The (quality) rap music thread

First song I heard from Common back in 2000, got all of his albums thus far :thumbsup:

Common - The Light

[YOUTUBE]G2bsPoxl4jY[/YOUTUBE]
 
Lupe Fiasco Feat. Matthew Santos - Superstar
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ty0u1PzXfTo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ty0u1PzXfTo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

Lupe Fiasco - Kick,Push
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPoI5gWhC6w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPoI5gWhC6w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

M.I.A - Paper Planes
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPoI5gWhC6w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPoI5gWhC6w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

Eve - Give It To You
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3q2Bp8zImQc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3q2Bp8zImQc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

Kanye West - Flashing Lights
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Some evergreens, that are still on heavy rotation in my crib.... :mrgreen:

Can't believe they haven't been posted yet!

NWA - Straight outta Compton
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkPb4s0-QcI[/YOUTUBE]

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3kRuJhIVIo[/YOUTUBE]


This thread also needs a dose of X, I think he is a funny guy, and he has a few good tracks!

Xzibit - Paparazzi
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eVa11fv_iM[/YOUTUBE]

Xzibit - X (definitely goes on my boxing mixed tape!)
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjb70iT1s0U[/YOUTUBE]

Xzibit - Front 2 Back (airbag extravaganza, I am considering it for my Volvo wagon! :cool:)
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6WhSBfGlAY[/YOUTUBE]

Xzibit - Multiply
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GOuHA66zM[/YOUTUBE]
 
Smif n' Wessun - Bucktown
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgmved-dbg[/YOUTUBE]

Das Efx - Mic Checka
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5HAA_IQfc[/YOUTUBE]

Smoothe Da Hustler - Broken Language
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcdmGINcqI[/YOUTUBE]

Common Sense - Soul By The Pound (Remix) *This was before Common shortened name*
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOXLc_AqsMM[/YOUTUBE]
 
Here's something you might like on your boxing tape, some nice agressive guitars, and epic flows, with the rappers taking turns each rapping one line.
[youtube=csQZaifRfjY]Keepin it Gangsta Remix[/youtube]

More alternating line goodness, with method man pulling one of the best flows I've ever heard.
[youtube=wFad9NQa984]Rodeo[/youtube]

BTW +rep to mally and avanti, for either reminding me of old songs, and introducing me to one or two new things (but not that many unfortunately)
EDIT: +rep also to swek, for lootpack goodness.

And good to see that the idiots who came here to make stupid predictable prejudiced comments managed to fuck off after the first page
 
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Speaking of Xzibit.

This thread needs it's own dose of the Likwit Crew

Lootpack - Whenimondamic
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEPxgPQmRc&feature=related[/youtube]

Defari - Spell My Name
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpQtquoIQ8[/youtube]

Tha Alkaholiks ft ODB - Hip Hop Drunkies
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOVM3x97QlY&feature=related[/youtube]

Tash - Rap Life
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2m70wJ9PFo[/youtube]

Xzibit - What You See Is What You Get
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70CiC_BV0TE[/youtube]

And the most of them in one song of which I'm not that big of a fan.
Still, Defari's Focused Daily is a great album. Even after all those years I'm listening to it from time to time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9SugbqLI0[/youtube]

More alternating line goodness, with method man pulling one of the best flows I've ever heard.

Rodeo by Method Man?
I must admit, I winced when I heard that song for the first time. After all the guy is capable of it's easily one of the worst songs he did IMO. But hey, to each his own.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6YjY8SCxDY[/youtube]

This is more down my alley.
 
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BTW +rep to mally and avanti, for either reminding me of old songs, and introducing me to one or two new things (but not that many unfortunately)

Just out of curiosity, which the of songs we posted are new to you? Might be able to find more.



More Music
Heltah Skeltah - Laflaur Leflah Eshkoshka
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPVO9YDmgUg[/YOUTUBE]

The Pharcyde - Passin Me By
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWG1h5j4eE[/YOUTUBE]
 
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I don't think we've had any Geto Boys in the thread yet..

- G-code
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuM6xE0xwKo[/YOUTUBE]

- Street life
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyC-NPEPtk[/YOUTUBE]

and the anthem of anyone who has ever worked in a office...
- Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL9ihXiFAko[/YOUTUBE]
 
^ Minds Playing Tricks On Me is Geto Boys' best song IMO.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KutXyPEEbQs&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
 
who remembers this...? :dance: :thumbup:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yIMKjG048[/YOUTUBE]

edit: had to add some Zion I

Zion I ft. Talib Kweli - Temperature
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFheaWYN23Y[/YOUTUBE]

As a "the Wire" fan I must say I liked the Avon Barksdale reference..
 
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"Quality" and "Rap" exclude each other. it's an oxymoron and doesn't exist. <_<

it's bit like honest politician. :lol:
 
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1u43KDiWD0[/youtube]

Now, as a rock/metal guy who can freely admit he has trouble getting into rap/hip-hop, I shouldn't be the one saying what is and isn't quality rap, but I can assure you that this is about 50 times better than the (c)rap we're shoveled by MTV.

"Quality" and "Rap" exclude each other. it's an oxymoron and doesn't exist. <_<

it's bit like honest politician. :lol:

:bangin:

And I bet your definition of quality music is In Flames.

ZING!
 
I come bearing gifts of Lateef and Z-Trip

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7OJmdaaaEI[/YOUTUBE]

the shoutouts end at 0:56 so you can skip those if you care.

sadly most of what i listen to doesn't seem to appear on youtube as such i just wanna suggest pretty much anything that comes out of Quannum Projects

also check out: http://thaoriginalhiphop.blogspot.com/ for a vast array of mixtapes all of which seem to be pretty fucking awesome
 
2Pac, Snoop Dogg - 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybwKiRA6XIw[/YOUTUBE]

2 pac - Dear Mama

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0rqfNId0I[/YOUTUBE]

Artifacts - Wrong Side of the Tracks

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRhxt642uQ[/YOUTUBE]

Artifacts - The Ultimate

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMsLot4tYY[/YOUTUBE]

:cool:
 
The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
[YOUTUBE]BVo5Y_yVdas[/YOUTUBE]

Busta Rhymes - Put your hands where my eyes can see
[YOUTUBE]1chIpba4yQ4[/YOUTUBE]

Juvenile - Ha
[YOUTUBE]0M5vFwaJoBo[/YOUTUBE]

Nas - Just a moment
[YOUTUBE]1tZ4Yf7jDWI[/YOUTUBE]

Pharoahe Monche - Simon Says:
[YOUTUBE]dkuGZfllz8I[/YOUTUBE]
 
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great, now i cant work at all.. thanks guys!
 
Now I don't generally listen to rap, (more of an indie/rock kind of guy) but I do like the occasional Kanye West, Blue Scholars, and Sage Francis. How many rap listeners like/have even heard of Sage Francis? Here is one of my favorites of his.

Sage Francis - Runaways
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxFGI6ZkFDk[/YOUTUBE]
 
No collection would be complete without:

[YOUTUBE]XHf76FW5hd0[/YOUTUBE]

Btw whenever I visit this thread, shortly after if I view youtube, the video stops after 2 seconds and theres no sound. Wtf.
 
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