Good hip hop/rap artists?


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I am trying to get back to some music, it's always good to listen to someone good who isn't exactly "mtv made" so anyone got some good artists that aren't in the mainstream yet?

Anything hip hop/rap is good, no need to ask for my tastes (The last cd I bought though is Obie Trice, not bad at all...)

TIA :yes:

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Well...it depends on what you mean by "hip-hop"..

some good hip-hop artits are..Redman and Method Man are always top of the list, there is Swollen Members, Bumpy Knuckles, Dialated Peoples, Mocha Only, Sondooby, Rob the Viking, Wu-Tang, Slum Village, and the list goes on..

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Well...it depends on what you mean by "hip-hop"..

some good hip-hop artits are..Redman and Method Man are always top of the list, there is Swollen Members, Bumpy Knuckles, Dialated Peoples, Mocha Only, Sondooby, Rob the Viking, Wu-Tang, Slum Village, and the list goes on..

Agreed on Wu-tang used to listen to them when they first came out...

Mainly looking for good cd's or good title's that are farely new (this or last year).

And welcome the forums :yes:

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wow. i'll say this now. if you don't like hip-hop, STFU, becuase apparantly this guy does, and whatever you say won't change his mind.

now, you should get:

Eminem

Dr. Dre

OutKast

Goodie Mob

Dungeon Family

50 Cent

Big Tymers (and all the cash money family...mostly)

Blackalicious

Bubba Sparxxx (some of it)

Cam'ron

Chingy

The Clipse

Common

David Banner

De La Soul

DMX

Ginuwine

Jurassic 5

Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz

Ludacris (not a big fan of his new album though)

Nelly

P.Diddy

Paul Wall & Chamillionaire

R. Kelly

The Roots

Roscoe

Scarface

Sean Paul

Talib Kweli

Three 6 Mafia

UGK

Usher

Youngbloodz

Ying Yang Twins

Snoop Dogg

Pharell

Jay Z

Murphy Lee

Dilated Peoples

Joe Buddens

Julez Santana

Nappy Roots

T.I.

Lil Flip

NCD (http://www.planetncd.com/ they went to my school, and they're not bad)

that should be a good list to get you started. some mainstream, some underground, some mainstream but not "pop"

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that should be a good list to get you started. some mainstream, some underground, some mainstream but not "pop"

Thanks for list :D

Gonna take awhile to go through and check out a few of them, most I got and I heard Jurassic 5 are supposed to be good? Ahh Goodie Mob, good memories with them, gonna have to pick up some of their stuff ;)

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Deltron 3030/Del the funky homosapien

Jurrasic 5

Swollen members

Mos Def

Acrobatik

Dialated Peoples

All good underground stuff...stay away from lame radio crap.

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us: roots, atcq, outkast, madlib, common, pete rock, wu-tang, redman, mos def

uk: phi-life cypher, taskforce, braintax, jehst, lewis parker, ty, black twang.. got loads more but your not gunna be able to find em

:ninja:

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my personal opinion, being almost 30 years old (AAARGH) is get to know not only some of the "new" groups mentioned above (i use the term "new" lightly because indeed many have been around and paid dues for a long time) but also some of the "pioneers" and contributers of modern hip hop to what it is today...

with that being said...

"OLD SCHOOL" (not the original pioneers, more like 1986-88 and on)

boogie down productions (krs-one)

biz markie

big daddy kane

epmd

eric b and rakim

masta ace

poor righteous teachers (im from jersey i had to add them)

and the list could go on and on those are just a few...

"NEW SCHOOL" (circa 1990 and above)

a tribe called quest (1st three albums classic)

the artifacts

black moon (enta da stage)

black sheep (a wolf in sheeps clothing)

del (back then also add the "funky homosapien" to del) (i wish my brother george was here, no cause for alarm (i think))

de la soul

heltah skeltah

leaders of the new school (featuring busta rhymes before he was solo with a group) (a future without a past, t.i.m.e.)

nas

organized konfusion - pharoe monch and prince po (the extinction agenda)

the pharcyde

souls of mischief (93 till infinity)

smiff n wessun (now the cocoa b's) (the shining)

and again the list could go on and on those are just a few...

those are just some of the older artists i think you may want to look into. a good amount of them are strill around but i do strongly suggest hearing their earlier material first. i have missed many artists and i also tried to suggest people i thought you could maybe find in record stores, because there are 100's of underground artists from that era i coudl have named but figured id make your buying easy...

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