Mr A

MF Doom I quite like but I don't find it too exciting really.

I like the Marco Polo track I posted before with Masta Ace, and some of the other tunes on the album are good too, but it's very derivative of Premier production.

Really liking Prefuse 73 at the mo, although it's pretty weird and mostly instrumental.

Cool videos too – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTEd3OmIK0

The Roots can even play instruments too 😉

Yeah Prefuse 73 is a little…..challenging…but worthi t!

Ach, the good thing about liking old hip hop is it's a bottomless pit! If you listen to CDs like "Hear No Evil" by DJ Ivory there seems to have been loads of good stuff that slipped through the cracks.

Pete Rock fans should check out the INI album if you haven't already. Only got a proper release a couple of years ago and it's almost as good as his classic stuff.

House of pain – Jump Around was good for its time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo

Young MC – Know how, How many tracks has the riff in this been used in..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uvMPP0DGls&feature=related LISTEN TO THIS.

some good tunes up here! Pharcyde – Passing me By was one I wanted to post but got beaten to it, one of my favourite beats of all time!

Nas – Halftime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTOg_RGOEBg

Gravediggaz – Constant Elevation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRtZukM0LLU grimey beats!

Mobb Deep – Shook Ones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0wsET8__Y

bit newer but still good, A-Skills & Krafty Kuts – Tricka Technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HikdySt8FUo

RUN DMC – It's Tricky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2b8XWJnfE

Bit older than 90's

GRANDMASTER FLASH – The message. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY

THE SUGAR HILL GANG – Rappers Delight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-302Jp0bVQ&feature=related

Curtis Blow – The Breaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFGDNGkev7M

That whole Nas album is fantastic

Ol Dirty – Brooklyn Zoo
Hippa to Da Hoppa

And if we are gonna start having non-90s hip-hop then how about this Sugar Hill – Jump On It (Apache)

ODB is the very definition of patchy, but "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" is awesome! Couldn't get into Nas, all that "I shot my way out my mom" nonsense. I don't mind music with no socially redeeming value whatsoever but it has to be a bit more upbeat than that.

Love The Beatnuts' first album, the production is amazing and the thugged-out lyrics make me laugh a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9803HKrb0

Good stuff!

A link on page 1 reminded me of this…
"Follow the Leader" Eric B and George Clinton

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There's a funny/tragic video of ODB getting interviewed here obviously cracked up (or something) out of his mind – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX3ZPcA4tjQ&feature=related

Loved that Beatnuts album – some of their later stuff was good too like Off the Books.

my fav album of all time

I want to like Blade but he sounds like a complete humourless divvy. 🙂

If we're talking UK hip hop, the zenith of the genre is surely MC Pitman. 😆 (NSFW)

Blade is actually a top bloke. Here we are larking 'bout after a gig. I'm the one at the back behind DJ Grazzhoppa.

if anyone's interested I have a 40 minute Wu Tang freestyle session from 1994 when they came to London for Radio 1. It's basically the whole recording session **** ups and arguments included, loadsa pissing about and Method Man getting wound up by the rest of em!

Some good beats and verses in their amongst the rest! if there's any demand I'l upload it to yousendit or similar.

Where to start????

How about
Kane, best rapper ever…
and then
This reminds me of an under 18 hip hop thing in Newcastle
what about:
EPMD anyone???
and:
Londons finest