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Post by Fullerov on Mar 28, 2005 22:00:57 GMT
I like a lot of the commercial early 90's stuff NWA,Dr Dre Etc
also Wu Tang, Eminem (honestly)Run DMC,
dont like Fiddy Cent,Snoop Dogg
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Post by bamos on Mar 29, 2005 11:01:22 GMT
I co-hosted the Hip Hop show on Uni radio, so I know a little bit, apparently. In my opinion the best hip-hop album I own is Get Free by Dead Prez. Either that or Doggystyle anyway  Although I've got a lot of time for Nas' first album and, although almost universally derided, The Black Album by Jay-Z Oh, and I'm also white and am not particularly bothered by 3Feet High... |
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 29, 2005 17:50:59 GMT
Wow!
The Black Album is derided? By who? Most hip hop fans I know think it's great, bar that shite Eminem production...
Dead Prez eh? They're SO racist it's quite funny. Nice basslines though.
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Post by tafkac on Mar 29, 2005 18:42:35 GMT
Hmmm. I have no hip-hop background so my taste is kind of weird. I have to admit to being pretty prejudiced against anything moronic or macho - I have little time for wallowing in race, whether it be whiteness or blackness. I don't have the greatest knowledge of more mainstream hip-hop, other than the more obvious.
A lot of Anticon stuff washes over me a bit, though I might have to get that 13 & God album. I have to be in the right mood for Clouddead. I prefer Def Jux, Lex and Stone's Throw.
I realise there's a lot of derision in some circles, but I think there's some great UK hip-hop out there too, and not just "grime"(!). I really like Task Force, Braintax and Jehst for a start. I don't do favourite albums.
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 29, 2005 19:18:28 GMT
Personally with UK hip hop I find most of it so tedious and self important I really can't be bothered with it. Jehst is very good, as is Ricochet Kalashnekoff if you can bear East London gangsta one-liners ("Mans gettin' jacked on the high road for their Giro" "Bare beggars totally redders clutching their tenners, mans getting wet up for their Avirex leathers" - all a bit hard to decipher if you're not around it regularly) but Braintax, whilst his effort is admirable, just isn't a good MC. His lyrics are very, very simplistic and he relies on his beats way too much. UK rappers don't know how to take criticism though. A lot of the 'moronic & macho' stuff is done quite tongue in cheek and there's some great wordplay there, Big Punisher for example has this famous little verse where literally everything rhymes - "Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddley" ;D It's not all 50 Cent. I can't recommend Raekwon's "Only Built For Cuban Linx" enough though, and if you don't like the rapping get the instrumentals as it really is worth it, I don't listen to any other rap album as much and in my opinion it's one of the top 5 LPs ever. I'm writing too much, I haven't seen my hip hop friends in months  |
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Post by Smileadelic on Mar 29, 2005 19:37:13 GMT
Aye, "...Cuban Links" is a brilliant album.
Don't mind some UK hip-hop.
Some of the dumbass macho stuff is so unwittingly homoerotic that it's more funny than anything else.
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 29, 2005 19:42:22 GMT
^^ Like "suck my dick you faggot"?  Sometimes rappers can be a little slow. There's a website dedicated to mysteriously homoerotic rap lines but I can't for the life of me remember where it is and Google isn't helping. |
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Post by Smileadelic on Mar 29, 2005 19:49:49 GMT
Whenever I hear 50 Cent he reminds me, in a strange way, of Col Fitts in "American Beauty"...
"Forgive me for speaking so bluntly sir, but those fags make me wanna puke my fucking guts up."
"...yeah... well... me too, son..."
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Although I've got a lot of time for Nas' first album and, although almost universally derided, The Black Album by Jay-Z
