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Last Active 09-03-19 10:01 pm
Joined 01-17-13
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| Hip Hop: One year four months later
Basically since my asking you guys earlier last year to rec me hip hop, I've delved into the genre, and found a love of different music i never realized i had before. The genre has opened me up to jazz, to instrumental, to calmer, and to more cyclical stuff since my first glance. These are my top albums so far. Hopefully I did a good job haha. | | 1 |  | Nujabes
Metaphorical Music
This guy is so great. I could relax to this album all day. Nujabes has such an ear for music, he knows exactly when to put vocals or to leave it instrumental. It's perfect | | 2 |  | Open Mike Eagle
Dark Comedy
One of my top lyricists, Mike's got some of my favorite one liners in the whole of the genre. | | 3 |  | Aesop Rock
Skelethon
This guy is nigh untouchable in terms of lyrics for me. His flow is catchy, varied, and the guy's production is always on point (even in bazooka tooth). perfect for a pasty unthreatening white guy like me. | | 4 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
What's not to love about an antisocial nerd obsessed with food, weed, and comics and pretending to be a supervillain teaming up with one of the genre's top producers? | | 5 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye may not be the greatest lyricist or have the best flow, but man does he know how to write great backing tracks, and he used to know when to put on a great feature | | 6 |  | Logic
Under Pressure
Basically my introduction to the genre, and it's really awesome! Despite the kendrick similarities, I actually prefer this guy to Kendrick (blasphemy!) due to the fact I can relate to his lyrics and get behind his flow a bit more. besides, Buried alive speaks to me like no other track in the genre does. | | 7 |  | MF DOOM
MM.. Food
What's not to love about an antisocial nerd obsessed with food, weed, and comics and pretending to be a supervillain?[2] This one's rated lower because the production isn't as good as madvillainy. | | 8 |  | A Tribe Called Quest
People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm
Fantastic record, love the jazz and the lyricism. A bit one note in terms of tone, but that's easily overlooked due to the variety between the rappers and the quality of the words they're saying. I prefer this one to Low end theory specifically because of the track's Ham n eggs, and I left my Wallet in El Segundo. | | 9 |  | Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique
This was the album that forced me to look at sampling as more than stealing or borrowing. The way the music is put together on here is just simpy mindblowing. I understand now, sampling is as much an art form as playing any instrument.
Ps. B-Boy Billioubaise is the best hip hop song of all time | | 10 |  | Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons...
Slug is my spirit animal | |
theNateman
06.08.16 | Readying myself for the colossal beatdown Potsy's gonna give me | climactic
06.08.16 | get rid of that last sentence on 5 before it gets memed to death | TVC15
06.08.16 | Damn great list you got Nate. You should check out Public Enemy, Mos Def, and Vintor Vaughn. Also check out DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.... and What Does Your Soul Look Like? for awesome instrumental hip hop made up of chopped and screwed sampling | LotusFlower
06.08.16 | totally agree with 2, his writing is some of my favorite in the entire genre. | Keyblade
06.08.16 | clim saving sput careers | theNateman
06.08.16 | Hey LP, checked all of them out. Mos Def and Public Enemy never clicked with me, and I didn't dig the Viktor Vaughn albums at all. I do need to check more DJ shadow tho thanks for reminding me. | theNateman
06.08.16 | Hey Clim- fixed it | TVC15
06.08.16 | Huh, Viktor Vaughn's Vaudeville Villains is behind Madvillainy for my fav MF DOOM project. But hey as ou further explore hip hop, you'll surely like Public Enemy. The Bomb Squad was equally as important as Paul's Boutique (if not more) in revolutionizing the eay beats were handled. Hope DJ Shadow clicks for you tho ;) | NLD
06.08.16 | don't like 2 3 6 8 or 10 personally. check masta ace, typical cats and abstract tribe unique. I'd rec more but based on this list it looks like you're into mostly jazzy stuff and indie shit which I don't normally dig | hal1ax
06.08.16 | yep 9 is the only album i like on this list. uhh i think our taste in hip hop is very different but ill rec u shit anyway:
pete rock and C.L. smooth - mecca and the soul brother
scarface - the diary
ugk - ridin' dirty
three 6 mafia - mystic stylez
big pun - capital punishment
the doppelgangaz - hark
nickelus f and shawn kemp - trick dice | NLD
06.08.16 | also reccing brand nubian, lord finesse, black sheep, souls of mischief and slum village bc why not. good pics on 1 5 and 9 | theNateman
06.08.16 | Hey LP, listening to Endroducing now and it's really fricken good! It's like a hip hop version of the sample tracks from gotye | iloveyouall
06.08.16 | check chief keef | theNateman
06.08.16 | Yeahh I don't think he's my style | iloveyouall
06.08.16 | he is, you just don't know it yet.
keep at it. :) | CapnJizz
06.08.16 | White people | theNateman
06.08.16 | What about em? |
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