Hip Hop AND Rap!

You should watch some rap battles ( scribble jam ) its the worlds largest hip hop festival heres 1 out of the hundreds of battles they do each year

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Imtu6r0DLNU

You should listen to Illmatic by Nas. It's an alltime classic. SaintBlaze

agreed.

Try hieroglyphics, immortal technique, mos def, and common.

You should listen to Illmatic by Nas. It's an alltime classic. SaintBlaze

I strongly disagree with your choice, but hey, I went through a rap phase so I'll point you in the direction I was looking!

Definitely check out old Jay-Z, 2Pac, Eminem, Bone Thugs, NERD, Nas is pretty decent, but for the love of god avoid 50 Cent and all those glorifying dickweeds. Basically avoid anything from the last 4-5 years lol.

One of the few rap/hip hop songs I still listen to is "Bully" by Eminem, it just flows, it's a great song. Oh and if you like dancey type hip hop, check out "Tetris" by DacaV 5. It's pure awesome haha.

Liquid Swords- GZA one of the best albums

The Pharcyde- An awesome, pass the mic type of album

Wu Tang

Biggie

You should listen to Illmatic by Nas. It's an alltime classic. SaintBlaze

You should watch some rap battles ( scribble jam ) its the worlds largest hip hop festival heres 1 out of the hundreds of battles they do each year

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Imtu6r0DLNU

Bubble-Shield

Have you seen nyckz vs enj it was stupid how he just hit him.

[QUOTE="SaintBlaze"]You should listen to Illmatic by Nas. It's an alltime classic. Toriko42

Also Bone Thugs N harmony

immortal technique is good. especially dances with devil. its a great deep song

i really only listen to two rap bands or whatever they called. i listen to immortal technique and hollywood undead the rest is the classic rock.

Blu & Exile-"Below The Heavens"

One Be Lo-"S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M."

Binary Star-"Masters of the Universe"

Little Brother-"The Listening"

Foriegn Exchange-"Connected"

Nas-"The Lost Tapes"

Kanye West-"College Dropout"

Black Star-"Mos Def and Talib Kweli are..."

Mos Def-"Black on Both Sides"

Reflection Eternal-"Train of Thought"

Blackalicious-"Blazing Arrow"

The Roots-"Do You Want More??!?!?!??"

Joe Budden-"Mood Muzik 2"

Lupe Fiasco-"Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor" & "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool"

Common-"Be"

Madvillain-"Madvillainy"

MF DOOM-"Operation: Doomsday" & "MM...FOOD"

A Tribe Called Quest-"A Low End Theory" & "Midnight Marauders"

Words Worth-"Mirror Music"

Lauryn Hill-"The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"

Kam Moye-"Self-Centered EP"

CunninLynguist-"A Piece of Strange"

that's a good start...

Listen to some Outkast, the best group in hip-hop ;)Orlando_Magic

Hip hop and rap in general suck, but I guess if you have to listen to it, then Run DMCstedtfeld

Wow, thank you everyone :) I'll make sure to add some of this stuff with my Fall Out Boy and Micheal Jackson....Oh dear the eyes are back on me again!Yunvonn

[QUOTE="Yunvonn"]Wow, thank you everyone :) I'll make sure to add some of this stuff with my Fall Out Boy and Micheal Jackson....Oh dear the eyes are back on me again!fat_rob

lol I was just playing around, but I see that alot of Hip Hop and Rap people do just that.

I don't mind rap i just think that around 80% of it is terrible, the old stuff is great though. Well for starters here a sample of American Hip Hop Artists:

Big L - (Lifestyles Ov Da Poor and Dangerous - awesome album)

Big Daddy Kane

Eminem

Run DMC

Forthright MC

Wu Tang

Necro - (An awesome rapper but all his songs are about death, if you can stand it then great)

Tupac

If you get into it you should find some great rappers but try and avoid the ra-... uhh hip hop that is famous nowadays, like 50 cent and Timbaland for example.

Jay-Zis the best rapper alive IMO, you have to check him out.

Blueprint + Reasonable Doubt = Rap perfection.