcI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Incidentally that skit is flanked by these tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeLN2C8DAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w78HHkHXwug Great record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4oCbEFWb10&list=FLzVUqeF1SLjxa78y2gd03dQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTENJZAlMv4&list=FLzVUqeF1SLjxa78y2gd03dQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 [quote name='RoRi' timestamp='1396121213' post='2410209'] Junie is just funny: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IF2RrABvsU[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQuEQl9k2ug[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4kqL13jGM[/media] [/quote]those are very cool RoRi.. especially the goats track.. not heard of them before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45fKOMgXgkQ&list=FLzVUqeF1SLjxa78y2gd03dQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 has anyone heard of this seminal UK hip hop act.? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJh0p8L01M&list=FLzVUqeF1SLjxa78y2gd03dQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 If you're near Brighton, don't miss this gig!! http://m.seetickets.com/event/de-la-soul/concorde-2/776648 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I like a bit of Hip Hop. I'm currently digging Saul Williams, a superb rapper. In this one, I love the opening with its building anger against slavery, and then the ode to the Hip Hop genre, with the coolest of lines bringing in the second verse: "Not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip hop.." http://youtu.be/bIp47yWUQKs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) slick stuff from the old school master's. EPMD. in my opinion these guys were the boys. they are still good now. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BZuE4y9V0E[/media] Edited April 2, 2014 by bubinga5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I still love this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUmIiWLoEuo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 BIG hip hop fan here Plenty of good stuff already posted in this thread. My record boxes are mostly stocked with fairly old skool stuff: Gang Starr, KRS1, Tribe Called Quest, NWA, etc, etc. But I still keep an ear to the ground for new material. Anyway... Here's my contribution to the thread. A bona fide classic by Dead Prez. Lyrics, message and delivery are spot on IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNyr6BJZuI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fasting showman Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 This thread has reminded me of a late '80s classic-Dismasters; Small time hustlers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 No, I don't love Hip Hop. However I don't dislike it either. At 61 I am too old for it to resonate with me. If I were younger I might love it. I think that's the best way to answer it as opposed to the 25 year old that says he doesn't like the Beatles, when he is actually to young to know. My position is if you weren't there you don't know if you like it or not. If your a baby boomer or over 60 and you say you don't like The Beatles, that's cool and acceptable. But not if your 25. I mean you can say it, I just wouldn't recognize it as an intelligent answer or opinion. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I don't really get this 'it doesn't resonate because I am too old'. The earliest hiphop dates from the 1970s and even before that you could find similar elements in, for example, Caribbean toasting and in talking blues - so it seems to me more a case of what you were listening to than whether you are the right age. I am 62 but I was 27 when 'Rapper's Delight' was released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 (edited) [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1418633783' post='2631767'] I don't really get this 'it doesn't resonate because I am too old'. The earliest hiphop dates from the 1970s and even before that you could find similar elements in, for example, Caribbean toasting and in talking blues - so it seems to me more a case of what you were listening to than whether you are the right age. I am 62 but I was 27 when 'Rapper's Delight' was released. [/quote] I see your point. However, I'm 61 and by the time I was 27 my musical tastes had already solidified and I wasn't letting anything else soak in by that time. I evolved musically in terms of what resonated with me through age 9- 20 at best. I think were all probably different on this issue. My main point was, I don't dislike hip hop, I just don't know much about it. Blue Edited December 15, 2014 by blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shedua511 Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Color me lazy, but I recently wrote about the very same subject on Talkbass, so I'm just going to copy that here I used to have no interest whatsoever in rap and hip hop, but a few years ago I started working. The musical director of a youth club in Oslo. Most kids there were interested in urban music and I just had to embrace it: I asked for CDs to listen to, borrowed a lot of stuff from the library and immersed in it...and, surprise! there's a lot of cool stuff there! An old dog can and will learn new tricks, if it chooses to keep an open mind I ended up recording a lot of stuff and composing beats (keeping samples to a minimum, a lot of real instruments and fake samples, that is original music treated to sound like a lift from an old LP). Now that I have a pretty good grasp of the genre, I can tell that I dig authenticity and genuine flow. Some themes I really don't care for, but as long as it is real I can at live with it. Hearing Norwegian kids spitting about shoot-outs is just plain silly and I would always make a point of telling posers to get real or get out. Give me your life, not the life of a kid in the USA. Some of the guys I worked with were truly amazing, especially YoRhymes, who now goes by the name of Fabe. An EP we recorded at the club is available for free download: lots of real bass in there, including fretless. There's even some Chapman Stick: if that's not a first I guess it's really close!!! And, first and foremost, Fabe çan rap. He's got skills, he's got flow and (most important for me) his lyrics are amazing! enjoy: http://www.datpiff.com/YoRhymes-Feat-Francesco-P-Anonymous-Reply-mixtape.170358.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Yep.!! A Force. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PyqMVyyVo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 I think this is possibly the best album I've ever heard when it comes to Hip Hop... DJ Premier's double album, Signature Sounds. Sonja Blade with the master DJ Premier from GangStarr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTiH6lXVeoM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Killer Snoop Dogg on the same album. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rNipX6kqy0[/media] Edited January 2, 2017 by bubinga5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Its as very cool as west coast hipHop was at that time… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP6dSTGR8MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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