Springfield Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 59 minutes ago, Mr. Sinister said: Never really got into MF Doom all that much. I'll give it a listen Same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 (edited) Just a few of my favorite Doom tracks. This one hit me hard. He really was quite an MC and producer. The same way that Biggie, Tupac, Eminem, etc. garner respect from even the most hardcore "underground elitist" crowd, MF Doom got his props from each and every person in the hip hop community. He started rapping in the late 80s with KMD. Contributed so much to hip hop culture. His style was unmatched. Even if he wasn't your cup of tea, any respectable hip hop critic/historian/writer would have him as one of the top 50 MCs ever. Also, here is a great article giving tribute to his legacy. Provides lots of valuable information about his life, music, and reason behind his mask. Contains a video of him performing "Gas Face" on the Arsenio Hall Show with 3rd Bass in 1990 (then going by Zev Love X). Possibly the only time the public got a view of his entire face. https://www.theringer.com/2021/1/1/22209728/mf-doom-daniel-dumile-obituary Edited January 3, 2021 by abdcskins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander -JB- Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Benny The Butcher - Burden Of Proof my album of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 New album from Hus Kingpin, inspired by Portishead. Not all tracks sample Portishead but many do. Very dark and moody album. I love it. Hus is an underground fixture, hails from Long Island. Check it out. Pharoahe Monch also dropped a new album, haven't heard it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander -JB- Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Fire. Daringer’s beats are always hard 🤧 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 https://pitchfork.com/news/double-k-of-people-under-the-stairs-dead-at-43/ RIP Double K, rapper and producer from the legendary underground duo People Under the Stairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 I’ve been listening to a lot of Eminem lately. I think that Slim Shady LP was his best. I know that people like to say it’s Marshal Mathers LP but I disagree. I feel like the rawness on SS LP is the best. He had no success at that point. His newer stuff lacks the rawness and lots of times just shows off his technical skills and his ability to rhyme with speed. I can appreciate it on a song like Rap God, but does it really need to be every song? We all know that he’s in another level, but I’d appreciate a slower rapper with a more raw flow and something that sounds... better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I think we need a general cancel culture thread. I mean, gosh, don’t come for Shady. He’ll win. He always wins. He’s too clever and self aware for social media morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/benny-the-butcher-harry-fraud-the-plugs-i-met-2/ I don't listen to much new rap. I'm strictly sticking to what I listened to in high school (Dre, Snoop, Biggie, DMX, early NAS, etc). But any album that has a cover like that, I'll give it a crack. And I really like this album so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/benny-the-butcher-harry-fraud-the-plugs-i-met-2/ I don't listen to much new rap. I'm strictly sticking to what I listened to in high school (Dre, Snoop, Biggie, DMX, early NAS, etc). But any album that has a cover like that, I'll give it a crack. And I really like this album so far. Benny makes drug rap, that is the main theme of his lyrics. Hence the album cover. DJ Muggs, from Cypress Hill, just dropped an album with one of my favorite MCs, Rome Streetz entitled Death & The Magician. It is really dope. Also a cool cover. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max21 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Benny the Butcher anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/dmx-hospitalized-life-support-heart-attack/index.html DMX suffered a heart attack and is on life support. Hope he pulls through. I was never a big fan but he was definitely a late 90s prominent figure. That first album was good, I just sort of lost track of him after that. He was a rugged dude. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 New DMX album out. Give it a 3.5-4 out of 5. That song “Hold Me Down” with Alicia Keys really hit man. It’s amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 New Mach Hommy. It's dope. He's nice as hell on the mic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 4/4/2021 at 12:50 AM, abdcskins said: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/dmx-hospitalized-life-support-heart-attack/index.html DMX suffered a heart attack and is on life support. Hope he pulls through. I was never a big fan but he was definitely a late 90s prominent figure. That first album was good, I just sort of lost track of him after that. He was a rugged dude. This post hurts knowing now that he didn't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 Yep. D was a dude who lived the life. The life got him in the end. It always does man. I was a HUGE DMX fan back in the early 2000's. I kinda fell off after album 5. First 3 albums were legendary, 4 and 5 had some bangers but lots of filler. He transcended hip hop. Man was a movie star. I think people forget just how big DMX was. When Get At Me Dog came out, it signaled a huge difference from what had been popular. He was just so unique. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Anyone have a chance to listen to the new Lloyd Banks album yet? It’s actually pretty damn good. Gives me some old school boom bap type vibes. Wasn’t the biggest Banks fan but this new album is in another level. The mastering for the vocals sounds a bit off though… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 ^ Such an amazing MC. Incredible breath control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Not you too Biz! From your rap career to being one of the best defensive ends in the league while you were with the Ravens🤣 you were in your own way one of the best. Biz Markie Was Forever Himself The Clown Prince of Hip-Hop, the Inhuman Orchestra, Biz Markie was one of rap’s most innovative stylists, a character who brightened every room he was in and every song he was on Take Biz Markie out of the photo, and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before: a black-and-white picture in XXL magazine of a handful of rappers and producers smiling or putting on their best serious-rapper-or-producer face. In the bottom left, Pharoahe Monch stares at the camera with fire in his eyes. All the way in the back, De La Soul’s Maseo looks ahead blankly, unbothered by the proceedings. But at the far right, the only person standing is having some fun with his tourmates. He lifts his shirt as his belly spills over his belt and his mile-wide grin threatens to crowd every other person out of the frame. As usual, Biz is goin’ off, and even Common seems to appreciate it. What’s remarkable about the photo is how well it sums up the nearly four-decade career of Biz Markie, who died on Friday at the age of 57 following a hospitalization earlier this month. In a genre often defined by tough-guy posturing and self-styled messiah types, Biz made it clear that it was possible to have fun, be yourself, and still be one of the most respected artists of your generation. It’s not unlike how he got his start as a member of the Juice Crew in the 1980s, pumping out classics alongside a smooth operator like Big Daddy Kane and a verbal assassin like Kool G Rap. To outsiders, he was an off-key one-hit wonder with a broken heart who popped up on kids TV to beatbox, or on Beastie Boys records to emulate Ted Nugent. But to hip-hop devotees, he was one of the art form’s most innovative stylists—the forerunner to Ol’ Dirty **** and every other high-energy dynamo who followed him, the inventor of an iconic dance bearing his name—and one of the most beloved party rockers to ever stand behind a pair of Technics. They called Biz Markie “the Clown Prince of Hip-Hop,” and he was all too happy to wear the crown. Born in Harlem in 1964 as Marcel Theo Hall, Biz was the son of a saxophonist who played alongside John Coltrane and Sonny Stitt. Biz would soon discover, however, that his preferred instrument was his mouth. As a young teen in Brentwood, Long Island, Biz fell in love with hip-hop after hearing tapes of the pioneering “L” Brothers. He soon began writing his own rhymes and beatboxing, the latter of which became his early calling card. By the mid-’80s, the Fat Boys and Doug E. Fresh had both ridden their beatboxing skills to gold and platinum success. But no one could do it quite like Biz, who viewed his mouth as more than a percussive instrument, adding melodies and other flourishes to his act as he came up through New York’s party and battle scenes. Marley Marl, the producer who helped define the sound of hip-hop in the 1980s, recalled in 2013 that he originally had no plans to add a beatboxer to the nascent Juice Crew. But then he met Biz, who camped out at the Queensbridge projects daily hoping for the chance to impress Marley. When they finally connected, Marley was floored by both Biz’s talent and outsized presence—he was a hulking 6-foot-3 with a personality that felt even bigger. Marley put Biz on tour with MC Shan and had him record the backing track for Roxanne Shante’s “Def Fresh Crew” (a song featured in the cult documentary classic Big Fun in the Big Town). Along the way, Biz earned another nickname: “the Inhuman Orchestra.”.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Feel like this thread only gets bumped because of death. Rap becoming the new wrestling with legends not making it to 60. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Probably because most of it just isn’t any good anymore. I know there’s some truth to the whole new music sucking as you age thing, but I think most of today’s rap artists, to use the term loosely, have zero talent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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