Really digging Canniable Ox and A Tribe Called Quest.
(I'm getting the album that Toilet and Bowels posted just because it seemed so thorough)

I've just been introduced to Dalek's "Absence" and I love it. Intelligent lyrics, good rythmns, and layers of sheer noise.

now lemme check what I got in my IPod right now...

Company Flow,
El-P,
Mr.Lif,
Cannibal Ox,
Dilated Peoples,
Roots,
MF Doom,
Ty,
Edan

and for noizeheads:
Dalek,
Techno Animal

real noisy apocalyptic hip-hop. I've seen Dalek live and it was a real blast. venue was about to crash down.

WORD!!

"Culture for Dollars"

Written word held weight
Now honor at best recessive trait
The sound and shape to come succumbed to Malignant maelstrom
Malformed mentals stained expected outcome
And not to be outdone
Some speak in half phrases
No definition to brush strokes already out of phase with these statements
Raise children off pavement...
Pulse on frauds hasten
When confronted with styles from gutter basements
Set to build like Freemasons, on three angles
All I see are Minstrel MC's on these channels
Perceived battles only held to sell albums
Propagate stereotypes that bleed out us
Our own doubt us
But I remain devout scholar of skills of forefathers
Ignorance was forced on us
Define honest, if we all breath diseased lies
Define the MC if all he spits are weak lines.


Who trades his culture for dollars?
The fool or the scholar?
Griot? Poet? Or White collared?


If my written words slurs
Then my speech correct
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek


Spoken word held meaning
Hostile acts provoked
Formed metaphors
Created urban folklore
Never meant for these upper echelon aurals
That bought and stripped morals
From art that's gift for us
At heart I'm strict purist
Spit thoughts for poorest
5'6'' Honduran sights set on own ruin
Rugged cadence meant to capture essence
Ancestor's wrath festers under surface of uttered sentence.


Who trades his culture for dollars?
The fool or the scholar?
Griot? Poet? Or White collared?


If my written words slurs
Then my speech correct
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek

Currently my favorite hip-hop group. I loooovvee "A Beast Caged"

check out my gravel pit.....
hippidy hop.... dont stop

Sage Rules!

Anyone into the "Anticon" lable?
A lot of good stuff on there.

Damn, I'm loving Low End Theory!

Slick Rick is my hero. "Behind Bars" is a FANTASTIC album; he was so skilled he shined over mediocre beats most of his career.

Right now Ghostface is the best there is. Check out his new album "Fishscale" or if you can find it the mixtape "Hidden Darts III". He's got another album coming out later this year with MF Doom which should be godly.

Most won't dig this but I'm down with the Diplomats. Cam'ron has a totally unique style and Juelz Santana gets better every day. JR Writer is also a perfectly good rhymer. The rest aren't that great but you can't knock the Dips style. Problem is a lot of their fans are fucking dipshits.

I love the hip hop. Find me on Slsk (same name as here) or message me to talk it.

Gravediggaz
Funk Doc
Killah Priest
Black Knights
Tribe Called Quest
Slick Rick
old school Outcast
RZA, GZA and the rest of the Wu
2pac (seriously)
e-40 (SHOULD BE FIRST ON YR LIST, http://www.myspace.com/e40)
Kool Keith aka The Black Elvis aka Dr Octagon aka Dr Doom aka all kinds a shit

Kool Kieth and his many alternate ego's, MF Doom/ Viktor Vaughn, Tribe, De La, J-Live, Beastie Boys, Gangstarr, Rakim, Jeru, Black Moon, Wu-Tang, Dj Vadim, Prince Paul, Dj Shadow, Dan the Automator, Slick Rick, Immortal Technique and if I forgot any just ask!!!

Bump (not a word used much lately).
Got Gravediggaz's 6 Feet Deep, love it. It's in a genre called horrocore, which essentially is a genre of hip-hop concerned with death, killing, and suicide; which is great, because that's not something you'd normally find yourself singing along with, but the songs are so catchy it can't be helped. Like 1-800-suicide-----

So you wanna die, commit suicide
Dial 1-800-Cyanide line
Far as life, yo it ain't worth it
Put a rope around your neck and jerk it
The trick didn't work
Your life was fucked up from the first day of birth
After watching Jackie Gleason walk into a precinct
Gun down the captain for no fucking reason
And get some LSD or a drink from the bar
Get behind your wheel and crash the car
Like Desert Storm, got bombs for the war
confront an alligator, let it eat ya raw
Back to the function, riding the caboose to hell
BZZZZZT touched the third rail.
You fucked up chicken, now you just got fried
Cause it's a suicide

Verse Two: Too Poetic/Grym Reaper

Hey you little rich kid, what's your beef?
Come and tell the Grym Reaper all of your grief
You asked for a Benz and you only got a Jeep
Your pop's got endz, but yo he's mad cheap
Maybe you're a bastard child you think
Mom and dad are white and you're dark as ink
Maybe you're Sicilian with a tan
But you hate lasagna and the pizza man
Now you stand on the grave digga locked and
You're singing the blues about the rough life you've got
Not
You don't wanna live no more
I guess you're really ready for the grave yard tour
When you get home just fill up your windows and you doors
Turn your oven on high for about four hours
Light you a blunt, kiss your ass goodbye
You gassed yourself 'cause it's a suicide

Interlude: Scott (the Moleman) Harding:

Yep
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Life moves pretty fast
If you don't stop and look around every once in a while
you could miss it

Verse Three: Prince Rakeem/Ryzarector

Six fucking devils stepped up playing brave God
Had the fucking nerve to try and enta my grave yard
I'm the Ryzarector, be my sacrafice
Commit suicide and I'll bring you back to life
The first was convinced
Stuck a water hose in his mouth at full blast so his head can explode
Second said hmmmm that's good but I can top it
Put an ax up to his head and then he chopped it
Blood shot out in every direction
The rest didn't know what to do, I made suggestions
Put a slug in your mug, overdose on a drug
Wet your hair stick a knife in the plug
Or be like Richard Pryor set your balls on fire
Better yet go hang yourself with a barbed wire
Three and Four fell deep into spell and
Ran to the zoo, locked themselves in a lion's den
Number Five said it ain't worth being alive
Smoked a dust suede, mixed it with cynaide
The only one to escape was number Six
He went home
Sat in the tub and slit his wrists
Yeah, more graves to dig. Goodbye
There's no need to cry...
... cause we all die

Anyone like this genre?
Anyone know any other good artists who do this?

Themselves
Subtle
Clouddead
Boom Bip

Any Anticon stuff is good.

I like my hip-hop group, BOOM! www.myspace.com/willmarboom

We have local rivals as well, Shwing! www.myspace.com/cwoa

boom is pimptacular hayden

Thanks. We try.

send more songs when you record

We have two new ones in the works. One is called 'Your Majesty' written about us yelling out of car at a gangster in his girlfriend's vehicle and him almost killing us. TRUE STORY.

The other is a SCHWING diss track.

that's schweet. if you ever wanna collaberate hit me up. i'd be glad to
(i've only dabbled in the genre)

so how did the taco guy know it was you?

Sweet. We'd always be willing to use other people's beats and voices. We should do a Huskers On A Plane rap song.

found this:
The 50 most underplayed and under-appreciated rap tracks according to ohword.com, all in one download.

hip-hop music blogs

For those who aren't hip-hop fans, an exhaustive list of MP3 blogs.

Thanks atari!

Current Favs:
RAKIM the microphone soloist
Dr. Dre
Slick Rick
Rick Ross
Julez Santana / Dipset
Cannibal Ox
Young MC

There's a new Rakim and a new Dr. Dre album coming out this year. And here's a few albums that will be worthwhile to pick up. The line up for this Bishop Lamont album is phenomenal:

Bishop Lamont - The Reformation has aleady recorded with Kon Artis, DJ Khalil, Scott Storch, Dr. Dre and Jake One, and is expecting to work with DJ Quik, DJ Premier, Battlecat, Pete Rock, Damizza, Madlib, DJ Clark Kent, The Neptunes, Lord Finesse, Nottz, Warren G, Hi-Tek, Focus, The RZA, Jonathan Rotem and Eminem, among others

Raekwon - Only Bulit For Cuban Lynx II Tracks that are confirmed are "State Of Grace" (prod by RZA), "Secret Indictment" (prod by RZA), "Thug World" (prod by RZA), "Kareem Khan" w/GZA (prod by RZA & Justice), "No Matter How Hard You Try" w/Inspectah Deck & Lucy Clark (prod by RZA), "The Brass" w/Ghostface Killah & John Frusciante (prod by RZA), "Rockstars & Smoking Barrels" w/Inspectah Deck, GZA & Stone Mecca (prod by RZA), "Loose Change" (prod by Scram Jones), "Time Is Money" (prod by Dr. Dre), "House Of Flying Daggers" (prod by J.Dilla); and finally a track produced by Dr. Dre and featuring RZA and Busta Rhymes. The main sidekick in Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Ghostface Killah, is confirmed to be appearing on a few tracks.

Dr.Dre - Detox
Producer(s)
Dr. Dre
Hi-Tek
Mr. Porter
Nottz
Scott Storch
Mel-Man
Dawaun Parker
Just Blaze

Guest apperances for the album are expected to come from Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Diddy, Xzibit, Mary J Blige, Mr. Porter, Ice Cube, Nate Dogg, Bishop Lamont, MC Ren and possibly Nas ,The Game, and Bone Thugs N Harmony.

This year's going to be fan-fucking-tastic

Deltron3030!

Del the Funky Homosaphien + Dan the Automator = sci-fi-hip-hop-love-in.


and as mentioned above, De La Soul. The album Bahloone Mindstate is genius.

Haha, Del is hilarious. I always wondered if it's somewhat related to the song "3000" by Dr.Octogon, which pretty much has the same content. And if you like Del, you should definitely check out Dr.Octogon - Dr.Octogoly. It's terrific and the beats are dope.

I have to listen to De La Soul more :(. I have one of their albums, but only listened to it once due to having a kajillion new artists to listen to

yeah, I have Dr. Octogon, but I couldn't get into as much as I wanted to. Dan is a super-producer, but I'm not sure he's cut out for MC work.

seriously though, you can't go wrong with De La Soul.

I know! I think I'm going to listen to it tonight then. Dan is an excellent beatmaker, it somewhat reminds me of Cannibal Ox's beats

Hmm, I haven't heard the last 3, but I've heard of Prefuse 73. I'm not a big fan of Aesop at all though :(, but the course of Daylight has good lyrics. "All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day; put the pieces back together my way". When it comes to Def Jux, I'm all for EL-P and Cannibal Ox. I'll check the myspace link when I get home (myspace is blocked on the school computers :()

Am I the only one who thinks The Fugees - The Score is a masterpiece?

maybe...

Probably.

Here's my big 3:

Mr. Lif
Anti Pop Consortium
MF Doom

I love Anti Pop and MF Doom. I've listened to Anti Pop Consoritum albums straight before. Good choices!

straight before what?

listen to everything straight through damnit.

death to the MP3

I have to say that I like everything on this list.

yeah. Cuban Linx II and Detox are both DEFINITELY coming out this year. Hey, y'wanna buy this bridge I got for sale? Great price and it heads straight into Brooklyn!