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I notice that not many people in the community enjoy rap music, or just don't talk about. I enjoy Kid Cudi, Gucci Mane, Drake, and more I can't remember.

Anyone out there like rap? If so, who do you like/listen too.

Now here's a little story I've got to tell, about three bad brothers you know so well. It started way back in history, with Adrock, MCA, and me [him], Mike-D. Alternatively, a folk version.

Beastie Boys :D

Eminem. Various others.

Rap isn't a genre, it's a vocal styling in hip-hop.

God, this genre is so vast and so ill-defined that I can't possibly answer your question properly but here are some of my personal favourites. Artist - Album.

• Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
• Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
• Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
• Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
• Comfort Fit - Polyshufflez
• Common - Be
• Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
• Dälek - Absence
• Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
• Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
• DJ Spooky - Under the Influence
• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
• Dr. Dre - The Chronic
• Dub Pistols - Speakers and Tweeters
• Dudley Perkins - Holy Smokes
• Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Haiku D'État - Haiku D'État
• IAM - L'École Du Micro D'Argent
• J Dilla - Donuts
• Jay-Z - American Gangster
• Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Madvillain - Madvillainy
• MC Solaar - Prose Combat
• Method Man - Tical
• Murs - Murs for President
• Nas - Illmatic
• Noel Zancanella - A Fantasy for Electromagnetic Tape
• Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
• OutKast - Aquemini
• Oxmo Puccino & The Jazzbastards - Lipopette Bar
• P.O.S. - Never Better
• Pretty Lights - Making Up A Changing Mind
• RJD2 - Deadringer
• Shad - The Old Prince
• Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
• Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb
• The Coup - [2001] Party Music
• Why? - [2008] Alopecia
• Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
• Zion I - [2005] True & Livin'

This isn't a comprehensive list. I'm sure I've missed some. Nor is it the best that hip-hop has to offer; it's just a list of my favourites. Also, Donfuy, while that may be technically correct, rap and hip-hop are interchangeable in colloquial speech.

Myself (And Ranny) are rap connoisseurs - I'm more into 90s rap than today's stuff, but among my favorites are Outkast, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, and... fuck, too many to list.

Kablizzy wrote:Myself (And Ranny) are rap connoisseurs - I'm more into 90s rap than today's stuff, but among my favorites are Outkast, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, and... fuck, too many to list.

You'd refer to yourself as an expert on rap music?

Not really into rap/hiphop/etc. but I did enjoy this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADT6E6UI0Q

I like Dalek, Wu-Tang, and King Geedorah much more than a white kid from Canada has any business.

This is somewhat tangential, but some slam poetry comes pretty close to rap.
Buddy Wakefield - Convenience Stores
Buddy Wakefield - The Information Man

oh, i'm into heaps and heaps including...

=w= wrote:Wu-Tang, and King Geedorah

hairscapades wrote:

• Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
• Common - Be
• Madvillain - Madvillainy
• Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

uh, Gang Starr
MF Doom
a little Roll Deep
Shurik'n
Black Star
Mos Def
De La Soul
Binary Star
Dangerdoom
Dizzee Rascal (the older stuff mostly)

I dunno. more. I'm more into hiphop as a whole though, including like all the electronic stuff, and some of the genres that have partially sprouted/are often mixed with it like wonky and a bit of glitch.

De La Soul is awesome! :3

Immortal Technique
Eminem
Jay-Z and a couple other random ones here and there.

I would definately reccomend Drapht and the Hoods.

hairscapades wrote:

Kablizzy wrote:Myself (And Ranny) are rap connoisseurs - I'm more into 90s rap than today's stuff, but among my favorites are Outkast, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, and... fuck, too many to list.

You'd refer to yourself as an expert on rap music?

Not an expert, a connoisseur. Rap is Ranny's game, rather than mine, but I'm sure I could hold my own in some Name That Tune. Also, Jurassic5 and Chali 2na are amazing.

Kablizzy wrote:

hairscapades wrote:

Kablizzy wrote:Myself (And Ranny) are rap connoisseurs - I'm more into 90s rap than today's stuff, but among my favorites are Outkast, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, and... fuck, too many to list.

You'd refer to yourself as an expert on rap music?

Not an expert, a connoisseur. Rap is Ranny's game, rather than mine, but I'm sure I could hold my own in some Name That Tune. Also, Jurassic5 and Chali 2na are amazing.

I wish this thread was about pop, so I could make a witty remark involving "name that Autotune".

squibbles wrote:I wish this thread was about pop, so I could make a witty remark involving "name that Autotune".

You need a youtube channel and you need to make that an actual thing.

On a related note, Kanye's latest album is fantastic. As for other artists, I listen to Chiddy Bang, Jay-Z, Effect, Gorillaz, Beastie Boys, Cee-lo, Big Boi, Jaydiohead if that counts, A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast and De La Soul.

Kanye West
Clipse
Snoop Dogg
Drake
Madvillain
MF Doom
Mos Def
E-40
T3ch N9ne
Beasty Boys
Ludacris
Outkast

Also, assorted feel good party club jams.
ex. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me

Beastie Boys
Gil Scott-Heron
Gorillaz <3
Wu-Tang
Cudi
Grandmaster Flash (more hip-hop but hey)
Jurassic 5
Dr. Dre <3

Most already named, good thread. Need to check out some of the stuff I haven't heard.

Molar-fucking thorax wrote:Gil Scott-Heron

Admittedly, I've only heard I'm New Here but it's a bit of a stretch to call that hip-hop. S'more spoken work/soul/blues.

Molar-fucking thorax wrote: Gorillaz <3

Them too :D.
Some Rage Against the Machine is great as well.

Not sure if RATM really qualifies as rap... but it's good nonetheless

more-or-less the majority of Tanner's first post + k-os and Dr. Octagon.

מנחם מנדל מקוצק wrote:Rap isn't a genre, it's a vocal styling in hip-hop.

For anyone unaware, there are 4 Pillars constituting the hip hop lifestyle:

• Rap
• Deejaying
• B-Boying
• Graffiti

and sometimes Beatboxing is considered to be the fifth element.

EDIT: and Big L and DJ Krush. How could forget about these two gentlemen?

Oh, I also add Wiz Khalifa, Dr. Dre, and Eminem to my list. I can usually listen to anything rap except the recent Lil Wayne.