::rap Thread::

[Da Kid]

I am listening The Big Bang from Bus a Bus and i have to say it is not bad but i am little dissapointed with Doctors beats so....
Blood Money is

 

[x4dixont]

yeah busta's album is average at best, he needed a few better guests, i mean where was the game!?

blood money what a pile of ****e, mobb deep turned **** when they joined g-unit listen to infamous or even amerikaz nightmare for some descent mobb deep. Lupe Fiasco's album has been delayed a month and i dnt even know when doctor's advocate is dropping as thats bee pushed back also

 

[Da Kid]

yeah busta's album is average at best, he needed a few better guests, i mean where was the game!?
blood money what a pile of ****e, mobb deep turned **** when they joined g-unit listen to infamous or even amerikaz nightmare for some descent mobb deep. Lupe Fiasco's album has been delayed a month and i dnt even know when doctor's advocate is dropping as thats bee pushed back also

yeah on busta's album really misses game but i like that song with Nas..

I have listened every album from mobb deep and I think you are little to much in that G-Unot thing....They are good 4 me

 

[ShiftyPowers]

That's because Nas is the greatest living rapper. To say I'm excited for his upcomming release wouldn't really capture the enormousness of my anticipation.

 

[Da Kid]

That's because Nas is the greatest living rapper....

Next to Wallace and Shakur.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Last I checked Tupac and Biggie were dead and therefore no challege to Nas as the greatest living rapper.

 

[Da Kid]

oh sorry i didnt see you wrote living...yup you are right...although i dont admire Nas to much but he is good...

 

[Elber2k3]

Listen to that, new French rap

Hostile 2006

Just wondering is Monsieur R in the prison now or is the lawsuit still going on? Or did they drop it?

 

[#1 Stunna]

That's because Nas is the greatest living rapper. To say I'm excited for his upcomming release wouldn't really capture the enormousness of my anticipation.

Same here

 

[Guillaume]

Just wondering is Monsieur R in the prison now or is the lawsuit still going on? Or did they drop it?

It's still going on... Ridiculous, in France some deputies are shoked by rap lyrics, especially from Lunatic, Minister Amer, Sniper and Monsieur R... In their mind, these lyrics are too violent for young people, but they're just describing real life. When I listen to that, I don't want to burn cars or kill people. Same when I watch Scarface or play GTA. Monsieur R uses metaphors in his lyrics, it's his defense. He's making music, not politic..

10 years ago, bands as NTM were describing violence in "ghettos", they were predicting riots... And there were riots in november. There isn't any work for blacks or muslims who are French, who were born in France. They aren't considered as French people, because owners are racist. It's going worse and worse.. Rap is the only way to say problems for young people, but old deputies can't understand that.

 

[Frostwolf]

Same here

September couldn't be futher away...

I have a bad feeling it's going to drown in its expectations like half of his work, though.

Streets Disciple and It Was Written were good in their own right but everyone dissed them because it wasn't Illmatic or Stillmatic.

Saying that, I'm listening to The World Is Yours (I like the Vibesmen remix better than Q-Tip's, now shoot me) right now.

Illmatic will never get old.

 

[Elber2k3]

It's still going on... Ridiculous, in France some deputies are shoked by rap lyrics, especially from Lunatic, Minister Amer, Sniper and Monsieur R... In their mind, these lyrics are too violent for young people, but they're just describing real life. When I listen to that, I don't want to burn cars or kill people. Same when I watch Scarface or play GTA. Monsieur R uses metaphors in his lyrics, it's his defense. He's making music, not politic..

10 years ago, bands as NTM were describing violence in "ghettos", they were predicting riots... And there were riots in november. There isn't any work for blacks or muslims who are French, who were born in France. They aren't considered as French people, because owners are racist. It's going worse and worse.. Rap is the only way to say problems for young people, but old deputies can't understand that.

Thank god it's not that bad in Germany, yet...
The government's own censorship agency has gotten an eye on rap music over the past years. They started to censor records from 1999/2000, which nobody cared about before. Also some politicians start to blame rap music for the growing youth violence.
btw. If someone wants to listen to German rap. Franky Kubrick feat. Fetsum - Nichts zu Verlieren

And about Nas. I really like his music, but I hate the person behind it since last year. He was scheduled for europe's largest hip hop festival, the Splash Festival. He took the money and in the morning of the day where he should perform Nas' management called the Splash guys that he won't show up. They didn't even give them a reason. So after months of promoting the appearence of Nas he decided to no-show at last minute. They tried to get a replacement. They nearly got Busta Rhymes and/or Method Man, but they had problems to get to Germany.

 

[Da Kid]

And about Nas. I really like his music, but I hate the person behind it since last year. He was scheduled for europe's largest hip hop festival, the Splash Festival. He took the money and in the morning of the day where he should perform Nas' management called the Splash guys that he won't show up. They didn't even give them a reason. So after months of promoting the appearence of Nas he decided to no-show at last minute. They tried to get a replacement. They nearly got Busta Rhymes and/or Method Man, but they had problems to get to Germany.

not cool from Nastradamus

 

[::shinji::]

speaking of highly anticipated new releases, The Roots debut since signing with Def Jam is coming in the near future too..

also, Senim Silla (ex-Binary Star) has his first solo album in the works and it might be ready for full release as soon as next month. He also said (at his online forum) that he'd probably release it online first in digital format.. wouldn't be suprised to see some free legal content included in that one.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

September couldn't be futher away...

I have a bad feeling it's going to drown in its expectations like half of his work, though.

Streets Disciple and It Was Written were good in their own right but everyone dissed them because it wasn't Illmatic or Stillmatic.

Saying that, I'm listening to The World Is Yours (I like the Vibesmen remix better than Q-Tip's, now shoot me) right now.

Illmatic will never get old.

Hey, I like pretty much all of it although Nastradamus is kinda garbage.

You left out my personal favorite non-Illmatic Nas album... God's Son. I think that was he best 2002 release, not Stillmatic. Street's Disciple, I don't know why it gets knocked so much, I think it's a solid although if I could pick and choose my favorite 14 tracks and cut the rest making it a single album I would probably choose to do it.

 

[Frostwolf]

Aww, I like God's Son a lot. Made You Look is one hell of a song anyway, and I Can is one of Nas' best songs. I love all of Nas' albums bar Nastradamus and I Am, which were merely OK. I'm just saying nearly everyone decided to bash any album not named Illmatic because they weren't up it to its standard... but then again, you could count albums better than Illmatic by any rapper on a hand of someone with a couple of fingers missing.

If you would make a 15-track "best of" album for Nas, what would you include?

Made You Look
I Can
Hate Me Now
NY State of Mind
Life's A Bitch
The World Is Yours
Halftime
Represent
It Ain't Hard to Tell
Affirmative Action
If I Ruled The World
Ether
Got Yourself A Gun
One Mic
Poison

 

[x4dixont]

15 tracks best of nas?

1. made you look
2.one mic
3.the message
4. it aint hard to tell
5. you can hate me now
6. got yourself a gun
7.everyone wants to rule the world
8. street dreams
9.life's a bitch
10.i can
11. heaven
12. if i rule the world
13. ether
14. just a moment
15. don't body yourself

 

[ShiftyPowers]

This is impossible for me because it is so hard to leave off some songs, but I'll give you my personal top 15.

The World Is Yours
Halftime
Life's a Bitch
NY State of Mind
The Message
I Gave You Power
One Mic
Nazareth Savage
Silent Murder
Dance
Made You Look
What Goes Around
American Way
Got Ur Self a Gun
Get Down

Bonus Track: Suicide Bounce

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I got this idea from another forum, but I think we should put together a list of the 25 definitive hip hop songs. Like, if you had to explain hip hop to someone, what 25 songs would you give them. I'll basically give you everything that I can think of right now, and please add if you have anything. Then we can cut it down.

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
Big L - No Endz, No Skinz
Big Pun - Still Not a Player
Binary Star - Reality Check
Binary Star - Honest Expression
Blackstar - Respiration
Blackstar - Thieves in the Night
Blackstar - Definition
Brother Ali - Self Taught
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (**** you guys, I like this song)
Common - I Used to Love H.E.R.
Dr. Dre - Ain't Nothin But A G Thang
Dr. Dre - What's the Difference
Eric B. and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Jay-Z - Politics as Usual
Jay-Z - Brooklyn's Finest
Jay-Z - 22 Two's
Jay-Z - Heart of the City
Jurassic 5 - High Fidelity
Kanye West - Two Words
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt.II
Mos Def - Mathematics
Mos Def - Sex, Love, and Money
Nas - Life's a Bitch
Nas - NY State of Mind
Nas - The Message
Nas - One Mic
Nas - Made You Look
Norotious BIG - Hypnotize
Norotious BIG - Going Back to Cali
Norotious BIG - Give Me the Loot
Norotious BIG - Juicy
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Outkast - Rosa Parks
Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Soul Brother #1
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Raekwon - Knuckleheadz
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Talib Kweli - Get By
Talib Kweli - Stand to the Side
Talib Kweli - Four Women
Talib Kweli - The Proud
Talib Kweli - Eternalists
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus

Add on, there's a lot of stuff on my computer that I haven't thrown on there, but I don't think I missed anything glaring from my collection.

 

[Can't stop the rush...]

Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (**** you guys, I like this song)

Shifty.....uhh........

Other than that it's a nice list, I'll make one out later.