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did anyone listen to much of the UK stuff
This stuck in my mind for some reason. Maybe it's the first time I heard someone rhyme 'tree climber' with 'vagina'
There's loads of good British stuff now. Just start with High Focus records.
Mark B & Blade
did anyone listen to much of the UK stuff. I’m thinking Demon Boyz, London Posse etc also a guy in the north called pitman had some good stuff, can’t find it anywhere though
Not taken to UK hip hop. I love Roots Manuva and we can claim Slick Rick and MF Doom. Two of the best. And Monie Love!
I like Loyle Carner's relaxed delivery. can't stand Grime though, there's no funk
I think best contribution UK has made to hip hop is trip hop and the Bristol sound. That's what the best US producers sat up and took notice of
This far and no J5? I am disappoint.
Dark nostalgia
I was in Childers, Queensland about a week before the hostel fire in 2000
The pub across from the hostel was a rural Aussie pub and it's jukebox was full of classic rock, Midnight Oil, men at work etc. But randomly they had this song on which I always put on when I went to the pub, played it constantly. Mid nineties public enemy:
This far and no J5? I am disappoint.
Yes, I think someone's posted concrete schoolyard above
Just one video from a channel on Youtube that features a lot of 90's hip hop mixes. Branches out into French, Italian and Japanese Hip Hop too. Well worth a listen
On 90s UK - there was some great stuff - I think it might be labelled 'Britcore' but I don't like that title, at the time it was just UK hip hop. Gunshot, Silver Bullet, Hijack, Hardnoise, Son of Noise, Caveman, the Kold Sweat stuff eg Pointblank, Prime Rhyme Masters. Spilling over to slammin dub beats and samples style stuff from Depthcharge, WBI Red Ninja etc the UK had some great contributions to the era.
Hard to choose, but I think this might be my fave track from that era - I still listen to it all the time now.
More UK rap:
It was a bit sparse back then, but there was some good stuff.
Not taken to UK hip hop. I love Roots Manuva and we can claim Slick Rick and MF Doom. Two of the best. And Monie Love!
Not a MC but dj yoda is a magnificent contributor to hip hop. Plus Cornwall's and to Jay Z (Si spex) is a brilliant beats producer.
Agree on the grime front. Crap beats.
UK - I just think back to Derek B <shudders>. I remember buying his album on cassette when it came out
This tune was a big deal at my high school when it came out. A big big deal. The Manc Vanilla Ice no less:
Also in the 90s I think a lot of good MC were rapping over jungle and drum and base. Different style but a bigger scene, HUGE crowds, loads of gigs, less of a sausage party as well.
Love this thread too! So many great tracks!
@fingerbang I watched an interview with B-Real recently. Apparently his original rapping voice was too low for the tracks they'd been producing. Muggs suggested he tried going a little higher to stand out from the bass.
The Herbaliser - 8 Point Agenda (Version 2) feat. Latyrx - 1999
Oh i forgot how good this is(has to be this version)....killer flow from start to end.
Also in the 90s I think a lot of good MC were rapping over jungle and drum and base. Different style but a bigger scene, HUGE crowds, loads of gigs, less of a sausage party as well.
This has just taken me down a DJ Hype with MC GQ & MC MC youtube rabbit hole!
Just bought 2 NWA albums on vinyl and am picking up a Beastie Boys one next week.
Early Hip Hop has no rivals today imo. Tribe called quest are superb.
Cyprus Hill gives me flashbacks to a particularly nasty whitey !
Needs more Big Daddy Kane
Not quite nineties (2001) but this was a big UK rap banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGFFceZstZA
This thread has and will make my working days better, cheers guys
From Soundbombing Vol 1 in 1997
Big L RIP
This still hits hard but kinda blew my mind aged 13 in 1993.
Probably not everyones cup of tea but I used love this
And this
Big L was amazing. Scarily good. His old mate shot him dead in Harlem. On his front door. He died crying. ****in awful
Anyway,
My favourite Gangstarr tune, mainly cos of the Inspectah Deck guest spot
Gadz, "It was a good day", not heard that in years.
What a fantastic thread!
Speaking of Gangstarr
And Masta Ace
Ed OG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qg979C8PFY
And some Black Moon, so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eVgV4PzX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JYHV4CtysQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dceorz43MwY
Just because ODB
Fu-Gee-La
Credit To The Nation - remember discovering them when they supported the Levellers back in the early 90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVtf9tg9fxQ
grum, might have sold you a couple of tunes back in the day on Oldham Street, though you were probably more clued up on hip hop than me behind the counter, (I ordered the drum n bass / jungle) . Many of the above records passed through my hands and ears and a few of them ended up on my shelves.
To Brick's poimt, for every hip hop MC there were ten jungle MC's beck then and what hip hop MC's there were got more opportunities to perform on the drum n bass, jungle nights. Grime was inevitable.
Agree about the lack of funk in a lot of grime, probably because it grew up alongside dup-step, (which was UK garage with the swing taken out of it). Still like alot of grime artists though but more the stuff that leans towards dancehall, afrobeat or reworking old skool garage beats, putting some swing back into the groove.
Some great stuff posted,such a contrast to the clones we are presented with now.
@inkster I did buy some jungle/dnb in the late 90s but I went to uni in Leeds around then. I used to mostly frequent Fat City, plus Eastern Bloc, Vinyl Exchange and a couple of others I can't remember now.
It was a pretty exciting time for me and the most I've ever been into music really.
I was at university of Leeds between 96-99. I just listened exclusively to Wu tang as I was completely obsessed, which was a bit daft as there was so much great music elsewhere. That and Black Crowes for some reason
Also perhaps a reaction to Britpop as well
Obsessed with Wu tang and then they released 'triumph' and I thought it was the biggest pile of shit, although I appreciate the rhymes on it are now seen as classicm just a crap beat IMO
@DirtyLyle - Here is the tracklist:
Dead Prez - Propaganda
Nas - Project Windows
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Lost Boys - Renee
PRT Ft KRS One - Conscious Style
GZA - Killah Hills 10304
Blahzay Blahzay - Sendin' Dem Back
The Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed
Group Home - Livin' Proof
Raekwon - Knowledge God
Cypress Hill Feat MC Eiht - Prelude to a Come Up
The Roots - Step Into The Relm
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Greg Osby - Mr Gutterman
Similar era but different sound on this mix, some old UK HipHop including Blade, Hijack, Ruthless Rap Assassins, Hardnoise, London Posse etc.
https://www.mixcloud.com/es_kay/hiphop-rewind-vol-3/
You can't do 90s hip hop without a bit of the Dream Warriors...
@eskay - legend thanks. Couldn’t remember the name Blahzay Blahzay. Love it, will give the other mix a listen too.
This is the Blahzay Blahzay track I remember.
This still bangs:
As does this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsPoM2MalY
Ooh and a bit of Outkast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmqauitBkM
Where it started for me in the early 80’s
Edit. 1986 apparently
Great tune colp ^^^^
Doug E Fresh is on this great tune from the 90s:
Plus here's a bit of Beatnuts:
I was inspired to make a playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2P7NokLtgvMx3RMfZOFjiB?si=nXdILb0WTeerI2zK_TusPA
I'm no real hip-hop officinado, but The Beastie Boys were killing it during the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XflfiylNNXY
And yeah, Sabotage isn't really hip-hop I guess (more Sonic Youth), but it's always worth playing.
Saw KRS ONE in Bristol a couple of years ago, he absolutely smashed it. Incredible how good he was live, I have loved him since 'By All Means Necessary' in the early'90s.
Appreciative head nodding all through the thread & great to see Ego Trippin listed - one of my favourite De la Soul tracks (from a massively underrated album)
Some more beauties
En Francais
et encore
Terminator X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyoIAb79_ug
& some of UKs finest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2io-aiK4mM
slightly later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEhUhjDsa0
& later again but think he was mentioned earlier & its a comedy banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkC45z4UXVc
& 2 'cross over' crackers from the same film soundtrack - Judgement Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2fPIo_lTUQ&list=RDmOmdg3epcic&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmdg3epcic&list=RDmOmdg3epcic&start_radio=1&t=103
Awesome thread, fingerbang. So many great memories, thanks to all for the links.
The other version of that Masta Ace tune.
I didn't realise that there was a video for this song! Such a banger
Somebody thought it would look good to film a hip hop video in Atlantic City and have girls in bikinis playing in the surf in the background. The water looks rather manky and it may have been overcast. Ooh la la Indeed...
https://youtu.be/TgelVkHEKdw
My favourite Wu Tang solo offering and possibly the best album intro ever?
https://youtu.be/wA49DaVmJWQ
For UK 90's hip hop: Gutter Snipes only released one EP in 94 but it was a good one. Prime Cuts on the decks
https://youtu.be/lrMjKn1Ro8U
Craig Mack... Busta steals the show on this one
https://youtu.be/fB8F_TR89n0
Talking of Busta Rhymes
https://youtu.be/WAfA0lUmR-o
And the nomination for best use of bagpipes on a hip hop tune is
https://youtu.be/3J1QE80tfEw
Here's a link to my current Hip Hop playlist, hope you like it!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4IitlEsUQKko3wOVAuckEV