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) :(