[QUOTE=Robert Crumb]Anyone looking forward to any new albums this year? The 2006 thing in alt/indie got me thinking. I'm curious about the J Dilla [I]Donuts[/I] thing, should be some nice instrumentals. Plus all the other stuff.[/QUOTE]
The new The Roots (Game Theory) should be nice. There's also a collaboration between RJD2 and Aceyalone (I think) coming up, which should be great too. :)

And yeah, The Listener is quite good. Train Song is a very beautiful song, as is You Will Be My Music, but that's not on that page. He reminds me too much of Sage Francis tho.
Check out this guy, if you like music like this: [url]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=327367[/url] He's not famous or anything tho.

Anybody listen to Quasimoto. That stuff is so great. I been in love since I heard a few songs. Madlib is a genious in the studio.

I'm into the east coast style. It's so great.

Immortal Technique
Jedi Mind Tricks
MF Doom
Notorious B.I.G
Sage Francis

All that stuff is just amazingly great.

^namedrop namedrop namedrop


I've been diggin' [I]Awfully Deep[/I] (Roots Manuva) as of late. It's got some great beats, and I love his accent (it isn't as annoying as Dizzee's can be).

:lol: Oh yeah, Dizzee Rascal can really get fückin annoying.Especially if all one of your classmates does is go "He´s a rascal yaddadagaddablablabla..."

I'm loving the new Blackalicious album more and more with each listen.

[QUOTE]Sage Francis[/QUOTE]

Ewwww...granted, he's not as bad as Aesop Rock. But come on.

I personally love old school rap like Coolio, 2PAC, DMC. But um i have a question. I think this would be considered hip hop but ddoes anyone know a song that has a male with a light voice singing "Shes lollaling" or it may be pronounced "LaLa'ing" If anyone knows id be very happy. But yeah like one of my personal fav old school rap songs would have to be gangstas paradise

[QUOTE=OhioJamSk8er]But yeah like one of my personal fav old school rap songs would have to be gangstas paradise[/QUOTE]
haha i remember when that song was VERY popular and everybody knew the lyrics and the movie as well

[QUOTE]But yeah like one of my personal fav old school rap songs would have to be gangstas paradise[/QUOTE]

Man I remember for like a month 10 years ago that song was EVERYwhere.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]Ewwww...granted, he's not as bad as Aesop Rock. But come on.[/QUOTE]

Some of his songs are really good. Like Runaways and Smoke and Mirrors. I don't listen to him alot, but I really like a few of his songs.

I don't care what you have to say rap is the worst kind of music ever! It's a jumble of leters put in to words that rape the english language! so go for like metal-core or something more hard core but anything but rap

[QUOTE=andy-o24]I don't care what you have to say rap is the worst kind of music ever! It's a jumble of leters put in to words that rape the english language! so go for like metal-core or something more hard core but anything but rap[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3142747&postcount=2[/url]

Now, apologise to the nice people.

I'm just getting it through my head that most French Hip Hop is actually > most Anglosaxon Hip Hop. I'm grooving to cinquième as (fifth ace) of MC Solaar right now, and it is awesome.

Hmm, by the way, I can never get enough from the people who come in just to bash rap without any real knowledge of the genre. :)

By the way, hyping metal-core as better music really doesn't cut it.

Well, look into it, there is some awesome French Hip Hop out there, and paradoxically, the tensions in French society just make it better (it's hard but tension breeds good art :) ).

if you guys are interested in foreign hip hop i got some shyt to blow your mind from french, turkish, polish, ukrainian, croatian, arabic etc but since you guys are specifically talking about French Hip Hop check out the following:
MC Solaar
IAM/Akhenaton [URL="http://www.iam-style.com/us/histoire.asp"]http://www.iam-style.com/us/histoire.asp[/URL]
Passi
Shurik'n [URL="http://www.shurikn.fr.st/"]http://www.shurikn.fr.st/[/URL]
Oxmo Puccino [URL="http://www.oxmo.net/introHD.html"]http://www.oxmo.net/introHD.html[/URL]
K.Reen (she's more r&b and sometimes gives that hip hop + r&B mix that you hear on hip hop albums)
Fonky Family [URL="http://www.fonkyfamily.com/home.html"]http://www.fonkyfamily.com/home.html[/URL]
they've also did things with the Wu-Tang Clan
and there's also the french + arabic mix of hip hop where they speak both languages such as MBS and Clotaire K

btw not all of it is anglosaxon :p

Has anyone listened to the Psycho Realm? It's organized by Cypress Hill's B-Real and it's seriously the best hip-hop album I've heard since 1997.

I suggest everyone listen to it. I can send if you want.

hey what go head and send it over to me if you don't mind...you got aim/msn/yahoo? you can send through that

Doesn't ANYONE have a Mwafrika record? ANYONE!? I'll give you my firstborn.

i got yahoo

thistle773

but you can pm me and ill upload it to yousendit because me intranet is too slow itll take ages over yahoo

ok you've been added to yim just waiting for you to accept

Getting back into some more hip-hop and rap after reading some sputnik reviews.

Digging Blackalicious's Blazing Arrow. Also, really enjoying Common's Be- I think its the samples. Can anyone reccomend some more good hip-hop rap with soul/funk/jazz samples in the background? I'm really digging it, and even want to get playing some of this stuff.

Turbo B-Make Way For The Maniac
^very fun mix of lots of inluences in there :-)

[quote=On The Edge]Getting back into some more hip-hop and rap after reading some sputnik reviews.

Digging Blackalicious's Blazing Arrow. Also, really enjoying Common's Be- I think its the samples. Can anyone reccomend some more good hip-hop rap with soul/funk/jazz samples in the background? I'm really digging it, and even want to get playing some of this stuff.[/quote]
If you're liking this kind of thing and you really like jazz, and I mean [i]really[/i], you should check out Busdriver. He's got one of the fastest flows I've ever heard, and he's an unbelievable freestyler. He's like a rapper-as-jazz-musician, almost, and lots of his tracks, particularly earlier on, are jazzy or have jazz samples.

Starflam is also worth checking out when it comes to French rap (although they are Belgian, but we have a French part too). I was very disappointed with the latest I Am album (Revoir Un Printemps), the beats sound very uninspired. Luckily they're still pretty on point lyrically although they don't reach the high point of L'école Du Micro D'argent or even Ombre Est Lumiere.

[QUOTE=antiant]if you guys are interested in foreign hip hop i got some shyt to blow your mind from french, turkish, polish, ukrainian, croatian, arabic etc but since you guys are specifically talking about French Hip Hop check out the following:
MC Solaar
IAM/Akhenaton [URL="http://www.iam-style.com/us/histoire.asp"]http://www.iam-style.com/us/histoire.asp[/URL]
Passi
Shurik'n [URL="http://www.shurikn.fr.st/"]http://www.shurikn.fr.st/[/URL]
Oxmo Puccino [URL="http://www.oxmo.net/introHD.html"]http://www.oxmo.net/introHD.html[/URL]
K.Reen (she's more r&b and sometimes gives that hip hop + r&B mix that you hear on hip hop albums)
Fonky Family [URL="http://www.fonkyfamily.com/home.html"]http://www.fonkyfamily.com/home.html[/URL]
they've also did things with the Wu-Tang Clan
and there's also the french + arabic mix of hip hop where they speak both languages such as MBS and Clotaire K

btw not all of it is anglosaxon :p[/QUOTE]

Tsh, no Dutch Rap? :P Like say ... ABN or 't Hof van Commerce (Okay, they speak West-Flemish which even I can't understand all that well but whatever)...

...And yes, Starflam is awesome. Liège reprezentin' :P Their lyrics are pretty intelligent as well, which makes it even better.

[QUOTE]Digging Blackalicious's Blazing Arrow. Also, really enjoying Common's Be- I think its the samples. Can anyone reccomend some more good hip-hop rap with soul/funk/jazz samples in the background? I'm really digging it, and even want to get playing some of this stuff.[/QUOTE]

A Tribe Called Quest

I have some French Hip-Hop. Booba and SINIK but I have no idea what they are saying though. I was tempted to buy some Spanish Hip-Hop when I was in Tenerife but I resisted the urge.

Nas' Illmatic has quite a few jazzy samples. That is a very well produced album, plus some amazing lyrics from Nas.

[QUOTE=On The Edge]Getting back into some more hip-hop and rap after reading some sputnik reviews.

Digging Blackalicious's Blazing Arrow. Also, really enjoying Common's Be- I think its the samples. Can anyone reccomend some more good hip-hop rap with soul/funk/jazz samples in the background? I'm really digging it, and even want to get playing some of this stuff.[/QUOTE]
I HIGHLY recommend Colossus [URL="http://www.om-records.com/colossus.html"]http://www.om-records.com/colossus.html[/URL] (the sound quality on their site is amazing and clean, it's very well done, so you won't hear muddy crap like usual on other sites) & [URL="http://www.myspace.com/crushingone"]http://www.myspace.com/crushingone[/URL] they've got it all and they're good imo jazz/funk and hip hop all in one check them out

Nujabes has been my source for "jazzy" beats, lately. I'm glad the folks around here turned me on to him.

Listened to [i]Blazing Arrow[/i] for the first time...it's ok. I don't see why so many people are going nuts about it, but it has its moments.