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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: walkonby on November 15, 2007, 07:29:00 pm
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for some reason, i can't listen to most rap music. i find it useless and without much merit as music. the only group i could ever stand was digable planets, am i'm not really sure they were rap anyway. but when i put in any album by old dirty bastard, a smile comes on my face as i get down to his genius. i've tried the wu-tang and other member's solo stuff to no liking. only the dirt dog can settle me in for the long haul. thank you big baby j.
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The first 3 Public Enemy albums will do you right.
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agreed, at lest back in the day. now, i'd listen for kitsch value, but that's about it.
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
The first 3 Public Enemy albums will do you right.
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There have only been 3 "rap" albums that ever did anything for me: Fear of a Black Planet, Blunted on Reality and that Black Star album. I kinda dig J-Dilla's Donuts and a few Spank Rock tracks as well. But I agree I can't listen to most of it. Jazz however, is wonderful.
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If you like the Digables, I can't imagine why you wouldn't like Tribe Called Quest.
And I can't imagine why you wouldn't like GZA-Liquid Swords or Raekwon-Cuban Linx.
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I think rap has been and always will be a singles medium. It just doesn't work well in an album format. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Rap is really hit or miss but when it hits, like say, Pras "Ghetto Superstar," it's fantastic.
To quote Eddie Murphy in an old SNL skit:
Michael Jackson: "Nine of out ten times, I get my face slapped, but that tenth one: it's magic. It's wonderful."
The greatest rap album I've ever heard?
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I know it's not "true rap", it's very nostalgic (a sin) and it's more "mall rap" but there's some great singles on there.
1. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Melle Mel
2. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
3. Funky Cold Medina - Tone-Loc
4. Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
5. Bust a Move - Young MC
6. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
7. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
8. Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
9. Around the Way Girl - LL Cool J
10. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn
11. Tennessee - Arrested Development
12. Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & the Boyz
13. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
14. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
15. Jump Around - House of Pain
16. Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty by Nature
17. Who Am I (What's My Name)? - Snoop Dogg
18. Nuthin' But a "G" Thang - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg
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Good Vibrations is not a rap song.
I third the Public Enemy recommendation.
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Originally posted by Brian_Wallace:
I think rap has been and always will be a singles medium. It just doesn't work well in an album format. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Rap is really hit or miss but when it hits, like say, Pras "Ghetto Superstar," it's fantastic.
Forget it Donny, you're out of your element.
Anyone could say the same thing about rock or country or soul if they were willfully ignorant.
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try some of these
The Roots
Blackalicious
Lifesavas
People Under the Stairs
Common
Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Crown City Rockers
Dilated Peoples
Jurassic 5
Mic Geronimo
The Living Legends
The Pharcyde
Lyrics Born
Mos Def
De La Soul
Maroons
Pharoahe Monch
Tribe Called Quest
Aesop Rock
The Coup
AZ
Ohmega Watts
Outkast (pre-Stankonia)
Zion-I
Brother Ali
Talib Kweli
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ghostface has always been my favorite wu
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it is true that rap/hip-hop albums are historically poorly contructed. even a lot of classics are littered with filler and lame skits and go waay too long.
I'm surprised more haven't followed Nas' Illmatic which is basically a bulletproof 9 songs and 39 minutes.