Recently, I've been experimenting with quality hip-hop, old-school and new. So far, I'm diggin Ice-T's The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech... Just Watch What You Say, Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, and the fly Grandmaster Flash cut The Message. What else can you recommend?

Public Enemy- Yo! Bum Rush the Show

Run-DMC Greatest Hits

This group is like the Beatles of hip-hop and have so many classic songs.

Glad you asked this question.

Quality hip-hop presently:

MOS DEF- THE NEW DANGER

this album is MOSt DEFinitely the truth. The tightest hip hop album i've seen this year although it probably won't get that much buzz from it (as usual with quality artists who deserve the recognition).

My favorite old-school albums:

Run-D.M.C. - Run D.M.C.
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

sextonseven said:

co-fuckin-sign!

The Pharcyde - excellent samples, awesome amnd fun rapping
Blackalicious - alternative hip-hop
Jurassic 5 - catchy
Outkast - Aquimini, better than their recent

The Pharcyde - excellent samples, awesome amnd fun rapping
Blackalicious - alternative hip-hop
Jurassic 5 - catchy
Outkast - Aquimini, better than their recent

De La Soul -- Stakes Is High

Madvillain -- Madvillainy (Madlib and MF Doom) -- hip-hop is reinvented.

Digable Planets -- Blowout Comb -- one of the finest hip-hop albums ever made.

Talib Kweli -- Quality -- one of the best joints of the last few years.


Common Sense -- Resurrection -- a classic.
To name just a few,

groups to look out for :
a tribe called quest
de la soul
talib kweli
mos def
early ice cube
public enemy
run dmc
early ll cool j
early the beatnuts
common
jay-z remixes
pharcyde
early outkast
the roots

also, mostly instrumental hip hop:
handsome boy modeling school
dj shadow
dj krush
ninja tunes
dan the automator
dr.octagon(instrumental version)
dj cam
kruder and dorfmeister
thievery corporation

Basically anything from 1995 and before. Anything mostly after that's just garbage.

Here are some more:

Big Daddy Kane
Krs-1
gang starr

here are some old school gems (yeah, some of them already mentioned up above) limited to one album per artist:



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namepeace said:

"Book of Life" from resurrection... classic cut there
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what a beautiful thread

Common's Electric Circus is a cloud of good quality hip hop. From "Electric Wire Hustle Flower" and up it is an exceptional CD
"New Wave"
Electric Wire Hustle Flower
Between Me U & Liberation
I Am Music
Jimi Was A Rockstar
Heaven Somewhere
Come Close & Star 69
are very very good trax



Just about the whole thing is good.



Stillmatic
Ether
Got Yourself A...
Rewind
One Mic
What Comes Around
his God's Son is great also.



If u like rap and dont have this CD i feel sorry 4 u.



I didnt have no Rap albums until I bought this one....

From the Intro on....
Big Momma Thang
No Time
Queen Bitch
Dreams
Not Tonight
We Dont Need It
are sum ghetto ass XXX jams.

For some New School Hip Hop that is good, check out

K-O's

Cee-Lo


Later

The Typical Cats

www.galapagos4.com

Bought any of our suggestions yet?

I recommend buying all of these albums. I each one of them. I've played them all incessantly.


Tori Fixx - The Mochasutra
Available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/torifixx


Soce, The Elemental Wizard - I'm In My Own World
Available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/soce2
(ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL HIP HOP ALBUMS TO COME OUT IN YEARS)


Tori Fixx - Black.Out
Available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/torifixx3

paisleypark4 said:

Yeah, thanks so much!! I'll work my way through all of them.

Mama Said Knock You Out is a terrific record.
And I'll be listening to Salt'N'Pepa's Blacks' Magic tonight.

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
Redman - Doc's Da Name
Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91... The Enemy Strikes Black
Rakim - The 18th Letter (not only will you get a pretty good comeback LP from Ra, but also an extra disc of his best work with Eric. B & Rakim )
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the best new Hip-hop album is "A long Hot Summer " By Masta Ace ....its hip hop in its truest form the album tells a story . Its almost like watching a good movie .

TheRealFiness said:

How could I have forgotten these??damn!Redman and Rakim are 2 of the best mc's EVER!Redman is underrated!Gang Starr's music is New York concrete!!True hip hop!

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boriquateddy said:

can someone tell me how to post images in my replies?

I just brought Outkast's Stankonia and it sounds freakin' brilliant. I think their recent Speakerboxxx/TLB, suffers from the filler. I really like Andre's TLB disc better. Outkast's Stankonia is a must-buy and it's probably one of the most important hip-hop/r&b albums to ever come out in the 2000's.

every thing that was mentioned
and "things fall apart" by the roots.

The Egyptian Lover by a longshot!

Egypt, Egypt
Girls
Dance
You're So Fine
Freak-A-Holic
The Alezby Inn
Baddest Beats Around
Planet E
Kinky Nation (Kingdom Kum)
The Lover
My House On The Nile
Livin' On The Nile
The Dark Side Of Egypt
Filthy
D.S.L.'s
I Want Cha'
Get Into It
Dance Music
Love Theme
I'm So Freaky
Work, Freak, Pump That Body
The Ultimate Scratch
The Ultimate Scratch II
And My Beat Goes Boom