RAP

I'm going to see it as a personal challenge to follow your suggestions Matt and see if you can make me a believer!

ldsd,

Check out this video:



Pay careful attention to the lyrics, this is what talented MC's can do. I'd also suggest reading about the artist, because the song is a dedication to his father, as well as his siblings.

MC Frontalot, LSDS. If you like "nerdy" shit over "I am so gangstaaaaa" shit, then maybe that would convert you.





If you read the lyrics (especially yellow lasers) you'll see how intelligent the guy is. I mean, guy's got degrees in music theory and electronic music, so it's not like he's some gutter snipe who got lucky and can parrot what a producer tells him to say like some cRappers.

But, here's my all time favorite rap song:

~GET ON MY LEVEL~

I am going to rip all these onto my ipod and set aside an hour to listen to them.

I DO like big butts and I cannot lie about that.

I'm afraid my picks are all totally old, I was going to link this as "new" and realized it's over a decade old... still one of my favorites though.



I remember when Illmatic dropped and my little mind was blown. I used to tape tracks off Hot97 and play them on my little ghetto blaster and this one got worn out:



And finally what I think is my favorite jam of all time:



It was a good era to come up in.

tscook wrote:

Good god son, you tryin' to start a war up in here?

My actual favourite all time rap slice isn't on any of the album I suggested, so here it is:



Also, this, since some of you seem to like beat poetry, which also meets the definition of hard:



And for those of you with Spotify access, I collected most of the suggestions I could find into a playlist.

open.spotify.com/user/mattdp/playlist/4RfQTQSDBWrseeM1M5g2ee

'93 til infinity (one of my all time fave hiphop tracks) got me thinking of Casual. In my opinion he had the tightest rhymes of anyone in the Heiro crew.



Speaking of tight rhymes, you can't sleep on Organized Konfusion. Their second LP is another one in my hiphop hall of fame and one of my favorite album covers of all time as well.



And of course, the classic Pete Rock and CL Jam 'TROY'