Best hip-hop

[Booz Vivic]

Yo. I'm here from Germany a huge fan of hip-hop. I've been trying to go through the Good rap/hip-hop thread but it is way too huge and seems to be sort of a name a rapper thread, not a good rap song (Waka Flocka is in there man)

Can anyone here recommend me some good beginner mixtape stuff or some good oldscool 90's stuff?

[fiddy]

start with the classics
Biggies, Nas, Jay-z etc

[JohnFreeman]

College Dropout

[fiddy]

College Dropout
As much as i dont like Yeezy, thats a great album

[treadster]

just start with essentials

Bizarre ride II
Midnight Marauders
Madvillainy
Aquemini and etc...

[sketchy]

Illmatic - Nas
Ready To Die - Notorious BIG
Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory - 2Pac
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Only Built For Cuban Linx - Raekwon
KRS-One - KRS-One
Resurrection - Common
Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous - Big L
The Infamous - Mobb Deep
Slim Shady LP - Eminem
Doe Or Die - AZ

That should be enough to get you started. All are essentials, no order, from the 90s. I feel like most would agree with this list.

[JohnFreeman]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast

[East_Stone_Ya]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast

or Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

[LALakerFan4Life]

2Pac - Me Against The World
2Pac - All Eyez on Me
2Pac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death

Nas - Illmatic
Nas - It Was Written
Nas - Stillmatic

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Eric B. & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
Eric B. & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
Rakim - The 18th Letter
Rakim - The Master

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
KRS-One - KRS-One
KRS-One - I Got Next

Scarface - The World Is Yours
Scarface - The Fix

Common - Resurrection

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

[tmacattack33]

Illmatic - Nas
Ready To Die - Notorious BIG
Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory - 2Pac
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Only Built For Cuban Linx - Raekwon
KRS-One - KRS-One
Resurrection - Common
Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous - Big L
The Infamous - Mobb Deep
Slim Shady LP - Eminem
Doe Or Die - AZ

That should be enough to get you started. All are essentials, no order, from the 90s. I feel like most would agree with this list.

This is good. Maybe add in Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

[sketchy]

This is good. Maybe add in Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Good one! Yeah I'd add that one, Black Star and It's Dark And Hell Is Hot by DMX to my list now that LALakerFan mentioned them. I was trying to keep my list concise but there's too much good stuff from the 90s.

[blablabla]

Haftbefehl - Blockplatin
Kurdo - 11ta stock sound

[Shade8780]

As much as i dont like Yeezy, thats a great album
All of his albums but Yeezus are sick.

[christian1923]

Honest album By future

YRN and No label 2 by migos

I promise I will never stop going In by rich homie quan

[kurple]

Yo. I'm here from Germany a huge fan of hip-hop. I've been trying to go through the Good rap/hip-hop thread but it is way too huge and seems to be sort of a name a rapper thread, not a good rap song (Waka Flocka is in there man)

Can anyone here recommend me some good beginner mixtape stuff or some good oldscool 90's stuff?
ever been to splash festival in germany? been there 3 times, seen some great rappers

[GetBuckets]

start with the classics
Biggies, Nas, Jay-z etc

Dont forget to add Tupac and Snoop to that list. Also 50 Cent, Eminem and the Game

[ace23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlN7pagy2A

[becken]

Illmatic - Nas
:coleman: :coleman:

[becken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlN7pagy2A
:bowdown: :bowdown:

[No_Control]

[QUOTE=LALakerFan4Life]2Pac - Me Against The World
2Pac - All Eyez on Me
2Pac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death

Nas - Illmatic
Nas - It Was Written
Nas - Stillmatic

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Eric B. & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
Eric B. & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
Rakim - The 18th Letter
Rakim - The Master

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
KRS-One - KRS-One
KRS-One - I Got Next

Scarface - The World Is Yours
Scarface - The Fix

Common - Resurrection

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

[Al Thorton]

that music is for dinosaurs and back packers. this is where hip hop lives:

ZMONEY - FERRAGAMO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTN_r5tswiQ)

Gucci Mane - Point In My Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YZUH_O_6E)

Danny Brown - Dope Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7gbw2RhO4)

don't be scared of innovative music

[Real14]

2pac and old Nas by far:applause:

[Done_And_Done]

that music is for dinosaurs and back packers. this is where hip hop lives:

ZMONEY - FERRAGAMO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTN_r5tswiQ)

Gucci Mane - Point In My Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YZUH_O_6E)

Danny Brown - Dope Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7gbw2RhO4)

don't be scared of innovative music

Danny Brown is pretty dope. Been feeling him since he dropped Grown Up..

[JohnStarks]

DMX

1996–98: It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
1999–2000: ...And Then There Was X
2003: Grand Champ

The rest are ok, but his first 4 were the best of the bunch

[kurple]

If you're lookin for new shit, check out "freddie gibbs and madlib - cocaine pinata" one of the best newer albums I have heard in a long time.
:cheers:

dope as hell

also the pro era mixtape - the aPROcalypse

[JohnStarks]

Yo. I'm here from Germany a huge fan of hip-hop. I've been trying to go through the Good rap/hip-hop thread but it is way too huge and seems to be sort of a name a rapper thread, not a good rap song (Waka Flocka is in there man)

Can anyone here recommend me some good beginner mixtape stuff or some good oldscool 90's stuff?






My IQ drops every time I listen to Wacka Flocka or Gucci

[Akrazotile]

Start with the classics:


MC Hammer - Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em
Vanilla Ice - To the Extreme
Insane Clown Posse - Carnival of Carnage
Any Puff Daddy album

[Lamar Doom]

I made you a mix tape. This means you're my girl.

http://s30.postimg.org/78lf53z6p/mixtape.jpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M-G5Zl4X7Y)



OC - My World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7dHzjxH2VI)
Gangstarr - Work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D7BA84oneg)
Jeru the Damaja - Me Or The Papes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPqgjz6WBPw)
De La Soul - The Business (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgaRjBXi1NY)
Hieroglyphics - the Helm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmgkrdjjJg)
Notorious BIG - The What (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Z_B7UQ5bU)
Group Home - Livin Proof (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI264qcI2lo)
Outkast - Wailin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hat11nEGpIQ)
Camp Lo - Coolie High (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJM2PyTQ9kk)
People Under the Stairs - San Francisco Knights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjZN_adJKv8)
EPMD - I'm Housin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP4kfLLhtic)
Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_FkoLZ3hY)
Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRpcIt0h8qY)
A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhyme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQT2DfzpCLA)
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Pound Gangstaz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n0qNVE4Qw4)
Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ZykEJuFrI)
Big Pun - Twinz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-XJiiQft_Y)
MOP - Ante Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUGAxpI0Bc)
Goodie Mobb - Cell Therapy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dzwWOSwNY8)
Tupac - Can't C Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X14zxcOOyI)
Wu Tang Clan - Shame on a ****** (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjpdvcEdhc)
Mos Def - Sunshine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMOy9SsUQ7U)
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNsi-xwBXI)
Saukrates - Money or Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgCsYmZgWI)
Mr. Lif - Triangular Warfare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBpscvI8MiA)
The Anonymous - Dr. EZ's Cool Fantastic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mk6-FzNjE)
South Central Cartel - It Don't Stop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coTZ5NxJjQE)
latyrx - bad news (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKs4Gv56z3Q)
ultramagnetc MCs - Poppa Large (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0dgUzqwgo)
Crucial Conflict - Hay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSqMgvQ9F-0)
slum village - raise it up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPrmJr0Jj3k)
The Roots - Proceed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lRd7FzoLU)
heltah skeltah - leflaur leflah eshkoshka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiTqHufeQo0)
Black Sheep - Pass the 40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Xpp3ey3sA)
The Fugees - Mona Lisa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Ep4oEzdAw)
UGK - Front and Back and Side to Side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-hXxc5yN0)
ghostface - one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlOImCXqW0)
The Dove Shack - This is the Shack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhb8CPXRVCg#t=1m03s)
nas - the message (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws3Ks0FGxYM)
The Pharcyde - Oh Shit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDrlVkLrvY)
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxvsHpTZWk)
Blackstar - definition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYfXmW-s3UY)
Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VYzNUXGDA)
Cypress Hill - Hits From the Bong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpbA8l9nr4)
Rappin 4 Tay - Players Club (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2daXghqHgjQ)
Outkast - Chonkyfire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaYa1bSCg_A)
Wu Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (the Jump Off) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVxeW6QO0s)
Casual - It's Like That (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICMdoZ3eXio)
Talib Kweli - Get By (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WEqr1zDq5s)
Lootpack - Weededed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxeSY9u8aA&feature=kp)
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMy2wgwVh0)
Warren G - This DJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHKXdgy_Qc)
Too Short - Get In Where You Fit In (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VhMxs836Y)
Defari - Likwit Connection (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_rOjn2L9I)
dilated peoples - the platform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVVGCK1Pl4)
ras kass - oral sex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkh6eOhAerw)
busta rhymes - woo hah (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVpSSkwPU4)
lord tariq and peter gunz - uptown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8iwb3RxLno)
beatnuts - off the books (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYV7FkoUNPY)
craig mack - flava in ya year (remix) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8pG1mG7BeI)
bahamadia - wordplay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9flGbb_wqs0)
digable planets - where I'm from (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-pjb7y3y0)
the high and mighty - b-boy document 99 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHztg0TfcQ)
masta ace - born to roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV6U0Mud3pU)
Mos Def - Mathematics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA)
De La Soul - Ego Trippin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngvYxMHhKBw)
Goodie Mob - Black Ice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8k)
Artifacts - Ultimate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LD6_Hb4yhw)
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - TROY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONgL61snlM)
Black Moon - I Got Cha Open (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3H2N5nUqsk)
Jean Grae - Keep Livin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEpzl_cqufk)
Geto Boys - Gangsta Put Me Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygTuwt0blhQ)
Big L - Ebonics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WmYjNreVj4)
The Roots - Adrenaline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_3ylqka3Q)
OC - Times Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCJ6f5VnVVo)
Jungle Brothers - Brain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmG3wVkdm7w)
Gangstarr - Above the Clouds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucvta7xDo_4)
3rd Bass - Pop Goes the Weasel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY)
Beastie Boys - Get it Together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHLGd42UBY)
Company Flow - 8 Steps to Perfection (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG5TN8t6AQ4)
Non-Phixion - If You Got Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvX0ZiZf0tg)
AZ - Come Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXzJkhtlKHE)
Dr. Dre - Lil Ghetto Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4V5dFbO-c)
Main Source - Looking At The Front Door (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgC-Rv4AgKc)
Brand Nubian - All For One (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uisHTDkB7iA)
Mountain Brothers - Fluids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELB2shswvdk)
Chubb Rock - Mr. Large (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVEWGKf2BZI)
Grand Puba - I like It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6seJf87KL6o)
Gravediggaz - 1-800-Suicide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXeg-Swq9w)
Blahzay Blahzay - Danger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_wbXCwO6AM)
Da Bush Babees - Love Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4W7wfFSWCo)


edit - thought of a couple more to point you in the right direction

[Lamar Doom]

Bonus Cuts!!!


Cool Breeze - Watch For The Hook (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poGBJr7h1sc)
Nine - Whatcha Want (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5u3L9546KU)
Lost Boyz - Love, Peace, and Nappiness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3gbeRyOPqc)
Common Sense - Invocation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwX7lDIVGGw)
Organized Konfusion - Bring It On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DM2i1Hv70)
Keith Murray - The Most Beautifullest Thing In The World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1FZVFDbNk)
GZA - Breaker Breaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCJagpWbFIg)
GZA - Amplified Sample (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSauv6ePhQ&feature=kp)
Boogie Down Productions - We In There (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxwlg4cgaY)
Snoop Dogg - For All My ****** and Bitches (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHM513DKuxc)
ED OG and the Bulldogs - I Got To Have It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qg979C8PFY)

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