Dr. Octagon - Bear Witness

Didn't Miles Davis do a Hop-hop cd?

namepeace said:

Shawy89 said:

The dopest jazz/soul hip hop album of all time is Madvillainy by Madvillain, at least imo x)

Good pull.

To me, Madvillainy one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

As for jazz-infused albums, my vote still goes to The Low End Theory.

I've slept on Madvillainy. Will have to check it out this weekend. For me, Digable Planet's "Blowout Comb" gets the win. Its an album where its hard to distinguish between the sample and the live instrumentation.

alexzander said:

namepeace said:

Good pull.

To me, Madvillainy one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

As for jazz-infused albums, my vote still goes to The Low End Theory.

I've slept on Madvillainy. Will have to check it out this weekend. For me, Digable Planet's "Blowout Comb" gets the win. Its an album where its hard to distinguish between the sample and the live instrumentation.

A totally legit argument for Blowout Comb, which may be my favorite hip-hop album of all time, but The Low End Theory was imo no less seamless and actually featured Ron Carter playing bass on the tracks.

I don't think Madvillainy is as jazz-infused as those 2 albums but imo it's the best hip-hop album of the 20th century.

happy listening.

peedub said:

Man I forgot about Galliano - used to love this album back in the day!

Another one to dust off!

We could veer into some trip-hop ala Massive Attack - could also be considered Jazzy Hip-Hop...

The Hue just released a new album called Aurora. A couple of the songs were released already as singles only. thehuelife.com

Graycap23 said:

Didn't Miles Davis do a Hop-hop cd?

Yes!! In 1992 with producer Easy Mo Bee ("Another Victory", "Calling Mr. Welfare", "Party And Bullshit", "Gimme The Loot", "Machine Gun Funk", "Warning", "Ready To Die", "The What", "Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)", "Get Down", "Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz", "Microphone Master", "Everything Remains Raw", "If I Die 2Nite", "Temptations", "I Love The Dough", "Going Back To Cali").

Thanks for sharing that Miles & Easy Mo Bee info.

Technically not Jazz Hip-a-de-Hop

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But superb UK Hip-Hop

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If nothing else for the lyric..

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"I check a Muslim, I check a Christian...with all the fightin' and fussin' the point- we all I think we are all missing the point... we all worship the same God...and in the end we are all struggling to fight hard!..."

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Peace Hx

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JKOOLMUSIC said:

Thanks for sharing that Miles & Easy Mo Bee info.

Hey No sweat.

Did you ever check out 4Hero? Marc Mac presented an interesting side project called Visioneers:

Remembered another track based on Cal Tjader "Never My Love" that I often hear on a jazzy hip hop radio show:

Soho "Hot Music (Jazz Mix)"