Old School!
 

I'm a big fan of Old School rap/hip-hop music and I was wondering what are your favorite songs? I like "De La Soul's Me, Myself, and I", "Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right", "Run DMC's Tricky", "The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight", "Run DMC's Peter Piper", and lots more. What great music!

I like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Run DMC, and other "classics" but I'm not reqally a huge fan of old school.

I'm a huge fan of old school rap. I love the old Dre, Snoop, LL Cool J, Rakim, KRS-one, Jay Z, Pac, Notorious B.I.G, Easy-E, Heavy D, and Public Enemy. Terrific stuff! Oh, and De La Soul's "Me Myself and I" is so good! And, Run DMC!!!!

Definitely Run DMC! Also some Biz Markie in there too. :rofl: Seriously though rap like that was the stuff.

Biz Markie rocks the house fo shizzle!

old school hiphop, some of it is okay
but i HATE modern rap more than anything heh

The stuff on the radio is bad, for the most part. The real geniuses are the underground rappers that don't get any play.

LL Cool J all the way. His older stuff is fresh.
Boogie Down Productions.

I Love the really old skool stuff like
treacherous 3
fat boys
funky four + one
Busy Bee
Whizz Kid
Spoonie G
Furious Five etc......

The message is probably my favourite hip hop song of all time

Erick B. and Rakim, "make em, make em clap to this"
Ultramagnetic MC's
Big Daddy Kane
Black Sheep
Even old-school Common when he was "Common Sense"
All classics

If we are talking REALLY old school then I preferred the electro sound a lot more. This is one cool compilation for newcomers and for revisionists alike.

Various - Electro Beatbox

Tommy Boy put out some great early stuff too and this comp is great:

Various - Tommy Boy Greatest Beats (The First Fifteen Years 1981-1996)

Highlights include:

Total-Can't You See
Digital Underground-The Humpty Dance
Coolio-Fantastic Voyage.

Need to up my ratio of Electro albums.

Classic tune from the Tommy Boy label:

Afrika Baambaata was pretty old school. I have his Planet Rock album and it is pretty sweet.

One of the best Hip Hop albums ever. A classic.