old artist/ new artist, don't matter

Bilal?

Of course the entire native tounge crew (I know, obvious), but on the real: Rass Kass, and Monch.

he would have held it down here. Also Curtis Mayfield

i could see that

hahahah j/k

Ashantichrist.

I think they fit perfectly. That callabo with Common was a great track.

"you know i rep LA city"-Amad Jamal

"some war with god and some with the beast, some war for war but we war for peace"- Rakaa Iriscience

hell yeah!!

my balls, they really know how to bounce

- not hoping it would happen...like her as is.

whatever happened to Grenique & Adriana Evans?

bilal
jill
amel
musiq
de la
mos def
essvee
outkast

when i went to mosdefinitely.com and dropped a seed about him being an OKP...not that he was going to become one, but a what if type thing. Maaaaaaaannnnn, them negroes went up in arms on some 'he doesn't need to be an okp to be considered good/conscious/legit rapper/lyricist.'

ummm, okay, I wasn't suggesting that...it was a lost cause, but yeah, he's on the list too

and that's why i ahven't written his name down on my list...i knew there would be some "controversy".....but yeah, he belongs in the list also.

post more than once a year.

werd!

outkast, even though their mainstream, theyre dope as all hell. im still waitin for them and the roots to do somethin. they have a mixed following just like the roots, and most okp artists, most of whom i know dont get half of the shit they say...its sad its really sad. mos def would be a nice addition. that marvin gaye idea was dope.

First of all are Q-Tip and Raphael Saddiq OKPs if not they should be. Also J-Live would be a great addition along with mostly all of the artists mentioned earlier.

Amel Larrieux, Bilal, Ms. Badu, Jill Scott, Raphael Saadiq,...there were so much more i my head, but i can't remember them now...damn it! i will though, just watch...;)

As well as Monch, maybe Dead Prez.....I don't know????

angie stone...heeelll no...
id chose nelly furtado over angie stone...
i cant even see dead prez as an okayplayer...maybe raphael saadiq tho...

Ded Prez, Mos, Talib, Lauren Hill, Bob Marley, De la, Maxwell, Outkast
most are alrady like OKP cousins and shit

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Favorite lyricist: Black
Thought
Favorite Hip-Hop group: The
Roots

...and I'm still waiting for
"The Lesson Pt. 2"
P.S.- I'm representin Philly
but was raised out in
BROOKLYN!

talib is an okp.

I could see her in the family

- that would work.

mos definitely

How about Res, Eric Benet, Pharoahe Monch, Gza, Inspectah Deck, and Jeru?

JERU NO DOUBT! that would be exellent.

and Femi Kuti

I think Portishead, or Rage against the Machine!

i want zack present and portishead to wake up though

add bjork(i dont know)
and some reggae artists

cool.. we got some good taste!!!
we rock!! the alterokayplayers!!
Bjork!!! good choice!!!

portishead... imagine a portishead/roots tour
peace

What happened to Zack's cd that was supposed to come out???

These women would definitely bring something to the okp fam.


'A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.'-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Art of Portraying the Chickenhead Image. Do we really want THAT in the OKPlayer cypher?

>>These women would definitely bring something to the okp fam.
>

I would have to say J-Dilla (Jay-Dee). Hell... he produced half of the okayplayer artists already. J-Dilla or Monch.

"Black Star" - Don't they need a better home?

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." EINSTEIN

All my live Cincinnati Bearcats.. Holla Back! -Talib

This announcement
will keep the Ghetto bouncin'
Where people find pleasure in measurments and ounces
Midwest - BIG stress and small houses.
Down South - Slangin' that twang that it's pronounced with.
East - on that Foul Shit.
West - they just clownin.
BlackStar got that shit they all get down with.

MOS DEF from Bright as Stars (New Black Star Jaunt - BlackStar Gallactica)

j5, remy, mr. lif (pretty much all of def jux...r2j2?), gorillaz, moby, bahamadia, darius rucker, james taylor :), planet asia, les nubians, nikka costa, nelly furtado, saul williams, jackie chan :), diverse, black eyed peas, and angie stone...a-thank-you!

Jimi on any of these lists? I saw some good ideas(Marvin was the best, by far), but no Hendrix?

Jimi
Bob
Marvin
Mos
Jilly from Philly
and J5
are my picks

i dont see how he isnt an okayplayer already...

freestyle fellowship
ugly duckling
les nubian
mystic
heiro

bob james
stevie
minnie ripperton
roy ayers

not because it's logical, or would work on such a sight. but he is by far better than any artist on these posts and i will take anyone on who wants to challenge that.

although he's passed, if i made okayplayer, as much as he wouldn't fit, i'd put him on

jeff is the answer to most of the questions i ask myself.

cosign on freestyle fellowship.... you can put p.e.a.c.e by himself in there too

Say WORD! Damn, they definitely have the right style. Will-I-Am has come on here before to shout out us for the support and has said how he would want to be on Okayplayer. Maybe with their new CD (when it's done) hopefully.

ELEPHUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they def. fit in very well...

>old artist/ new artist, don't matter

i didnt mean to post that text....india arie would fit perfect with the okayplayer fam...pZ

"if your ears hurt you shouldntlisten that means your artificial and my style will poison your brain tissue"--bad lieutenant

Mixmaster Mike!

.

Me.

Mission a.k.a. The Crown City Rockers <--Don't sleep on these cats.



Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door. --Unknown

and trina

the five footer PHIFE DAWG
that would be sooooo ill

Rakim
Monch
Mos

Raheem, he's on track 11. My Peoples.
He's on some smooth mellow ish!! Hot track!!

Once Pimp C get outta jail, him, Bun B, and Thought could make some CLASSIC shit.

for the next four minutes and tewelve seconds, I'm gonna try real hard to give a fuck about your opinion

http://www.bananaking.net/humor/images/godkills.jpg

or were you just saying this to be funny...I actually like UGK.

that raps on the end of "black or white"

on that note, get teh guy that raps on Prince's sign album, too.

OOH! And that guy in Ludacris' "Saturday" video who says "Got a Nosebleed??"

Yea, that would be sick!

and Shaaawwtaaay! from the Clipse Video, that would be gangsta.

for the next four minutes and tewelve seconds, I'm gonna try real hard to give a fuck about your opinion

http://www.bananaking.net/humor/images/godkills.jpg

Who are u, Pilsburry Doughboy?

lol

Or maybe Jilly from Philly...

>OOH! And that guy in Ludacris' "Saturday" video who says
>"Got a Nosebleed??"

got john blaze shit. that "like water for chocolate" shit, that shit was aight, it was aight. but his shit is more john blaze than that.

Sexual Chocolate and the White Boys! Just gotta put that out there. Besides that, Bilal and Mos. And Erykah and Jill!

even more of a shameless plug: www.sexualchocolateandthewhiteboys.com ;)
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And that's just being real!

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular that Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon, 1966 (This quote sparked quite a large controversy, as many of you might know)

Randy Moss quote: "Look woman! What I just tell you?! I'm not going through all that!"

j5, jurassic 5, and j5.....and j5

Tre Hardson: my first choice

(rest are random order)

-Nelly Furtado: just seems to fit in a portuguese sort of way

-Erykah Badu: obvious reasons

-Outkast: obvious reasons

-DJ Quik: if rhythm-al-ism isn't Okay-Worthy, nothing is. plus, he's working with kweli now, so he has connections ;)

-Alicia Keys: if, like Quik, she would stop trying to balance her genius with some sort of forced "gangsta" image. i love her

-Remy Shand: obvious reasons

-Wyclef: dude fits! PLUS, he's actually fairly ACCESSIBLE to the fans!

(PS: i left Lauryn Hill and Mos Def out cuz they go without saying, and actually might fit in SO obviously, they might not be the best choices.)

although I haven't heard from her 1998.

Yea where is Davina, I still keep that cd in rotation... it was the soundtrack to my senior year in high school. She needs to come back

yeah, I know. She just had one cd and disappeared on us. Maybe she's just sticking to the behind the scene production stuff.

I thought somebody would've mentioned him.

kidding! don't revoke my okp pass

That nigga is too real!!

"I know I'm blessed celestially/gotta direct link wit destiny yeah!"-Jay Kay

"Ways that are right take long days and nights"-Killa Priest

"The Falcon can soar sunward; but it can equally turn cruel and
rebelliously attack the living heart of things...'
Her-Bak:O Master, what do you mean?
'You will know soon. I offer you the choice:I can teach you to become a
leader, holding in his hands the power, the armies to hold the
frontiers, the laws to chastise injustice, as he pleases. Or I can place you in
the shadow of the temple, where you will seek, in secret, to penetrate
the mysteries of the Gods..if they allow it. In that case there will be
neither action nor glory, but often reproach, and non-understanding
from men....Choose! But do not speak without consulting the deeper will of
your heart."
-Her Bak

My EP:No More Hip Hop
IsolatedWax.com
Peaceshine3@yahoo.com

ALbum:3
Coming Soon

promote the man!!!

Most of you guys have seen them openning w/ the Roots or performing "Hip Hop" at the Finale. These brothas are on a whole different level of Hip Hop. Often compared to Public Enemy and NWA, they speak out on police brutality, social injustice, and promote a health-conscious lifestyle. Their music with a message is backed by the group's very proactive support of what they believe in. If you haven't copped their album "let's get free" you are definitely sleeping. So WAKE UP and "LET'S GET FREE!"

www.deadprez.net
UHURU

I can't believe i didn't see Donny Hathaway name once
Eddie Kendricks , ESTHERO ,Earth wind and fire , Issac Hayes ,lonnie liston smith, miles davis???? john coltrane?????
the meters whats up with that

Pablo Picasso

Chaka Khan will u let me rock ya Chaka Khan

Glen Lewis
The Pharcyde (if the split up didn't exist)

Stephen King

.

no seriously Juelz on OKP?

"i got love for my (boy)
i got trust for my (boy)
that's why i fucks with my (boy)
that's my nigga (oh boy)"

poetic, yet there's a deeper meaning behind the lyrics (think about it - is he talking abou his boy, or marcus garvey? hmmmm...)

formerly "Slim Kid Tre" from the Pharcyde

http://www.flyingbaboon.com/

Old school -
Digable Planets, ATCQ, Bad Brains, Steel Pulse, Merle Saunders, Lionel Hampton
Vanguard -
Ben Harper, Amel Larrieux, N'Dambi, Wordsworth, Kamaal The Abstract, DJ Vadim

SLICK RICK THA RULER!!!

Definetely J-Live.
Binary mother-f'ing Star
Diggable Planets
Black Eyed Peas
Mr. Lif
Black Star
Jay-Dee and all those Detroit ppls (AML, SV, etc)
Hieroglyphics/Pep Love

is Guru considered OKP?
and how about Del?

Axl Rose, and the Dogg Pound.

I think that they should all just do what they have been doing, cause when you have artist all on the same label some tend to start sounding the same, I believe that the individual should take (groups) should all go there own way and make their divine path within the mus(I)c that they bring out or you will have the same shit goning on with big market stragety and have all these muthfuckas sounding the same and we dont do that. How about making some labels with different names for the different artist.. Just a thought on the train...you can board or you can just stand by the track as we keep on living. Peace...

*ducks*

Jurassic 5
J-Live
Erykah Badu
Thicke


al_sharp...proud member of The Illgaluminati

"I grew up hearing De La Soul and Run-DMC on the radio. But to some people today, if your shit's on the radio, it's commercial. They might say 'There's no good hip-hop on MTV, that's why we don't watch it.' But if they think Jurassic 5 is good hip-hop, and we get on MTV, they think we sold out. It's all fucked up."
--Jurassic 5's Akil

Here's an excerpt from a conversation between Jack White (White Stripes) and Beck from Interview Magazine...

JW - I think when rappers freestyle, it's like speaking in tongues, because it's going by so quickly and ideas are forming--it's like running as fast as you can through barricades and tires, you know?

B - Like boot camps. You can't stumble or fall.

JW - There should be freestyle boot camps.

B - I think there are. On the streets, my friend.

aim: cflartey

Maybe

co-sign

They started this neo-soul shit!

some of Smith and Mighty's peeps...

I have to go with the folks who said Bahamadia earlier in this post.

-Miss Mickey



"Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

lol, Isaac Hayes man. that would be interesting.

Jaffa(mos of yall probably don't know this kat.. he's sweet similar vein as Madlib)
Madlib
Les Nubians
LTJ Bukem
Cinematic Orchestra
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Jazzanova
Victor Dupliax
4hero
Five Deez
Fat Jon
Nu Spirit Helsinki
Herb Alpert
Funk d' void
P'taah
Ronny Jordan
Courtney Pine
Guru
Digable Planets


"Memes don't exist. Tell your friends."

Musiq

Omar

What do yall think of these...this is s bit of a stretch though!

Teddy Pendegrass(sp)-this is my number one choice
Teena Marie
Rah Digga
Del(or Nel) Da Funky Homosapian(sp)-saw his video the other day brought back memories.

I can't think of any more but there out there

I can see it. Especially Rah Digga 'cause she is a hot emcee.

1). Amel Larrieux
2). India Arie
3). Dead Prez
4). Tre Hardson
5). Erykah Badu

De La Soul (I don't know if anyone said this yet, apologies if it was mentioned already)

me !

sike ;)

1Love,
Gratilda Matilda

I know someone said Guru, lets just say GangStarr as a whole.

Nature

think about that...black thought and del...roots and heiro...handsomeboy modeling school doing some production for the roots? I always think of collabs, and Id like to see something with these cats together, cuz I think it would be ill

call me sentimental, but when
you cum in a women's hair, I
feel you share a certain
bond-david cross

steady puffin' l's and fight
hell like spawn-everlast

aut uh mi hed, things are
different-shuggie otis

I could walk up to the
president and blow smoke in
his stupid monkey face, and
he'd have to sit there
grooving on it-Homer Simpson

Im a reasonable man get off
my case-Thom Yorke

In the year 2000, a stoned
college student will realize
that soy milk, in spanish,
means I am milk.

It's not for you...look, I
like to masterbate in
a closed room while people
are waiting for pie to cool.

Word Up!!

those three would fit beautifully, they've all been connected to okayplaer in one time in their carrer
id love to see that

come onquest make it happen

Graph Nobel,she represents the very essence of what rock n'roll stands for.

^

cannibus or maybe that cat, smoothe da hustler
they both rip shit

ooh ooh! or mandy moore.....................

nevermind.

Lone Catalyst
Goodie Mob(during the soul food days)

cocoa brovas

.

cee-lo
dj spinna
j5
amel larrieux

and

VINIA MOJICA!!!!!!!!!!!

(i know she aint got no Lp out and she mostly do guest appearances but there is no real info on that talented and beautyful woman anywhere on the internet, i love her since iwas 15...now im....hmmm.nevermind)

most definitely Vinia. Her ass just needs to come out with a cd.

master p

*rolls eyes*

How could yall not mention GEORGE CLINTON AND PARLIAFUNKADELICMENT? DONNY HATHAWAY would be tight...How about PRINCE? or STEVIE WONDER? BAND OF GYPSIES (JIMI, BUDDY MILES, BILLY COX), SLY STONE....

i always thought that this guy SPEECH would fit perfectly as an okayartists. i wondered why i never heard of roots doing anything with him. i heard 2 tracks off his new album (spiritual people and brought to you) and it was good shit.what you thinik?
hoopla was a great record, very soulful.

vernon reid
branford marsalis
shuggie otis
jean michel basquiat
sun ra
boogie monsters
p frois
bmg 44

venus malone, she is this chick based in Germany. She has J. Rawls and Fat John doin' her production.