Hip Hop
Posted by burken82 on 8 September 2008 - 6:34pm.
I've recently started listening to Hip Hop & am looking for suggestions on acts to check out. To give you a few clues I'm currently loving I Can't Get No Sleep by the Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Grouch & Why. Anymore suggestions would be welcome.
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Rapper's Delight
I know it's deflating to start with a reference to previous posts, but check here first:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/help-i-don-039-t-rap-music-am-i-mi...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/rap-music
My current favourite rap track (with hip hop I always think in terms of tracks rather than albums) is probably "Help Dem Lord" by the UK's very own Blak Twang. Not new, but I'm playing it regularly, and loudly:
It's a Rap
Just trying to figure out what hip hop I've played most over the last six months, and it's probably tracks from the second Dr Octagon album. Dr Octagon is one of Kool Keith's many alter-egos.
if Roots Manuva qualifies
enjoyed it on the last word Cd and bought the album. v.good
Ice-T
"O.G. Gangster" - Ice-T
An absolute classic
The Roots
Their last album "Rising Down " is excellent. My fave track of the last 2 years is SAIGON "C'mon baby "
ANYTHING that includes MF Doom
Rael Name: Daniel Dumile and English born tho raised in the States. I would start with Occult Hymn by Danger Doom. This is a freely available ligit download from a project with Danger Mouse for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoons. Get it Here:
http://www.last.fm/user/aphrospice/journal/2006/06/10/151x_%5Badult_swim...
If you like it there is a whole album called The Mouse and the Mask. Very worth getting is the solo album Operation Doomsday. Doom has done loads of collaboration and used loads of pseudonyms so there is a big back catalogue and all of it is good. Love his collection of short instrumentals/riffs called Special Herbs.
Also worth checking out is French rap (really!) like early MC Solaar, Soon E MC as well as I AM and Alliance Ethnik
Stones throw records
If you like MF Doom stuff as suggested by Jim above then check out Madlib, Madvillian, Peanut Butter Wolf and Quasimoto all on Stones Throw Records - great intelligent, inventive stoner funk hop.
Also to ad to his excellent French suggestions you really should check out Franco Algerian rhyme masters Sian Supa Crew.
I enjoyed the peice in this month's mag on Straight Outta Compton - that album never fails to get my blood pumping, it's truly timeless.
Ones I keep returning to include Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design, Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers, Klashnekoff - Sagas Of, and Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind. The last two are great British rappers who appear to have disappeared off the map of late.
Ring Rang-A Dong!
I love rap & hip hop! And it doesn't get any better than this.
Put your arms in the air, let me hear you say! RRRIGHT!