Hip-hop preferences

bbculp

@gregk wait, so the one you just sent me with the caption "wanna 69?" was purely non-sexual?

ItsShug

ItsShug

gregk

You're welcome, @bbculp, @AaronWebstey , @EveryoneElse

Martin

My 15 year old likes a lot of current hip hop. I sent him this video to remind him that there was cool shit more than six months ago.

bbculp

@Martin Thank you for this. Best 5 minutes of my week.

I can't believe Slowtwitch is still a thing with content like this over here.

Aaron Webstey

https://twitter.com/HipHopDX/status/1181632109108027392

Discuss

Martin

This thread has a better compilation of rappers than that list.

Aaron Webstey

Drake in the top 10? Really??

bbculp

Drake is in my top 15. @AaronWebstey don't you people love him?

Aaron Webstey

bbculp said:

Drake is in my top 15. @AaronWebstey don't you people love him?

I guess I need to listen to some of his non-hits. None of the radio stuff has ever really resonated at all, at least that I can remember.

Martin

bbculp said:

Drake is in my top 15. @AaronWebstey don't you people love him?

We Canadians mostly love him for his time on Degrassi High. Good, family-oriented programming with no Gucci Mane cameos.

dhr

Disgraceful talking about Drake when a new Gang Starr album dropped this week.

The fuck outta here.

wchevron

Need some help. My daughter got an athletic scholarship to college and she needs to play an opening song when she goes up to the stage for national signing day at her school. I'm assuming they would only be playing about 30 sec of the song so it needs to be something clean for that long. She likes hip hop. Looking for something up-tempo and up beat.

Matt

Feel so Good - Mase

bbculp

@wchevron

Martin

wchevron said:

Looking for something up-tempo and up beat.

Appeals to all.

Rash

@wchevron

Rash

@wchevron

dhr

@wchevron

wchevron

Thanks for the suggestions. She picked some Kanye song. I wanted to go with this.

Aaron Webstey

Reviving my slow education. Getting into some Mobb Deep. Best album to start with? Currently trying The Infamous.

Aaron Webstey

I hope it's cool to like Mobb Deep cuz I surely do

bbculp

The Infamous is THE Mobb album. Mobb's run was short-lived. Murda Muzik and Hell on Earth had a couple of decent tracks each, but The Infamous is what made them legends.

One of the things that makes Mobb legendary is that they were on some of the greatest singles and albums from New York's other great rappers between 1995-2005: "Outta Control" by 50 Cent, "L.A. L.A." by Capone-n-Norega, "Live Nigga Rap" by Nas.

But their masterpiece was their debut album. Nothing they did post-1995 could come close to The Infamous. To me, "Eye for an Eye (Your Beef is Mine)" might be the greatest track in hip-hop history (thanks in large part to fire verses from Nas and Raekwon.)

yournotunique

I.... I agree with every word @bbculp just said. Maybe not that "Eye" is the *greatest* track, but it's up there. You know the writing is incredible when a track with a sort of slow beat still has you ready to run headfirst through brick walls.

yournotunique

And, I wish I had seen the request for @wchevron for his daughter to walk up to, because any suggestion other than this is wrong:

bbculp

@yournotunique The *greatest* might be a bit of a stretch, but like you said, it's up there. It's the best verse of Raekwon's career, which is saying something because he was the best rapper of the Wu-Tang.

Second favorite might be the start to "Investigative Reports," which ends with the most fire 16 bars Ghostface ever put down.

yournotunique

Ohhhh, this brings me to an argument that I have with my friends:

Is Raekwon the best rapper in Wu-Tang, or is he the best writer? I will readily agree that he is the best writer. But I think a really solid argument could be made for Method Man. And, while I don't agree with it, I've heard some solid arguments for ODB, even though most of his rhymes were written by everyone else.

bbculp

He's definitely the best writer. Even the rest of the WU agrees on that, and he's written a lot of their best verses.

I get why Meth was the one member of the Clan who [almost] went mainstream. He has that smooth flow that's easy on the ears. But Raekwon's flow is that perfect mix of smooth and violent. He's not as smooth as Meth and he's not as violent as Ghostface, but it hits just right, at least for my ears.

I've seen three members of the Clan perform solo: Gza (6 times), Raekwon (twice) and Ghostface (once). Raekwon was by far the most impressive live, although some of that has to do with the fact that he doesn't come on 2 hours late like Gza, and he's less high.

JohnnyRX7

MC Eiht.. all time favorite... current stuff I like Drake beats