at least three of the albums listed here http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2533825&mesg_id=2533825&page= aren't in your top 20, and at were time were in heavy rotation, meaning there are a couple of songs you can spit line for line.

It gets questionable if you place all of those three in the bottom tier of your 20.

Now this doesn't mean you don't like rap music or aren't a hip-hop head, but you're likely more attracted to the other elements than to rapping itself. You like rapping which accessorizes hot beats, or your perception of 'street culture', or even da bitches that get down to it. But rapping itself, you could probably take or leave.
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half of that list are weirdos (styler, fellowship, and co-flow)

and while all got grade-a spit

there are guys who spit just as well and in a way that speaks to the listener where they are comfortable....instead of the artists own "bubble"

thats true genius (IMO)

none of those albums are in my top20... the extinction agenda might be in there though.

there are albums just as lyrically dense that come with the whole package

there are like 30-50 albums listed there to choose from.

and rapper's speaking to where you're comfortable is an accessory to your comfortability. lol!!
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lol...ok

i got u...

ok...there are definitely 3 albums in that post in my top 50. i thought u meant the original 5 listed in your post

what

cause they are fucking weird

u ever listen to divine styler??? lol. and he was making albums like that in the 80s

(almost) everybody was a lyric head in the 80s. and cats wasnt on divine styler because he fell outside the normal range of the distribution curve.

freestyle fellowship the same.

bigg juss is one of the best to do it. but damn if he aint WEIRD

i dig a number of the artists listed in that post, but the idea that someone doesn't love *rapping* because they're not into aesop rock, busdriver or other underground avant-garde acts is absurd.

most people who listen to lots of rap appreciate good rapping. it's not a coincidence that most of the modern greats--jigga, nas, TI, eminem, wayne--are (or were) exceptionally good at doing it.

there's a grip of folk in there. isolating the most obscure is an injustice.
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all those guys are great rappers who have made a lot of shit music

and while i can appreicate folks love for Wayne, he is no where near great

i always wished TI made a record with Organized Noize, or more cohesive albums, because ALL his lp work is hit or miss IMO

i think you mean been because they rapped about a leftist politics more in line with post-marxism and anarchaism, and expressed spiritual / religous beliefs not tied to Christianity or Islam. The rapped in ways that used very obscure literary and pop culture references for similies and metaphors. And being that they were Black (outisde of El-P), that makes them weird right? got it

coupled with the dirty/dusty or electro type of beats those rappers were prone to rap over... so weird!

the funny thing about freestyle fellowship are those dudes are from south central,and PEACE and Self Jupitor have been in and out of jail since they released their works in the late 80s / early 90s. All memebers of the cew actively used the topics/content of their rapping to combat the gangbanging / hard ass niggaz from the hood ethos of their street counterparts.

Without a doubt Acey and Myka9 are two fo the most naturally gifted rappers to ever breathe into a mic. not only what they rapped aboutm but how they rapped is very rarely rivaled or equaled

funny thing is I agree that they music can be very "unfun" or off putting. but labeling them weirdos is dismissive and a disservice to their art

and uhmm Organized Konfusion and LONS are pretty "normal" in terms of content and identitty

>funny thing is I agree that they music can be very "unfun" or
>off putting. but labeling them weirdos is dismissive and a
>disservice to their art

i hope ypu realize thats YOUR interpretation. weirdo to me is just someone who is coming outside the normal paradigm. no problem with that at all.

i listen to alot of weirdo shit. but all my boys dont. so i know cats who grew up listening to rakim, kool g, krs, slick rick etc and can quote classic verses verbatim who don't know company flow, deltron 3030, freestyle fellowship etc. they know divine styler because the time he dropped it was only but so many videos on tv but i digress....

my point was that you could be a fan of lyricism and never even been exposed to those albums...not to mention if you did the production on some of the records is so far out there is people who been listening to the "normal" stuff its just not going to resonate with.

peace

It's not the same Divine Styler from Word Power. Converted to islam and just went for raw spit. Not weirdo at all really.
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see its on spotify...gonna peep

on second thought it's a different type of weird. lol. but not... you'll get it.
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>i think you mean been because they rapped about a leftist
>politics more in line with post-marxism and anarchaism, and
>expressed spiritual / religous beliefs not tied to
>Christianity or Islam. The rapped in ways that used very
>obscure literary and pop culture references for similies and
>metaphors. And being that they were Black (outisde of El-P),
>that makes them weird right? got it

the rightest thing here is the 1st two words

>coupled with the dirty/dusty or electro type of beats those
>rappers were prone to rap over... so weird!
>
>the funny thing about freestyle fellowship are those dudes are
>from south central,and PEACE and Self Jupitor have been in and
>out of jail since they released their works in the late 80s /
>early 90s. All memebers of the cew actively used the
>topics/content of their rapping to combat the gangbanging /
>hard ass niggaz from the hood ethos of their street
>counterparts.

the amount of psychoanalysis that could be done on this is stunning. what the fuck jail have to do with the conversation? lol. or being from south central? lol. kool keith is from the bronx!

>Without a doubt Acey and Myka9 are two fo the most naturally
>gifted rappers to ever breathe into a mic. not only what they
>rapped aboutm but how they rapped is very rarely rivaled or
>equaled

you musta missed where i said they had grade-a spit. or where i said big juss is one of the best.

its funny how the paradigm goggles you wear color everything you see

here very simply, because as evidence by your Alchemist post in the Lesson, you struggle to acknolwedge things more complicated than your little "thinkers" box. their origin (south central) and experience (jail time) has everything to do with how and what THEY CHOSE to rap about. they had the same background all the "relateable" street rappers of their eras did, but they CHOSE to rap differently and about different shit.

you used it dismissively, than wanted to act like it's a little term you use to label things that are different.

Kool Keith IS weird. drank henny with dude on Melrose, that he had in a gun holster, rocking that Elvis wig with two fine ass white porn broads back in 2001. he spent 15min with me and they homey going off about how shitty rap was and how everybody stold from him

the timeline is there...

grade-a spit (freestyle fellowship) 1st post
big juss one of the best 2nd post

sounds pretty dismissive

i musta hurt your feelings in that alchemist post. lol

**the irony of "astralblak" being butthurt over some corny white boy being called out for doing his best nigga impression.

go read a book dummy

others already showed how myopic and un-nuanced ur position was on that stupid Alchemist post. Here I just expanded on what you couldnt and you started name calling because that makes you feel better

Glad like any rap fan you listen to various types of rap

Imvcspl sorry for derailing this post

> others already showed how myopic and un-nuanced ur position
>was on that stupid Alchemist post. Here I just expanded on
>what you couldnt and you started name calling because that
>makes you feel better
>
>Glad like any rap fan you listen to various types of rap
>
>Imvcspl sorry for derailing this post

you had to look those words up? you didn't even know blackface wasn't confined to movies. I think you are a poor judge of any argument cause you are not smart enough to properly evaluate one.

I'll make it simple for you. just repeat the following line
"white blackface performers are justified because there were black blackface performers"

can you say that stupid shit? agree with it?

stupid ass

even just MF Doom (alone) is in my top 10 albums of all time.

but the rest I haven't heard or don't cut it, Co.Flow comes close but I preferred Can.Ox.


I have a TERRIBLE fucking memory, though. The only two rap songs I've ever memorized were Boyz-n-the-Hood (long forgotten, and mostly thanks to that Dynamite Hack cover that my white friends and I thought was hilarious in middle school so it got played over.andover) and Jay-Z's P.S.A., which I still recite to myself wen I'm iPodless and waiting for something pretty much anywhere in public.


But I haven't even memorized Beatles or Stevie lyrics and I've been listening to them for 15-20 years.


I'm definitely more moved by the music, but the rap music is what moves me. The idea of the rap as instrument, maybe.


edit: if we're going whole thread? maybe I can sneak in the backdoor. But I'm not gonna scan and find out, you can grade me if you're game.

TOWP TWENNY

1 - Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
2 - Nas - Illmatic (1994)
3 - Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
4 - Ghostface Killah - Ironman (1996)
5 - Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994)
6 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
7 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
8 - Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (1994)
9 - GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords (1995)
10 - Common - Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
11 - OutKast - Aquemini (1998)
12 - A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
13 - The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (1996)
14 - Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
15 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
16 - Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (1998)
17 - Edan - Beauty and the Beat (2005)
18 - Redman - Muddy Waters (1996)
19 - Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
20 - OutKast - ATLiens (1996)


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas
"I don't read pages of rap lyrics, I listen to rap music." © Bombastic
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

you good.
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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

i don't care if you are a virtuoso rapper
any more than i care if you are a virtuoso singer
or virtuoso guitar player.


if you don't have a hook, you don't have a song.
(it doesn't have to be a pop hook, though. even great jazz songs have hooks)

i did count a few albums in that thread that I've given heavy burn to.
Amerikkka's most wanted is the only one in my top 20, though.




>at least three of the albums listed here
>http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2533825&mesg_id=2533825&page=
>aren't in your top 20, and at were time were in heavy
>rotation, meaning there are a couple of songs you can spit
>line for line.
>
>It gets questionable if you place all of those three in the
>bottom tier of your 20.
>
>Now this doesn't mean you don't like rap music or aren't a
>hip-hop head, but you're likely more attracted to the other
>elements than to rapping itself. You like rapping which
>accessorizes hot beats, or your perception of 'street
>culture', or even da bitches that get down to it. But rapping
>itself, you could probably take or leave.
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>"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

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the rapping is always secondary to me.
Kanye isn't a great rapper, but he has great songs.
Janet is not a great singer, but she has great songs.

I get into rap an an accessory to the song.

for not being offended by the notion.
hip-hop was made for all kinds.
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cool.