Who's into rap here?

[Guiscard]

I speak French, but I still only catch less than half of what they're saying. As you said, the rhythm and flow of the language is what does it for me.

Much better than German... Anything but intensely hardcore tracks sound awful in German...

[Genghis Khant]

I speak French, but I still only catch less than half of what they're saying. As you said, the rhythm and flow of the language is what does it for me.

Much better than German... Anything but intensely hardcore tracks sound awful in German...

Got to love Atari Teenage Riot!

[Genghis Khant]

I've got some Japanese hip hop too, Teriaki Boys, Ramb Camp, Nigo & (B)Ape Sounds... I can't understand a single bloody word of it, but it sounds wicked. For all I know they could be spitting about hello kitty and schoolgirl's underwear, but I'm content to imagine it's all Yakuza bruisers with uzis.

[mibi]

this shit is straight bananas!

lyrics to,

Company Flow - Patriotism

[El Producto]
Do you know who you are..
Do you know who you are fucking with?
Do you know the access to weapons money and power
that we have? We will fucking kill you!

I'm the ugliest version of passed down toxic capitalist
rapid emcee perversion I'm America!
Your bleeding heart liberal drivel gets squashed
Wash em with sterilized rhyme patriot guided weaponry bomb
from the makers of the devious hearts -- I'm America!
You bitchy little tarts don't even phase my basic policy
The bomb's smarter, my Ronald Reagan's crush Carter
Prepare big tactics, making young men into martyrs
(Come on down!) Come to my happy promised land
Smiley faced opportunity cypher
and jump on the CoFlow pension plan
A proletariat, crushing State of the Union
between serpentine words and mass confusion
of media controlled blurb advertising disillusionment
Your family will love my low-rent, low-life
no-brain, reality-dagger, MOVEMENT
Hop over the border for amusement; try to test the waters
that the other slaughter crews periodic usin
You up against -- Jesus Freak, forming corporations in Young Republicans
Indelible NATO force hidden agenda, puppet governments
I'm lovin it! Keep the people guessing who I'm runnin with
Control the population and hide behind sacred covenants
Fuckin with me?!?! Means liberal wildlife burning, gasoline seized
and an automagnetic third world printed with metal plates in they knees
Can't you hear the disenchanted, hide the scream of
Gabriel's reflected new wind instrument, a judgment played in flat C
I replace humans like robots in a GM factory (warning! warning!)
Then explore metaphors to sweat shops, cause the price is satisfactory
Your pious little cries of injustice get met with apathy (awww, SHUCKS!)
Soak, cloak, hormone injected dairy product
and conservative right-wing anti-eroticism; the poisonous
resevoirs and power lines in your neighborhood cause botchilism
SENSELESS! Join the census, censorship sentences sentence
Triple-felon citizen paid penance!
Dissension against C-F ends in, penitentiary residence
Lock em up first, then ask questions
Omniscient presence, my CHARM is the weapon
with cameras mics and satellites that leave privacy breathless
You don't even know the chemicals you've ingested
Urine tested -- BEAT INNOCENT MAN TIL HE CONFESSES

"Who's America? Who's America? Who's America? Who's America?"
"Who's America? Who's America? Who's America? Who's America?"
[El-P] I'm America! I'm America! I'm America! Mr. Len, get busy on em!

* DJ Mr. Len the Space Ghost cuts up "God damn!!" *

[El-Producto]
I'm America arrogant!! Terminus verbal curfew murders
You either purchase my products or you're worthless, that's my servants!
Don't look into the oculars of a daylight saver
Erase your city head and monument defacer comprising of
patriot droids, sent into the void with lead linings
Employed by the bureaucrats of automatic twisted rhyme timing
You're guaranteed nothing but my fat little finger
that lingers one inch off of the big button -- LET'S START THIS!
I'm Saran gas, hide in your apartments
I'm stealth like a robot hidden in the fat asshole of Cartman
And give a crippling f*ck like sand sharkskin condom
to your apparent vaginal problem - the hottest shit on Soundbombing
I'm American til infinite justice measure to Pesticide Cemetary
Invite you to cross the border then SHIT on your divinities
What language is that? I'm anguish in fact, tangle with a
star-spangled standard issue for crowd management
Go wild and get a trial and then a hot cry to harassment
by the crowd force of my mental pedestrian checker,
that smashes subordinate skulls and update the file in your dental records
You trying to get a light but yet the crowd is my paid hecklers (BOO! BOO!)
You just stepped into the spectrum of paranoid word wrangle
Thinking you sick with a silhouette, burn transit cop out his plain clothes
I'm America!! This is where the pain grows like poppies
in a Field of Dreams I paid for, I'll burn it down if operated sloppily
COPY? My economic sanction rhyme style got your syllables
scraping for rice and riding in a green 1960 jalopy
My favorite flavor of gas is mustard
I'm fuckin a blind hermaphrodite icon and convincing you that it's justice!

"Who's America? Who's America? Who's America? Who's America?"
* DJ Mr. Len the Space Ghost cuts up "God damn!!" *

[El-Producto]
Treason will not be tolerated!
You have been enlisted.. into a lifestyle that you may not change!
Understand! You can't be happy.. and smile.. for the cameras!
MotherFUCKER

[neoni]

I speak French, but I still only catch less than half of what they're saying. As you said, the rhythm and flow of the language is what does it for me.

Much better than German... Anything but intensely hardcore tracks sound awful in German...

have you heard blokkmonsta? wouldn't sound right in any other language

[jay_a2j]

I like rap like I like liberals.....



but here is a good rap song: Rap song



Didn't work...try this: http://www.savage-productions.com/savage_rap.html

[Psilocbin]

Oldschool (1996 -) rap is cool. You shoudl all listen to N.W.A, make sure to checkout "Automobile".

[Guiscard]

Oldschool (1996 -) rap is cool. You shoudl all listen to N.W.A, make sure to checkout "Automobile".

That's not old school.

Check out Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, Eric B and Rakim and (obviously) Run DMC!

NWA brought Gangsta rap into the mainstream, though, so props to them. Express Yourself still absolutely rips it. Always gets peeps moving even if they're not into hip-hop.

[static_ice]

these guys were probably mentioned before but in mainstream I like a little kanye west and lupe fiasco [size=0]kick push kick push kick push...[/size]



some guys that probably weren't mentioned are DJ shadow and Cut Chemist. what they do is they take really old, expired records of jazz and stuff and mix it in with their own new styles...once you hear it, it sounds awesome

and shadow does it much better...

[Genghis Khant]

Even aliens like hip hop.

[DAZMCFC]

i did not censor it. the site where i copied it from censored it.
they must not of thought the n word was wrong.

Are you into UK hip-hop at all?

no not really, i am 36 and time has ebbed away. in the mid 80`s i use to go to quite a few gigs. eric b and rakim, public enemy, BDP and so on.
i had quite a few albums and a hell of a lot of stuff of the radio(piccadilly manchesters radio had a dj called stew allan who played shit loads of hip hop and dance). there was a dj called chad jackson that use to do mixes of all different tunes of each year, the y would last about 45 minutes, funk hip hop dance and house music.

i did use to work with a lad that was in Spinmasters, he was a dj called daz partington, from spinmasters they went on to 808 State.

[Psilocbin]

Oldschool (1996 -) rap is cool. You shoudl all listen to N.W.A, make sure to checkout "Automobile".

That's not old school.

Check out Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, Eric B and Rakim and (obviously) Run DMC!

NWA brought Gangsta rap into the mainstream, though, so props to them. Express Yourself still absolutely rips it. Always gets peeps moving even if they're not into hip-hop.

Oldschool gangsta rap*, yeah I forgot about sugarhill and grandmaster.

[Guiscard]

what they do is they take really old, expired records of jazz and stuff and mix it in with their own new styles...once you hear it, it sounds awesome

That's what the vast majority of hip-hop producers (including me) do. Its called sampling...

If you like Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow check out RJD2 (absolute genius). Dr Octagon, The Herbaliser, Dan the Automater and DJ Yoda (the last three are from the UK)....

All good stuff in a similar turntabalist / extreme sample manipulation vein.

[willis]

If you like Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow check out RJD2 (absolute genius).

I went to see RJD2 a couple of weeks ago. That was amazing.

[b.k. barunt]

As a musician, i find rap contemptible. I can accept it as poetry, but "music" it is not. However, when i consider my feelings on this, i hear faint echoes of my parents and their friends railing against the rock and roll i embraced as a teenager. God knows what the children of the rapper generation will come up with. *shudders*