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A couple of australian rappers (one is technically american since he was born their) who are in my opinion the best lyricists around right now.
For those who struggle to understand the accent (not sure why people struglle with it..but whatever) i will happily post the lyrics, just ask. They have a good producer as well.
^ Highlight of that song imo
"From mimicking thugs, thinking the lyrics were dope,
to gettin' no satisfaction 'cause it was mirrors and smoke
From a home of hip-hop, to a land owned by rock,
from rhyming to my mirror, to thousands blowin' the spot,
But through all of the cheers, and the boo's and the beers,
was just a kid on the bus, headphones glued to his ears,
Who just grew through the years to pursue with the tears,
the blood, sweat & make somethin' with his crew and his peers,
See it was hip-hop that put three lost souls on a map,
from showin' us the country, to puttin' clothes on our back,
And from finding myself in my mic's reflection,
to this musical marriage that gave my life direction"
next up is another australian rapper called Pez, great lyrically and great production. I hate seperating rap music by countries but if i had to, australia is where i would want to be right now.
"He's lost
In the world of the stars, with the girls and the cars
He's lost
and he wants that dream but he's unable to see
He's lost
now on the road they map so there's no way back
He's Lost!"
More Aussie hip hop, this time probably the biggest aussie rap group (commercially) The Hilltop Hoods. Lyrically brilliant and responsible for getting me into aussie rap and expanding my taste in rap.
"we got one world, still we take it in stride,
in this one life we stand still waiting to die."
"Now if life is what you make it it’s time to build,
Man I’m for real aint no telling what this life will yield,
I’m a career man, 'cause I career off any path,
That would lead me to a start of financial gains I’m scarred,
We learn from our mistakes, that makes me a scholar on,
Being a walking talking **** up and a better man for being wrong"
More aussie rap...
Dialectrix - outcast. Good flow, decent delivery, very strong lyrically.
the next rapper is a british rapper, these guys do bragging/horrorcore style stuff but they also do conscious type stuff with a dark feel to it. Easily the best rap group in the u.k, one of the strongest lyrically in the world imo. Great production (imo) and this one doesn't have the entire group on it, in fact it's just one of the members. A rapper named possessed, hopefully you can udnerstand the accent because lyrically this guy is close to being untouchable. His punchlines, wordplay and metas are insane.
"I'm eating out of coffins and caskets
everyone in my 'field of vision's', Just 'crops for the harvest' "
"I got master degree burns, After a heat stroke of genius"
"Haven't started to rap yet, this is just the sound of my breathing."
"Tormented by growing pains of my ever evolving brain"
"Rubbing salt into bullet wounds just to make the slug dissolve"
Next is another british rapper. Lyrically he's close to flawless. And he's a conscious rapper. First track is him performing a track called alphabet assassin, the concepts been done before and he even mentions papoose at the start (he did a similar track shortly before this one). Second track is more political (talking about the "war" with palestine and israel) and of the conscious kind of rap you are looking for.
well i hope you enjoy something out of this giant list lol
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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."
"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"
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