[B]@ LMBE[/B]

[U]One or more of these:[/U]
Mos Def/Talib Kweli - [I]Black Star[/I]
Talib Kweli with Hi Tek - [I]Reflection Eternal[/I]
Mos Def - [I]Black On Both Sides[/I]

[U]One or more of these:[/U]
Method Man - [I]Tical[/I]
Genius/GZA - [I]Liquid Swords[/I]
RZA - [I]The Birth Of A Prince[/I]
Ghostface Killah- [I]Fishscale[/I]
Wu-Tang Clan - [I]The W[/I]

[U]Any or all of the following:[/U]
Eric B. & Rakim - [I]Paid In Full[/I]
OutKast - [I]Aquemini[/I], [I]ATLiens[/I]
Da Backwudz - [I]Wood Work[/I]
T.I. - [I]King[/I]
Viktor Vaughn - [I]Vaudeville Villain[/I]
The Pharcyde - [I]Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde[/I] or [I]Labcabincalifornia[/I]
Lifesavas - [I]Spirit In Stone[/I]


[U]And do not, under any cirucmstances, miss:[/U]
Lauryn Hill - [I]The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill[/I]

Start with these and then get back to me.

[quote=Little Man being Erased]I need some more hip-hop. I'm thinking I need a list of essential albums of the genre. Can you wise bastards give me some reccommendations.[/quote]

Make sure you get the High Plains Drifter album by Jehst.

So I got the new Dilla and the Oh No album a couple days ago. Both of them I'm currently hooked on.

I got some Pete Rock and CL Smooth which is sooo damn good.

I'm a casual Outkast fan but I'm really digging what I've heard off Idlewild so far.

[QUOTE=sexymuffin]so i've heard somewhere that jay-z doesn't write, but instead listens to his beat for a while and then just goes up, records, and then edits later.

any validity to this?[/QUOTE]

It's true, and pretty damn impressive too.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]I heard the new Aceyalone at work today, really cool stuff.

So who has heard the Idlewild leak?[/QUOTE]

Aceyalone is really good. I really need more stuff by them, I'm gonna download some more stuff soon.

Thanks for all the recs people, I'll be checkin' out a whole bunch of those. Don't let me stop anyone else that would like to help though.

The only hip hop I've been able to get into heavily is that of Sage Francis and Sole.

If you like Sage you might like Saul Williams.

I have his s/t. He's quite good, too.

Hm, well try tracking down a copy of:

One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

It's one of my favorites from '05.

Two words:

Immortal Technique.

Apart from him and Natas, I don't care for hip hop.

I enjoy Immortal Technique.

Could someone recommend some revolutionary/socially consious hip hop to me? a la rage but minus the **** *** rock and add sick *** beats. I recently got hasseled by the man so i am in the mood for some some suka mc blastin the system.

nwa
dead prez
paris
da coup
ice cube
immortal technique
public enemy


to name a few...

i was unaware of a hip hop mailing list. i would very much like to join it.

Antiant just started up a new one!

yay!

Soldiers of Allah had some muslim nationalist/terrorist stuff. Not very good MCing, but I keep it around for a joke and to look hXc

*ahem*

OutKast has a new album...

method man is suppose to come out with a new album too...i hope it's worth it..that tical 0, i think that was his last one, sucked really bad, i did like judgement day, however

Are there any Ill Mitch fans? My buddy keeps talking about him, so I think I'll check him out.

EDIT: Scratch that, he looks like a joke.

On another note, [I]Beauty And The Beat[/I] is awesome (I'm lookin your way Christian)

[QUOTE]*ahem*

OutKast has a new album...[/QUOTE]

Lotsa good songs, a few stinkers. I like some of Big Boi's the best. Gonna go see the movie opening day.

[QUOTE=magicbus]Are there any Ill Mitch fans? My buddy keeps talking about him, so I think I'll check him out.

EDIT: Scratch that, he looks like a joke.

On another note, [I]Beauty And The Beat[/I] is awesome (I'm lookin your way Christian)[/QUOTE]
LMAO hahaha, it is a joke, he's a joke of a russian rapper, he's old news

[QUOTE=Robert Crumb]Lotsa good songs, a few stinkers. I like some of Big Boi's the best. Gonna go see the movie opening day.[/QUOTE]

I haven't really gotten into the album yet, except for "Morris Brown". I'm uber stoked for the movie however.

Does anybody know of El-P and the whole Def Jux label?

I got Fantastic damage by El-P which i've been playing non stop lately and want to know where to go next for something with a similiar feel.

[QUOTE=Lee Harvey Castro]Does anybody know of El-P and the whole Def Jux label?

I got Fantastic damage by El-P which i've been playing non stop lately and want to know where to go next for something with a similiar feel.[/QUOTE]

Pick up Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein

Absolutely essential.

[QUOTE=Lee Harvey Castro]Does anybody know of El-P and the whole Def Jux label?

I got Fantastic damage by El-P which i've been playing non stop lately and want to know where to go next for something with a similiar feel.[/QUOTE]

Company Flow. It's his old group. I'll up some to the hip-hop YSI email account on Monday.

im bored

name some of your fav artists/groups

no order

blaze
twiztid
lil flip
young jeezy
icp
t.i.

ftw

i cant stand icp

i used to not like them much either

then one day i decided to do this:

[QUOTE]So kind of you to pick up the album and give it a try for once [/QUOTE]

and i liked it and got into more of their stuff