Real Hip-Hop

[J. Walter Weatherman]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152215672379272

[Slaky]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152215672379272

going in with no idea what this was going to be made it extra special.

[PenFoe]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152215672379272

going in with no idea what this was going to be made it extra special.

Stolen for the comments - here is that same woman as part of a 3-person Rap Sign Language battle on Jimmy Kimmel.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

ib4chuckd:

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare's vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever.

I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist's first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.

Spoiler: Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit.

[InternetApex]

That "dusted" New York sound of the 1990s is making a comeback. For those of us who will forever stay rooted in that era, there are groups that create that old school, underground, real hip hop. Here is one of them. Enjoy.

http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2014/06/the-dusted-hip-hop-renaissance-in-new-york-city-continues-with-timeless-truths-dominican-diner-ep/

Timeless Truths

Dominican Diner

Free EP!

[ChuckD]

BBBBBBBUMP.

Run the Jewels 2. Now available for free download:

http://www.runthejewels.net/

[InternetApex]

BBBBBBBUMP.

Run the Jewels 2. Now available for free download:

http://www.runthejewels.net/

*Jordan over Ehlo fist pump*

[Tonker]

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's latest LP, Piñata, is jolly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxcPy1qJTU

[InternetApex]

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's latest LP, Piñata, is jolly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxcPy1qJTU

I'm all in for any project Madlib contributes to. Gibbs is a rapper from Gary, Ind. who I would never have paid the slightest bit of attention to had it not been for his affiliation with the Beat Konducta.

The way Madlib makes a run of the mill gangsta rapper like Gibbs sound listenable is reminiscent of the yeoman work D.J. Premier did with Group Home back in Gangstarr's heyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI264qcI2lo

Possibly the most lackluster rap duo ever to record a timeless classic LP.

[InternetApex]

What's good?

New albums from:
J.Cole - Buy it.
Wu-Tang - Avoid it and mourn for a better yesterday.
Ghostface - Buy the peediddlysnot out of it.
Diamond D - Pick through it and buy several highlights.
Pryhme - (Royce and Premier) - Ditto.
D'Angelo - Buy it, make love to your old lady to it then lie in bed staring at the ceiling while she brings you a glass of water because you just gave her the fuck of her life after she'd pretty much given up on your dead ass a couple years, pounds, babies or whatevers ago.

[InternetApex]

Joey Bada$$

"B4.DA.$$"

Another excellent example of young kids making old rap. Check it out and take what interests you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCxiBC006w

I'm a fan.

[Tonker]

Joey Bada$$

"B4.DA.$$"

Another excellent example of young kids making old rap. Check it out and take what interests you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCxiBC006w

I'm a fan.

I'm logged into work and that's regionally restricted so it will have to wait until tonight.  I did watch a video of your man visiting a chicken and waffle house in NY, though, which made me hard, and hungry.  I've got to say, I fucking love the crossover between hip hop and good food.  Action Bronson might just have started something, because I will watch that shit all fucking day, motherfucker.

[Slaky]

Joey Bada$$

"B4.DA.$$"

Another excellent example of young kids making old rap. Check it out and take what interests you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCxiBC006w

I'm a fan.

Immediately a fan of this

[InternetApex]

Joey Bada$$

"B4.DA.$$"

Another excellent example of young kids making old rap. Check it out and take what interests you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCxiBC006w

I'm a fan.

Immediately a fan of this

Joey is the leader of a New York hip hop collective known as Pro Era. There are like 50 dudes in that group no lie. And everything I've heard from them is as dope as this Joey Bada$$ album. Mixtape after mixtape after dope ass mixtape. They're like nerdy New York black kids who got into the music their parents came up on instead of following the trends or whatever the fuck Kanye thinks he's doing. Eventually that happens in all genres of music but hip hop is so young that it's a fairly new phenomenon. As older fans of rap, we've gotten progressively disoriented with the new music and wondered why nobody makes the good old boom bap music anymore. Most of our favorites who still try either come up empty or eventually dabble in newness because Art! or something.

These kids don't give a fuck. It's still 1993 to them and some of them weren't even born when Brand Nubian's "One For All" dropped.

Fuck sake. Life is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fg08Hjwdo0

[InternetApex]

Pro Era - School High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrO4Dus0iH8