I would also recommend Lifesavas to anyone who likes Blackalicious. Spirit in Stone is a great album.

I´m going to see Kool Keith
in a few weeks

that´s gonna kick ass

edan's first album primitive plus is lo-fi old school beats and totally off the wall rhymes. it's probably one of my favorite albums.

"silver surfer on a cerebellum/MCs go to the zoo & when they're wac, parrots tell 'em"

dr. octogon's great. keith's dr dooooom album is also amazing. he's got a new UFO-conspiracy album coming out, i gotta check that out.

deltron

Thought I'd give you my top five rap songs.

1. 'Eric B Is President' by Eric B And Rakim.
2. 'My Philosophy' by Boogie Down Productions.
3. 'Rebel Without a PAuse' by Public Enemy.
4. 'We HAd To Tear This Motherf***** Up by Ice Cube.
5. 'House of the Rising Son' by Public Enemy.

Nice, Anti-Pop Consoritum is one of my favs. Here's a list of Rap and Hip hop I like.

Dalek
Antipop-Consoritum
RJD2
The Coup
Noah23
Hangar18
N.W.A
Aesop Rock
Mr. Lif
Clipse
DJ Shadow
RZA
GZA
Ghostface Killa
Wu-Tang Clan
lil Troy
Sixtoo (If you like DJ Shadow, Sixtoo is a must to check out)
ELP

Yay! Hip-hop!

I like:
Public Enemy
Handsome Boy Modeling School
MF Doom/Danger Doom
DJ Shadow
Wu-Tang/Ghostface Killa/Gza/Rza
P.O.S.

Local groups:
BOOM
DJ Wasp

Check out DJ Logic too.

when hiphop came on the scene it was just party music, barely different to disco, it was years before it evolved beyond that, and if it hadn't been picked up by mtv (and become a financially viable medium with exposure outside of its home city) it would probably have disappeared and possibley never evolved into the heaviness of groups like public enemy or the wu-tang.

does anyone know Sensational?Weird,beautiful stuff

anything i recommend would just be echoing what someone else has said, so i'll just give you a word of warning: be very careful with "indie" hip hop, because most of it is very bad (like anything from the anticon label).

i like atmosphere, too. their new album's really good. i think slug is probably the best white rapper around right now... thoguh that's not saying much...

HIP to the HOP. I love old school hip hop. I love the old rappers. They took their time to write a rhyme. If there is noone rhymin then you are just listening to DJ beats. nothing wrong with that, but I gots to have the MC

Public Enemy (my favorite)
A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Eric B. & Rakim (my recent fave. I have been listening to PAID IN FULL non-stop for months now. I hear a million rhymes straight stolen by endless rappers.
Pull out my cordless mic and entertain you well
Before I let go I'm a spark your brain cells
I took time to write - tonight I will recite
So poetically inclined when the mic is held tight
Rhymes start flowin' kisses are blowin
MC's are knowin' that's why they're goin
Home to tell a friend when the party ends
"Yo, man you know Rakim? That brother struck again"

and the ever classic

I take seven MC's put em in a line
and add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme
now it'll take seven more before I go for mine
now that's twenty one MC's ate up at the same time.)

Kurtis Blow
Boggie Down Productions (criminal minded!)
Digital Underground
Digable Planets
Pharcyde
Poor Righteous Teachers
Beastie Boys (Hello Nasty is severely underrated)
GangStarr
RUN DMC 4evah

shit there are so many. I miss the days when rappers would just fucking RAP, and there were NO sing-song choruses, and there were minimal if any opverdubs on the vocal tracks. That is why I love Eric B & Rakim. It truly was ONE DJ and ONE RAPPER and what you saw was what you got. and it was fucking wonderful. I love hearing raps where they have worked so hard on teh rhymes that there are internal rhythms and internal rhymes and just multiple great lyrical ideas. todays rappers, bre from what is mostly BULLSHIT freestylin, can't holdl a candle to it. fucking bullshit rhmes. I FUCKING HATE SUNG CHORUSES IN RAP!

seems every shit ass MC nowadays has such terrible un-schooled, un-practiced "flow" that they have to overdub themselves over and over and over because, for one, their voices just suck, and two, they cannot rap without FUCKING UP. wack MC's.

I almost forgot one of my all time favorites!!!

SLICK RICK the RULER!!!!!!


here is a cool little movie by Shock G of the digital underground defining what an MC is
http://www.shockg.com/newsite/knowin-emcee.html

i agree with the slick rick! too bad he'll never be able to put out another album.

Really liked Blackalicious A2G.
I don't really like the Ultramagnetic MC's so much.
I'm habing trouble finding some of the other bands everyone metioned, so again I ask, If anyone has any album they'd like to share it would be most helpful..

geez, how did i forget ricky d?

why isn't he putting anything else out? i loved the art of storytelling.

dave the dope fiend shootin dope who don't know the meanin of water nor soap


slick rick was the MASTER of including interesting rhythms in his rhyme scheme.

f'real, anticon is dreadful. hiphop for people who are indierock pussy-Os.

Slick Rick is indeed nice. He played my old college a few years back.