Anyone actually listen to lyrics these days?

[NegativeCamber]

hip hop with meaning? exactly what you are talking about. hip hop with a message

NY Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diKUyMNgj_s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2mqQzYz33M

if its fun, its really thousands of underground artists in my library but i can say anything mf doom or people under the stairs.

[RedE46Bimmer]

^I'm actually listening to MF right now lol. "Doomsday" to be exact.

I like some of The Pharcyde too. I like their song "Passing Me By."

Also pretty much anything by Brother Ali.

[Drama]

Stopped listening to rap years ago as it got more and more shitty haha. Some stuff I liked then and a few newer ones I like:

Nas (The Lost Tapes and back, his newer stuff's been very weak imo)
Mos Def
Black Star
Talib Kweli
Eric B and Rakim
2Pac
Biggie
Lupe Fiasco
Older Kanye
Older Eminem

definitely these. I totally forgot about em.

The Roots
Prop Dylan
Cunninlyguists
DL Incognito

Just to add a few more.

this guy. Forgot him to, haven't heard a song from him since we were talking about him

haha, man i can remember when you couldn't even google kid cudi.

i had a hell of a time trying to find his shit to download.

I've been listening to him since around 07 so I know how you feel haha

[Lux]

Anything more focused on beats as opposed to that in which is more focused on who talks the most dumb shit about the other person that try's to talk the most shit.

The entire Duck Down records group is real Hip Hop, but they do how ever act kinda hard.

I dont listen to Hip Hop much anymore cause frankly there isnt much out there and what is out is pretty underground which I dont have the time to find anymore. So, to answer the question I honestly dont listen to the lyrics anymore when I do listen to it. Im not part of that culture so I dont relate as easily as I do to metal music. I do how ever listen to it more for the relaxing beats real Hip Hop music brings.

Now a days I listen to compilations like Sound Bombing and Lyricist Lounge. Sums it all up in one disc, or a series of them at least.

Even the makers of said music are confused these days so I rarely bother with the argument. Most Def talks shit about rappers and claims to be a Hip Hop MC in one song but claims to be one of the best Rappers in another.

[jasonklee]

Korean hip hop count? Don't worry, most of these are English subbed or in English.

Epik High - Breakdown
Epik High - Ignition
Epik High - Scapegoat
Epik High - Fallen Blossoms
Epik High - Maze [Ft. Dumbfoundead & MYK]
Epik High - Free Music [Ft. MYK]
Epik High - Map the Soul [Ft. Kero One & MYK]
MC Sniper - Live Burial
Outsider - Acquaintance

[Lux]

Its the Urban beats like these that get me excited when I hear a real Hip Hop song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Caf...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwwhwUuXSFI

Master Fuol has a bit of that trouble making mouth but hes a good musician. I feel comfortable categorizing him under Hip Hop. I like when " MC's " reminisce over things.

Another good example of that Urban ambint like beat is Tribe Called Quests Love Movement album.

[BreakMyWallet]

yup mf doom is hard. love del the funky homosapian.

basically most of slugs projects. anticon, deep puddle dynamics, ect.

suprised people have heard of toki wright. good shit.

i actually dont like kid cudi at all.

i think immortal is one of the most clever hip hop artists ive ever heard. but hes pretty dark.

[BreakMyWallet]

btw lupe is like the only new artist i can listen to.

[Drama]

So youve heard of Toki Wright? and I keep forgetting MF Doom

[BreakMyWallet]

yup! hes been around for a little while dude. hes got some great content in his songs

[BreakMyWallet]

as gay as it sounds, you guys should look into the OLLLLD school gym class heroes. when they were underground they wrote some great shit,

- kid nothing boy vs the echo factor
- faces in the hall
- everday's forecast
- boomerang theory
- taxi driver (dope cameo song)

oh another pretty dope cameo son is GZA- fame

crazy how he can turn so many words around

[BreakMyWallet]

couple more

asheru
P.O.S
Binary star ( DL some of their shit. they spit some dope shit and **** maintstream buzz)
bone thugs (ESPECIALLY their first unreleased CD- faces of death)
cormega
the fugees
wu syndicate
the grouch
jedi mind tricks
living legends
madvillain
MURS
3MG (three meloncholy gypsies)
some pac div
shyheim
scienz of life
tribe called quest
unknown prophets
visionaries
zion I

[RedE46Bimmer]

Dilated Peaople and Deltron 3030 are really good too.

Damn this thread blew up fast lol. I enjoy talking about good music though.

[Lux]

couple more

asheru
P.O.S
Binary star ( DL some of their shit. they spit some dope shit and **** maintstream buzz)
bone thugs (ESPECIALLY their first unreleased CD- faces of death)
cormega
the fugees
wu syndicate
the grouch
jedi mind tricks
living legends
madvillain
MURS
3MG (three meloncholy gypsies)
some pac div
shyheim
scienz of life
tribe called quest
unknown prophets
visionaries
zion I

See, to me the one exception on that list is Bone Thugs. I just never got into them and the beats were IMO not Hip Hop like beats. Theye were west coast like beats of that era.

Thats the good thing about real Hip Hop. You have people from both sides of the states and even in the middle that have that sound. Not like Rap where its easy to tell the west from the east and the south which just sucks anyway.

I have to say the same about Eminem from any year ( I always ***** him even when he was a skinny nerd ) and IMO anything after Nas Is Like is when he fell off.

Thirsten Howell is a good one. A lot like Jedi mind.

[Kielan]

Army of the Pharaoh's. Mad good.