hip-hop

[xMMKayx3]

is anyone else into hip-hop music?

kay

 

[HotRhymez]

I am. Its the best music ever!

 

[Johnnysquee]

I enjoy some of it from time to time. Never got into the popular junk on the radio though.

 

[telegram]

I strongly urge all of you to purchase Lupe Fiasco's the Cool. Really excellent stuff. Not like your typical mindless mainstream hip-hop.

 

[xMMKayx3]

what got you all into hip-hop?

 

[telegram]

what got you all into hip-hop?

The radio. But then I heard El-P and decided to dig a little more into underground.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

 

[GRC18]

I like some of the Gangsta stuff (note that I say SOME, though) from the early 90s, from when they were talking about rolling up on eachother and whatever else they talk about. But I hate the old school stuff, and I REALLY hate the current crap. It's not music to me.

 

[HotRhymez]

what got you all into hip-hop?

Well the first rapper I ever started listening to was Eminem..then I checked out some other good rappers..Nas..Biggie Smalls, Tupac, and I became interested.

Dunno why everyone hates it...I think its great.

 

[Xenocide]

I strongly urge all of you to purchase Lupe Fiasco's the Cool. Really excellent stuff. Not like your typical mindless mainstream hip-hop.

Great album, though it's a notch below FnL imo. What's your favorite track?

 

[MadeYouLook]

I strongly urge all of you to purchase Lupe Fiasco's the Cool. Really excellent stuff. Not like your typical mindless mainstream hip-hop.

yeah, that's a great album. Hip Hop Saved My Life is probably my favorite track i've heard off of it so far.

i don't like the mindless mainstream mostly, although they have catchy hooks that's about all they have and it gets old. Lupe, Kanye, Nas, Ques, 2Pac, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff...hip hop with some substance is what i like.

 

[WileyCoyote]

I've been listening to rap since the mid to late 80's. I grew up with LL Cool J. (I'm Bad, Momma Said Knock You Out). Also Kool Mo Dee. Old school Will Smith. Dr. Dre, Easy E. All the good stuff from my era.

 

[Lathe]

Yep, but it seems real hard these days to find good songs...

 

[WESTERNdeitySIXmoths]

i started listening because of germaine williams =) now it's hard to find any real music between the tides of backpack garbage (common's 2nd coming, kanye, lupe, etc.)...

 

[theFijian]

Wow gosh! You mean everyone isn't a hip-hop hater????

 

[xMMKayx3]

so how do you differentiate between hip hop, r&b, and rap? :]

 

[Tallerthanatree]

I like:

Hilltop Hoods
Chopper Read
Dizzee Rascal
The Streets
Nujabes
Shing02
Brother Ali
Tech N9ne
Eminem
2Pac
A bit of manstream stuff, and others.

 

[Moncus]

I like:

Hilltop Hoods
Chopper Read
Dizzee Rascal
The Streets
Nujabes
Shing02
Brother Ali
Tech N9ne
Eminem
2Pac
A bit of manstream stuff, and others.

Oh My Gowrsh! someone else whose heard of Nujabes!!!!

I love hip hop, it's my passion. But i can't stand any mainstream hip hop. Even the alternative leaning types like kanye west tupac nas or B.o.B i think are mediocre. I started listening to a producer named Nujabes who does a lot of instrumental hip hop and works with poetic underground rappers from the United States. Since then i've only targeted that type of sound, the japanese hip hop + poetic underground style.

I listen to;

Nujabes
Shin Ski
Nomak
CYNE
Emancipator
Abstract Rude
Marcus D
Kenichiro Nishihara
Force of Nature
Fat Jon
Valentin
Anime/videogame/movie music
Michita
Lems
Kuroisoul
Kodomo
Kenjo
Jemapur
Demicat
Bugseed
Blazo
45
No. 9
Pinback (<--- Indie rock band!)
Uyama Hiroto

Most of those guys are producers who do instrumental hip hop, but many of them have rappers over some of their beats and CYNE and Abstract rude are both all rap.

 

[bigredwa]

Some of the stuff listed here is just nasty!

Anyone into Gospel HipHop ?!?

 

[Skatergurl]

I listen to a lot of mainstream Hip-Hop and Rap artists.
Some Christian artists I like are Lecrae, Grits, Da Truth, KJ-52, G-Notes, and others.
I grew up with a strict dad who only listened to classical, and we weren't allowed to listen to anything else, but that.
So, I needed something harder. Something with some bass. lol