You out there??? If so, what do y'all listen to.

Here's what I like... (what do YOU like that falls under the rap / hip hop umbrella?) And if you are one of those "rap is crap" genre elitist types, maybe try explaining ~why~ you feel that way, and if your opinion is based off what's being played by radio, MTV or BET, just understand that is a very limited scope of what the genre has to offer and what it is capable of.
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Adil Omar - The Mushroom Cloud Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUmPAkZA75Y

Greydon Square - Summer's Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV7k31VpJtA

Greydon Square - Ultra Combo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYxLo0C9ao

Ryuken vs. - Dirty Laundry
https://ryukenvs.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-laundry-2

Greydon Square - .8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6WB7-4OWU

Greydon Square - The Grand Cipher
https://greydonsquare.bandcamp.com/track/the-grand-cypher-feat-johnny-hoax-indefinite-mc-brooks-lioness-saxa-c-gats-eville-as-grand-unified

Greydon Square - 2016 A.D.
https://greydonsquare.bandcamp.com/track/2016-atheist-dreadnought-feat-tombstone-da-deadman-c-gats-johnny-hoax-syqnys-as-grand-unified

Cgats - Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMuG-OjadU

GRIPP - You Are Not Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnxW7F6RRk8

Syqnys - One Man Cipher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amUpD8ERZi4

Johnny Hoax - Mad World (Gary Jules version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmEx3GBvVBk

Mega Ran - Epoch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XQholYqEAk

Does ANYONE know what this sample is from?

can't stop spinning that funky motown shit lately, wish I knew just a little more about it

On another note, can you believe he was only sixteen when he pulled this off....got some seriously slick moves there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEunucEtRE

Phylax said:
Does ANYONE know what this sample is from?

Fuck, that's a first.... Whosampled.com has failed me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcWA__UmQXA
Rhyme Asylum - Art of Raw

sample source is Silent Hill OST - Killing Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgr-ZSZSSwA

Fuck, I love sampling.... it's like you hear something and wonder what that is and go on an easter egg hunt to find out what it is.

Did you know that the sample from Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin' Ta Fuck Wit is from the Underdog theme??? Crazy shit, I watched Underdog a lot as a kid when Nickelodean played re-runs of it and I never caught on that that was the sample source, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHu5BGnWO8k
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STILL one of my fave tracks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRAgTe1aVQ
Knight Rider theme FTW.

Adil Omar is fucking FIGH-YURRRRR....
http://soundcloud.com/adilomar/spiderman

sample source.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYJ7VjUHg60

FS Green - He-Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1CWrwsUKqY

No lyrics, but this beat fucking kills.

I <3 Dubs Banger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjjbcYyR5qM

Greydon Square making a beat out of some chinese disco song, skip to 4:04 in the vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=028bkqGkvcE

While I don't listen to a lot of hip-hop and generally detest it, I do like Death Grips, Yung Lean, ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and dream/vaporrap in general. Experimental or bust, basically. I also like trap a lot.

I grew up listening to mostly 80s pop bands and country music (the stuff my mom liked) - sometime around the early to mid 90s, my dad brought me with him when he'd go to his job at a junk yard and I'd dig through the junked cars for tapes. I found stuff like Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sir Mix A Lot. So that generated my interest in rap. My uncle would also buy albums, and if he didn't like something, he'd give it to me. That's how I got Wu Tang Forever, he hated it and I loved it. "Triumph" was my friggin' jam, and when I caught Busta Rhymes - Fire it Up on MTV when that came out in 98, I was like "OH SHIT, THAT'S FUCKING KNIGHT RIDER, HELL YES!" and that pretty much stayed on repeat in my portable CD player.

Eminem's "Slim Shady LP" came out when I was still in highschool and had just turned 18. I thought he was hilarious.

When I wasn't jamming out to Shady or Wu or something, I was listening to Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins and stuff... also random shit I was finding on the internet (this was back in the Napster, Groskter, Morpheus, AudioGalaxy days).

When I moved away from the midwest and out to the west coast, I got really heavy into a J-Pop / J-Rock / Visual Kei phase, from like... 2003 to about 2006, then I found Greydon Square by accident in one of those "suggestion" things Youtube does, blew my mind cuz dude was an atheist rapper, and I didn't even think such a thing existed.

Started redeveloping my interest in rap music and laying off the weeaboo tunes. Aside from Greydon and the other members of GU (GrandUnified, Greydon's collective of atheist, science-promoting emcees) I dig Sage Francis, B. Dolan, MF Doom, Mac Lethal, and I am really getting into "boom bap" style stuff... I wanna produce my own shit, while slipping in my own influences from the various shit that I am into (old video game tunes, anime themes, whatever random sample-worthy tunes I come across). I love sampling, I love the art of chopping also.... I love seeing what people can make just from some obscure sample.

Not feeling the religious slant in the lyrics on this Akira The Don track (but that is pretty much inescapable most times) but I dig the fuck outta this beat with the pitched up sample of the intro to Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Akira The Don - Stand Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsag2xRSFdo

Dom Kennedy - Locals Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UXCp9vyqQ

^I dig this one primarily for that sample, the source is Secret of the Forest, from Chrono Trigger.
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Lyrics a bit too "thuggish" fer me, but that Secret of Mana sample tho.... that's "Sunken Continent."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWQTzFm_DuI
Yukmouth - Young Geez
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Lyrics are also important, when I'm not just digging shit for the beat...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR-Xjftw3II
Gripp & Uncle Bungus - Nerds With Attitude

"I could fill a fuckin' exabyte and never say a sentence twice."
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Baba Brinkman & Syqnys - Naturalizm
http://music.bababrinkman.com/track/naturalizm-featuring-syqnys

Pro-science, pro-thought shit... #GU

I quite like some hip hop/rap, but I appreciate most genres of music anyway.
I'm more of a gorillaz listener than anything else to be honest.

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Do these count?:

Optimus Rhyme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUdEk1zdcI
MC Frontalot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgsAD3D948
MC Lars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niuzbyLgIq0
Monzy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimUMZTiAjo

Genjar said:
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Do these count?:
Optimus Prime - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUdEk1zdcI

Optimus Prime? Moar liek, Optimus RHYME! lol... (sorry, I couldn't help myself).

Ahh, Frontalot, didn't he do a song with Kompressor back in the day?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoYvCK2GYA
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MC Lars I like for his tracks about the Emo Scene and music downloading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBkuiChImb8

And that punk rock song about how Hot Topic isn't punk rock, that ironically also got sold in Hot Topic....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxVPhaJtL8o
CRRRRRRYYYYYY TONIGHT, YOUR HANDS IN MY HAAAAAAANDS.

lol.

If you like MC Lars - give Baba Brinkman a listen.
It's still got that atheist / secular humanist vibe I dig,
but he's got that nerdy slant you guys seem to like.

Baba Brinkman - Religion Evolves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alxrbs0xPI4

Baba Brinkman - We Off That (Rationalist Anthem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYVY2eLMck

I got you fam

http://genius.com/Rhyme-asylum-returmination-lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kVmLsBflQY
Rhyme Asylum - Returmination
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Listening to this song fills me with.... DETERMINATION.

Rustyy said:
I got you fam
Rittz - In My Zone

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Rustyy, if you like "trap"-ish sound and quick lyrics, give Gifted Anomaly a shot. (Personally I am more partial to boom bap and 90s-ish sounding beats).

http://giftedanomaly.bandcamp.com/track/prayers-and-pasta
Gifted Anomaly - Prayers n' Pasta

https://giftedanomaly.bandcamp.com/track/johnny-5
Gifted Anomaly - Johnny 5

https://giftedanomaly.bandcamp.com/track/hiroshima
Gifted Anomaly - Hiroshima

Y'all like Nujabes by any chance? I mean yeah, mosta his stuff didn't really have lyrics except when he'd bring other people on to rap over his beats, but I love that "soft" drifty, piano heavy sound.

Nujabes - Feather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-BWXT3UBns

I apologize for all the #Gu spam, I prolly shoulda warned I am pretty pretty preeeeeetty specifically mentally stuck on that style of stuff right now, that and pretty much anything else with that "backpacker" - "old school" sound and "conscious" - "thought provoking" lyrics. <3

Sage Francis - Makeshift Patriot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNMly0aDUk
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http://genius.com/Sage-francis-makeshift-patriot-lyrics
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B. Dolan - Which Side Are You On?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHf1YVATfk
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http://genius.com/B-dolan-which-side-are-you-on-lyrics
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Again, sorry for spamming all this "back-packer" shit, lol... I'ma let you guys regain control of the thread now and post yer own stuff fer me and the other viewers of this thread to check out. I don't wanna piss the mods off to the point they outright delete / lock the thread.

don't think i have much in this genre.

though i do have Zone Runners and Triple Troublemakers which are good...well, ok i guess. i don't listen to them that much anymore.

I believe this is the only hip hop album I have amongst my 20,000+ songs, or at least what I can recall off of the top of my head.

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Y'all like Nujabes by any chance? I mean yeah, mosta his stuff didn't really have lyrics except when he'd bring other people on to rap over his beats, but I love that "soft" drifty, piano heavy sound.

Nujabes - Feather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-BWXT3UBns

YESSSSS

It's been a few years since I added any music to my collection, and a few years more since I tried maintaining some kind of rock to rap/hip hop balance. Of those rap/hip hop artists, the only one I liked beyond their singles was The Perceptionists for their strong lyrics. Keep in mind I never even tried listening to complete albums. I would listen to:

The Perceptionists - Let's Move probably their biggest song
The Perceptionists - Frame Rupture
The Perceptionists - Medical Aid
The Perceptionists - Memorial Day political
The Perceptionists - Party Hard
The Perceptionists - The Razor (Mars Volta Remix) New England Patriots tribute. Rather obscure, but available at the link.
The Perceptionists - Love Letters

I also thought Ludacris had that something extra to stand out from the others. Heard Runaway Love?

abadbird said:
"Keep in mind I never even tried listening to complete albums."

Try this <3

http://greydonsquare.bandcamp.com/album/type-ii-the-mandelbrot-set

Also this <3

http://greydonsquare.bandcamp.com/album/omniverse-type-3-aum-niverse

And I will try out "The Perceptionists."

GameManiac said:
I believe this is the only hip hop album I have amongst my 20,000+ songs, or at least what I can recall off of the top of my head.

And his name is JOOOOOOOHN CENAAAAAAAAAAAA!
bawnt bawna-naaaaaah, bawnt bawna-naaaaaaaah!

Okay, I have never heard this particular version of "That's The Night That The Lights Went Out In Georgia" but damn, cool sample source.

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/31545/John-Cena-Tha-Trademarc-The-Time-Is-Now-Pete-Schofield-and-the-Canadians-The-Night-the-Lights-Went-Out-in-Georgia/
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Listening to The Perceptionists now.... I like this, kinda making me think of MF Doom's style.

The Perceptionists - Frame Rupture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cg5JK_UTI

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King Gheedorah (MF Doom) - Fastlane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9TtZlW-5g

You guys gotta listen to Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics - At the Helm
Hieroglyphics & Dan The Automator - Don't Hate the Playa
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew

Also, bonus for Optimus Rhyme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_MSZIlCuM

TheHuskyK9 said:
You guys gotta listen to Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics - At the Helm

"Rap ain't about bustin caps and fuckin' bitches /
It's about fluency with rhymin' ingenuity /"

Awesome.... <3

Oh yeah, Del The Funky Homosapian, knew that voice sounded familiar (was in Gorillaz... at least back during when they did Clint Eastwood, dunno if he's still with them or not)

Also dig the track "Protoculture."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3jMCh2f_4

Good stuff.
http://genius.com/Del-the-funky-homosapien-proto-culture-lyrics

Everyone's well aware of the stigma they carry as some of the worst music ever recorded once they started going all gimmicky, but just clear your mind of antecedent for a sec and listen to some of the original tapes by the Inner City Posse when they were an actual street gang giving out karaoke-recorded cassettes to anyone who would listen, and some of that stuff is seriously fuckin talented.

Most especially the one guy D-Lyrical who was only on the Intelligence & Violence demo and just disappeared soon thereafter....I tried looking for anything else by him and found someone from Santa Ana called D. Lyrical, tho there's not much to assume he's the same person.

His one solo track D-Day (geddit? huh? huh?) has some of the best flow I've heard relative to such a sub-basement quality. Really incredible what some can do with such limited resources

This shit fuckin kicks

King Gheedorah - The Fine Print
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3bK1ENFwM

Dammit, that's Bob Sakuma's "Emblem G" theme, I ~was~ gunna use that sample, but nevermind now, hahaha....

Phylax said:
"...but just clear your mind of antecedent for a sec and listen to some of the original tapes by the Inner City Posse when they were an actual street gang giving out karaoke-recorded cassettes to anyone who would listen, and some of that stuff is seriously fuckin talented."

Only songs I really like by Inner City Posse is "Fuck The Rebel Flag" only songs by Insane CLOWN Posse I really like is "Chicken' Huntin'" and "Who Kicked Willy Bubba's Ass."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drMzeN1eXdA

Their lyrics are still pretty hoakie, but hey, I was like... 19 and found one of their CDs in my cousin's drawer where he kept his PS1 games.
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I remember downloading this song off Morpheus or Napster or something... pretty decent for very early Eminem (before he made it big) - has more of a boom bap-ish, slow jam, space out and smoke a spliff and relax kinda feel than his later material.

Eminem - Infinite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRbEgoTqQs

There's a reason old-school is synonymous with the good shit.....that youthful vitality is essential

The other D. Lyrical is definitely more a classic sawtooth G-Funk, and also only seem to have put out just a single tape.....which is a shame cos this is some of the best west-coast stuff I've heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTo9rYJwiTA

Phylax said:
There's a reason old-school is synonymous with the good shit.....that youthful vitality is essential.

The other D. Lyrical is definitely more a classic sawtooth G-Funk, and also only seem to have put out just a single tape.....which is a shame cos this is some of the best west-coast stuff I've heard.

My friend Dax is ~reaaaaaaally~ into G-Funk, outside of Dre and Snoop and Warren G, I never really listened to it a whole lot. I guess I grew up on more Midwest and East Coast type of stuff.

I love, love, love, love, lurrrrrrrrve "boom bap" stuff.
Sesame Street????? WHOA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5ulWbfwd0
Dubs Banger, you're crazy bro, you keep surprising me.

And damn, Supertramp - Take a Look at My Girlfriend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sI222j65U

The art of sampling and / or chopping is fucking amazing to me.
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I tried doing some chopping stuff with Reason and Recycle, but I don't think I come close to what Dubs Banger does...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xco4yt68eo6rt9/HET_HUIS_ANUBIS__full_beat.mp3?dl=0

Sample source for the chop is some show called Het Huis Anubis (house of anubis) on Dutch Nickelodeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-SP1f_MVQ

My drums, the bassline, everything is way way too LOUD to me, now that I'm revisiting this... I made this before I got a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer, so I didn't have good bass representation in my headphones due to no power from the jack on my PC.

Anyone know a good place to start with Cypress Hill? I never picked up any of their albums but always loved the scratching they could pull off

I need to redo this too....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jmlixxuq8rshfl/STONER_SUNSHINE___whole__redo.mp3?dl=0

Sample source is a long instrumental of the Stoner Sunshine theme from Getta Robo Armageddon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To34rvyClH4

Gawd damn, it's just so fucking uplifting and empowering.

Phylax said:
Anyone know a good place to start with Cypress Hill? I never picked up any of their albums but always loved the scratching they could pull off

Had the tape this was on (it was one of the first tapes I dug out of a car at my dad's junk yard job) I love Rza's verse, I didn't even ~know~ that was Rza, I hadn't yet gotten into Wu Tang yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUg3hTnm4jU

Also wanna try out The Arsonists, they're pretty good.

The Arsonists - Live to Tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=481UEX0A7AE

The Arsonists - Venom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5xvHvfWDU

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
I <3 Dubs Banger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjjbcYyR5qM

Aw, hell yeah.

I need to get some studio quality monitors so I can mix with those instead of shitty Logitech speakers. I've got my eye on some Thonet and Vander "Kurbis BT" speakers.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ug8oj2tpyjkafq/secret_of_mana__thanatos__RETRY__non_HL_dialogue__999__EQ3_mixdown__HL_98.mp3?dl=0

I'm still trying to get the hang of mixing and composition. Forgive me if the dialogue samples are too loud.

Sample for the loop is from the "Ruins" music from Secret of Mana (one of my alltime favorite games, if the Flammie icon didn't already give that away) - and the dialogue is taken from The Adventures of Mark Twain claymation animation.

My mom got me this movie on VHS from the library when I was 8, that scene with The Mysterious Stranger creeped my shit, hard.

I have a couple of favorites, mostly late 80's/mid-90's stuff. Death Row Records is my bread and butter imo, and that Geto Boys self titled album is pretty fucking off the wall too. If I had to recommend an album that I can listen to any time of the day, I'd say "Illmatic".

Surgeon_Psycho said:
I have a couple of favorites, mostly late 80's/mid-90's stuff. Death Row Records is my bread and butter imo, and that Geto Boys self titled album is pretty fucking off the wall too. If I had to recommend an album that I can listen to any time of the day, I'd say "Illmatic" by Nas.

Nas... I fucking love ~this~ track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Agq09NtjR4

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/4061/Nas-Nas-Is-Like-John-V.-Rydgren-Bob-R.-Way-What-Child-Is-This%3F/

This is still some of the best sampling I've heard....sealing the legacy that all the best music is acidized
Acid Rock, Acid House...Acid Rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z2Gi2sAvw

WAR PIGS FUCKIN YEEAUH

Surgeon_Psycho said:
I have a couple of favorites, mostly late 80's/mid-90's stuff. Death Row Records is my bread and butter imo, and that Geto Boys self titled album is pretty fucking off the wall too.

I wonder how many people were introduced to them thanks to Office Space and Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta.....Mike Judge always had great taste, going all the way back to Beavis & Butthead

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uc9jd91o6kaafav/DANCING_WITH_THE_DEVIL__YES_HL.mp3?dl=0

Sample source is some Chinese song I found (I downloaded gobs and gobs of this stuff using Clipconverter to snag it off Youtube).

Google Translate romanizes it as "Zhèng zǐ gù - tā 1987" - but I tried to search Youtube again and couldn't find it, ahh, the impermanence of the internet.

Like I said, I'm really big on boom bap and that oldschool sound, and that's what I wanna try to make, with my own personal influences worked in.

Phylax said:
This is still some of the best sampling I've heard....sealing the legacy that all the best music is acidized
Acid Rock, Acid House...Acid Rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z2Gi2sAvw

WAR PIGS FUCKIN YEEAUH

I wonder how many people were introduced to them thanks to Office Space and Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta.....Mike Judge always had great taste, going all the way back to Beavis & Butthead

I actually got introduced to them when I was still into Insane Clown Posse (not doing that shit again), saying that they were a big influence on them (which I don't really see, but whatever). I also listen to DOOM and Madvillain a ton, and KMD is the motherfuckin tits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAgvZhOosw

http://genius.com/Greydon-square-man-made-god-lyrics

Old Greydon, but still good Greydon. <3
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ONWARD, THEY'LL NEVER STOP US NOW, ONLY HOPE TO CONTAIN US, LET 'EM TRY AND KNOCK US DOWN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qWC-OsRm0

http://genius.com/Greydon-square-onward-lyrics

(sorry, I really really reaaaaally love this stuff).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba6qC1KDErQ
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http://genius.com/Greydon-square-1-2-1-2-lyrics

<3 Greydon is my biggest inspiration. #GU!

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
My friend Dax is ~reaaaaaaally~ into G-Funk, outside of Dre and Snoop and Warren G, I never really listened to it a whole lot.

Dude, I'm pretty much on the same boat, but that's, like, the best G-Funk shit around, so it's not really surprising hearing someone sat that considering how monstrously big they are in quality. Oh, and I saw that shit about you liking people flipping samples and stuff and finding abstract samples, and I actually have that on YouTube, but it's kind of shit.

Surgeon_Psycho said:
Oh, and I saw that shit about you liking people flipping samples and stuff and finding abstract samples, and I actually have that on YouTube, but it's kind of shit.

What did you think of what I did with Het Huis Anubis?

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
What did you think of what I did with Het Huis Anubis?

I actually don't have a ton of data on my mobile phone, so I can't see it atm, but if it's the same sample Dubz Banger uses, I'd advise not using the same sample, at least not the same part unless if it's a remix of sorts.

Surgeon_Psycho said:
I actually don't have a ton of data on my mobile phone, so I can't see it atm, but if it's the same sample Dubz Banger uses, I'd advise not using the same sample, at least not the same part unless if it's a remix of sorts.

Nah Nah Nah, I came across that on my own (my friend Swolf would play it in the car all the time) Dubs doesn't know about it (hasn't used it and probably doesn't know the show exists, and he gets all his sources from vinyl records) I ~did~ do a slight variation on his chop of Barry White's "I Can't Believe You Love Me" - but I'm not even gunna bother with using it now.

I try to make a deliberate point not to sample jack if I am gunna use something publicly.

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Nah Nah Nah, I came across that on my own (my friend Swolf would play it in the car all the time) Dubs doesn't know about it (hasn't used it and probably doesn't know the show exists, and he gets all his sources from vinyl records) I ~did~ do a slight variation on his chop of Barry White's "I Can't Believe You Love Me" - but I'm not even gunna bother with using it now.

I try to make a deliberate point not to sample jack if I am gunna use something publicly.

The only rule I go by in sampling is don't use a really famous sample that people will recognize unless you're gonna flip it completely. I fucking hate that one Pitbull song with Christina Aguilera that sampled the riff from "Take On Me", it was fucking eye-rollingly lame. Oh, and I don't use the Amen break or any overused break (though I kind of make an exception here and there, like Impeach the President and Ashley's Roachclip).

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Listening to The Perceptionists now.... I like this, kinda making me think of MF Doom's style.

The Perceptionists - Frame Rupture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cg5JK_UTI

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King Gheedorah (MF Doom) - Fastlane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9TtZlW-5g

Maybe. I didn't like what was playing in the background. The repetition and loudness of it turned me off completely.

TheHuskyK9 said:
You guys gotta listen to Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics - At the Helm
Hieroglyphics & Dan The Automator - Don't Hate the Playa
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew

Also, bonus for Optimus Rhyme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_MSZIlCuM

The Hieroglyphics seem promising. The first guy in the second song was pretty infectious. Yeah, Don't Hate the Playa is good.

Something I bumped into on Kazaa or Bearshare way back:
Orphanage Freestyle

Unsurprisingly, that freestyle was part of a rather longer session that I've never heard before:
Orphanage Freestyle (Full)

abadbird said:
Maybe. I didn't like what was playing in the background. The repetition and loudness of it turned me off completely.

If you're talking about DOOM, yeah, that shit happens a ton, and it really is an acquired taste. Can't comment on the Perceptionists, tho.

I sometimes forget Sepultura actually had DJ Lethal on the same track as Jonathan Davis and Mike Patton.

What the fuck was going on in the 90's

too much munching on those narcotic jungle roots(bloodyroots)

Phylax said:
I sometimes forget Sepultura actually had DJ Lethal on the same track as Jonathan Davis and Mike Patton.

What the fuck was going on in the 90's

too much munching on those narcotic jungle roots(bloodyroots)

Sounded like Lethal was trying to make the scratching sound like a guitar, like push the distortion. Remember "Bulls On Parade?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6bfA14vMQ

Except in that Tom Morello is actually making his ~guitar~ sound like a turntable, so the reverse idea, lol.

"The song is widely known for its popular guitar solo containing a vinyl scratch effect used by Tom Morello, done by toggling between two pickups - one on and one off - while rubbing his hands on the strings over the pickups to create the effect that someone is scratching a vinyl disc." ~ Wikipedia

Interesting.

"I fucking hate that one Pitbull song with Christina Aguilera that sampled the riff from "Take On Me", it was fucking eye-rollingly lame."

Dude, same feeling I had about Kanye doing Harder, Better, Faster Stronger. Or... god dammit.... *sigh*

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/274/T.I.-Rihanna-Live-Your-Life-O-Zone-Dragostea-Din-Tei/

WHY????????

And it's more of a... what do they call it, "interpolation?" cuz they didn't really sample anything, just ripped off the note progression from the Numa Numa song.

abadbird said:
Something I bumped into on Kazaa or Bearshare way back:
Orphanage Freestyle

Sage mutha-fuckin' Francis.... <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1JktqqRfE

"Ah, forget it; it's actually accepted /
for rappers to have no ethics /
Their albums would benefit if they put in half the effort /
I attended candlelight vigils for Matthew Sheppard /
While you put out another "fuck you, faggot" record /"
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"I blame my hate mail on typographical errors /
correct the misspellings /
And then send out "thank you" notes for the love letters /
Accept rejection when I get a return to sender /
Reject acceptance when the girl's got an agenda /
I've entered this brave new world of true cowards /
Talking about, "no one goes to shows no more,
they're too crowded" /
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Hard for me to believe that shit dropped in 2003.
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Aesop Rock... <3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLCBc3yq6h8
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"I slash monikers backwards /
Haggle proof snaggletooth /
Fabulous 5 Freddy Krueger finger discount bliss /
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El-P:
"Call it off beat, jagged, ragged, form the pattern /
The mere thought of sounding like
those who you revere fills me with sadness /"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsA2ETp7JA
SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT.... how did I forget this?

Hopsin - Ill Mind 7 <3

http://genius.com/Hopsin-ill-mind-of-hopsin-7-lyrics

YESSSSS, SO MUCH FUCKING YES!
Hop representin' ATHEISM? Hell yeah.

Phylax said:
Anyone know a good place to start with Cypress Hill? I never picked up any of their albums but always loved the scratching they could pull off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWXg7yGSVY

Cypress Hill - Rock Superstar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV42a1nrGxk

Eminem - Don't Approach Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUkOYYDycTw

Eminem - Hellbound

Sample source is Soul Calibur OST - Sacrifice.

Classic shit, my uncle had this on tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWJqt0u_TCs

Dr. Dre - Ring Ding Dong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeL9gagV_VA

Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood....

Original is by Easy-E, but damn I love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJxvi767kQ

Oh my gawd....

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Sounded like Lethal was trying to make the scratching sound like a guitar, like push the distortion. Remember "Bulls On Parade?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6bfA14vMQ

Except in that Tom Morello is actually making his ~guitar~ sound like a turntable, so the reverse idea, lol.

this reminds me I should really check out RATM past their first album someday....they and Suicidal Tendencies always used that hybridized sound to huge advantage, despite the eventual backlash on how 'metal' it really is....but you ain't nobody till someone hates you

And speaking of......people need to start spilling some for NATAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRrhDpuIKCE

Not only does this actually sample Tom Cat, one of the all-time greatest songs ever used (Muddy Waters on his 1968 foray into the psyched-out acidgrooves of the day, Electric Mud) but how more apropos can you get than T-N-T giving you his sendoff a decade before he was killed last year.

See you in hell my man....it's been fun fashure

Phylax said:
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Jeru The Damaja....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCG53XU4Cg4
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KRS One - Return of the Boom Bap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYWCToYGn4k
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RZA talking about working on Afro Samurai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iN5raPx3g

............

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jgRLLUpdO8
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And speaking chopping up VIDEO GAME samples, I made this little snippit by chopping up the intro theme to Mega Man 3.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/39h8k3es7a2srco/MM3_TOTAL_REDO__volume_up.mp3?dl=0

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Jeru The Damaja....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCG53XU4Cg4

woohhoah this is seriously major. How have I never heard of this before...? though admittedly I'm not as versed in the east coast stuff as I should be but man, this is...impressive to say the least

1994 seems like one of those watershed years, I have a hard time thinking of anything that didn't crack the earth in groundbreaking

Closed Casket (briefly) using blastbeats – '94....nuff said

Phylax said:
woohhoah this is seriously major. How have I never heard of this before...? though admittedly I'm not as versed in the east coast stuff as I should be but man, this is...impressive to say the least

1994 seems like one of those watershed years, I have a hard time thinking of anything that didn't crack the earth in groundbreaking

Closed Casket (briefly) using blastbeats – '94....nuff said

Daaaaaaamn... I haven't listened to much Esham, but I dig the fuck outta this track you posted.

Hey, didn't Three Six Mafia also used to do horrorcore? (Or was it only Koopsta that was doing that? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM44yCBkpGc) But then they switched their style more towards the whole "big rims and sippin' sizzurp" shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_6_Mafia

I am not religious, at all, haven't been since I was 17.... but I ~cannot~ help getting nostalgic from hearing Crossroads by Bone Thugs and Harmony. ~~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnFqGeLD6k

Their voices and their "sing-rapping" is just plain good.
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Oh, and First of The Month.... <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwI-a1LjpiA
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OH! And this... "It's Bone & Biggie, baby!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Onc4fFGlo
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OOOOOOH, FUCK YES.
Biggie + Star Wars music? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_lr4iimd8&list=PLXLIYjYfF4U6f07yNLGYTyN_

^ This is from a remix album called "Life After Death Star."
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SOOPA NIN-TEN-DOUGH, SEGA-JINNA-SISS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
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Oh, and Sky's the Limit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfM-s2Bgj14
KUH-LASS-ICCCCCCCK.
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WU TANG CLAN - TRIUMPH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-oFdelojPc

I used to be able to recite this whole song VERBATIM, from memory, back in high school and vocational.
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BUSTA RHYMES - FIRE IT UP (DIRTY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZobZy9e77Y

MY JAM SINCE FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL.
I love Busta's robotic "KITT voice."
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BUSTA RHYMES - TAKE IT OUTSIDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZTPZ6w_KZM

My brain just melted from the sheer lyrical speed of this....

Tech 9, Eminem, Krizz Kaliko - SPEEDOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBwVRNOL70
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http://genius.com/Tech-n9ne-speedom-worldwide-choppers-2-lyrics

My ~eyes~ can't even keep up reading pace with the song...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK, THIS IS SICK.

Busta Rhymes ft. Eminem - Calm Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5J3VUC9qM

That sample.... that was in House of Pain - Jump Around

Em' --- "So if this is any indication, of what you may be facing /
You better make a distinction, cause you fake imitations / Are leaving a bad taste, fuck making a bad impression / That's the worst impersonation I've ever seen, who raps nasally / Eyes hazely, rhymes crazily, but sounds like he may need / Some Flonase when he's speaking? / What kind of stupid question is that? / "Hey Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, other than your husband's
Fucking brains that were leaking, how'd you think that play was this weekend?" /
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"You're fucking with vets dawg, fucking internet bloggers /
"I sit in front of my computer all day and comment on everything, I'm an expert on everything, everything sucks, play the next song" / Guess if I hopped out your freaking laptop, you idiot prick / With Biggie and kicked the living shit out you, I'd be dead wrong / Son of God I'm the S.O.G., like a wet log /
Pores never get clogged, I'm so full of self-esteem, that I sweat fog / Yes, yes y’all (Y'all!) // Steady on the left, y’all, step off, / 'fore you get stepped on, soft /
'Bout as commercial, as my fucking Lear jet, / jealously’ll get /
you as green as a Chia Pet / I can see that you’re visibly upset, dawg /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfv0SOjvRs
MF Doom - Dooms Day

Okay this is something that by all accounts shouldn't even exist, and I guess the guy knew it since he tried to keep it a secret this entire time. Basically, for those who don't know, VON is this group who only put out their single Satanic Blood demo which basically kickstarted black metal. Then disappeared without a trace for two decades. After coming back for a reunion show a few years ago, the main guy Goat was found out to be real-name Shawn Calizo, and that he had another band shortly after splitting VON called 10¢, self-described as 'slacker rap', that kind of funk-hop stuff all played with live instruments.

Their album was produced by the Dust Brothers so there's a big psychedelic DJ influence on it, pretty similar to other late 90's releases but this one appears to have slipped under the radar entirely. The fact it's actually one of the founding pillars of black metal singing this is one of the funniest discoveries ever made in all of music

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7lmr73pha9ambbi/04+Think+Different.mp3

Visualizing the series of disconnected images makes me wonder just what exactly he was trying to go for here

All I can think about while listening to this is either this being the sndtrk to some 90s "Road Trip" type movie, or the Mac commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8GiNGcXuM

Also, Beck. The "cerebral" nature of the lyrics definitely makes me think of Beck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfmNxKLDG4

Mana_Dragon_Flammie said:
Also, Beck.

You know what's funny is you're not even the first person to say that, like even the only semi-official coverage I could find has them down as 'in der Tradition des weißen, urbanen, funkigen Hip Hop im Stil von Soul Coughing, DC Basehead oder Beck, die soulige Southern Soul Orgel und die Elektronischen Spielereien der Dust Brothers.'

They also produced Odelay, so maybe the producers' hand had a bigger hand so to speak in a lot more than is initially let on.

If you don't mind long instrumental breaks, this is a pretty cool freestyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWaf2Og4C0

Hoooooooooooly shit, this is so dope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xCpENFKVQ

Doctor Who theme, MPC chopped hip hop beat <3