hip hop is the culture

rap is what you do over a beat

RAKIM is GOD

rhymes within rhymes, schemes that make your head spin, rhythm and flow, smooth...

I Ain't No Joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2tCBteW7U


follow the leader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-rEpM6OhQ

Don't Sweat The Technique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-rEpM6OhQ

Move The Crowd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGtA...eature=related

I miss the days when RAP songs had no singing. i fucking HATE sing song choruses in rap, that is just POP with fucking spoken verses.

true RAP is straight RAPPIN over beats and music. I fucking cannot stand hearing goddamn church choirs singing bullshit taking up valuable rapping time, so the weaknut MC's can rhyme just three verses and make a 4 minute song out of it

have you seen the lyric sheets to chuck D's shit? to de la? to Biggie? mo-fucks rapped verse aftre verse after verse

yeah, rakim is arguably the best lyriicist of all time. i might put ghostface ahead of him for storytelling, and i might put chuck d ahead of him for sheer ferocity, and i might put the gza ahead of him for vocabulary, but for pure flow no one touches rakim. i actually saw him and ghostface do a show together once. best hip hop show ive ever seen, and ive seen a pretty good amount.

Beastie Boys ?
Cypress Hill ?
The Roots ?
Wu - Tang Clan ?

1. RE: RAP VS HIP HOP -- "rap" is a verb. "hip hop" is a culture, which includes its own form of music. "folk music" as we've previously addressed in another topic.2. suchfriendsaredangerous: I'm so glad somebody understands the genius of FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Everybody drools over Doc Oct, but I've always thought the Dr. Dooom record was a-fucking-mazing.

hatin on the grown folkz music!

co-sign like a mug. :)

i repped pretty much everybody who gave a s hort list of LPs to check out.
but
You must spread some hiphop around before giving it to cryptowonderdruginvogue again.
am currently in the process of actually listing 'em all for my own pleasure.
Will do a hipp hop folder and buy the few Lps that i really dig.
Will post the list up here for anybody who wants to check it out.

Thank you so much AGAIN/
niggaz
biatch

i posted this on the Def Jux forum with yr name and full address
A crew of 20 niggaz is waiting for u just outside yr house.
take care of yrself dude.:o

HIP HOP TO CHECK OUT


tha carter 3
Deltron 3030
Dizzee Rascal - Show time
Immortal Technique
Kool Keith
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
MF Doom - MM..FOOD
Aesop Rock: Labor days
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Cool Kids
Guilty Simpson
Percee P
C-rayz Walz
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Monster Island Czars - Escape From Monster Island
Techno Animal - Brotherhood Of The Bomb
Dr Dooom - first come first served
Tribe Called Quest
the Black Knights
RZA - Bobby digital
GZA - Liquid swords
e-40 - The element of surprise
the makaveli bootlegs
the grouch and the living legends
zion-I
the gravediggaz
Deadprez - let's get free
the game
dj quick
KRS-One
scarface/geto boys
Slick Rick aka Rick the Ruler
A Tribe called quest - The low end theory
Raekwon - Only built 4 cuban linx
Ghostface Killah
The People under the stairs - The next step
company flow-funcrusher plus
big l-livestyles ov da por and dangerous
gravediggaz-6 feet deep
lootpack-s/t
the bug-london zoo
vast aire-deauces wild
gangstarr-full clip
geto boys-s/t
erik b and rakim-paid in full
ultramagnetic mc's-everything
boogie down production-criminal minded

hahahaha

awesome.

thats what I was trying to say

= favorite hip hop album ever

Bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da motherfuckin ruckus

Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk
Aw shit, Wu-Tang Clan spark the wicks an'
However, I master the trick just like Nixon
Causin terror, quick damage ya whole era
Hardrocks is locked the fuck up, or found shot
P.L.O. style, hazardous, cause I wreck this dangerous
I blow sparks like Waco, Texas

I watch my back like I'm locked down, hardcore
Hittin sound, watch me act bugged, and tear it down
A literate type asshole, songs goin gold, no doubt
and you watch a corny nigga fold
Yeah, they fake and all that
Carryin gats but yo, my Clan
Rollin like forty Macs
Now ya act convinced, I guess it makes sense
Wu-Tang, yo sewwwwwwwww, represent
I wait for one to act up
Now I got him backed up
Gun to his neck now, react what?
And that's one in the chamber
Wu-Tang banger, 36 styles of danger

I rip it hardcore, like porno-flick bitches
I roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits
Check it, my method on the microphone's bangin
Wu-Tang slang'll leave your headpiece hangin
Bust this, I'm kickin like Segall, Out for Justice
The roughness, yes, the rudeness, ruckus
Redrum, I verbally assault with the tongue
Murder one, my style shot ya knot like a stun-gun
I'm hectic, I wreck it with the quickness
Set it on the microphone, and competition get blown
By this nasty ass nigga with my nigga, the RZA
Charged like a bull and got pull like a trigga
So bad, stabbin up the pad with the vocab, crab
I scream on ya ass like your dad, bring it on...

Yo, I'm more rugged than slaveman boots
New recruits, I'm fuckin' up MC troops
I break loops, and trample shit, while I stomp!
A mudhole in that ass, cause I'm straight out the swamp
Creepin up on site, now it's Fright Night
My Wu-Tang slang is mad fuckin' dangerous
And more deadly than the stroke of an axe
Choppin through ya back *swish*
Givin bystanders heart-attacks
Niggas try to flip, tell me who is him
I blow up his fuckin prism
Make it a vicious act of terrorism
You wanna bring it, so fuck it
Come on and bring the ruckus
And I provoke niggaz to kick buckets
I'm wettin CREAM, I ain't wettin fame
Who sellin gain, I'm givin out a deadly game
It's not the Russian it's the Wu-Tang crushin
Roulette, slip up and get fucked like Suzette
Bring da fuckin ruckus...

dead prez - Let's Get Free.
You MUST get this album!
It's so beautiful it's painful and so painful it's beautiful.

"I'm an African, never was an African-American"

EDIT: didn't read the whole thread, so I didn't see that it had already been mentioned. Still, double endorcement, get it now!

we're on page 5 and noone has mentioned Mr.Lif yet?

I have mentioned him
"I phantom" from him is pure bliss, and the whole ep "emergency rations" is highly recommended
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDYBX5VLj_E

think my runners outside won't notice yr folks rollin up deep like that?