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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Guru on 18 Jul 2006, 05:38
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After reading through this entire comic series, and exploring the recomended listening section, I realized something...there's not a single hip-hop/rap refrence. Normaly, this would be fine with me, as I absolutely detest the standard hate-filled 'I'm such a gangsta' scene. The one rap band I *can* stand, and actually really enjoy is Optimus Rhyme. The main thing about them is the two main vocalists (sigh..yes..rappers) are backed by a great funk trio. This isn't your standard played out of a box-filled with samples-crapfest...its all about funky baselines weird guitar riffs and the like. I'm not a very good reviewer, but having just picked up their second album which is just as awesome (if not more so) then the first, I felt I should be spreading the word a bit.
I mean, c'mon..how can you not like a band that pretends to be Transformers throwing off the yoke of the Whackacon oppressors, and still manages to fit in a song about Ping Pong?
Anyways, here's a few review links, and the band's website, which has several songs available for download..give a listen, I think you'll find them surprising :)
http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=108910901789724
http://highbias.com/reviews/20040606_short2.html
The Band's website:
http://www.optimusrhyme.com/
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pffft
MC Hawking > Optimus Ryhme
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pffft
MC Frontalot > all else
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i am sorry but these lyrics alone own everything ever
"I explode like a bomb. No one is spared. My power is my mass times the speed of light squared."-E=MC Hawking
That right there that is awsomeness distilled into a pure clean burning fuel
i am changing my sig to that
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MC Paul Barman > Everything in rap.
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MC Frontalot is pretty ace.
RJD2's Deadringer is my favorite hip hop album ever.
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After reading through this entire comic series, and exploring the recomended listening section, I realized something...there's not a single hip-hop/rap refrence. Normaly, this would be fine with me, as I absolutely detest the standard hate-filled 'I'm such a gangsta' scene. The one rap band I *can* stand, and actually really enjoy is Optimus Rhyme. The main thing about them is the two main vocalists (sigh..yes..rappers) are backed by a great funk trio. This isn't your standard played out of a box-filled with samples-crapfest...its all about funky baselines weird guitar riffs and the like.
I'd be more tempted to check this out if it weren't completely surrounded by a passage that basically says "durr I know nothing about rap and only like rock music by white ppl".
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Do we need to do another hip hop reccomendation thread? Cause we totally can.
Hip hop that does not suck:
Aesop Rock
Atmosphere
Blackalicious
Common
Dalek
Dangerdoom/MF Doom/Etc.
Dan The Automator
Del The Funkee Homosapien/Deltron 3030/Heiroglyphics
DJ Shadow
RJD2
The Roots
X-Ecutioners
are all wonderful.
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I dig MC Frontalot because even his non nerdy rap songs are ace.
As for pure hiphop...
The Roots
Del the Funkee Homosapien
Can't go wrong with those two. I may be white as white can be, but I groove every time I hear a Roots song. Seriously, if you don't feel like dancing every time you hear a fast song off of Phrenology, you're just dead.
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Do we need to do another hip hop reccomendation thread? Cause we totally can.
We should. I just find it funny how people go "I totally hate *genre X*, except I like *artist Y* because they have nothing to do with *defining characteristics of genre X*". Artist Y is always some watered-down version of the genre, tailored to follow the narrow and skewed standards of the (usually-rockist) listener.
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i find that funny too, brew. although i have never articulated it quite as mathematically as you have.
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I refuse to apply the quadratic formula for music!
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De La Soul, guys. How could you miss that?
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I actually have never listened to De La Soul, but I'll give them a try.
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MC Frontalot is pretty ace.
RJD2's Deadringer is my favorite hip hop album ever.
me wuvs Deadringer, but Endtroducing takes the cake for me
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De La Soul, guys. How could you miss that?
3 feet high and rising, nuff said
others I would include....
Mos Def/Black Star
Eric Sermon/EPMD
Talib Kweli
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Anyone who likes Atmosphere or the like should check out Heiruspecs. Damn good group from the Twin Cities area.
http://www.heiruspecs.com
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After reading through this entire comic series, and exploring the recomended listening section, I realized something...there's not a single hip-hop/rap refrence. Normaly, this would be fine with me, as I absolutely detest the standard hate-filled 'I'm such a gangsta' scene. The one rap band I *can* stand, and actually really enjoy is Optimus Rhyme. The main thing about them is the two main vocalists (sigh..yes..rappers) are backed by a great funk trio. This isn't your standard played out of a box-filled with samples-crapfest...its all about funky baselines weird guitar riffs and the like.
I'd be more tempted to check this out if it weren't completely surrounded by a passage that basically says "durr I know nothing about rap and only like rock music by white ppl".
Well, truthfully, I don't know squat about rap, other then what I hear/see on the radio/tv, which, like I said, doesn't do much for me. I would have left off teh Durr tho :)
Also...are you calling me racist because I'm not a big rap fan? /boggle
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Black Star
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(http://reyyy.com/art/optimus_rhyme.jpg)
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"I hate rap except for (insert Jurassic 5 / Atmosphere / Some horrifying nerdcore parody artist here) because (insert bizarre self-justification here)" is basically the most depressing musical statement ever.
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oh. wow. :D