Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I don't think I've seen anybody in the Underground rap thread say that and be serious about it.

There used to be folks here in this thread(when it was in it's earlier stages)say those exact words. Used to hate it because those people used to have that "Holier Than Thou" mindset when it came to this subject of what's considered "Real Hip Hop". Still exists to this day, IMO.

Here's a question I have for everyone: How did you get into Rap Music? What exactly got you into listening to it? Of course for some of us, environment/culture may have played a role but what about others that weren't necessarily around it(culture/environment) when they were younger?

[Jukeman]

Regarding Chief Keef

I like him rapping about teen violence in chicago

but I don't think he is a good "rapper". Like if he were to start rapping about money, cars, and girls instead of inner city violence I think he would suck

interesting to see what develops in his career

I agree with this. As long as he stays in his lane he's cool.

Dont be like Soulja Boy.



-Juke

[Beantown]

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"Battle Scars" video by Lupe.

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[LionsFanNJ]

Re: Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

There used to be folks here in this thread(when it was in it's earlier stages)say those exact words. Used to hate it because those people used to have that "Holier Than Thou" mindset when it came to this subject of what's considered "Real Hip Hop". Still exists to this day, IMO.

Here's a question I have for everyone: How did you get into Rap Music? What exactly got you into listening to it? Of course for some of us, environment/culture may have played a role but what about others that weren't necessarily around it(culture/environment) when they were younger?

Environment easy. I was 11 when i heard Children's Story...It was over at that point.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

Here's a question I have for everyone: How did you get into Rap Music? What exactly got you into listening to it? Of course for some of us, environment/culture may have played a role but what about others that weren't necessarily around it(culture/environment) when they were younger?

Back in middle school it was the music. I had heard rap before, but once I got Napster and started downloading ****, it began and ended with Stankonia. I didn't watch MTV much so the culture projected in the music videos never spoke to me. There was fun juvenile **** like Thong Song or Jagged Little Thrill, but what kept it revolving for me was Eminem and OutKast and hell even a little bit of 50 Cent.

[DukeC]

Re: Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

There used to be folks here in this thread(when it was in it's earlier stages)say those exact words. Used to hate it because those people used to have that "Holier Than Thou" mindset when it came to this subject of what's considered "Real Hip Hop". Still exists to this day, IMO.

Here's a question I have for everyone: How did you get into Rap Music? What exactly got you into listening to it? Of course for some of us, environment/culture may have played a role but what about others that weren't necessarily around it(culture/environment) when they were younger?

When I understood the technical and literary (In terms of metaphors, homophones, entendres, all that good stuff) skill the very best have such as Lupe, Eminem, 3 Stacks, and Los. Real wordsmiths. I understood and really began to delve into it at 15-16.

Before that I though it was a bunch of gibberish speaking ignorant dudes talking about money, cars, and clothes. It's still that, but my perspective on it completely changed once I learned exactly what you can accomplish with it at then highest level of your creativity.

Still wish country would vanish off the face of the earth though.

[VandyRedskins21]

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I started to listen to guys like Rick Ross and Shawty Lo etc. when I was like a freshman in high school just because I thought it was cool. As time went on, I started checking out other rap and started to hate the "mainstream" (with a lack of a better term) rap and found music that I could relate to like from Macklemore. I also started to listen to music that the rappers that have immense talent like Kendrick, Slaughterhouse, Hopsin etc.

And that's how I got into rap

[JODYE]

Re: Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

There used to be folks here in this thread(when it was in it's earlier stages)say those exact words. Used to hate it because those people used to have that "Holier Than Thou" mindset when it came to this subject of what's considered "Real Hip Hop". Still exists to this day, IMO.

Here's a question I have for everyone: How did you get into Rap Music? What exactly got you into listening to it? Of course for some of us, environment/culture may have played a role but what about others that weren't necessarily around it(culture/environment) when they were younger?

Crazy. Actually it was my mother. My mom used to listen to everything. Pop, Rock, R&B, Country, Rap.

I'll never forget the first time I heard Tone Loc - Wild Thing in my mom's '88 T-Top Z28 Camaro. From that time on, I was hooked. Took that tape and played it until it wouldn't play anymore.

Then it was Wreckx-N-Effect, Toni Tony Tone, then K7 and the Swing Kids, and it evolved from there. I don't know what it was about it, but old hip hop just had this soul and bounce that hooked me. I listened to other genres, but nothing else evoked those emotions.

I didn't grow up in a great area, but nothing I would call the extreme hood, but environmentally, there was no incentive to listen to any genre. It wasn't forced upon me, which I think is how I was able to develop my own love for it.

Man, brought back some flashbacks thinking about it lol

EDIT - This was my JAM. At that time, obviously I had no clue what they were really referring to lol

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[Rocky]

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Isn't it funny when someone says a rapper sucks when he's talking about "money, cars, and girls" but awesome when he is talking about metaphysics or something like that. Even when technically, his lyrics are the same....its just different subject matter.

[VandyRedskins21]

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Isn't it funny when someone says a rapper sucks when he's talking about "money, cars, and girls" but awesome when he is talking about metaphysics or something like that. Even when technically, his lyrics are the same....its just different subject matter.

For me subject matter is huge in a song and not just rap, it can be any genre. I've found that the music I listen to can actually overlap into my life so if I'm hearing about the whole money, cars, and girls kind of music, I'm more focused on those things than I am with stuff that is actually important. That's just me though.

[UWfan206]

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Download/stream my mixtape....

http://www.datpiff.com/mixtapes-detail.php?id=389316

[areobee401]

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My older cousin introduced me to rap music when I was around 10. I'd borrow cassette tapes with the understanding that I wouldn't let my mother find out. We'd watch Yo MTV Raps anytime I was over his house.

Ice T was my favorite rapper at the time.

[areobee401]

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Tracklist for RZA's movie The Man With The Iron Fists OST.

1. The Black Keys / RZA “The Baddest Man Alive”
2. Ghostface Killah / M.O.P / Pharoahe Monch “Black Out”
3. Kanye West “White Dress”
4. The Revelations feat. Tre Williams “I Forgot To Be Your Lover”
5. Talib Kweli / RES “Get Your Way (Sex as a Weapon)”
6. Raekwon / Ghostface Killah / Kool G. Rap “Rivers of Blood”
7. Method Man / Freddie Gibbs / StreetLife “Built for This”
8. 24 Carat Black “Poverty’s Paradise”
9. Killa Sin “The Archer”
10. RZA / Flatbush Zombies “Just Blowin’ In The Wind”
12. Corrine Bailey Rae “Chains”
13. Pusha T / Raekwon “Tick Tock”
14. Frances Yip “Green is the Mountain”
15. The Wu-Tang Clan “Six Directions of Boxing”
16. Mabel John “Your Good Thing Is About To End”

First single.

NSFW
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Can't wait for the movie and soundtrack to come out.

[DieHardYankee26]

That soundtrack looks dope as hell.

[mike24forever]

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I fell in LOVE with Hip Hop back in 1983/84 when I heard Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5 for the first time. I still have the cassette of that album. I grew up with it. From UTFO, Roxanne Roxanne to Slick Rick (my favourite artist ever) and Dana Dane, throught the Golden Era of Hip Hop, the 2000's to the present. Just bought Slaughter Houses new album off of iTunes. Cassettes to iTunes. I still love her!