Really digging Canniable Ox and A Tribe Called Quest.
(I'm getting the album that Toilet and Bowels posted just because it seemed so thorough)

I've just been introduced to Dalek's "Absence" and I love it. Intelligent lyrics, good rythmns, and layers of sheer noise.

now lemme check what I got in my IPod right now...

Company Flow,
El-P,
Mr.Lif,
Cannibal Ox,
Dilated Peoples,
Roots,
MF Doom,
Ty,
Edan

and for noizeheads:
Dalek,
Techno Animal

real noisy apocalyptic hip-hop. I've seen Dalek live and it was a real blast. venue was about to crash down.

WORD!!

"Culture for Dollars"

Written word held weight
Now honor at best recessive trait
The sound and shape to come succumbed to Malignant maelstrom
Malformed mentals stained expected outcome
And not to be outdone
Some speak in half phrases
No definition to brush strokes already out of phase with these statements
Raise children off pavement...
Pulse on frauds hasten
When confronted with styles from gutter basements
Set to build like Freemasons, on three angles
All I see are Minstrel MC's on these channels
Perceived battles only held to sell albums
Propagate stereotypes that bleed out us
Our own doubt us
But I remain devout scholar of skills of forefathers
Ignorance was forced on us
Define honest, if we all breath diseased lies
Define the MC if all he spits are weak lines.


Who trades his culture for dollars?
The fool or the scholar?
Griot? Poet? Or White collared?


If my written words slurs
Then my speech correct
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek


Spoken word held meaning
Hostile acts provoked
Formed metaphors
Created urban folklore
Never meant for these upper echelon aurals
That bought and stripped morals
From art that's gift for us
At heart I'm strict purist
Spit thoughts for poorest
5'6'' Honduran sights set on own ruin
Rugged cadence meant to capture essence
Ancestor's wrath festers under surface of uttered sentence.


Who trades his culture for dollars?
The fool or the scholar?
Griot? Poet? Or White collared?


If my written words slurs
Then my speech correct
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek

Currently my favorite hip-hop group. I loooovvee "A Beast Caged"

check out my gravel pit.....
hippidy hop.... dont stop

Sage Rules!

Anyone into the "Anticon" lable?
A lot of good stuff on there.

Damn, I'm loving Low End Theory!

Slick Rick is my hero. "Behind Bars" is a FANTASTIC album; he was so skilled he shined over mediocre beats most of his career.

Right now Ghostface is the best there is. Check out his new album "Fishscale" or if you can find it the mixtape "Hidden Darts III". He's got another album coming out later this year with MF Doom which should be godly.

Most won't dig this but I'm down with the Diplomats. Cam'ron has a totally unique style and Juelz Santana gets better every day. JR Writer is also a perfectly good rhymer. The rest aren't that great but you can't knock the Dips style. Problem is a lot of their fans are fucking dipshits.

I love the hip hop. Find me on Slsk (same name as here) or message me to talk it.

Gravediggaz
Funk Doc
Killah Priest
Black Knights
Tribe Called Quest
Slick Rick
old school Outcast
RZA, GZA and the rest of the Wu
2pac (seriously)
e-40 (SHOULD BE FIRST ON YR LIST, http://www.myspace.com/e40)
Kool Keith aka The Black Elvis aka Dr Octagon aka Dr Doom aka all kinds a shit

Kool Kieth and his many alternate ego's, MF Doom/ Viktor Vaughn, Tribe, De La, J-Live, Beastie Boys, Gangstarr, Rakim, Jeru, Black Moon, Wu-Tang, Dj Vadim, Prince Paul, Dj Shadow, Dan the Automator, Slick Rick, Immortal Technique and if I forgot any just ask!!!

Bump (not a word used much lately).
Got Gravediggaz's 6 Feet Deep, love it. It's in a genre called horrocore, which essentially is a genre of hip-hop concerned with death, killing, and suicide; which is great, because that's not something you'd normally find yourself singing along with, but the songs are so catchy it can't be helped. Like 1-800-suicide-----

So you wanna die, commit suicide
Dial 1-800-Cyanide line
Far as life, yo it ain't worth it
Put a rope around your neck and jerk it
The trick didn't work
Your life was fucked up from the first day of birth
After watching Jackie Gleason walk into a precinct
Gun down the captain for no fucking reason
And get some LSD or a drink from the bar
Get behind your wheel and crash the car
Like Desert Storm, got bombs for the war
confront an alligator, let it eat ya raw
Back to the function, riding the caboose to hell
BZZZZZT touched the third rail.
You fucked up chicken, now you just got fried
Cause it's a suicide

Verse Two: Too Poetic/Grym Reaper

Hey you little rich kid, what's your beef?
Come and tell the Grym Reaper all of your grief
You asked for a Benz and you only got a Jeep
Your pop's got endz, but yo he's mad cheap
Maybe you're a bastard child you think
Mom and dad are white and you're dark as ink
Maybe you're Sicilian with a tan
But you hate lasagna and the pizza man
Now you stand on the grave digga locked and
You're singing the blues about the rough life you've got
Not
You don't wanna live no more
I guess you're really ready for the grave yard tour
When you get home just fill up your windows and you doors
Turn your oven on high for about four hours
Light you a blunt, kiss your ass goodbye
You gassed yourself 'cause it's a suicide

Interlude: Scott (the Moleman) Harding:

Yep
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Life moves pretty fast
If you don't stop and look around every once in a while
you could miss it

Verse Three: Prince Rakeem/Ryzarector

Six fucking devils stepped up playing brave God
Had the fucking nerve to try and enta my grave yard
I'm the Ryzarector, be my sacrafice
Commit suicide and I'll bring you back to life
The first was convinced
Stuck a water hose in his mouth at full blast so his head can explode
Second said hmmmm that's good but I can top it
Put an ax up to his head and then he chopped it
Blood shot out in every direction
The rest didn't know what to do, I made suggestions
Put a slug in your mug, overdose on a drug
Wet your hair stick a knife in the plug
Or be like Richard Pryor set your balls on fire
Better yet go hang yourself with a barbed wire
Three and Four fell deep into spell and
Ran to the zoo, locked themselves in a lion's den
Number Five said it ain't worth being alive
Smoked a dust suede, mixed it with cynaide
The only one to escape was number Six
He went home
Sat in the tub and slit his wrists
Yeah, more graves to dig. Goodbye
There's no need to cry...
... cause we all die

Anyone like this genre?
Anyone know any other good artists who do this?

Themselves
Subtle
Clouddead
Boom Bip

Any Anticon stuff is good.

I like my hip-hop group, BOOM! www.myspace.com/willmarboom

We have local rivals as well, Shwing! www.myspace.com/cwoa

boom is pimptacular hayden

Thanks. We try.

send more songs when you record

We have two new ones in the works. One is called 'Your Majesty' written about us yelling out of car at a gangster in his girlfriend's vehicle and him almost killing us. TRUE STORY.

The other is a SCHWING diss track.