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Is it just me who digs Hip Hop.?

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Adrenochrome Rising Star

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Yeah, I've listened to Hip Hop for years but never been into the scene, and only seen bands at festivals.
The main bands I listen to are/were fairly mainstream: De La Soul, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, NWA, and the Gravediggaz. I love funny put-downs and groovey old samples. :)

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Hmmn we seem to have similar music tastes bubinga. I started off loving rap.hip-hop then wanted to play some of the bass. After some research I realised most were sampled from old funk/soul tracks and started listening to that.

Favourite has always been Ice Cube. To be honest the beat/rhythm is the main thing for me. I don't really listen to lyrics.

Strangely only recently discovered EPMD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sXDAVb_BE

Supposedly the first rap (I think):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3313DhcB8

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You have great taste in hip hop man. A few of my favourite albums are -

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Nas - Illmatic
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Live and Let Die
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Gza/Genius - Liquid Swords
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises in The East
Juggaknots - The Juggaknots
Madvillain - Madvillainy
O.C. - Word Life
Smif n Wessun - Dah Shinin
AZ - Doe or Die
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
DJ Screw - All Screwed Up
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Outkast - Southernplayalistick
InI - Center of Attention
J Dilla - Donuts
UGK - Ridin Dirty
Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity

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bubinga5 Grand Master

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[quote name='RoRi' timestamp='1396121213' post='2410209']
Junie is just funny:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IF2RrABvsU[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQuEQl9k2ug[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4kqL13jGM[/media]
[/quote]those are very cool RoRi.. especially the goats track.. not heard of them before.

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I like a bit of Hip Hop. I'm currently digging Saul Williams, a superb rapper. In this one, I love the opening with its building anger against slavery, and then the ode to the Hip Hop genre, with the coolest of lines bringing in the second verse: "Not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip hop.."

http://youtu.be/bIp47yWUQKs

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Skol303 Experienced

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BIG hip hop fan here :)

Plenty of good stuff already posted in this thread.

My record boxes are mostly stocked with fairly old skool stuff: Gang Starr, KRS1, Tribe Called Quest, NWA, etc, etc. But I still keep an ear to the ground for new material.

Anyway... Here's my contribution to the thread. A bona fide classic by Dead Prez. Lyrics, message and delivery are spot on IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNyr6BJZuI

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No, I don't love Hip Hop. However I don't dislike it either. At 61 I am too old for it to resonate with me. If I were younger I might love it.

I think that's the best way to answer it as opposed to the 25 year old that says he doesn't like the Beatles, when he is actually to young to know. My position is if you weren't there you don't know if you like it or not. If your a baby boomer or over 60 and you say you don't like The Beatles, that's cool and acceptable. But not if your 25. I mean you can say it, I just wouldn't recognize it as an intelligent answer or opinion.

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I don't really get this 'it doesn't resonate because I am too old'. The earliest hiphop dates from the 1970s and even before that you could find similar elements in, for example, Caribbean toasting and in talking blues - so it seems to me more a case of what you were listening to than whether you are the right age.

I am 62 but I was 27 when 'Rapper's Delight' was released.

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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1418633783' post='2631767']
I don't really get this 'it doesn't resonate because I am too old'. The earliest hiphop dates from the 1970s and even before that you could find similar elements in, for example, Caribbean toasting and in talking blues - so it seems to me more a case of what you were listening to than whether you are the right age.

I am 62 but I was 27 when 'Rapper's Delight' was released.
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I see your point. However, I'm 61 and by the time I was 27 my musical tastes had already solidified and I wasn't letting anything else soak in by that time. I evolved musically in terms of what resonated with me through age 9- 20 at best.

I think were all probably different on this issue.

My main point was, I don't dislike hip hop, I just don't know much about it.

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Color me lazy, but I recently wrote about the very same subject on Talkbass, so I'm just going to copy that here :P

I used to have no interest whatsoever in rap and hip hop, but a few years ago I started working. The musical director of a youth club in Oslo. Most kids there were interested in urban music and I just had to embrace it: I asked for CDs to listen to, borrowed a lot of stuff from the library and immersed in it...and, surprise! there's a lot of cool stuff there!
An old dog can and will learn new tricks, if it chooses to keep an open mind :D
I ended up recording a lot of stuff and composing beats (keeping samples to a minimum, a lot of real instruments and fake samples, that is original music treated to sound like a lift from an old LP). Now that I have a pretty good grasp of the genre, I can tell that I dig authenticity and genuine flow. Some themes I really don't care for, but as long as it is real I can at live with it. Hearing Norwegian kids spitting about shoot-outs is just plain silly and I would always make a point of telling posers to get real or get out. Give me your life, not the life of a kid in the USA.

Some of the guys I worked with were truly amazing, especially YoRhymes, who now goes by the name of Fabe.
An EP we recorded at the club is available for free download: lots of real bass in there, including fretless. There's even some Chapman Stick: if that's not a first I guess it's really close!!!
And, first and foremost, Fabe çan rap. He's got skills, he's got flow and (most important for me) his lyrics are amazing!

enjoy: http://www.datpiff.com/YoRhymes-Feat-Francesco-P-Anonymous-Reply-mixtape.170358.html

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