I remember a couple years back I made a hip-hop topic on here and it failed miserably. I'm glad to see there are now other hip-hop fans on here. Anywho... [youtube]GG405y51cVk[/youtube] Camp Lo - Lucini [youtube]sjWG1h5j4eE&[/youtube] The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By [youtube]a1X8KZHTtVo[/youtube] The Notorious B.I.G. - Warning [youtube]PGMd8vOLEDw[/youtube] Bone Thugs 'N Harmony - No Surrender EDIT: Just because I was listening to this while posting this message... [youtube]dujzt3F1yBo[/youtube] Jay Z - Feelin' It
Ah yeah, everyones favorite Irish rap group [video=youtube;U9Q0jPyrja0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Q0jPyrja0[/video] I am going to be quite honest, I actually have this album
De La Soul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Eric B. and Rakim, The Pharcyde, Public Enemy, and A Tribe Called Quest. I'm not sure what the cutoff is for old school, but I only used groups that had a debut before 1993. You can't go wrong with any of them.
Dear Jay Sensei, new hip hop has just as much soul as it ever did. Though for the sake of the thread. [youtube]S6BJ3CvPLhs[/youtube] [youtube]Cvy7MWjfVPE[/youtube] Maybe not as old-school as PE, but classic nonetheless: [youtube]UKjj4hk0pV4[/youtube]
I don't find that the newer mainstream hip hop has as much soul. Back then it was just about making music and sharing mixtapes without the worry of getting busted for copying music, but the majority of hip hop nowadays doesn't feel quite right to me, since the majority of them do it just for the money. Even Nas acknowledges it.
I suppose I'm not really talking about newer mainstream hip hop, rather the more underground hip hop around. I here a lot of people talk about how Hip Hop sucks nowdays, but Stones Throw, Rhymesayers, Def Jux etc. are all still putting out good shit :/
I know where to look. I know of the underground artists that are out there, but they aren't necessarily in the general public eye. It is the mainstream hip hop artists that have killed a lot of the soul that was in hip hop in the first place.
Yeah the mainstream kinda killed that oldschool spirit, but things are still happening especially in the underground. The mass marketing of hip-hop by the labels and the consequent dumbing down of the sound.. that's what is to be blamed here.
That's what I've been trying to say all along. There are very few mainstream artists that are actually enjoyable to listen to, but it's the underground that has all the old school soul.
I know this is the old school thread, but I just wanted to post a song that has that new school sound but that old school spirit. [youtube]McRgkE_vgjU[/youtube]
I fuck with Chiddy Bang. [youtube]GR6iBrEhbxI[/youtube] It really bothers me when people say that mainstream rap sucks. People fail to realize that some of the best rappers in the game are mainstream (Jay Z, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, OutKast, The Roots, etc...). Hell, you can even consider the Bone Thugs and Wu-Tang as mainstream. And before someone starts ranting about how Lil Wayne has ruined rap, you can not deny the talent he has as an MC. Sure, the music he has put out the past year or two has been either mediocre and pure garbage, but when he's not using autotune or high of that syrup I don't think they're are many other rappers who can touch Weezy lyrically.
nowhere did I say it sucks. I just said that most of the mainstream nowadays really killed the soul of hip hop as it was back in the 90's and prior. Bone Thugs and Wu-Tang came from a time when Hip-Hop was more pure and so they are under the small minority of mainstream artists that still have that same soul that they did back in the 90's. Its not to say I don't enjoy a lot of newer rap, but most of it now consists of underground artists that aren't in the general public's eye, when in all reality, deserve it more than a lot of current artists do.
I wasn't calling you out specifically, I was just referring to the general public and their views on mainstream rap. And if you think the Bone Thugs and Wu-Tang are still making that "soulful" rap they did a decade ago, then I would have to respectfully disagree. EDIT: By the way, underground artists don't exist anymore. They're now known as "internet rappers"
This thread needs more Biggie [video=youtube;ypP8sMHo74Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypP8sMHo74Y&feature=related[/video]