Not bad. I like "Pose Ton Gun"

Wow, thank you for posting this! One of the best tracks I've heard for a long time. So relaxing, so full of layers... excellent.

I would like some rap/hip hop recommendations.

I don't care about lyrics. I can't stress that enough; I don't care about the rhymes, and I'd prefer that any and all rappers avoid "serious" topics. I listen to vocals as an instrument.

I mostly just care about having quality beats. If you're curious, I classify eurotrash techno bleep-bloop crap as ****.

Anyways, artists I like: Dre Dog, MC Solaar, Nujabes, Eazy-E, etc.

Artists I ****ing hate: Aesop Rock, Death Grips, Dizzy Rascal, etc.

Dizzy Rascal...? Oh dear mate.

? Are you trolling 'cuz I put a 'y' where I should've put 'ee'?

No, that doesn't bother me at all. Just hilarious who you placed him alongside given your previous criteria for the Hip Hop music you like.

Opak is a Belgian rap band (in french).


Scylla is an other Belgian band (in french).

Oh it kills me to see Aesop Rock in the ****ing hate pile.

But I'm gonna make recommendations for you anyway.

Microphone Mike started in the early 90s and alongside with friends started the Freestyle Fellowship, putting out the landmark album To Whom It May Concern. This is just the tip of the iceberg on his career, but he was born to jazz musicians and grew up listening to his parents and their peers playing. At a young age he began vocally freestyling along with his parents improvisational jazz. He uses his voice like a jazz instrument in most of his work, and that's why I think you'll like him. He no longer goes by Microphone Mike. He changed to Mikah 9 before '92. And somewhere along the line... probably around the end of the 90s early 00's, he changed the spelling of his name again to Myka 9 and that's where he's been since. You can find his solo albums under Mikah 9 and Myka 9, you can find group works with Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku D'etat, and Magic Heart Genies, and Project Blowed.

I recommend grabbing Mikah 9's Timetable first, then maybe some Freestyle Fellowship (they have 4 albums altogether, one being released last year) or Haiku D'etat, then some of the Myka 9 albums like 1969, Mykology, etc.

Here's a simple song, almost boring, but it shows what I mean by using his voice as a instrument. He makes the track fly on a very simple unchanging beat. Not the best example but one of the first songs I could think of. And besides, this is from ... '91 I think, so it's very advanced for its time.



I really love this one, but on the album it's got 10 minutes of silence at the end of the track so I don't get to share it on turntable/mumu much:



And here's something recent, a freestyle for G4TV he did back in '05



And here's one of his most recent release from '11

Thank you, Mr. Dood. That is amazing.

Eh? I really don't understand the love for Aesop Rock or Death Grips. I remember being stuck in a car with a girl for about two hours, who introduced Aesop Rock with, "....if you care about beats, you'll like this guy, he's great!" And it was total misery. The only Death Grips song I've bothered with had worthless Eurotrash bleep-bloop techno for a "beat".... although he does get points for looking like a bum.

Really? That's definitely not a sound I associate with them. Try this instead:

You had the wrong person introduce you to Aesop Rock, that's for sure. I just wonder if it's way too late to change your mind about it or just a little late. It took me a good couple years to get everything out of Aesop's tracks. But then again, I love his lyrics and flow. The beats are just icing on the cake for me: Blockhead, El-P, Aesop himself, Prefuse 73, Big Wiz all do Aesop well or make for great instrumental tracks if you can find them.

How are you still not getting it? I laughed at the fact that you had Dizzie Rascal in the hate pile because he ticks every box you seemed to like.

i want to quote something from this but its all gold lol

Stop being modest, Sparky. I knew it was only a matter of time before you and Phantom Limb finally got together and made a video. Good work, guys!

ugh my voluptuous good-looks are a dead give away

So the only real hip hop albums I own are most of the Beastie Boys albums, the first three Eminem albums, Public Enemy's second and third album, and Enter The Wu Tang.

What are some other great hip hop albums that are must have's for any hip hop/rap fan?

Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Blackstar - Talib Kweli and Mos Def are Blackstar
Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Nas - Illmatic
Jaylib - Champion Sound
Madvillain (MF Doom and Madlib) - Madvillainy
Diggin' in the Crates - D.I.T.C.

That's a pretty solid list right there. :clap:

danish rap lets go

zwag

Gangsta Rap:

Spice 1 - I'm The ****ing Murderer - YouTube
Spice 1 from the album "187 he wrote"

Some West Coast Underground:

Cold World Hustlers - Cold Day In Hell (remix) - YouTube
Cold World Hustlers from the album "Iceland"

More West Coast Underground:

Young Dre' D...(Midnight Kreeper).."Beware of da Kreep" - YouTube
Young Dre D from the difficult album to find "Troubled Mind"

East Coast old school:

Main Source - Looking At The Front Door - YouTube
Main Source from the album "Breaking Atoms"

Some of y'all OF fans might appreciate this.

Pharoah Monche was one of the best. He's top 25 of all time, without a doubt.

Syntactic ambiguity is a real bitch.

Eh? I've now heard two songs off their new album (thanks, indie girls of Montana), and they both had the bleep bloop beats. That track you posted did not, but that's not my thing. At all.

Tru dat bro.

Sparky on some creme de la creme shit

A true connoisseur, you could say.

New Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape for anyone who's interested, with some original tracks that hadn't been previously released.

Clams Casino- Instrumental Mixtape 2*|*The Needle Drop

Kanser - Future Retro Legacy. Feel good hip hop.

hop in your spaceship and bang this **** in the year 4650.

that was sick anti

j dilla just released another album from the grave
"rebirth of detroit"
it's not bad but a lot of the songs you've heard before prbly

Hocus Pocus - Beautiful Losers ft Alice Russell [Official Video]


C2C's Tribute to Mr.Armstrong


Grünt #2 Feat. Areno Jaz, Lomepal, La Mannschaft, Doums, Framal

Saké

Saké & Guizmo - Viens m'voir - Clip Officiel


Saké & Swift Guad - Je m'en sors bien - Clip Officiel

Krizz Kaliko

Gran Kino - I Love Tennis [Gran Kino feat Juan Huevos]

17 year old who just released his new mixtape 1999

Basically Wu-Tang worship, but I'm a sucker for jazzy beats: