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Any hip hop fans????

Awesome! a hip hop thread!

at the moment i am listening to:

Ludacris
Wiz Khalifa (if you haven't heard of him, listen to his Hero Freestyle)
Weezy, not a D rider but i've been listening to his old stuff, not this new trash he is putting out.
The Game
 
Are you serious? How is this a hip hop discussion without one person mentioning 2Pac? 2Pac was and will always be the greatest rapper ever to live, the only person that could even come close to Pac is NaS
 
These are my favorite artists in order. I can't really split up groups, so I put the groups in as "individuals" and ordered the group individuals in my favorite order. D-Block Next Generation is really a few different groups (Team Arliss, 354, and more) and are technically part of D-Block, but the LOX are in a different class lol. St.Raw is definitely close though.


Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas,

(Jadakiss, Styles P, Sheek Louch, L.O.X., D-Block)

(St.Raw, Bully, Trav, Snyp Life, Bucky, Team Arliss, 354, D-Block Next Generation)

Papoose, J-Hood, Cassidy, Beanie Sigel, (Havoc, Prodigy, Mobb Deep), Freeway, and early 50 cent


blackbelt534 said:
Are you serious? How is this a hip hop discussion without one person mentioning 2Pac? 2Pac was and will always be the greatest rapper ever to live, the only person that could even come close to Pac is NaS
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Second post mentioned him. I have the 7 Day Theory, but I don't listen to enough Pac to mention him. I do list him on my Facebook though, but under his 7 Day Theory alias ;).
 
blackbelt534 said:
Are you serious? How is this a hip hop discussion without one person mentioning 2Pac? 2Pac was and will always be the greatest rapper ever to live, the only person that could even come close to Pac is NaS
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Mercy, can people talk about hip hop without always bringing up this or that rapper who ain't doing s**t. I mean it's nice to read through and see some new names mentioned. Can we stop talking about Pac and Biggie and talk about MCs with albums and new material coming out this year? And discuss some contemporary albums.

People bring up Pac like rap started in the 90s. The music is bigger than one performer.
 
rockosmodurnlif said:
Mercy, can people talk about hip hop without always bringing up this or that rapper who ain't doing s**t. I mean it's nice to read through and see some new names mentioned. Can we stop talking about Pac and Biggie and talk about MCs with albums and new material coming out this year? And discuss some contemporary albums.



People bring up Pac like rap started in the 90s. The music is bigger than one performer.
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how can you say that? Tupac and bggie were the heart and soul of rap in the 90's. When both of them died part of hip hop died with them. There is no rapper out there that could beat tupac. The new rap that's coming out is crap, the rappers today(besides NaS)don't put there heart and soul into their music anymore, rap has become too commercialized no a days, nobody seems unique
 
blackbelt534 said:
how can you say that? Tupac and bggie were the heart and soul of rap in the 90's. When both of them died part of hip hop died with them. There is no rapper out there that could beat tupac. The new rap that's coming out is crap, the rappers today(besides NaS)don't put there heart and soul into their music anymore, rap has become too commercialized no a days, nobody seems unique
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Lol, you give him to much credit. Rap/Hip Hop was here before them and it will continue to be here long after they died.

There were dozens of other artist in the 90's other than Tupac. He was just mainstream and happened to die tragically.

There were a handful of rappers in the early to mid 90's that were just as influential to the hip hop community as a whole, than just Tupac.

Pharcyde, Del the Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the list goes on and on.
 
nateDEEZY said:
Lol, you give him to much credit. Rap/Hip Hop was here before them and it will continue to be here long after they died.

There were dozens of other artist in the 90's other than Tupac. He was just mainstream and happened to die tragically.

There were a handful of rappers in the early to mid 90's that were just as influential to the hip hop community as a whole, than just Tupac.

Pharcyde, Del the Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the list goes on and on.
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blasphemy. tupac and biggie are in the upper echelon according to most. very few current artists are on the same level, and have the same influence.

not saying the pharcyde, or de la, or tribe have no influence at all (they are some of my favorites), but you're basically saying meh, tupac, whatever, if he didn't die no one would remember him.
 
donga said:
blasphemy. tupac and biggie are in the upper echelon according to most. very few current artists are on the same level, and have the same influence.

not saying the pharcyde, or de la, or tribe have no influence at all (they are some of my favorites), but you're basically saying meh, tupac, whatever, if he didn't die no one would remember him.
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I appreciated his poetry much more than I did his music, don't get me wrong he was a great writer. He had passion for his writing, I don't disagree there. He wanted to be an actor, that is what he wanted to be famous for. He was a martyr for his genre of gangster rap, plain and simple. That is what made him an iconic symbol for his genre.

I was under the impression this thread was in regards to hip hop, not just rap.

He was considered in the upper echelon by the music industry, because he was a money maker.
 
donga said:
blasphemy. tupac and biggie are in the upper echelon according to most. very few current artists are on the same level, and have the same influence.

not saying the pharcyde, or de la, or tribe have no influence at all (they are some of my favorites), but you're basically saying meh, tupac, whatever, if he didn't die no one would remember him.
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So what if they're in the upper echelon?

There's artists right now out there right now trying to claw their way into the lower echelon but hip hop fans are still throwing on Biggie and 2Pac records talking about the good ol' days before hip hop sold out. So what? Get over it. People still putting their hearts on records speaking the truth as they see it. Other people will always be using hip hop to make money. Can't change that. How's the music supposed to go forward if all it's doin is looking back.

I mean here comes a hip hop thread and we're talking about 2Pac and Biggie. Again. They're great. No one says they aren't. But we don't have to genuflect at the altar of Pac and Biggie everytime we talk about hip hop. No disrespect but they're dead. Let's move on.
 
yOGi420™ said:
just wanted to know where all the hip hop fans are at!! I've been into the hip hop scene since 83 and currently listen to mostly nor cal artists but I don't limit myself there... I have a very extensive collection of artists from all over the states, I just have been really diggin what has been coming out of Northern California in the last couple of months. Anyone else into hip hop post some of your favorite artist of current days and what has been in your rotation lately. Currently I'm really liking the Newest release from Messy Marv, "Cake & Ice Cream, Vol. 2". Also have been playing Bueno "Maloof Money", PSD "A Star Iz Born", & Yay Boyz Present "Got Purp? Vol. 2"... How about ya'll???
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I'm a hip-hop head....I like:

-Flame
-Lecrae
-Tedashii
-Da' Truth
-Sho
-Dre Sr.
-Dry Bonez Live
 
rockosmodurnlif said:
...Biggie and 2Pac records talking about the good ol' days before hip hop sold out.
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Now she's a gangsta rollin with gangsta b*tches
Always smokin blunts and gettin drunk
Tellin me sad stories, now she only f**ks with the funk
Stressin how hardcore and real she is
She was really the realest, before she got into showbiz
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As told by Common.

Chuck D told me to keep a sober mind//
And even though his sidekick liked the flavor of bass//
I swear to God Hip hop was about being drug free//
I swear to god hip hop is about the upliftment of humanity//
And I swear to god hip hop was what rock was not was what rock was not was not pop, (pop! pshhhh)//
Guess I was gassed!, see I remember when Dr Dre use to express
Himself about hating the chronic//
A few years later he's endorsing it while drinking gin and tonic//
Suburbanites that blast Mace learn their mad face from Onyx//
It was a rat race the first to properly use ebonics//
Dynomite like JJ, but it was a fad like Super Sonic//
Hip hop flipped from being artistic to a pop hit//
Mainstream took control and we cannot stop it//
Its a black art, being manipulated by white controllers//
Just like rock and roll is ....
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Sage Francis - Mullet

To be honest I'd like to forget that whole gangster rap era because it only perpetuated the terrible mainstream sh*t that leaked it's way into the 21st century. Very few good came from that era, yes I'm acknowledging the good artist.
 
Joshh1 said:
Eh I haven't listened to wayne in a couple of months now, don't really plan to.

Anyone in here awaiting Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II? I guess it's supposed to come out towards the end of this month. Not getting my hopes up though.
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Albums like that are always pushed back till you don't even care if it comes out or not. Its just retarded how they do that to us....
 
Mostly listening to two mixtapes at the moment:

TiRon - Ketchup Mixtape

Various Artists - Your New Favourite Mixtape

Fav Artists

MF Doom (eagerly waiting for the new album)
ATCQ
Leaders Of The New School
The Roots
Old Tupac Albums
Warren G
Black Milk
Slum Village
J Dilla R.I.P (The Very Very Best.....I Mean Ever)
P.P.P (and Wajeed's Solo stuff)
Busta Rhymes (Old Albums)
Nas (Old Albums)
Pacific Division (Can't wait for their album to come)
The Pharcyde
De La Soul

To name a few...
 
For me hip-hop has been caught out during the whole presidential election/credit crunch (recession). Hip-hop cared about the issues in the 80s, turned angry in the 90s and just gave up in the 2000s. however with a black person running for the top job, all of a sudden every drug dealers favourite rapper was talking politics and about the REAL issues that affect the black community...if only for 5 minutes. People are losing jobs/homes left, right and centre yet rappers still scream about there ice/cars/clothes/[........]place whichever alcoholic beverage they're endorsing in the brackets provided. If you love Hip-hop then you have either: Put up with it, stopped buying, a combination of the two or been forced underground like (i'd be willing to guess) most of us. Disco died because it did not reflect what was happening in the real world, outside of the club. There was huge social unrest in the 70s and early 80s and all disco could muster was another party-time, feel good record. Now we're in a depression and Hip-hop is making all the same mistakes that disco did.
 
nateDEEZY said:
To be honest I'd like to forget that whole gangster rap era because it only perpetuated the terrible mainstream sh*t that leaked it's way into the 21st century. Very few good came from that era, yes I'm acknowledging the good artist.
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I feel you but I'm just using that person's frame of reference.
 
reppin DC/ Bmore

At the moment I'm doin the homefield advantage thing. I listen to everything (16,000 itunes song library) but been mainly playin some Wale. Anyone else gettin real into Wale? His mixtapes are some of the best ive ever heard and I cant wait for the album. Im also real down with Kid Cudi and his style (even though he from Cleveland) at the moment.

Anyone gettin the scoop on Wale shows in Delmarva area?
 
Tupac and Biggie were extremely talented and a major influence on hip-hop, can't deny that. I just rarely ever find myself listening to either of them anymore cause there's so much amazing underground hip-hop that has come out over the past several years. There are other artists than just Nas who can rival Tupac, MF Doom and Immortal Technique come to mind whenever talking about talented rappers and I'm sure they would put up a good fight with Tupac or Biggie in a freestyle battle. Real hip-hop is NOT dead, it just moved to the underground, stuff on the billboard charts is ******** these days.
 
C mon now guys!
What about the south (Texas to be exact)
You got
-Pimp C
-Bun B
-Devin tha Dude
-Z-ro
-Trae
-Chalie Boy
-And one of the most definite best out (look him up if you havent heard)
Chamillionaire!!
 
ah yeah...

RJD2
Aesop Rock
MF DOOM
Mos Def
Blackalicious
Tha Alcoholics
Cool Calm Pete
Jedi Mind Tricks
Snowgoons

i could go on, but that should be a good start..
 
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