Let's make a best of SA rap music collection

[DJ_Nastie_Ed]

Actually its called "Ebony Flows".That track is too nice.Apparently MC Khalill is working on some new stuff.Just writing new songs and hoping to record sometime in the next few months.Cant wait for that to come off.Hey Ed, u think u can pop a remix of "Ebony Flows"?Would be too nice.With cuts and all.

Puuuhlease!!!! I would kill to remix that track. That sample is too nice...wanna f*** with it. Hook a man up madd.


Got another track to add.
Unfortunately i'm not sure what it is called

by JBux, my own personal favourite local track to play on a big system
maybe someone who knows can enlighten me. Seeing that i cant exactly type/sing it to you (you know when u try to sing a track to someone - 'dum dih dum dih dum dum' - n they just look at u like u a fool - happens to me all the time)

Its got a slow ba**y guitar riff. Pretty straight forward, 4 bars, 3 equally rythmnd notes in each bar (except for last bar which has 1). The notes within each bar move in a straight upwad progression. every bar changes key.

rushay?

[RuSh]

hmmmmm ok we will talk bout the track the weekend if you gonna be at the hip hop indaba will be there saturday me and bux and some other cats much repect mr nasty ed

[fahfee]

http://www.coalyards.net/saraplist/index2.htm  

stuff which I think deserves a spot:


P.O.C. - Never Again
Shorty Skills & LOCO(Muthaload) - Keepin it LIVE(in 96)
Omen & Robo - Day 7
Tumi - My Posters
J-Bux - Mr. Nobody
Cashless Society - Blaze The Breaks
Groundworks - Casualities of Raw or Dungeon Keepers
Black Noize - African Sun or So-called Coloured
Spex - Yizo
Skwatta - Shut the F.


not really up to speed with South African hiphop in the last 4 years so excuse the bias for the older releases.

[RuSh]

funny mr nobody pops up again me and bux was chattin the other day and he was tellin me that shit is cla**ic man just imagine 20 years from now when we all oldish peeps listening to SA hip hop its like yesterday i can still remember chillin in the studio when that shit was done

[TATEguru v.2K9]

Co-sign Mr Nobody CLa**IC EASTERN CAPE MATERIAL!

Disagree with putting on Ancient Men, Konfab, Trusenz & any other up & coming artists. Dont think this is the right kinda compilation. Unless I've misunderstood the intent...

Word to the wise (edp aka Mr Prince): Carefull your tracklist starting to look more & more like that Harambe Dope sessions compilation (5th Floor, Mizchief, Cashless, Groundworkx..)

[DJ_Nastie_Ed]

Yeah, Mr Nobody, Thats the track that i was tryin to describe in my previous post.

DEFINITE cla**ic. Would love to remix it. Moment of pure genius on behalf of J, much respect to him n the beatmaker. Who produced it?

[TATEguru v.2K9]

I think Milk actually produced that one..correct me if I'm wrong

Oh yeah @ Nastie "EASTERN CAPE WHAT"?!

[Dpleezy]

isn't it best of SA rap music? it doesn't say greatest old skool SA hits.

anyway,,, interesting to read what people think.

I still haven't heard any 5th Floor yet. Someone was hustling the CD outside marvel but i'd just bought G-SUS's CD so i thought i'd done my bit for supporting local music for the night.

[Original Syn]

^^ co-sign ON THAT!!!!

Again Tate a**umes if he dont know it, it aint shit.... Why pray tell shouldn't the peeps you earmarked not be included?

[TATEguru]

I get the feeling this is more a Sound of the times CD & none of the aforementioned artsists have achieved a "Sound of the times" title yet.
Not to say that The Drudge won't establish Konfab as a "Sound of the times" emcee or whatever but as of this moment its not true.

Just my thoughts Ni99as!

[RuSh]

produced by Vincent Fraser

[Supafly]

Have I created a monster? :)

Maybe I need to explain more of my vision. Calling this a best of SA rap was probably a bad idea. An anthology might have been more appropriate. But even with anthologies one has to define the logic behind selecting some tracks over others. For me, I was trying to go with songs that defined or typified an era or various eras in the brief history of rap music in SA - which is why I nominated POC's Our World.

Anyway, I have tried to do a bit of stock-taking. How does this look so far? Comments and criticisms and flaming all welcome.

POC – Our World (1990)
POC – Neva Again (1994)
Black Noise – Black Facts (1995)
BVK – FNTB (1997)
Mizchif – Place For A Wife (1998)
Spex – Hizo (1998)
Godessa – Social Ills (2002)
Groundworkx – Stereotype
Cashless Society - Hottentot Hop (Blaze The Breaks) (2002)
Mista Devious – Ken Jy Vir My? (I’ve only got the a capella version; anyone got a version with beats?) (early 00s)
Tumi – 76
JBux – Mr Nobody
Skwatta Kamp – Klaima / Umoya
ProKid – Soweto

I haven't got anything to represent the following artists
Mr Selwyn –
Amu –
Konfab –
5th Floor –
H2O
Zubz –
ProVerb –

PEACE
Supa

[TATEguru]

Peace edp:
Skwatta I gotta go with Umoya (no-brainer really)
Zubz - Superstar/ Handiende
ProVerb/Amu/Selwyn - Attention (another no brainer & I've already motivated it)

[Original Syn]

Looking at Supa's reasoning, the anthology should really also have:
Sum Day -  Ancient Men
Kallitz - Die DIng Ruk Mal
MC Khalil - Ebony Flows
Isaac Mutant - Rhymklets
Garlic Brown - Jack

BECAUSE they all typify different parts of the wide sprectrum that is happening in Cape Town and Afrikaans Hip Hop, while you might not be feeling Afrikaans for whatever reason, it is the language of a coupla million coloured people...and it has very articulate people who are speaking their lives in it.
It is as (South) african as anything Pro kid or Skwatta does. And not one of them has less than 15 years in this art, just being f***ing poor puts you deep underground, as a matter of course.

[Original Syn]

BTW Madd or myself can get you audio on any or all of the above.
Also anybody at the Indaba will see and hear ANcient Men and Isaac Mutant performing at the Indaba this Friday.
The proof is in the pudding.