Hip Hop

[ratioci nation]

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[definitivedoodle]

Originally posted by general grievous:
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give it up for the gas mask
 
 and of course
 
 the MF DOOM

[BookerT]

if you like "illmatic," you'd probably dig raekwon's "only built 4 cuban linx." that's like the only rap album i ever listen to. nas is on one of the songs on there. lots of ghostface. "criminology" from this album ranks behind only "da mystery of chessboxin'" as my favorite rap song.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by BookerT:
  if you like "illmatic," you'd probably dig raekwon's "only built 4 cuban linx." that's like the only rap album i ever listen to. nas is on one of the songs on there. lots of ghostface. "criminology" from this album ranks behind only "da mystery of chessboxin'" as my favorite rap song.

ah, good call ... i haven't put that album on in a while, will have to do that today ...

[shoot ur shot]

there still seems to be some clarification needed in regards to what separates rap from hip hop. It's simple. Rap=the music. Hip hop=the whole street culture of the music. That is what is meant by the "four elements of hip hop" - dj'ing/beatmaking (the music), mc'ing (the speech), breaking (the dance) and writing/graffiti art (the art). Rap and Hip Hop are not distinguished by lyrical content. Rap is everything from Nelly and Ludacris to Percee P amd Lord Finesse. There's good rap and there's bad rap just like with any other genre of music.
 
 AND this just went on sale at sandboxautomatic.com:
 Stretch & Bobbito "11/11/93 (feat. Kool Keith, O.C., Large Professor & Pharoahe Monch" 2xCD [$15]

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[jd930]

check out the Decipher show on WPFW 89.3, M-F 11PM

[chaz]

Originally posted by shoot ur shot:
  there still seems to be some clarification needed in regards to what separates rap from hip hop. It's simple. Rap=the music. Hip hop=the whole street culture of the music. That is what is meant by the "four elements of hip hop" - dj'ing/beatmaking (the music), mc'ing (the speech), breaking (the dance) and writing/graffiti art (the art). Rap and Hip Hop are not distinguished by lyrical content. Rap is everything from Nelly and Ludacris to Percee P amd Lord Finesse. There's good rap and there's bad rap just like with any other genre of music.
 

Thank you Professor Griff.

[thirsty moore]

Thanks for the suggestions all.  I've learned a lot about Queens Bridge in the past few days.