Great hip-hop albums of our time (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

Triggered by that dislike. Gonna no platform @scutter over this.

 

[YoungHearts]

@Lili Marlene haha, I just saw that. I should have clarified, I meant underground, and just artists I think are really interesting, like Kendrick, and maybe don't find Tupac and Biggie as interesting, as much as I love lots of their work. I didn't mind the 'shade' thrown, it keeps me on my toes

 

[prefuse]

I only really like instrumental or mostly instrumental hip hop, not sure if that counts.

PJ Shadow - Entroducing...
Prefuse 73 - vocal studies & uprock narratives
Prefuse 73 - one word exthinguisher
Prefuse 73 - the 92 vs 02 ep
Prefuse 73 - Exthinguished outakes
He gets very unfocused after this...

 

[Unknown Convict]

I only really like instrumental or mostly instrumental hip hop, not sure if that counts

same, e.g. clams casino

is pj shadow an irish tribute act?!

 

[prefuse]

Here's PJ with his crew

 

[prefuse]

If anyone likes that flying lotus type of sound, I got this a few years ago.

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Dude from Belfast.

 

[YoungHearts]

@prefuse I am still laughing about PJ Shadow.

 

[rettucs]

DMX - The Great Depression

I'd forgotten about this. Came across it after hearing an UNKLE track where this was overlaid with Shout by Tears For Fears. That was great too.

 

[Unknown Convict]

same, e.g. clams casino

just found this:

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is pj shadow an irish tribute act?!

the pj version is called shtem/lang shtem

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Here's PJ with his crew

What have they done to its eyes!?!

 

[hugh]

Hello @scutter, hip-hop is one of my favourite things, and I would offer up Mos Def's Black on Both Sides, from the beginning to the end, I believe it to be a masterpiece.

Listening to this at the moment. It's absolutely great.

 

[kavanelli]

Some of my Favorites are:
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Del the Funky Homosapien - No Need for Alarm
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
EPMD - Business Never Personal
Del la Soul - Del la Soul is Dead

 

[hermie]

So what do we think of Kendrick winning the Pulitzer? Has this been done elsewhere? I didn't even know there was a Pulitzer prize for music until today

 

[Lili Marlene]

Honestly, its hard to care, the Pulitzer for Music needs his publicity about a thousand times more than he needs theirs.

 

[pete]

So what do we think of Kendrick winning the Pulitzer? Has this been done elsewhere? I didn't even know there was a Pulitzer prize for music until today

i think it was the first one

 

[Unknown Convict]

i think it was the first one

he's the first non-jazz/classical recipient

 

[pete]

he's the first non-jazz/classical recipient

ohhhhh ok

 

[Deadmanposting]

Dilla - Welcome to Detroit//Donuts

Jesus, Donuts is such a beautiful record

 

[prefuse]

I remember liking most of Handsome boy modelling school - So, how's your girl? (1999)

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The loop is from cold coffee by Galt McDermott.
There's a bit of Jibber jabbering near the end.

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Samples some guy called Beethoven. Never heard of him.

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[nuke terrorist]

anyhow speaking of Prince Paul GRAVEDIGGAZ first album was a great one too.
surprised how many of the artists mentioned here that I like.

GETO BOYS - We Can't Be Stopped (1991).

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Three Houston gangstas from the 5th Ward Posse - Scarface, Bushwick Bill and Willie D (The Gangster of Love) put Texas on the map with very OTT stuff but with some more reality moments (the amazing My Mind Is Playing Tricks On Me @ 15:49). The instrumentals are deceptively simple but highly effective. The album's only real fault is that it tails off slightly with the last few tracks.
There was a lot of controversy about their previous album, especially the song Mind Of A Lunatic - an extremely OTT serial killer fantasy that no one in a post EMINEM world would take seriously now. The Boys use the title track to settle a few scores and wind up their enemies (inc. censors, pressing plants, the media and Geffen Records).
The Gulf War tune Fuck A War (@ 29:13) by the late Bushwick Bill is as good an anti war song as I've ever heard (in 1990 for a short while people were worried the draft might be brought back after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)
Bushwick (the small guy who died of pancreatic cancer) was a highly intelligent man whose interviews show someone very different to the belligerent characters in his songs.
The photo on the cover is real.

Bushwick Bill - Wikipedia

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