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All Falls Down off College dropout is lyrically excellent.

• Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexis

• It seems we living the American dream / But the people highest up got the lowest self-esteem / The prettiest people do the ugliest things / For the road to riches and diamond rings

• We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom / We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em / Things we buy to cover up what's inside / Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth / That's why shorty's hollerin' "where the ballers at?" / Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack / And a white man get paid off for all of that

/r/HipHopHeads for latest news etc. Otherwise dont mind too much about all the shit talking etc going on or "understanding" songs. If i need to understand a song better i go to http://genius.com/ and read the lyrics and about the album/song. mostly cause im not having english as first language.

Definitely worth listening on the good hip hop from the 90's. Listen trough a few albums from every era maybe, some early 90, some 95 and so on to get a feeling for what you like. There are many different styles and when you have gone trough some stuff it just gets easier to know what you like.

I would start with Nostalgia/Ultra, then go to Channel Orange, and then Endless & Blonde.

The Lonny Breaux Collection is mostly full of reference songs that Frank made for other artists, so I wouldn't worry about getting into that if I were you.

He also has a good catalog of unreleased songs. Someone on /r/hiphopheads put them all together here: https://wakelet.com/@FrankOcean

Among the unreleased tracks, I'd say my favorites are: Voodoo, Whip Appeal, Eyes Like Sky, and Wise Man.

Hands Up off of Vince Staples' Hell Can Wait EP (2014) has some pretty insightful comments about police and the law, including what I think is a very powerful statement about the plea bargain system: "Trickin' niggas into taking strikes to get out faster/Freedom bribery, nigga, cause we hardly acquit"

http://genius.com/Vince-staples-hands-up-lyrics/

Lot's of good suggestions already here are some more:

The Procussions

Mr. J Medeiros

CYNE

Blue Scholars

Ohmega Watts

Gabriel Teodros

Abyssinian Creole

Common Market

Bop Alloy

Dujeous

Haiku D'etat

Sivion

Okay Moore (fka Othello)

G-Do & Xception

Hocus Pocus (a french hip hop group)

Pete Philly & Perquisite

And if you want more hit me up. I also recommend checking out thefindmag on mixcloud, specifically the stay thirsty series of mixes. They are excellent.

I don't exactly know what sample you're talking about, but whosampled.com tracks every instance of every sample, and links to YT clips to the exact moment of the sample's appearance in both the original and sampling song. For example, check out the breakdown of samples in Kanye's "Through The Wire" on whosampled here.

Hope it helps!

Discovered two:

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/953/The-Notorious-B.I.G.-Kick-in-the-Door-Screamin'-Jay-Hawkins-I-Put-a-Spell-on-You/

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/49796/LL-Cool-J-LL-Cool-J-Screamin'-Jay-Hawkins-I-Put-a-Spell-on-You/

Das Racist - Rappin 2 u

It samples Nujabes - Shiki No Uta which is used as an ending theme for Samurai Champloo

Edit: Go through this, there's a lot.

Almost anything from The Cool or F&L. His mixtapes Faranheit 1/15 parts 1 and 2 are also great.

Song wise, you can't really take any song of his at face value. The first few I listened to that got me into him were Superstar, The Cool, Lupe the Killer, Switch, and Kick Push. But really, anything off of his first 2 albums are great, and his latest is good. Deliver and Mural are probably my favorites.

My favorite thing about Lupe is his storytelling. http://genius.com/posts/69-Lupe-fiasco-the-proust-of-rap Give that a read, and listen to the songs at the end, it's a story told over TWO albums. I don't know if anyone else has done that. Hes one of my favorite artists, so if you want more recommendations let me know.

Some favs off the top,

Three 6 Mafia- Mystic Stylez

Koopsta Knicca- The Devil's Playground

Kingpin Skinnypimp- King of da Playaz Ball

DJ Sound- Vol 10 Hatred

DJ Zirk- Underworld

Tommy Wright III- On The Run

Project Pat- Ghetty Green

8Ball & MJG- Comin Out Hard

DJ Paul- Underground Vol 16 For Da Summa

DJ Paul & Lord Infamous- Come With Me To Hell Pt. 1 Remastered

Red Dog & Shawty Pimp- Comin Real Wit It

Children of the Corn- The Havoc (very lofi though)

DJ Paul/Juicy J- Vol 3 (very lofi)

Nigga Creep- Demons Taking Over Me (very lofi)

Gangsta Blac- Can It Be?

If you wanna know more lemme know, the stuff I noted as lofi might be hard to get into so I wouldn't start with them. And someone posted this on /r/hiphopheads it's a database of a bunch of Memphis tapes, you should be able to DL most of the ones I've mentioned here https://mega.nz/#F!iMwSQa6D!ThXZP9ALJX4-eWcgs1cY4g

Fuck man, tough question. I can't lie, 2012 was fucking sweet. Killer Mike, Lil Ugly Mane, El-P, Billy Woods & Aesop Rock all came out with arguably their best albums. (Billy Woods topped it in 2013 though). If you haven't heard Mista Thug Isolation, I definitely definitely recommend it. Dark, future-esque beats. Brilliant stuff.

2004 is another candidate. Madvillainy and Music by Cavelight are two of my favourite albums of the decade, maybe ever.

Shame this site didn't ask for 90s albums as well. 95/96 was insane.

Check out my rym: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/SkeletonOS/hip_hop_albums_by_year_/

i really enjoy his other aliases, like Sound directions or Yesterday's New Quintet. Quasimoto is def my fav Madlib alter ego.. also recommend to check his Blunted in the Bomb shelter compilation/mix, fav thing to smoke to: https://www.mixcloud.com/madlib/blunted-in-the-bomb-shelter/

Which artists did you enjoy most on 36 Chambers? Because there's literally <strong>dozens</strong> of Wu projects... so listen to the rest of the Wu albums, like Wu-Tang Forever, The W... and which ever verses or artists you enjoyed most, look into their discography.

When it comes to essentials tho:

GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Method Man- Tical
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

I'm sorry to hear your personal anomaly, I hope i can help your situation. This was the first Cole song to come to thought but if you really want a list i could go on. I'm really into deep and meaningful lyrics/stories and Cole is one of the best at that imo.

http://genius.com/J-cole-welcome-lyrics

Creepin On Ah Come Up is their first album, my favourite work by them. The Art of War came out after E. 1999 and is also pretty good, however is a double record with quite a few filler tracks in my opinion.

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You're comparing some innocuous shit that Ozzy Osbourne did to the complicated nature of rap music that reflects (as well as glorifies) the perceived moral shortcomings or cultural failures of African Americans mired in inter-generational poverty.

Are you originally from the U.S.? Did you not learn about destructive government practices like redlining and the War on Drugs (you should read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by legal scholar Michelle Alexander).

This is the problem I have with white rap fans that passively consume this music while being completely oblivious to the real circumstances that produce said music.

I'll just leave this quotation from Cornel West below for you think about:

>"American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius – be it music, walk, style – but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows."

As one of the old guys (34 today) I feel somewhat qualified to answer:

• It's blatantly false to say this is only a rap issue. If you're at all interested in the subject, I suggest you pick up Wiz Khelefa Sannah's excellent Major Labels book, which has a thorough history on the 7 major American music genres.
• This is not a new phenomenon in rap. Run DMC's debut single (Sucker MC's, 1983) so disgruntled the old guard (who started rapping in the 70s), that they started dissing them every occasion they got, to the extent that Melle Mel addressed it in his DJ Vlad interview last year.
• People get older. We grow up with a certain framework of how rap (or whatever music style) is supposed to sound. When the music starts to deviate and those frameworks start to shift, which is the natural order of things, people become old heads. Though there's a lot of new music coming out I fuck with, but I personally consider 2015 the final moment I had a good handle on rap as a genre. After that (I think the start of the Soundcloud era) is the moment I lost touch and now a majority of new rap just doesn't do it for me.
• To reinforce my last point and at the risk of coming off like a bitter hater, a lot of new acts just don't add anything new when you're familiar with what came before. I honestly don't understand why people listen to 90s N.Y. karaoke acts like Joey Badass or the Griselda family when you can listen to Mobb Deep, CNN, Nas, Jay-Z etc. Whenever I listen to those guys (I make a point of at least listening to every new release of theirs), I just want to put on other artists afterwards.

Hows the AT-LP60XBT? Is this or this any good?

No you're wrong because it got released officially as a double CD and no bootleg at all.

I'm talking about this one https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Underground-Soul-Classics/dp/B0000D9Y5N

The greatest of all time KRS ONE. Return of the Boom Bap and the self-titled album right after that.

Public Enemy

Immortal Technique (though I think the dude is more of a libertarian in actual belief but I’m not sure. Also uses homophobic slurs)

Vinnie Pax/Jedi Mind Tricks (legitimately talented, but again, homophobic slurs)

Mos Def

Dead Prez. If you want a workout album, listen to “The Workout” by stic man of dead prez.

Brother Ali

Binary Star

Common’s “Like Water for Chocolate”

JPEG Mafia

Kendrick Lamar

Nas

The Roots

Rage Against the Machine if you want to go with the hybrid rap metal approach

Noname

Atmosphere

Jean Grae

Higher Brothers (Chinese language)

Celo & Abdi album called “Diaspora” (German)

UFO361, specifically “Ich Bin 2 Berliner”, really good album (German)

Haftbefehl (German)

Control Machete has some political stuff.

I am so relieved this is the second comment. If you’re seriously trying to improve your financial status 4:44 by Jay-Z is the album for you.

I once joked with a coworker that 4:44 is the best financial self help boom of all time in the form of an album. Later that day we checked on amazon and someone actually made a finance book based on the album.

Not sure what more I can say than that. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Here’s the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/098344868X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_ZY0HKW0ZX5DA9PHMW9Y6

Here's an Italian Hip Hop chart from RateYourMusic that you can use as reference.

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&amp;chart_type=top&amp;type=album&amp;year=alltime&amp;genre_include=1&amp;include_child_genres=1&amp;genres=jazz+rap&amp;include_child_genres_chk=1&amp;include=both&amp;origin_countries=&amp;limit=none...

Top jazz rap* albums ranked here, check it out.

Edit: rap*

Kendrick pulled off that line a little differently in Nosetalgia and it worked pretty well here

But yea that's a good one I know what you mean. Any idea who first made that connection/verse?

... have you ever even seen Necro's logo?

First he samples the same song as one of Necro's most well known tracks, then steals the font.

https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Fix-Death-Necro/dp/B0002V6UX8 in case you aren't familiar.

According to whosampled, the song was also sampled in a DJ Wich song...

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/31048/DJ-Wich-Kurupt-Nironic-Much-Higher-Mike-Oldfield-Jon-Anderson-In-High-Places/

That said, the dude singing that part was the lead singer from Yes, so maybe you're just associating the voice with something he has sung in the past?

Whosampled.com is a good resource for sample related inquiries. Not sure if you can do the type of search you're looking for but it may be helpful in the future if you're very interested in that type of info.

Saigon - Warning Shots

This album is full of complex wordplay, but Saigon also has an amazing flow and has some great melodies. Kind of like an early 50 Cent but with the complexity of Papoose.

Novation Launchpad Ableton Live Controller with 64 RGB Backlit Pads https://www.amazon.com/Novation-Launchpad-Ableton-Controller-Backlit/dp/B00YR47GQQ/ref=sr_1_28?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Beat+Pad&amp;qid=1606778464&amp;refinements=p_36%3A1253548011&amp;rnid=386685011&amp;s=musical-instruments&amp;sr=1-28 here is a cheaper option Novation MK2 Launchpad Mini Compact USB Grid Controller for Ableton Live https://www.amazon.com/Novation-Launchpad-Compact-Controller-Ableton/dp/B00W5F3GJ0/ref=sr_1_51?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Beat+Pad&amp;qid=1606778612&amp;refinements=p_36%3A6500-12500&amp;rnid=386685011&amp;s=musical-instruments&amp;sr=1-51

https://www.amazon.com/Pluto-3D-Explicit-Future/dp/B00A70VP3Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1496467002&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=future+pluto+3d

Edit: I see what you're saying now. The Pluto 3D version is easy to find explicit, but the original is censored on both Spotify and Amazon MP3. That's really weird. I guess if you don't want a physical copy, either use the YouTube link the other user posted or listen to the 3D version.

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0819562750/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_s3aLybES3S24T

Really, you should go to the "Customers also bought" section for this one or for Can't Stop Won't Stop and see what jumps out at you.

>What book are you referring to?

My book, I'm writing it. It's called The Artistry Of Rap Music, coming from McFarland Press, after I contributed a chapter to their anthology book found here, called "Eminem & Rap, Poetry, Race."

Not a documentary, but if you want some good reading in comic book form, I highly recommend the following:

http://www.amazon.com/Hip-Hop-Family-Tree-Book/dp/1606996908/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1438631920&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=hip+hop+family+tree

Third one comes out soon.

There was an album that came out in the late 90's byThe Rapsody called Overture: Hip Hop meets Classical. I don't think it ever saw a stateside release, but I was able to cop it while living in Japan.

Actually, it's on Amazon for $0.01

I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but it is pretty dope.

Mobb Deep- Nessun Dorma