Official Rap and Hip Hop Topic

[Vito Leone]

This is the Official Rap topic revisited. Now the playas who discuss music are the ones running the show.

 

Discuss about Rap and hip hop in our IRC channel on GTANet!

 

#Rap

 

2pac's official site - http://www.2paclegacy.com

 

Eazy's official site - http://www.eazy-e.com

 

Biggie's official site - http://www.biggiesmalls.com

 

Racionais MC's website - http://www.vidaloka.com.br

 

The Game's myspace - http://www.myspace.com/thegame

 

Let's get started bitches, pimps, hoes, playas, thugs, rappers, gangstas, producers, niggas, wiggas, g's...

 

Discuss.

Edited March 15, 2007 by Vito Leone

[Paco]

 

Paco hangs head

 

This is a poor example of a "rap and hip hop topic". Out of the 5 sites linked, there's only ONE even worthy to be there, B.I.G.

[Gantons Most Wanted]

well if you take 50 down then i'll be happy with this topic and Paco you maybe right but 2 Pac was a decent rapper least he had a movement and will be missed unlike some of these 1 hit wonder artists

 

[dills]

www.notoriousonline.com is a great site for Biggie stuff.

 

 

2000 posts ftw.

[Paco]

 

well if you take 50 down then i'll be happy with this topic and Paco you maybe right but 2 Pac was a decent rapper least he had a movement and will be missed unlike some of these 1 hit wonder artists

Decent isn't good, and decent doesn't cut it.

 

edit: I'm just bitter because the rap topic always ends up talking about Pac, Dre, Eazy-E, or some other west coast sh*t. We need something new to talk about, dammit.

Edited March 14, 2007 by Paco

[Platinum.]

Anybody got any recommendation's for someone looking to find some good music?

 

I've tried and liked:

 

MF Doom

Jedi Mind Tricks

Looptroop

Common

Atmosphere

Immortal Technique

Talib Kweli

The Roots

Mos Def

Black Star

Tribe Called Quest

Nas

 

I know they're pretty much your "mainstream underground hip-hop" artists but since they're the ones most commonly mentioned then I thought I may as well try them out first.

[dills]

Anybody got any recommendation's for someone looking to find some good music?

 

I've tried and liked:

 

MF Doom

Jedi Mind Tricks

Looptroop

Common

Atmosphere

Immortal Technique

Talib Kweli

The Roots

Mos Def

Black Star

Tribe Called Quest

Nas

 

I know they're pretty much your "mainstream underground hip-hop" artists but since they're the ones most commonly mentioned then I thought I may as well try them out first.

Big L, Big Daddy Kane, Big Pun, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Biggie, Wu Tang Clan are some artists/groups I'd recommend you check out. However, your taste in music probably differs to mine.

[Platinum.]

Heh, missed all of those from my list, but I have still heard them all, love all of them, but are there any excellent artists that are underground that chances are I haven't ever heard of?

[beanmachine43]

lol. Pac, decent?

 

Anyway, a while back I requested some old-school artists to listen to and I've surprisingly found a liking to a lot of them. I'm gonna head out to the local shop aroud here and see what they have in stock in the "Oldies" section.

[Paco]

 

Anybody got any recommendation's for someone looking to find some good music?

 

I've tried and liked:

 

MF Doom

Jedi Mind Tricks

Looptroop

Common

Atmosphere

Immortal Technique

Talib Kweli

The Roots

Mos Def

Black Star

Tribe Called Quest

Nas

 

I know they're pretty much your "mainstream underground hip-hop" artists but since they're the ones most commonly mentioned then I thought I may as well try them out first. 

Tonedeff

Cunninlynguists

Dalek

Blackalicious

One Be Lo

Canibus

Cannibal Ox

El-P

De La Soul

Dungeon Family

J Dilla

cLOUDDEAD

Subtle

Quasimoto

Pigeon John

Outerspace

Pack FM

Pumpkinhead

Souls of Mischief

Hieroglyphics

Camp Lo

Digable Planets

D.I.T.C.

Big Pun

 

Too lazy for more.

[dills]

Doodlebug of Digable Planets is on a vinyl I've got.

[Vito Leone]

eazy e kicks ass, hands down. that nigga is more gangsta than all of us together.

[Paco]

eazy e kicks ass, hands down. that nigga is more gangsta than all of us together.

Eazy sucked. End of discussion.

 

Can we get some REAL talk in here?

[beanmachine43]

eazy e kicks ass, hands down. that nigga is more gangsta than all of us together.

Eazy sucked. End of discussion.

 

Can we get some REAL talk in here?

Paco, you better stop before you get a PWB.

 

Again, I like Eazy, but I haven't heard too much of his material outside NWA. Also, I can't find that track Vito mentioned, looks like I'll have to turn to "alternative" choices.

[The-King]

I've been looking into People Under The Stairs but haven't been able to find any samples, does anyone have someplace I could get some tracks to listen to.

[mateo83]

Doodlebug of Digable Planets is on a vinyl I've got.

Butterfly Meca,The female in Digable does the chorus for that new song "Candy".Its a Snoop joint with E-40 and Daz.....Video is dope....

 

Heres that video.

 

 

[Blind Joe Death]

 

Doodlebug of Digable Planets is on a vinyl I've got. 

Butterfly Meca,The female in Digable does the chorus for that new song "Candy".Its a Snoop joint with E-40 and Daz.....Video is dope....

 

Heres that video.

 

 

Yeah that a good song. Snoop Dogg is da boss! Anyways I didn't post too much in the last Rap/Hip Hop topic but expect me to be posting here more as I am a Rap/Hip Hop lover just like the rest of you.

Edited March 15, 2007 by ya mum

[Mister Pink]

Nah, can't say I like Snoop. He's been churning out the same stuff for the past 7 years. No innovation and no attempt to reinvent himself.

 

Been taking a trip down memory lane. Been buying some old albums I used to listen to. I haven't heard these since I was 12 or 13 (21 now). I got Pauls Boutique by the Beastie Boys, underestimated album I think. I like the fusion of 70's New York soul with hip-hop beats and rapping. Got Licensed to Ill (1986) too. I'm loving the really old-skool drum machine beats.

 

Now I might get some Jurrasic 5 or KRS One.

 

Peace out!

[DJ-Chronic]

Snoop has tried to reinvent himself. He's re-established himself in a mainstream light, which in business and money terms was a smart move. From a music standpoint it's f*cking ridiculous and just downright messed the f*ck up. I hate seeing snoop bopping about with bloody jt, it's a f*cking comedy routine. Still...he tried, he failed, he lost respect from hip hop heads. What a wolly.

 

 

[Vito Leone]

eazy e kicks ass, hands down. that nigga is more gangsta than all of us together.

Eazy sucked. End of discussion.

 

Can we get some REAL talk in here?

Paco, you better stop before you get a PWB.

 

Again, I like Eazy, but I haven't heard too much of his material outside NWA. Also, I can't find that track Vito mentioned, looks like I'll have to turn to "alternative" choices.

download Just Tah Let U Know man

it's gangsta as f*ck.

or Real Motherf*ckin G's

 

Snoop sold out the day he remixed 50's Motherf*ckin PIMP. man, he was the gangstarest anorexic rapper I've ever seen. Doggystyle kicked. I guess money > good flow, and keepin it real.

[jimmy.]

Boston has some really good rappers at the moment like Mr. Lif, Akrobatic, Edan they're all refreshingly original and talented. Also I agree with Paco, this chat is always Tupac, Eazy, Dre, blah blah blah. I listen to them sometimes but, still, they're overrated as hell. I have always liked the East Coast a lot more, but the West Coast has its moments.

 

Can we get some REAL talk in here?

You should listen to Sir Menelik on his album Cyclops 4000. I am listening to it now. His wordplay is really really real.

Edited March 15, 2007 by JIMMY12

[Vito Leone]

let's talk about Notorious BIG then.

 

just cause dills forced me to.

[mateo83]

Snoop didnt sell out unless he's making music that aint Hip Hop.....Snoop is still making good music.Selling out is a term that is defined by what kind of music you make?....Reeeeediculus....

[Gantons Most Wanted]

is this the official hip hop/rap topic or the bask every single hip hop rap artist topic because already Paco's managed to Bash a few decent artists like 2 Pac and Eazy Vito's managed to knock Snoop Dogg wtf is wrong with you all way i see it is every artist is good in there own light but Vito trying to make out Eazy is just as good as 2 Pac or B.I.G. is just f*ckin ridiculous man Eazy's raps were ghost written most likely by MC Ren after The D.O.C. left Ruthless with Dre anyway now can we start talking about some decent artists who aren't always recognized like Sam Sneed because he made more tracks than just U Better Recognize he did an alternative version of Street Dreams with Nas And Nature and a track called Lady Heroin

[mateo83]

is this the official hip hop/rap topic or the bask every single hip hop rap artist topic because already Paco's managed to Bash a few decent artists like 2 Pac and Eazy Vito's managed to knock Snoop Dogg wtf is wrong with you all way i see it is every artist is good in there own light but Vito trying to make out Eazy is just as good as 2 Pac or B.I.G. is just f*ckin ridiculous man Eazy's raps were ghost written most likely by MC Ren after The D.O.C. left Ruthless with Dre anyway now can we start talking about some decent artists who aren't always recognized like Sam Sneed because he made more tracks than just U Better Recognize he did an alternative version of Street Dreams with Nas And Nature and a track called Lady Heroin

Sam Sneed also wrote alot of Dre's raps...Great ghostwriter.One of the many Dre had.

[Vito Leone]

Eazy put compton on the map, and partially made his rhymes. He was no lyricist or flow maker, but he revolutionized rap, and made a completely different genre get known out there... and his songs you gotta admit... were better than some of dre's. Just Tah Let U Know (youtube link) or Niggaz Aint Dead - he made the lyrics for Niggaz Aint Dead (

{keep in mind the sniper remix is actually the remake of the video, not the song})

 

He's nothin like pac or biggie. He's something else. Eazy is the revolutionary. He had niggas doin rhymes for him, but he was gangsta.

 

We gotta respect him man, he was hard in his time.

 

Pac is the man, biggie is so-so. He had lyrics, but wack ass flows.

[dills]

I don't get how you can call him revolutionary when all of his stuff was written by someone else, surely they were the revolutionaries.

[Vito Leone]

I don't get how you can call him revolutionary when all of his stuff was written by someone else, surely they were the revolutionaries.

dude, eazy e put gangsta rap on the map. He was the money man of the golden era of hip hop. He did the ropes. He brought compton to the mainstream, and managed ruthless by himself.

 

goddamn it, at least respect the guy for being a frontman for gangster rap in its time man.

[dills]

I don't get how you can call him revolutionary when all of his stuff was written by someone else, surely they were the revolutionaries.

dude, eazy e put gangsta rap on the map. He was the money man of the golden era of hip hop. He did the ropes. He brought compton to the mainstream, and managed ruthless by himself.

 

goddamn it, at least respect the guy for being a frontman for gangster rap in its time man.

I respect the guy for pionering gansta rap but you can't compare him as an artist to other great rappers.

[Vito Leone]

I don't get how you can call him revolutionary when all of his stuff was written by someone else, surely they were the revolutionaries.

dude, eazy e put gangsta rap on the map. He was the money man of the golden era of hip hop. He did the ropes. He brought compton to the mainstream, and managed ruthless by himself.

 

goddamn it, at least respect the guy for being a frontman for gangster rap in its time man.

I respect the guy for pionering gansta rap but you can't compare him as an artist to other great rappers.

I'm not comparing him at all.

 

Pac for life man.