Hip Hop/Rap Appreciation thread

[Ovo]

Can I just throw a name forward for a later round? Kendrick Lamar.

 

[badmash]

Also I've always thought Canibus was a fantastic lyricist.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1jCkXck_lU[/youtube]

Might not reckon on many peoples radars against some of the greatest but I like him.


I've always loved those lines from Funk Master Flex Vol.3 over Raekeon's "Ice Cream":
"For all you niggaz sayin that my shit is sick,
just imagine the ninety percent of my brain that I ain't even used yet
Take a deep breath, quick, suck in as much air as my lungs will permit --
then I start to kick that shit
I been gettin busy before the planets started to turn
Before the bees, the birds, and Adam and Eve occured
Prior to all creation, in other words
When the female egg will merge with the man's sperm
I stand firm, my words burn through your exterior
The eat away at your materia, I'm superior
While you only pretend to be, I can double my density
from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly
Six, multiplied by five by four by three by two
then one, go head and calculate the sum
The time has cometh, I was summoned to punish
Motherfuckers with mouths to run it ? with rubbish
When I come through, niggaz stand stiller than statues
Cause if I have to, I'll battle your whole rap crew
Then I'll attack you with words that's absurd
and rip your fuckin skin off just to get on your nerves"

Love that last line. Genius!

Love Canibus
His best verse is on an early track he did 'Beast from the East'
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8766Wavlg4[/youtube]

 

[Josh Blue]

i'll ask again what does everybody think of Hopsin?

 

[Banned Tosspot]

i'll ask again what does everybody think of Hopsin?

He was good in Roger Rabbit.

 

[Josh Blue]

i'll ask again what does everybody think of Hopsin?

He was good in Roger Rabbit.

Don't really know what you're on about mate...

 

[Juan King]

I don't listen to much recent hip hop, but this is one of the better ones from recentish times IMO:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPRl0LzD_MA[/youtube]

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I lost interest in hip hop around the turn of the century.

I was always an indie kid at heart but had a lot of time for hip hop as a kid. My older cousins were heavily into it so it was always playing at home and stuff and a lot of my knowledge is just stuff I picked up as a kid probably trying to impress older kids.

I find most modern hip hop to be fucking shit to be honest.

I still listen to the real stuff quite a lot though

 

[johnny on the spot]

An absolute classic from 1993:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYsniex95U8[/youtube]

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Always loved this tune

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzyaaMUCpWs[/youtube]

 

[Juan King]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8e76XpXD1o[/youtube]