Music worth buying... I've got a tiny library. Rap/Hip-Hop, and Rock

A Tribe Called Quest...all you need

For Hip Hop, just look in my sig. Tech N9ne and Strange Music crew (Strange Music is the biggest indie hip hop label in the world, Tech N9ne is on it and others, I call the artists the "crew" fyi) have got lots of energy, Greg Enemy is a bit more hood-ish but not gangster like. thePhantom* is great at mixing House/electronic beats and conscious rap, Irv Da Phenom has really got soul! And some other dope tracks too that are more like rap people think of, but still good. PM me if you wanna talk more.

 

EDIT: Go to Music Preferences on my profile for the links of these people, my bad! Also, I *ESPECIALLY* recommend JKR70 for good hip hop instrumentals/beats as well. JKR70 was the producer for Human CropCircles too. They have a couple more albums on iTunes that aren't on that link, I can get you the FLAC if you want it, I just ordered the CD versions off CDBaby.

 

Good luck with your quest, and like I said, PM me if you wanna talk more. I know a ton of KC hip hop!!

Edited by jtaylor991 - 2/11/12 at 3:46pm

Tribe, Slum Village, Little Brother, Pete Rock, CunninLynguists, Elzhi, Panacea, Lord Finesse

Here are a few hip hop albums that I always keep coming back to:

 

Outkast - Aquemini

Nas - Illmatic

Bone Thugs - Eternal 99

Raekwon - Only built for Cuban linx

Common - Be

Fugees - Score & Blunted on reality

Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of...

Q - Tip - the Renaissance

Krayzie Bone - Thug Mentality

Biggie - Ready to Die

Yeah Be by Common is amazing, I love the beats. I ordered it on vinyl from Amazon the other day.

Seconded on the Tech N9ne/Strange Music.  In my opinion, Tech's best albums are his older material (Check out The Calm Before the Storm, The Worst, Anghellic, Absolute Power) although his newer stuff is great too.  Kutt Calhoun is also a favorite of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely check out SLAUGHTERHOUSE!  There four dudes are absolute beats (Crooked I, Royce, Budden, and Joel Ortiz)  Their self titled LP is amazing

 

 

 

 

Some more to look into:

 

Classified

 

Brother Ali

 

Doomtree (or POS's solo stuff)

 

 

Freddie Gibbs (so amazing)

 

Evidence

 

Eyedea (RIP, you were great man)

 

 

FELT (slug and murs)

 

Jake One

 

Enjoy   And please at least check them out since I took the time to link videos hah

 

Since most people are recommending rap/hip-hop I'll recommend some rock: Jimi Hendrix; my favorites are The Cry of Love and Bold as Love.

Just to clarify -- you are looking for any Rap/Hip-Hop and Rock ?

 

The best of all-time ?

 

Recent ?

 

Rock that has similarities to Rap/Hip-Hop -- or any rock ?

 

The aforementioned Jimi Hendrix is considered the greatest guitarist of all-time.

 

Top all-time rock albums:

 

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (not very rap-like)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Michael Jackson - Thriller (somewhat more rap-like)

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

The Beatles - Abbey Road

 

Harder Rock:

 

Led Zeppelin - IV ("four")

AC/DC - Back in Black

Metallica - The Black Album

Nirvana - Nevermind

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

 

Rap/Hip-Hop:

 

Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell (THE classic rap album)

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

 

Those are the giant classics of the genres.  None is recent, in fact none are even 21st Century.   But for current stuff, I just go to Youtube, where I can see the video in 1080p !

 

Very recent faves of mine:

 

Lil Wayne - Mirror feat Bruno Mars

Pitbull - Rain Over Me feat Marc Anthony

 

Older fave hip-hop on youtube:

 

Baby Bash feat Pitbull - Outta Control

Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Get Low

 

Edited by kstuart - 2/13/12 at 7:54pm

Out of curiosity have you found any new artists that you like?

Nobody ever mentions this guy but hes one of my all time favorite

AZ- Aziatic

AZ- The Format

AZ- A.W.O.L.

 

If you want some specific tracks PM me, but these are some of my fav songs

 

Wanna be there

Paradise

Fanmail

This is What I Do

Affirmative Action

 

If you like nas, you should definitely check this guy out hes one of the only person to do a collab with Nas, and was the other rapper in Life's a Bitch.

If you're just getting into rock music, you might check out Rolling Stone's various lists of the 100 greatest artists/albums etc. It's not definitive, but it's a good starting place to get a lot of the essentials. You may also check out the Music Lists pages on Digital Dream Door. I've found tons of great stuff there.