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Chuck has the greatest voice IMO but I think if you took that away there'd be a lot less elft than some of these other guys have. But, since he could make ordering wallpaper sound like a call to rebellion, he wins the overall.
But, since he could make ordering wallpaper sound like a call to rebellion, he wins the overall.
Well, you can get some rather confrontational feature walls. 🙂
Chuck D
Tuna fish
Akala
Skinnyman
Scroobius Pip
MCA
Q-tip
Roots Manuva
Guru
Mc Escher
Mos/Talib
Klashnekoff
Fliptrix
Task Force
Phi Life Cypher
Capone n Noreaga
Probably not my top ten, but I listen to those the most.
Good question; 10 is quite hard! Not in order, some of my most-listened would include:
Rakim
El-P
MF Doom
Ghostface
Nas
Guru
Q-tip
Roots Manuva
Kool Keith
Pharaoh Monch
[i]Shame it all died.[/i]
What died? All the old stuff that people can't move away from? It hasn't died, its changed, stayed interesting rather than stagnating and looking to the past all the ****ing time.
No it's died. There are a couple of half decent artists around, nobody with a straight face can say that Wicky flocky or drake or lemur are any good, because they aren't. They are a blight on the history of hip hop and the quicker they disappear and the real artists stand up, the more credibility it will have in music. It's nothing but a joke at present.
It ain't dead, it's just that the good artists don't get the airtime as it's not the saccharine easy to digest shit that the uninformed seem so eager to consume.
Its not that the consumer is stupid. Just lazy.
Its rap idol (or rap factor). No talent ass clowns fronting the 'me too' sounds of today.
But, no it ain't dead. There's loads of creative, skillfull and barrier pushing artists out there. You don't even have too look hard to find them.
Chester P
Kay lash yer arseclart neck off
Killer Mike
Bollocks wrecker, utter balls. Its you who can't be arsed to look for the decent new stuff.
Even Drake has got some fantastic tracks in his catalogue, but there's a hell of a lot more out there, some of it is mind blowing. Don't blame the music for your loss of interest in it.
RZA
Biz Markie
Thes One
Slick Rick
Guru
No genre "dies". Just because the radio or tv isn't pushing something doesn't mean it's gone. Look at all the (mostly crap) "heavy" metal that was being used in loads of films after The Matrix. It got lots of airtime, cos it sold. Then a decade later metal comes back from the dead. No it didn't, it was always there, it was just marketable again, and worse for it.
I like hip hop and I love death metal and personally I'm happier when they're not popular so trendy w-----s who are now "metallers" for a month because Linkin Park is in the charts don't think I'm into what they are. I'm just a bloke who loves moshing.
Anyone saying hip hop is dead has never checked any of the amazing stuff coming out of Buffalo right now.
Griselda records X Fashion Rebels is THE label for hardcore, easy coast Reagen era hip hop. As good as anything Ghostface has ever done.
WestSideGunn
Conway the Machine
Mach Homie
Check out all of the following and thank me later
Flygod
Hitler wore Hermes 1, 2, 3
Hall and Nash
Devils reject 1 + 2
Griselda Ghost
Don't be Scared
50 round drum
There is God and Flygod, Praise both.
They killed Pookie
It's all on YouTube and is the best, rawest hip hop in years. Producers recently seem to have forgotten about drums, Daringer has single handedly bought drums back.
Even Drake has got some fantastic tracks in his catalogue
And you pull [i]me[/i] up for talking bollocks? 😐
Yep!
Makes two of us then doesn't it?
Ooh, i tell ya what son, music ain't as good as it used to be. Love clichés me.
Saul Williams
Chuck D
Mos Def
Mistah Bohze
Q-Tip
Loki (Glasgow)
Mog
Del(tron3030)
The thing about clichés is, sometimes they are accurate. I will give the stuff jmatlock has recommended a crack but I won't be listening to drake at any point in the future.
I'll throw in a couple more from a UK angle:
Skorzayzee
Life MC
and......
.....MC Pitman? 😉
I don't really know the names of the vocalists, but I like Dead Prez, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique (I think that's a person). Oh, and Dirty North, from Manchester, if they're still going.
Monie Love
Kool Keith
Queen Latifah
Q-Tip
Chuck D
KRS-One
Roxanne Shante
Bambaata
Groups:-
UTFO
Ultramagnetic MCs
BDP
Ugly Duckling
De La Soul
Run DMC
EPMD
I've been watching The Get Down on Netflix recently. Think I'll have to get my old vinyl out.