My all time fave is Q Tip and A Tribe Called Quest. I like Common, but I feel he hit his peak with 'Like Water for Chocolate.' (Though 'I Want You' is my shit). Of course I love Biggie, NaS, Foxy, the Fugees, etc...but T-Pain, FloRida, Lil Mama just don't do it for me. Is it that I'm 26 and out of touch?

badujunkie said:

I feel the same. Sadly, Hip Hop is in a state of 911 right now. So if u wanna find some true Hip Hop ur gonna have to look underground my friend.

UNDERGROUND UNSIGNED ACTS...

I've been listening to:
Lupe Fiasco
Kanye
The Cool Kids(it's more hip hop for hipsters)
J*Davey(they don't really count for hip hop tho.....)
K-Os
Gym Class Heroes

lupe, kanye, timbaland are the only hip hop/rap artists of today I can put up with, and I'm almost 25.

j dilla
pete rock
ghostface
common
talib kweli
mos def


this is what i rock to!!!!!

badujunkie said:

Here take 1 of these 3 times a day "UK hip hop" ...just what the doctor ordered
http://www.youtube.com/wa...Ru_OA0r0RM
Skinnyman

http://www.youtube.com/wa...buSdXKtJX4
Roots Manuva

Now don't overdose on this S*** it's kind of strong you should get rid of your T-Pain stuff it's not doing you any good and your ears are bleeding!

Just stick to 80's/early 90's. There hasn't been much worth bothering with since then. Rap is dead.

badujunkie said:

Immortal Technic

woogiebear said:

I'm on some woogiebear schitt.

Could be time to expand your horizon. You may be "Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt" with Hip-Hop. Wouldn't be unheard of. Tons of music in this world with the ability to move you, aside from Hip-Hop.

Percee P

Quasimoto/Madlib/Madvillian/Jaylib

K-OS

BusDriver

The Roots

K-OS and The Roots are both great.

But honestly, if you are looking for new hip-hop I would go to a few local clubs wherever you are and start checking out the local guys and girls who aren't on the radio. The most creative, freshest sound is most likely not signed yet and performing trying to get their music out there.

Who is copping the new Guilty Simpson CD on Stones Throw?

sounds like you need a trip to the local strip-club!

woogiebear said:

And there it T-I-S.

I'd also add . . .



MF Doom, a/k/a Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah and Zev Love X of KMD


Madlib a/k/a Lord Quasimoto, the Beat Konduckta


Madvillain -- MF Doom and Madlib collabo . . . Madvillainy is arguably the best hip-hop album of the decade.



De La Soul . . . arguably the best hip-hop group out there right now. If you haven't copped their last 2 albums, The Grind Date and Impossible Mission, please do so.


Ghostface

Other cats like Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Pharoahe Monch and Peanut Butter Wolf are puttin' it down as well.


[Edited 3/28/08 14:43pm]

Because Hip-Hop died in 1993.

The best stuff was between 1988-1992.

Shit hop couldn't move anyone except for people in a rest home. It's too slow to move anyone else.

Giovanni777 said:

Sure about that?

Take a look at what dropped in 1993.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu Tang Clan
Buhloone Mindstate -- De La Soul
Enta Da Stage -- Black Moon
Reachin' -- Digable Planets
Midnight Marauders -- A Tribe Called Quest
Lethal Injection -- Ice Cube
In God We Trust -- Brand Nubian
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik -- OutKast
Return Of the Boom Bap -- KRS-ONE

Then take a look at what dropped in 1994 . . .

Illmatic -- Nas
Ready To Die -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Resurrection -- Common Sense
Blowout Comb -- Digable Planets
Hard to Earn -- Gang Starr
The Main Ingredient -- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Dare Iz A Darkside -- Redman
Everything Is Everything -- Brand Nubian
The Sun Rises In The East -- Jeru The Damaja
Do You Want More?!!!??! -- The Roots
Street Level -- The Beatnuts
Tical -- Method Man
Non-Fiction -- Black Sheep

That doesn't even count the West Coast joints that dropped from Tupac, Souls of Mischief, et al.

So I can't go there witcha. 1993 and 1994 were 2 of the best years in hip-hop history.

Check out this guy, Dee Nyce. http://profile.myspace.co...d=95240777

He's a great lyricist and is socially very conscientious. He's got a few videos up on YouTube too.

OK, I need an edumacation here. What exactly is Hip Hop?

Is it Rap... cuz all these joints y'all are posting are rap albums.

A real B-Boy once tried to explain the difference to me and I recall that it kind of made sense at the time but now I'm not recovering the distinction.

Is all Rap Hip Hop but not all Hip Hop is Rap... or something like that?

Can anybody break it down for me?
[Edited 3/28/08 15:31pm]

Ghostface Killah
never ceases to amaze me


I sold my new Wu-Tang album (8 Diagrams)
back to Sam Goody the uuuh day
for like 3 bucks (DVD included)
only song I really played
was "The Heart Gently Weeps"
and I see that is available on 12"
so I'll just cop that and be happy

Giovanni777 said:

Exactly!

TonyVanDam said:

Y'all must have stopped listening after that.

Hip-Hip was just kicking into its 2d Golden Age; which was brief but classic. The "bling/jiggy" era began a long slide. But before that came some of the greatest albums in hip-hop history.
[Edited 3/29/08 9:39am]

DirtyChris said:

Ghostface is the only remnant of Wu-Tang that matters anymore.

Is this a trick question?

Another big vote for K-Os!

My favorite hip hop artist. Though his style blends genres and he is a great singer too.

All four of his albums are worth checking out and he has a new one on the way. It will be titled "Souls on Ice".

Later
[Edited 3/29/08 9:51am]

namepeace said:

you're exactly right
though I cuts for Method Man
his albums after Tical 2000
only have a handful of songs
worth hearing again...
but they ALL have SOMETHING
on there worth hearing

but Ghostface brings
crack album after crack album
after crack album
and this has been since
Ironman

DirtyChris said:

I think that's right. Raekwon arguably has the best album of all the Wu solo efforts, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, but again, Ghostface kills on that joint. Method's and GZA's debut albums were tight too, but after that, with some exceptions, Ghostface has been carrying the Wu brand basically by himself, while the others are just repeating themselves.
[Edited 3/29/08 11:40am]

namepeace said:

The Score - The Fugees (1996) - Hip-Hop goes Global, breaks open all doors, in fact rips them off, merges all age ranges from 15 to 51, all sexes, pop to indie, reggae to punk, all races, music history