For those with 8 minutes to spare and into dope lyricism:

RA Scion - BEGxBORROWxSTEAL

Silent Knight - The Noid

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Hey guys, I tend to listen to a lot of music and want to have a extremely large stack of music i like, i know many people just go downloading random bundles of music from other people but i like to just have music i like and can't stand to listen through all the bad songs to see whether i want to delete it or not. So going to my main point, im just looking for recommendations based off of some artists i like. I'm more into what many people call "real" hip hop (dont want to start some argument over what is considered real or not). My favorite artist would be Immortal Technique but the problem with similar artists to immortal technique is that the common artists like ill bill vinnie paz (I still like some of vinnie paz's songs like Last Breath, End of Days, Can't Be Neutral on a moving Train...) and such have more of a metal mix to them (get a headache from listening to them, no offense meant towards anyone who likes them). I dont like many of the 90's rappers since their music itself is what i would call boring. The lyrics should have some sort of purpose whether a story or like a social or political problem etc. Some other artists i enjoy are Dead Prez, Slaughterhouse, Nas, Lowkey, Hopsin, Jay Rock, Tech N9ne, Obie Trice, Eminem, R.A The Rugged Man, Talib Kweli....

I guess the main trend between those artists is that they have both good music and good lyrics (as in not just about pussy money and weed)

Thanks in advance

One album that's getting hella huge attention right now is To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. Intelligent, politically minded hip hop stuff.

It's pretty likely you've heard that, or heard of it, but if not it's worth checking out.

This thread screams for me... Most of the threads/posts I've made in this forum will probably fit what you're looking for. Use the search option. Here's a taste:

@DeadChannel, yea ive heard it but idk, to me there isnt much music in it it just sounds too dull.
@DwnWthVwls, Thanks a lot, and sorry i guess i just got too lazy and thought that my taste would have been a little picky and not many people would have been searching for music like that

Brother there is plenty of political rap from the 90s, in terms of diversity within' the culture the early 90s in easily the least boring era of the genre.

this beat is so hypnotic to me

made me go back and listen to the original again... it's been a while



such an uplifting vibe from this song... i love it and all its cheesy rnb trimmings.

reminds me of this number



and speaking of miami, and speaking of uplifting... sort of reminds me of this song... though you people might crucify me for posting a trick daddy song, you can't deny this song is nice.. unless you have no soul

"and if ya think i'm fùckin ya wife, ya mothafùckin right, yo, cause i'm a nigga fo life"
-eazy e

imma nigga he's a nigga she's a nigga we some niggas wouldn't ya like to be a nigga too?

NEW MUSIC - "Ama Be Happy"
 

I love this song! ;)

Can anyone recommend some decent French hip hop artists?

I can throw some names at ya but it's kinda dancy and mainstream.. Is that what your looking for?

I prefer fast and angry, but I'm a novice so anything will do. I'm beginning to find french rhyme schemes and syllable placements pleasing to my ear holes.

You can try some of these.. I don't know much. Start with Iron Sy.







Soundkail Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv2t...2E9E5F262CE92D

Thanks, I liked everything except the OGB track... that really wasn't my cup of tea. Listening to the Soundkail album now, really digging 'em.

Good example of what I was looking for. Nice work, dude.

I gotchu homegirl :D

i can't really get into any rap that isn't in a language i understand. i mean i might like the sound of it or something but i can't listen to it too much. cause for me, part of rap is what the rapper is saying. so i just feel like i'm missing a big aspect of whatever artist i'm listening to if i try listening to some foreign rapper. my friend tried to put me onto some russian rap and it sounded bleak and cool and i wanted to be able to understand the words but i couldn't. maybe one day i will speak russian or french and then those artists will appeal to me. atm i'm still focusing on trying to learn chinese. can only imagine what rap in chinese would sound like :laughing:

I agree. I really don't enjoy any of those artists I posted, I just know their music because I was into finding foreign stuff for a while. The lack of understanding lyrics just killed it for me. I wouldn't mind it as background music but I don't really use rap for that.

I'm not avidly seeking out foreign hip hop, but I like to appreciate it for what it is every now and then. I think it's interesting to hear how rappers who speak other languages use their dialect to make music that's so focused on rhyme and rhythm. French artists especially seem to create something unique that you don't typically hear with English hip hop. Obviously it would be ideal to understand what their saying - but that's something I'm willing to forgo in order to hear something new.

Also, I don't sit and compulsively try to digest/interpret 100% of all the music I listen to. There's a lot of stuff that I just throw on to have something going in the background. If it's good enough to grab my attention and hold it - then great! It's the artists that I consistently return to that get my undivided attention, especially with hip hop. I'd rather listen to a foreign rapper do his thing and not understand a word than listen to a Drake single, any day.

Gross. There's gotta be someone better than that in China.

maybe this is more your speed



btw i wasn't saying don't listen to foreign rap artists... if it works for you then cool. it doesn't work for me.

not that i wont find a song catchy or whatever in another language. but i can never return to it looking for the same thing i look for from rap i actually understand.

this is a great song:

RA the Rugged Man - Legends Never Die

Listen to and watch this:

I got throwbacks too:

Not quite as old but still 90s :D

Lil Troy - Wanna Be A Baller

where's all my scarface/geto boys fans for ****s sake?

Been listening to this song a while now. It's time to post it:

Rap Monster... "Joke"

Might have already posted this here but it's a great track.

Lost Boyz - Renee

Here's a list of essentials from the 13 albums of who I consider the single greatest rap artist of all time, The Ghostface Killah.

You might want to consider putting a long list of embedded videos like that in spoiler tags like I did in that quote above. When they're out in the open people like me with whack computers have to wait a long time before we can load the video, and people with fancy pants computers or those who are interested in some hip hop recs can click on the spoiler button to listen to them.

Love Ghostface btw. On a fishscale of one to ten, I'd say he's at about an 8 or 9 since his discography has some tens but it also has a couple of fives in there.

My bad man, fixed it.

And yeah, he's got 5 ten outta tens, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (if you count that), Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Bulletproof Wallets, and Wizard of Poetry. Then The Big Doe Rehab, Fishscales, More Fish, and the Twelve Reasons to Die albums are all really good, 8 outta tens. But Apollo Kids, The Pretty Toney Album, and 36 Seasons were all pretty mediocre for Ghost, I'd say they're like 7's. I still feel like every album has at least one song on it that makes it worth diggin into, not counting the side project albums and b-track compilations.

SILENT KNIGHT... new video dropped. Support this man, been on the grind for 10+ years, and only getting better.

Walking