Best Rap out there right NOW!
 

I've been out of the rap game for a long time now, mainly exploring deeply into alternative rock. I want to get back into rap music that's hot and out right now, but I have no idea where to start.

Don't come in here with Kanye West and T.I.P. and shit, I know about them, all I have to do is go on MTV.com to find those artists. I want new stuff, stuff that doesn't get main radio play, but shit that's hot.

Annnnnnd GO!

I've heard nothing but good things from this Vanilla Ice character. Apparently he offers his words to your mother.

Anything by Nas.

Mos Def and DJ Audio

I bought this yesterday having never heard of it but it's pretty much a Mos Def greatest hits, remixed and spun by this DJ Audio..

Good shit..

d/l the album Tobacco Road by Common Market for real hip hop, 14 solid tracks and interesting beats

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classic..:lol:

what it's like

havin a roni

Sage Francis

Dose One
Sage Francis
Atmosphere
Aesop Rock
NonPhixion
Tribe Called Quest
13 and God
Subtle
Why?
The Cool Kids
M.I.A.
Sole
Bus Driver
Telephone Jim Jesus
Mad Lib

Anyone on Anticon pretty much :)
Dirty Loop (mush now i think)
Def Jux

and Mainstream
Lil Wayne's mixtapes
Jay Z
Nas


IF you like instrumental beats
Check
Dj shadow
Flying Lotus

Trip Hop/ Acid Jazz
Mr. Scruff
Grey boy

And def. check out
The Bug

And Amon Tobin is kind of a jazzy hip hop mix thing

Color Me Bad

Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne is my favourite Hiphop album this year. A Milli is the best beat I've heard since 2001. (The Dre album, not the year.)

Lil Wayne's terrible now.

Opinions are like arseholes, and all that.

Lil Wayne is a beast..

Lil Wayne blows dick.

Nah..

You can not judge him on shit like Lollipop cause that is not what his real shit sounds like..

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I've never been a huge fan of Lil Wayne, but his older shit from like 2000 is better than that.

THIS TALIB KWELI AND I'M BANGIN ON YA EARDRUM

Moka Only

Here's my list of my favorites

Moka Only
Aceyalone
MF Doom
Swollen Members
Cage
El-P
RJD2 (beats)
Mr. Scruff
OH NO
J Dilla
Blockhead (beats)
Del
Son Doobie

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to listen to, my fav labels right now would be Def Jux and Stones Throw. NY and Cali.

But recently I've been feeling Downtempo. I'm working on my freestyles and I think Trip-Hop and downtempo beats work best. I like Mark Farina's OM label for that shit.

Freestyling to Downtemp/House/Trip-Hop beats is my thing right now

I'm waiting for the new Swollen Members, Mad Child and Cage to drop. But I gotta go downtown to get those.

I love MF Doom beats. Anything from Operation Doomsday, but it's impossible to get

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MUpZAWuFI The Title Track

I love the beats on Madvillainy

Madvillian is amazing
also naitch omg amazing list, a couple I need to check out.

I had a sweet Madvillain shirt that I lost in Katrina..

http://www.thegiantpeach.com/product.../12/d_2466.gif

Bad ASS

I had a sweet radiohead shirt that said meeting people is easy or some such, I only had it like 3 days, and I got like these 5 buttons, I think Slint, Radiohead, Wolf Parade, Spoon, and I'm not really sure of the other one, but anyway I left it in this girl's car and after we split she never gave the shit back.

Her name wasn't Katrina but as an homage to both of our stories i will now post the entirely ambigious (it may or may not be about the hurricane) Katrina by The Black Lips:

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2 people listing Mr Scruff in this thread.

Other than JusJus, with Roots Manuva, how can any of his stuff be considered rap?

Its more House than anything.

shut the fuck up, they are Ninja Tune and they are experimental hip-hop if anything

Do you even know what house is?

THEY?

Funny, because Mr Scruff is one dude.

How do I know this? I go to his club night in Manchester pretty much every month.

experimental hip hop my nuts. how could you pigeon hole his back catalogue into such a lie?

And just because HE is on Ninja Tune, doesn't dictate the genre he produces. White Stripes brought a record out on Sub Pop, hardly makes them a fucking grunge band now does it?

Fuckin' Slayer

There is none.

Old Skool 4 Lyfe!

yeah ok sorry I thought you listed Roots Manuva and Mr. Scruff and whatever as non hip hop but THEY are with Ninja Tune (worked with)

I am probably wrong on the fact that Scruff does house in England (from what I heard, I havent heard his "house" shit that you speak off. I know he's one dude. I just skeemed through your post too fast)

MY BAD (I was probably drunk when I posted that, got too excited) :(

Sub Pop has never been simply grunge though, not even predominantly.

You have no idea what you are talking about..

It's noteriety originated with alt rock though, and is most renound for having The Jesus and Mary chain, Afghan Whigs, Mudhoney and Nirvana on their label at the same time. Grunge era. Now is a different story, which was my point exactly.

But shockingly, it went over your head, Clox.


And to be fair, Naitch, Scruff's tunes are anything and everything. Soul, Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz, house, and even some dub and more of the niche electronica sounds. But he makes his tunes like a House Dj/Producer, and he is identical with the way he mixes live as a House Dj. Its all on the bass beat and layered in presentation.

Feel like a total pussy, castrating and rabbiting on about genres.

Oh and weezer was on there about the same time. And do you realize sub pop used to really had a bunch of nongrunge artists.

I remember my sister getting the sampler albums when I was a kid with like a bunch of people on it.

THAT WAS MY FUCKING POINT.....AGAIN!!!! YOU DICK!!!!!

Yes but Ninja is mainly hip hop very predominetly.

But not entirely. So please stop discussing this very small point, in the grand scheme of things.

You guys should check out Blue Exile if you can find it.

Don't make my pull out my 9 and bust a cap.


:shifty:

The streets are amazing

Themselves
Blackalicious
Quasimodo
Sole
Deep Puddle Dynamic
Tribe Called Quest
El- P
Oh No
J Dilla
Blockhead
Del
Son Doobie
Mad Lib
13 and God
Mad Child
Operation Doomsday

Clox loves my list

Yes I do

Ill Bill just put out a new album, The Hour of Reprisal. Its good shit. Check who else is featured on this ish: Vinnie Paz of JMT, Immortal Technique, Raekwon, Necro, Tech N9ne with production from DJ Lethal, DJ Premier, and DJ Muggs among others.

Tech N9ne is shit.. ABT has been trying to get me to like that guy for years..

:wavesad:

My sister and her bf get all pissed when I tell them Tech N9ne is shit, funny stuff.

Just listen to the CD shitheads.

Cause I'm a playa I'm a playa - I'm a playa, I'm a playa -
Ohhhhh I'm a playa!

I'll rep you people as rep allows it. Much appreciations and shit from all of you except Clox (jk clox).