Remember these two cla**ics?? Rea Vs Ghost I would go for OB4CL coz they had NAS on one of my all time favourites. Rain Dayz, Ice Cream ................
25.) DIZZIE RASCAL - Boy in Da Corner (2004) This shit is so ahead of its time, I don't know why they told him to do it slower and make it sound American or whatever they did on his next album. It's hard, man. I'm surprised no American rappers were smart enough to have him produce them. When you hear those beats, you think "OK, if blankety-blank was on this, it would be a hit." That Dizzee Rascal is just f***ing ridiculous. Make this one my last one.
24.) DJ QUIK - WAY 2 FONKY (1992) This is such a mindless gangsta-rap record, but some of it is actually very smart. There's a song on there about how different cities are "just like Compton." It's about how this gang shit is spreading all over the country.
23.) LAURYN HILL - THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL (1998) Lauryn Hill was groundbreaking because for the first time since Salt-N-Pepa the world was hearing a heterosexual woman rap an couldn't believe it. This is a masterpeice of a record. I know there's a lot of singing on there, but there's a lot of rapping, too. People don't have a problem with conscious rap; they have a problem with conscious beats. If you make some ignorant beats, you can say all the smart shit you want.
22.) PUBLIC ENEMY - IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLION TO HOLD US BACK (1988) It still holds up. The beats and production are just incredible. Chuck, Flavor, political conscious-ness--we all know why this album's great. I can't say anything that hasn't been said about it.
21.) OUTKAST - AQUEMINI (1998) All their records are good, but this one went to the next level. "Liberation" is my favorite. You can hear the Erykah Badu influence on this record. OutKast did a great record while Andre was with Erykah. Common made a great record when he was with Erykah. Before I write any more jokes, I think I'm gonna call Erykah Badu.
20.) NAS - STILLMATIC (2001) Do you know what I like about Stillmatic? Jay-Z (who is famously dissed on the song "Ether") should have gotten a co-producer's credit on it, because Nas was definitely floundering just before it. It's like Mama Said Knock You Out eleven years earlier, where a guy just reclaimed his spot with some great records. There's a record on there called "2nd Childhood" about people who won't grow up, that's just so f***ing smart.
19.) JAY-Z - REASONABLE DOUBT (1996) I love this CD and I hate it. I love it 'cause it's Jay's best record -- best beats, best flow -- and I hate it 'cause since it came out every rap record is trying to copy it. What Jay-Z did with Rea- sonable Doubt is take the Scarface formula and pretty it up for New York. Reasonable Doubt is his real Blueprint. I still listen to it.
18.) SCARFACE - MR. SCARFACE IS BACK (1991) Everything Biggie did, everything 'Pac did, everything Jay-Zdoes was originally done on the first Scarface album. Biggie kills himself at the end of his first record; well, Scarface did it three years earlier. He was the first guy to do his rhymes in the first person about robbing people and drug dealing; he was the first guy to really talk about being depressed and being institutionalized, and how his mama is scared of him. He is the most underrated rapper of all time and absolutely in the top three. You cannot get to four without mentioning Scarface. Any rapper knows that.
17.) ICE CUBE - AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED (1990) This is the original Best of Both Worlds. You've got the East Coast and the West Coast together. And you've got Ice Cube at his maddest. He was the mack. I remember when Ice Cube played at the Apollo on this tour. Every rapper in town was there. It was like seeing Hendrix or some shit. From 1990 to 1994, Ice Cube was unquestionably the best rapper in the world -- without peer.
16.) WYCLEF JEAN - THE CARVINAL (1997) Forget all that you know. Much like Liquid Swords, The Carvinal is the best Fugees record. It's better than The Score. They're all on there -- it's Wyclef Jean, it's Lauryn Hil, it's Pras, it's that John Forte cat who's in jail. And it's all of them at their best. Even the Neville Brothers are on the album. They rap in French; "Gone Till November" is on there; it's insane. Go back and listen to this album, and try to block out all his other records. It's like watching Rocky. If you forget about most of the other Stallone films, you have a masterpiece.
15.) GETO BOYS - THE RESURRECTION (1996) The last line of the whole album is "I'm the type of ***** that throws a party when the flag burns/I'm at the point of no return." When I heard that lyric, I was like, "OK, you got me, man." The whole Resurrection album is Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill getting politically conscious, but in a Geto Boys way. It's gangsta, and it's an incredible record. It's also (Audioslave/Rage Against The Machine guitarist) Tom Morello's favorite album.
14.) GHOSTFACE KILLAH - SUPREME CLIENTELE (2000) This will go down as the last great Wu-Tang album. "Stroke Of Death" is so gangster it makes you wanna stab your baby sitter. There's a record on there that's just a scratch; Ghostface lets the beat play for four seconds, then keeps bringing it back. My other favorite Wu-Tang albumis Ol' Dirty Bastard's ***** Please. It's so much fun. It's kind of like There's A Riot Goin' On, because he was that high.
13.) GENIUS/GZA - LIQUID SWORDS For my money, Liquid Swords is the best Wu-Tang Clan album. It's like the Songs in the Key of Life of rap. It's so f***ing smart and so hard. Everybody's on there, too. You don't really need a Wu-Tang album; Liquid Swords is all you really need to know. As you grow older, you look for records that hold up. And Liquid Swords holds up.
12.) ERIC B. AND RAKIM - FOLLOW THE LEADER (1988) If I ever have a son, his middle name will be Rakim. "Lyrics Of Fury" is probablly, lyrically, the best rapping anyone's ever done. The line I love most is on "Follow The Leader": "I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it/Now it's a daily word." That's what every writer aspires to. It's the flyest shit I've ever heard. I have that on a wall in my office. The coolest thing about Rakim is that he's the only rapper who really has a mystique. He's still to this day the most mysterious guy in rap. He's not quite Sly Stone, but people wonder.
11.) THE D.O.C. - NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER (1989) Before Dre found Snoop, he had the D.O.C. I was going to school in Brooklyn, and the only time you could see rap videos was on a weekend show with Ralph McDaniels called Video Music Box. D.O.C.'s video for "It's Funky Enough" premiered, and D.O.C. had an L.A. Kings hat on. When I came to school on Monday, half the kids in Brooklyn had L.A. Kings hats on. It was official. The whole album was great, especially the last cut, "The Grand Finale," with the D.O.C. and NWA.
10.) DE LA SOUL - BUHLOONE MINDSTATE (1993) The first two De La Soul albums are two of the greatest albums ever, but Buhloone Mindstate is so grown up. It helped shape me as a comedian. It's the last album Prince Paul produced for them and, as far as I'm concerned, he's a member of De La Soul. If you take Prince Paul out, none of the albums hold up. It's also got that great line "f*** being heard, Posdnuos is complicated." That's some gangsta shit, because he don't give a f***.
9.) A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - THE LOW-END THEORY (1991) It's really hard to top this album. They made other good records, but they never got to this level again. It is from beginning to end a masterpiece. Phife has got a weird midget-DMC energy. And as much as I love Q-Tip, nobody's bigger than the group. He and Phife together are just incredible.
8.) BEASTIE BOYS - PAUL'S BOUTIQUE (1989) Don't go anywhere without it. It's one of those records that you buy every time you're in a rental car. It's also one of those records that you thought sucked the day you bought it. You were mad because it sounded nothing like Licensed To Ill. Then a month later, you're like, "This is the best shit ever. High Plains Drifter is the best song ever made."
7.) EPMD - UNFINISHED BUSINESS (1989) The second EPMD album is as good as two guys can get whose names aren't Run and DMC. The production is insanity. Before Eminem made "Lose Yourself", "Please Listen To My Demo" was the best record about wanting to become a rapper ever made.
6 LL COOL J.) - MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT (1990) The beauty of LL's Mama Said Knock You Out is that it's like the Secret deodorant: strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. It's hard gangsta shit. But at the same time, I could put the CD on with my mother in the car and drive from New York to Philly. It's also the first comeback in rap. It's the real blueprint: if people think you're done, this is how you come back. It's one of my favorite albums ever. It's LL at his best and Marley Marl at his best. It's LL as Madonna, in the sense of Madonna saying, "Who's the hot producer? Let me get that person." LL was the first rapper smart enough to do that. Now it's what everyone does.
5.) PHARCYDE - BIZARRE RIDE II: THE PHARCYDE (1992) Only in rap do you get one-album-wonders. The Pharcyde are like the Boston of rap. I don't know what happened afterward, but the first Pharcyde album is incredible. The rhyming is great, the vocals are great, the production is ridiculous. Everything is just way ahead of its time. It's a shame everybody got overtaken by gangsterism. Everyone wants to be hard, so they don't make records like this anymore. It happens to comedians, too. They want to be cool, but just being funny is cool.
4.) RUN-DMC - RAISING HELL (1986) Raising Hell is the first great rap album ever. I like Run, but I love DMC. No one ever sounded like DMC; no one ever looks like DMC. He's like a superhero. Raising Hell is probably Rick Rubin's best record. "It's Tricky" is a weird song because it's so gangsta and pop at the same time. There's a track on there, "Hit It Run", which is just DMC with Run doing the human beatbox: "I leave allsuckers in the dust/Those dumb motherf***ers can't mess with us." It was actually the first time I heard a guy curse on a record.
3.) 2PAC - RAP PHENOMENON II (MIX TAPE, 2003) You'd have to go to Harlem or a swap meet to get this one. It's done by DJ Green Lantern, DJ Vlad and Dirty Harry. They got tapes of Tupac's vocals and put them over all the newest, baddest beats of the last four years. So you hear Tupac rapping over the "Hate Me Now" beat. It's the best shit in the world. It's ultimate fighting music. You will kill somebody listening to this shit.
2.) SNOOP DOGGY DOGG - DOGGYSTYLE (1993) Doggystyle, to me, is better than Dr. Dre's Chronic. It has held up way better because it's a party album, and its lyrics are better. The Chronic is sonically incredible, but it's hard to drive around singing songs about "Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick." But I got a feeling I'll be singing "Gin and Juice" when I'm ninety.
1.) N.W.A. - STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (1988) N.W.A. is the most influential act of the last thirty years -- bigger than Nirvana, Madonna or the Sex Pistols. Nothing has ever been the same since they came. I remember I was in L.A. when I was a kid, and I brought Straight Outta Compton back to New York. More people were coming over to my house to listen to N.W.A. than were going across the street to the crack house. I had the real shit. It was kind of like the British Invasion for black people.
Underground Hip Hop Thread yall, i dunno if am breaking any rules Brick, but i wanna use this tread for the AG to educate each other on the Music available on the underground. Be it US, African, Nija, Zim as long as its Underground or Real hip hop if i might say.
Please also send new UGHH News, Links to some dope ish, basically anything underground.
This is the sickest thing i have seen in a minute!!! f***!! This is sick How do you have sex with a body after all the stuff they do to it at the funeral home?
Randy Hubbard Parker, son of rapper KRS-One, was found dead in his Atlanta apartment over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 23.
Simone Parker, KRS-One's wife and Randy's mother, said Tuesday (July 10) in a statement that her son's death was related to "severe depression." The family is planning a private memorial service in Florida on July 18, which would have been Randy's 24th birthday. Plans for an August memorial service in New York are under way.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said Parker died on Friday from a gunshot wound to the head, and listed the cause of death as suicide.
KRS-One was on tour overseas with producer Marley Marl and was not available for comment at press time, but the statement conveyed his and Simone Parker's appreciation to everyone who has offered condolences
Wa**up AG? i would like to get yo views on this right here. i stumbled over it in one of the forums am a member of. Do you think HIP HOP is Satanic?
There is a minister who started a movement called "Ex Ministries" and he has opened my eyes to alot of Hip Hop that directly looks like a tool of satan and satanic worship. He has like 6 DVD's and i have seen 3 of them. They are really mind bending. He has countless interviews from hip hop artist like KRS, Bombada (sp?), and other "founders" of Hip Hop. He goes on to say how Hip Hop is a religion, and is the strongest tool of the Devil. Lucifer, according to the Bible, was in charge of music in Heaven...so its not a coicidence that he would be in charge of Music on earth also
He talks about rappers like Nas (who calls himself a disciple, and switches stances from muslim to christian), Jay Z (who had everyone on the country raising their hands saying H to the Izzo, which in turn meant everyone was worshiping him), Rakim, ther Wu Tang (calling themselves Gods)......
He first starts his messages out with how Heavy Metal was so Santanic, and in the 1980's God told him that a new movement would come that would be WORSE than Heavy Metal and it would be led by the african american race....he says that its Hip Hop
He doesnt just condem hip hop artist, but also christian artist like Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, even Christian rappers and he makes so many good points all backed by Biblical doctrine. Also goes on to talk about BET awards and Christian artist being on there
He does say that actual rap is not bad at all...its only rhtyhem and poetry....he has not problems with the art of rapping. But he says that the elements laid forth by guys like KRS 1, which makes Hip Hop a religion, is what makes it Santanic.
He breaks down album covers by Ja Rule, DMX, and Bone Thugz, and it shocked me when he broke down the back of the Bone Thugs album Eternal 1999...
Im going to post some of the youtubes I found.....every Chrsitian, or just anybody interested should listen. I love rap music, but it has certainly opened up my eyes to some things I was blind to...whats crazy is not only is this ministry knocking hip hop, but also christianity and many of the people in the church (in fact the message is geared towards the church, and educating....as u can see by the perdominatly black audience)....he has plenty of churches, christian artist, and people around the nation Mad
There is also a segment from a man who was under KRS ones teaching and traveled with him across the country for years. He was apart of the Hip Hop temple, and he just recently got out of it because he said it was a cult. KRS taught alot of things that made sense, but he then started saying things that directly contradicted religion, and only magnified ones self and the black man. The whole topic of a "third eye" (Santanic meaning) is what officially turned him against the teachings of KRS and Hip Hop.
this is def going to offend alot of people. But if you you are a Christian, or just a Hip Hop Head...listen to it with an open mind, and say what do you think of it
eople, please understand that Hip Hop is a way of governing your life. Therefore, it cannot be exploited as a Christian way of living. We understand that KRS-ONE and Afrika Bambaata have used the term Hip Hop to describe emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing, and other forms of entertainment, but Hip Hop is also, to them, a religion and a way of worshipping ourselves instead of the Lord Jesus Christ. How can we as believers hold on to this culture when it's origin is rooted in witchcraft and voodoo? How can we call ourselves Holy Hip Hoppers when this move of the enemy is influential enough to persuade Christians to protect it and defend it as a culture that should be embraced by the church even though it's founders don't embrace Jesus Christ? God forbid. My people, search the word of God for yourself. 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are pa**ed away; behold, all things are become new.
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There is SO MUCH of other things that I was shocked at...froms scriputres and curses that rappers like Pac, DMX, and Ja Rule have quoted and said on their albums, to the representation of Nas and other rappers who proclaim to be God. (its now an acceptable way of approaching someone, to announce them them their own Gods)....but these are the only ones I can find on youtube. I will try to upload one of the DVD's if I find out how and if anyone wants to see them.....may not agree, and this will surely piss alot of people off....but hey, this is what it is...just showing a movement which is gaining alot of momentum
Galapagos4 announces release of new Robust album! Robust - El Foto Grande dropping July 24th, 2007
The Big Picture. Get it? It’s a concept easy enough for anyone to understand, but most never stop to think about it. It’s that simple yet all-encompa**ing feeling you get when you finally figure it all out. It’s putting in that time and work to get where you need to be. It’s showing love and respect in order to get love and respect. El Foto Grande.
Robust has captured that snapshot clear as day in this collaboration with one of the hottest producers on the LA scene, Mike Gao, who co-produced the album alongside newcomer Nick Sena. It’s the official sophomore solo release from Robust, whose 2004 debut album “Potholes In Our Molecules” (Galapagos4) raised eyebrows worldwide with it’s hard-hitting eclectic beats and intense rhymes. This record finds Robust more mature and seeing straight-forward, speaking to the ma**es that are eager to listen. The beats provide a diverse backdrop for Robust to focus his animated rhymes on, and the team delivers with deliberate clarity.
Tracklist: 01. Word Of Mouth 02. El Foto Grande 03. Retrobust 04. Think About It 05. Show Love 06. Love To Hate 07. Do It For The Love 08. Time And Work 09. Love It All 10. LL Robus T 11. Cold Chilling 12. Strictly Underground 13. I Got Your Back 14. What Up Fam 15. Can’t Put The Fire Out 16. Ho Sognato
All lyrics by Robust except #12 featuring Mestizo Production by Mike Gao & Nick Sena
main! i dont know where to start from cats! okay in short, on friday around am on the AG minding my f***en bizness then my neighbour calls me to tell me that my cribs had been hit by the THEIVES!
:evil: :evil: f***! you could not believe what i was goin' thru crusin at high speed to my crib only to find that the door Lock had been picked and them theives stole practically everything! - Sony SVGA 74cm TV worth R8500 - Pioneer H/Theater worth R6500 - PS2 - P4 PC worth a lifetime - had all my beats on it! - Countless stacks of CDs/Vinyls/MP3s/pron - Gear(clothes and kicks) they only left me a pair of my black tims
:evil: :evil: :evil: f***! Are there any other victims of these kinds of crimes where you are practically left with nothing in the house? anyway am trying to move on and stuff but how do you f***en STOP Crime?
Shiz Niz on E-TV. i was just wondering if that programme is still there on SA TV coz i rememember a while back when i was in SA, i really used to enjoy that programme. and it was a very good concept that if ETV(or who ever produces it) could just market and have it on prime-time and all that, can really boost the image of HIP HOP in africa as a whole. It would even be better if it was on DSTV for the rest of africa to see the talent in the region. Have any of the aclaimed or if i may say Heavy weight MC's(any of yall) in SA been featured on the SHIZ NIZ? and why not? is it because its kinda aimed at youngstars? Somebody gimme the low down on SHIZ NIZ
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