[Laokid18]

Aesop Rock - Labor
EL-P Fantastic Damage
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol.1
Atmosphere - Lucy Ford

 

[earthpeople]

Too many for me to think up or search through my music for. Some of my favorites have already been mentioned, but here's three more that I got off the top of my head.

Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Kool Keith / Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagynecologyst

 

[knubbe]

Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design
Common - Electric Circus

 

[mattcalf]

I really enjoy Gnarls Barkley, first album more then the second.

I'm a metalhead so not sure if it's the hiphop you were looking for?

 

[Deep Funk]

Hip hop can be very broadly defined.

K-os is a prime example.

 

[buddhashenglong]

Man, I dig Canibus - Rip the Jacker, but it is a shameful victim of the loudness war. Especially "No Return", clipped and just down right ugly.

 

[ninjikiran]

I like hip hop beats, but not a big fan of modern day rap. Any of these suggestions for OP match that description, rather than making a thread. My taste are kind of strange though, I enjoy the infusion some JP sounds have with hip hop but I havn't found any genres.

 

[jonhapimp]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ninjikiran /img/forum/go_quote.gif I like hip hop beats, but not a big fan of modern day rap. Any of these suggestions for OP match that description, rather than making a thread. My taste are kind of strange though, I enjoy the infusion some JP sounds have with hip hop but I havn't found any genres.

I HATE lil wayne and auto tune

anyways i'm currently enjoying blakroc - blakroc

 

[HeardAnimal]

Hi! first post here. long time rap fan, used to produce rap music, so this is a good place to start.

I like mostly underground stuff.
some of my favorite hip hop albums are by Freestyle Fellowship.
like 'Inner City Griots'
Aceyalone's 'A Book of Human Language' is probably the best-written rap album of all time... (arguably of course) and 'All Balls Don't Bounce' is also amazing.
IMO, Myka 9 is one of the best freestyle rappers of all time, although he has yet to release anything groundbreaking on his own.
which brings me to Haiku De Tat.... anything they make is great. Jazzy, smooth, insightful, and extremely technical raps.... wonderful.
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
obviously Doggy Style,
EVERYTHING BY OUTKAST!
and +1 on madvillain.... and anything produced by madlib is great.

aaand unfortunately I love anything timbaland produces, even though he's literally a plagiarist.
pop is my guilty pleasure.
kanye west is a genius....
K-os is cool. not my favorite, but he's a great musician. I actually won his remix contest a while back and I'm on the cd.

probably missed a bunch.. but check some of that out!

 

[HeardAnimal]

Devin The Dude.
Kool Keith.
love blackalicious too. NIA and blazing arrow.
I got to do a show with Gift of Gab last year, it was amazing.

 

[Guidostrunk]

Back where it all started.

Sugar Hill Gang

Blondie.

 

[derek800]

I don't listen to rap at all anymore, but I used to when I was in highschool. Some of my favorites were Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and Snoop Dog's "Doggystyle." Once and a while I will listen to a few songs from those cd's and I still like them. I only really like the old school rap, I'm not a fan of any of the new stuff.

 

[Johnstone]

3rd Bass - The Cactus CD
ATCQ - The Low End Theory
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
De La Soul - 3 Ft High and Rising
Del tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologist
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the Leader
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
GZA - Liquid Swords
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Organized Konfusion - s/t
Outkast - Stankonia
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & the Soul Brother
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Smif-N-Wessun - Dah Shinin'
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

 

[SOUNDinterpreter]

one of my favorite rap albums would have to be gang starr - moment of truth.

 

[Slash47]

Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Outkast - Stankonia
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Myka 9 - 1969