I can't do 25 songs, so I will do 25 Artist.

In No Order:

Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony

Master P

Snoop Doggy Dog

Notorious B.I.G.

Jay Z

NaS

UGK

TRU

Eightball & MJG

Spice 1

DJ Quik

Lil' Kim

Foxy Brown

Missy Elliot

DMX

LOX

Naughty By Nature

Lost Boys

Mystikal

Juvenile

Hot Boys

MC Hammer

DJ Screw

Outkast

Goodie Mob

Tupac

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leecappella said:

I only have 6 songs in my library that are considered rap. Out of the six, two are from the 90's, so my only two choices are:

What People Do For Money - Divine Sounds

Pump It - Blu

I do have other songs that have rap in them, but they are more so in the genre of dance than rap, as far as my categorization of them goes since they have been remixed for the dance floor. Also, some are instrumetnals as well, so they go under my genre category of instrumentals.

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What People Do For Money was the 80's goofy! As a matter of fact, early 80's. I was in middle school when that song came out. Still have it on 12-inch LP. Classic. That proves that you really don't listen to rap too muc do you? In that case, why log on this topic?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I can't do 25 songs, so I will do 25 Artist.

In No Order:

Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony x2

Master P

Snoop Doggy Dog

Notorious B.I.G.

Jay Z

NaS

UGK

TRU

Eightball & MJG

Spice 1

DJ Quik really?

Lil' Kim

Foxy Brown x 2

Missy Elliot

DMX x2

LOX

Naughty By Nature

Lost Boys

Mystikal

Juvenile

Hot Boys

MC Hammer

DJ Screw

Outkast x 3

Goodie Mob x 3

Tupac x 1,000

[Edited 12/8/10 19:08pm]

2freaky4church1 said:

Ah, I beg to differ. Singers can be more fun because they have the art of their voice, but when we deal with words--speaking words--what words are said is more important. If you want to talk about banging your girlfriend, why do you have to rap it? This is how rap lost it's artistic edge.

The best art says something.

All art says something, but not all art has enlightening or even provocative things to say. A balanced diet of art leads to healthy perspectives.

I think rap lost its artistic edge when its artists lost their authenticity and I think touch with the audience. I don't mean that in a "keeping-it-real (gone wrong)" way. I mean in the sense that they were offering a individual take, real or imagined, and that they did so intelligently. This of course includes artists like PE, Boogie Down Productions, The Jungle Brothers, Heiroglyphics, Pharcyde ATCQ and De La. But also some of the so-called hardcoreMCs. Nobody really believed Raekwon was an international gangster, but he wove a great story on Cuban Linx. Ditto for rappers like Ice-T, Ice Cube, Biggie, Tupac and others who put out vaguely semi-autobiographical work.

Now, cats are in it for the money. A lot of the established MCs are simply repeating themselves for a payday. Other newer MCs are just covering the same ground without any of the skill or intelligence of the old schoolers. Remember when young rappers could actually put complete sentences together? Many of them can't these days. Hit-Pop has been the new disco for over a decade and a half.

"

O.G. Original Gangster [Sire/Warner Bros., 1991]
Learning and diversifying, remembering where he comes from and sticking to what he knows, Ice-T wins big as the old school shakes out. He won't desert the hards because a hard he remains; his violence is pervasive and graphic because he knows brutalization from the inside. But he's nothing if not a moralist, and so the new jack drunk dies in his Benz, the cops break down the gangbanger's door, his gays are left to live their own lives, and his prematurely ejaculated sex jam is a dis on the horny fool who slavers for it. Since most of what I know about the hard audience comes from rap records, I can't guarantee he'll get away with it. But I can guarantee that this one has something to teach everyone who can stand to listen to it and almost everyone who can't. A"

"

O.G. Original Gangster [Sire/Warner Bros., 1991]
Learning and diversifying, remembering where he comes from and sticking to what he knows, Ice-T wins big as the old school shakes out. He won't desert the hards because a hard he remains; his violence is pervasive and graphic because he knows brutalization from the inside. But he's nothing if not a moralist, and so the new jack drunk dies in his Benz, the cops break down the gangbanger's door, his gays are left to live their own lives, and his prematurely ejaculated sex jam is a dis on the horny fool who slavers for it. Since most of what I know about the hard audience comes from rap records, I can't guarantee he'll get away with it. But I can guarantee that this one has something to teach everyone who can stand to listen to it and almost everyone who can't. A"

Robert Christgau.

namepeace said:

Harlepolis said:

I've been listening to these albums back to back recently....

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I forgot how damn good Digable Planets were.

Blowout Comb is pure genius.

Indeed it is! I was listening to it yesterday( with headphones) and heard things in the music that I hadn't noticed before. The genius lies in the fact that its hard to tell whats sampled and whats played live. There are so many layers to the music. My absolute favorite hip hop album, and in my top 10 of any genre.

I started typing up a list but I stopped for two reasons. 1- It was hard, 2- There were too many songs but not very many artists, all by most of the same people. But this is my top 4 though.

1. Bone Thugs N Harmony - East 1999

2. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Eternal

3. Krayzie Bone - Murda Mo

4. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Wasteland Warriors

nursev said:

Hit Em Up by Tupac is my #1 too-never heard so much rage on a song since Classic!

I love Hit 'Em Up. It's a classic, but there have diss songs with more "rage" released since that song came out though.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I can't do 25 songs, so I will do 25 Artist.

In No Order:

Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony

Master P

Snoop Doggy Dog

Notorious B.I.G.

Jay Z

NaS

UGK

TRU

Eightball & MJG

Spice 1

DJ Quik

Lil' Kim

Foxy Brown

Missy Elliot

DMX

LOX

Naughty By Nature

Lost Boys

Mystikal

Juvenile

Hot Boys

MC Hammer

DJ Screw

Outkast

Goodie Mob

Tupac

[Edited 12/8/10 19:08pm]

Most of the people you named are great. But it's awesome to see these 3 in the same list.