Hip hop

[RyanTheCaveman]

Coolio...hes awesome.:rastasmoke:

[briman]

Bollocks to that man listen to some foreign beggars, sway, skinnyman, mc vapour and mc skibadee:rastasmoke:

[nikweiser]

non phixion and gangstarr are two favs of mine

[UserName_22]

What happened to the real music, Gang Starr, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, why dont i hear this quality music on the radio? Its so confusing these days, whos good, and whos real, and whos fake. What do you like/hate about it?

I blame part of it on the fact that clearing samples is next to impossible nowadays. Back then, hiphop was a lot more sample driven. And it was better, because hiphop is about taking things from your enviornment and decontextualizing it to something else. Now, it seems to be about making that paper.

Check out Dead Prez, fuckin, Ghostface, DJ Shadow, Living Legends, etc...there's plenty of cats that still capture the essence, however, they're not going to get radio play because they don't necessarily appeal to the popular culture.

[Pinhole_Stars]

I blame part of it on the fact that clearing samples is next to impossible nowadays. Back then, hiphop was a lot more sample driven. And it was better, because hiphop is about taking things from your enviornment and decontextualizing it to something else. Now, it seems to be about making that paper.

Check out Dead Prez, fuckin, Ghostface, DJ Shadow, Living Legends, etc...there's plenty of cats that still capture the essence, however, they're not going to get radio play because they don't necessarily appeal to the popular culture.

Nahhh, Kanye West uses smaples in pretty much all of his songs as does Ghostface on his newer recordings. Bad rap has always been on the radio. Just look at Ice Ice Baby.

[BUDhha]

most hip hop right now is all right to me. id say back in like 1997-2001 i liked almost all of it. people i listen to now are mostly indie artists.

[Matt the Funk]

I listen to indie hip hop and some older rap. I liked a lot of radio stuff from the golden age of hip hop. Some of the early 90's to 1999 was good too.

[JeenYuss]

Anyone else think no one would know who Jim Jones was if he didn't yell BALLINNN?

We Stay High... No Lie... An You Kno This... BLAZIN!!!!:rastasmoke:

[LeetCraig]

I listen to current hip hop and older hip hop... Ghostface Killah's new album (More Fish) is awesome. I was really into Eazy E and NWA for a while the past few months, but not as much now, even though I still think that they're a few of the best.

[Mista Sippi]

hip hop is NOT dead. nas just sayin that shit cuz the south took over. jay-z stepped out of the game and the south took over. that's why jay came back all them up north cats is scared. and anybody that say different, go cop mixtape messiah 2 on chamillionaire's website, he ever address the situation about how the media is turnin it into a east coast vs the south. free download, and it's straight jammin from start to finish, I BET you won't be disappointed