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J. Jacques Doesn't Care About Black People: A Hip-Hop Thread
offcitylimits:
My hip-hop collection is far from comprehensive; I tend to dip in and out of the genre when I'm looking for something different to listen to. So I'll just name some of my favourite albums (most of them really old):
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (one of my favourite albums of all time, in any genre)
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low-End Theory
Nas - Illmatic
Roots - Do You Want More?!?!!/Things Fall Apart (think I prefer the more stripped-down, jazzy sound of the former though)
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star
De La Soul - 3 Feet High (really need to pick up more stuff by them)
Jurassic 5 - EP (which they've sadly recycled ad nauseum since)
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Also like what I've heard by Aesop Rock and the other Def Jux artists.
Rubby:
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and since WHEN were ANY musicians rolemodels? if it isnt 50 cent singing about sex and drugs it's minus the bear singing about sex and drugs, or aerosmith singing about sex and drugs, or tori amos singing about sex and drugs. musician's lifestyles and image are NEVER good for rolemodels, so again, you can't dock rap for that.
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Just because we don’t want them to be role models doesn’t mean they aren’t. Have you walked passed a high school lately? These kids are acting out the fantasies they see on TV. The other day I walked passed a group of kids who couldn’t have been more then twelve talking about the last bitch they fucked. These kids are in such a race to grow up that they’ll take on any idea of maturity that is pushed on them. Things aren’t in a good state when you become afraid to walk passed a group of high school kids. They just don’t understand that shit like that isn’t real. I know you live in Abbotsford so I assume you’ve heard of all the teenage shootings going on around here. It’s like they think it’s a game of Cops and Robbers and then get pissed off when consequences are forced upon them.
FeralCats:
Hip-Hop and Rap are genres I really SHOULD explore more. I really like Quasimoto, even though I only have one album by him- 'The Adventures Of Lord Quas', which is cool. And I liked one Outkast song I heard on the radio..."Sorry Ms. Jackson, I am for real", I think it went like. I should really grab that album.
StrikeThePostman:
--- Quote from: JLM ---Nujabes
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I love Nujabes. My favorite album is Metaphorical Music.
PrinceMyshkin:
Man, Outshined hasn't shown his face for a while.
Also, I'm shocked (shocked!) that no one has mentioned The Roots. Possibly the best hip-hop band (yes, I mean band, with instruments) ever, and I'm not even mentioning their AMAZING concerts. Also, no love for Little Brother? And to that guy who was dissing the Sugarhill Gang? Man, you've got to have respect for those who came before you. Hip-hop would have blown up eventually, but the Sugarhill Gang, sappy as they are, moved the genre into the mainstream, and furthered its evolution.
If all y'all want some real, knock your socks off hip hop check out the late eighties. When rock was near record sucking levels, the underground was exploding. Be sure to check out Eric B. & Rakim.
Also remember, mainstream rock sucks (cough Nickleback).
One other thing: no Wu-Tang?
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