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  • Hip Hop you Don't Stop
  • isto
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    Hoping someone can recommend me some good newish hip hop albums. Have renewed my interest after listening to JJ Doom… thanks to DezB and his tune association thread for that.

    Realy liked stuff like Blackalicious, Pharcyde, Jeru the Damaja, Roots Manuva, Latyrx and Dr Octagon back in the day but gave up looking for new stuff as really dislike a lot of the new breed – Lil Wayne, Drake, Kanye, A$AP et al……basically anything sites like Pitchfork recommend.

    Stuff that I don’t like
    – anything with whiney R&B singing
    – anything that has the word Bentley in it
    – anything remotely gangsta

    Any albums from the last few years you think I should listen to?

    doris5000
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    what about Maybachs?

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Ugly Duckling

    fluided
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    Deltron 3030

    Handsome boy modelling school

    fluided
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    Blockhead

    Lifer
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    +1 for Deltron

    MF Doom
    Soul Position

    raisinhat
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    Deltron 3030

    Handsome boy modelling school

    Yes

    None of this is ‘new’ exactly, but try:

    Common – Resurrection
    Jurassic 5 – J 5
    Mos Def – The Ecstatic
    Black Star – Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
    Nas – Illmatic
    Madvillain – Madvillainy

    Jamie
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    Listening to a lot of Virus Syndicate of late…

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkCST9_Aoto[/video]

    ..but then I am a 17 year London Yout trapped in a the body of a 35 year old Fenland Tiger.

    doris5000
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    try Oddisee – Tangible Dream (or People Hear What They See) – Oddisee is great but underrated IMO.

    Little Brother might well be up your street too.

    Not exactly new but if you missed Wale’s Mixtape About Nothing (2008 i think) give it a spin. He went a bit mainstream after that which is a shame, but that tape was awesome.

    wilko1999
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    I’m a lifelong lover of Hip Hop, since the days of Doug E Fresh’s ‘The Show’, Jazzy Jeff Live at Union Square etc. but didn’t like the direction it went in the early 90’s and lost faith a little. Recently been listening to the following and they’ve seriously helped restore my love 🙂

    Not exactly brrrannd new but serious Hip Hop and none of yer commercialized ‘gangsta shillz-nit’….

    J-Live
    J-Zone
    Blueprint
    Cool Calm Pete
    Sandpeople
    Jake One
    Vast Aire
    Cannibal Ox
    Danger Doom
    Doppelgangaz
    Senim Silla
    Talib Kweli
    Company Flow
    Audible Doctor
    Grayskul
    Atmosphere

    howsyourdad1
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    quite alot of old ‘new’ stuff being listed… ! I’m going to add to this and say Quasimoto/madlib , he is fantastic.

    I know Pitchfork like him but i really got into Kendrick Lemar’s good kid maad city. Parts of it are a bit Rnb but it became my fave album of 2013, but it takes time i found

    AlexSimon
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    A lot of the Blackalicious/J5 people did other things after:

    Chali 2na
    Ozomatli
    Dino 5
    Gift of Gab
    Lyrics Born

    Then there’s
    Lateef
    DJ Format
    Lifesavas

    scruff
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    The Pharcyde.

    Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

    4130s0ul
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    +1 for Quasi / madlib / MF Doom

    for some brizzle action and not to be taken seriously how about Aspects

    or some intelligent(ish) UK Hip Hop from Braintax

    some bleep based stuff from Prefuse73 or for sh*ts and giggles try out MC Paul Barman

    aphex_2k
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    Jurassic 5
    The Goats
    Lords of the Underground
    Funkdoobiest
    Warren G
    Snoop
    DMX
    Cypress Hill
    KRS-1
    House of Pain

    Hilltop Hoods (if ya fancy some Aussie hippity hop?)
    Scroobius Pip (ok not hip hop per se, more spoken word on decent beats, but still some awesome stuff)

    Akala (check out Akala Fire in the boothpart 1)…. in fact, im gonna listen to that now, heres the vid:

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOKgjoxoto[/video]

    DezB
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    Clipping (my no.1 album of 2014 – its a bit nuts)
    Shabazz Palaces
    Milo, Nocando & Busdriver (Hellfyre club don’t go wrong)
    Gorgeous Children (mellow as they come)
    Jeremiah Jae (the JJ of JJ Doom)
    Danny Brown
    Subtle/Themselves (anything with Doseone!)
    Greenhouse (first album only, second one was rubbish)
    Run the Jewels.

    I could go on all day!

    jaymoid
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    If you like your hip hop with more poetic/concious/witty/politcal/angry bent, or fancy something a bit leftfield for a change, try Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust is the best of his albums IMHO.

    Conforms to your list of stuff you don’t like.

    ‘When I say “hip”‘ ‘what do I say?’ -‘You say shut the f*ck up and I’ll respect it.’

    Check “Gunz Yo” – a good satire of gangsta hip hop culture:

    howsyourdad1
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    4130 my mate is in the recently reformed Aspects..! Witness the Pitness Pitman too

    CalamityJames
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    Check out this comp:
    http://www.discogs.com/Various-Solesides-Greatest-Bumps/release/49167

    Some great stuff from Lyrics Born, Latyrx and Gift of Gab. If you like it then look into their albums etc.

    DezB
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    Homeboy Sandman too (similar to Milo)

    Lifer
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    For other ‘talky beaty’ stuff that may not be strictly hippity hop:

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4K-PDg4WAQ[/video]

    I remember Pitman! “What you always saying ‘what, what’ for?”

    kayak23
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    Dizraeli

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lx4rcuXuaw[/video]

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQZUiJ4J5I[/video]

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LuYVgVi9ZA[/video]

    yunki
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    I’m a lifelong lover of Hip Hop, since the days of Doug E Fresh’s ‘The Show’, Jazzy Jeff Live at Union Square etc. but didn’t like the direction it went in the early 90’s and lost faith a little

    That’s a pretty accurate description of me 🙂

    We were all about the electro albums, ghettoblasters, spraypaint, lino and the Rocksteady Crew in the mid 80s, but I haven’t really listened to anything much other than the oldschool funk and breaks since ’93..

    A lot of my teenaged crew stayed true to the B-Boy lifestyle though.. Check out Ruztik Records, The Journeymen and Kilo Sinstars FBA

    isto
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    Wow some really good recommendations there, cheers. Handsome Boy Modelling School\Deltron3030, Solesides and People Under The Stairs were ones I probably should have already added as favourites. MF Doom I already appreciated was good but hadn’t realised how good until picking up JJ Doom recently.

    There’s loads there I haven’t listened to so looking forward to checking them out. I can’t YouTube in work but will check out all the links when I get home.

    AlexSimon
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    Calamity James – Solesides is one of the best records ever!
    But once you go – ooh I like that, lets find some more like that – you end up very disappointed indeed 🙁

    scruff
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    Mantronix aswell.

    zzjabzz
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    Dirty North – contemporary, talented.
    Or classics like Dead Prez, Jedi Mind Tricks…

    wilko1999
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    “A lot of my teenaged crew stayed true to the B-Boy lifestyle though..”

    Same. We were TUF (the unity force) – country boy white kids trying to live the B-boy lifestyle. Ghettoblasters, breakin, spraying graff in disused factories with car paints nicked from the local car parts shop etc. bombing walls in town. Some of the guys are still living like that (and I take my Kangol off to them) – I’m a 40-something typical Dad now 😀

    2bit
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    +1 for homeboy sandman
    Also check out ‘my crews all thinner’ by 2 Hungry Bros. My most listened to hip hop album of the last while

    Too Many Ts (Londons answer to the Beasties?) Are a fun jump up hip hop boom blap outfit with their tongue firmly in cheek

    juanking
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTVxqXbjbCM[/video]

    Abdominal for me, he’s done a lot with Format and the Pedal Pusher tune is kind of fitting!

    isto
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    But once you go – ooh I like that, lets find some more like that – you end up very disappointed indeed

    Know what you mean. I remember hearing this and thinking there must be loads of hip hop that is this good that isn’t about BitchesGunsAndDollaDollaBills y’all. I have found some (albeit maybe not quite as good as this) but it seems pretty difficult to find.

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyk7io4DGZ4[/video]

    Don’t get me wrong. Straight Outta Compton was awesome, so was 36 Chambers but they made a lot of the stuff in between and after seem…well..a bit bollocks.

    aa
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    I’ll chuck my (Kangol) hat in.

    Nehruvian Doom
    People under the stairs.
    Oddisse – that’s really good call
    Willie Evans Junior
    Crown City Rockers

    Old stuff I still love:-

    Kool Keith
    t la rock
    Sadat x
    Brand nubian
    Public enemy
    Anything from cold chillin
    Kool G rap
    MC Shan
    Roxanne Shante

    Philly connection

    Schoolly D
    Steady B
    Tuff City Crew
    3 times dope
    Mc breeze.

    This type of thread makes me think back to my beautiful youth, rapping with ultramagnetics, Gil Scott heron, roy ayers, mc solaar, k creative, and dozens of uk rappers. Happy times indeed.

    DezB
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    hip hop that is this good that isn’t about BitchesGunsAndDollaDollaBills y’all

    You need to follow my Hellfyre club link 😉 Some fab stuff on there (go for Milo first). Real intelligence in the lyrics as well.
    Clipping are different, the lyrics grate for some people but the production is unbelievable, so original, impossible to find a comparison.

    When I hear something that makes me think wow! I’ve not heard anything like that before, that’s when I get excited about music. Shabazz Palaces are like that too, but more mellow than clipping.

    fongsaiyuk
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    j dilla
    the roots
    slum village
    j electronica

    all worthy of a listen

    fluided
    Free Member

    Has Dilated Peoples been mentioned

    dirtydog
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    Recommended listening from my Aussie Hip Hop collection……..

    Dialectrix – Cold light of Day
    Bliss n Eso – Circus in the Sky
    Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
    Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars
    Mainline – One Day
    Spit Syndicate – Sunday Gentlemen.
    Illy – The Chase.
    Urthboy – Smokeys Haunt.

    ajf
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    ha ha taught my little boy a poo song to the theme of the OP’s title.

    Plip, Plop you don’t stop
    Coz, Im not stopping
    You’re gonna hear the poo drrrroooopp!

    Dying for him to sing it at nursery…..

    Nothing else to add, apart from listening to a bit of DJ Krush at the moment and Kool Keith (Dr Octagon) has released a new album, Demolition Crash this year which is pretty good.

    flange
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    Pharoahe Monche for intelligent lyrics if a little angry in places. PTSD isn’t a great album (his latest) apart from the title track but everything else has been pretty good.

    Another vote for People under the stairs

    Some of the older Mos Def stuff is pretty good

    ANYTHING with Q-tip in it,

    Souls of Mischief

    The Roots

    Del the Funky homosapien

    doris5000
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    Clipping are different, the lyrics grate for some people but the production is unbelievable, so original, impossible to find a comparison.

    great tip. thanks! really fresh sounding.

    emsz
    Free Member

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZuaVxBog8[/video]

    more like lyrical peotry, but it’s home grown 😀

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