been thinking about starting this thread for a while but there's still tons of cool stuff being released by old rappers, but it seems like hip hop people just really aren't that interested in paying attention to older artists. in any case, love to see anything else people have been checking out.
Dinco D (Leaders of the New School) flowing nice over a classic Motown sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNtbG5IjeMY
Chip Fu from Fu-Schnickens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYBwZHLg4U
Redman, Method Man, and Raekwon kill their Red Bull Spiral freestyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybll-9LoYmI
Lil' Fame of MOP over an uncharacteristically sunny beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDIVn0cTRg
Rakim, Masta Killa, Kurupt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGpxTtDJU3s
Evidence & Alchemist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agLO3Fp8BGs
Rass Kass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV6yFGpDW2E
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 September 2025 16:26 (six months ago)
kind of like the weird awkward beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf5fpja-eGA
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 September 2025 16:32 (six months ago)
great thread idea. here's a Slick Rick track that i like in spite of, well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWO7StWPIcLandlord
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 September 2025 16:48 (six months ago)
i remember talking about Kool Keith's "Serpent" on here with some folks, that def belongs here
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 September 2025 16:49 (six months ago)
i was just going to post that one song where he talks about the 1990s Seattle Supersonics the whole time lol
Honestly, Landlord is so good, I feel like he's being semi-ironic and also I kinda just don't care overall, what difference does it make?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 September 2025 17:33 (six months ago)
i liked supreme clientele 2 more than i expected to. was surprised by how old school it was (older school than the original even, lots of 80s breakbeats, “my melody” sample, etc.)
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 September 2025 18:43 (six months ago)
and also I kinda just don't care overall, what difference does it make?
i mean, yeah, i agree
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 September 2025 18:46 (six months ago)
some old death row shit, sounds great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5CafLUxbqg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 October 2025 15:50 (six months ago)
underrated west coast/east coasters unite, rass kass and smif n' wessun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jt2yT5QlGk
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 October 2025 15:57 (six months ago)
Been loving the Chip-Fu stuff
― goose! geese! gossé! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 October 2025 16:27 (six months ago)
yeah! he's doing some really cool/interesting stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 October 2025 16:35 (six months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbsmC72odo
new Mobb Deep is really well done, I'm surprised how much it feels like a real record. Probably the best posthumous one I can think of since Imperious Rex by Sean Price.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 October 2025 15:21 (six months ago)
Kool Keith has had a ton of stuff the last few years and a lot of it’s great, he’d totally resisted the main thing that seems to be an issue as artists age where their flows seem to stop sounding like they’re tracking out new ideas and instead just kind of follow predictable paths as if the journey has been completed and they can just hang out at the destination
I hear ppl talk about new killah priest stuff a lot as well
I’m sure I have more stuff to add here
― ok (D-40), Friday, 10 October 2025 15:25 (six months ago)
Killah Priest has some WIIILD records, one a year or two or go was all about birds and nature type stuff
Serpent by Kool Keith and Real Bad Man is a career highlight
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 October 2025 15:55 (six months ago)
deej the chip fu stuff is pretty interesting you might like it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 October 2025 16:03 (six months ago)
MC Lyte did an album last year, and it's a little up and down but some really good stuff on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4vOoJECoY
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 October 2025 18:03 (five months ago)
oh man that old time feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOrRFjDsOJo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 October 2025 18:11 (five months ago)
New Juice Crew album coming 11/14, produced by the RZA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WUN2vu3NY
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 October 2025 16:42 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAF_CEGyug4
― A floating crown, but an extremely small one (President Keyes), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:42 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8U6atGJp8
― A floating crown, but an extremely small one (President Keyes), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:44 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur5rDDZG0M
― A floating crown, but an extremely small one (President Keyes), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:50 (five months ago)
saw the bush babees at a hip-hop 50 event a couple years ago, they were in great spirits.
we run things, things don’t run we
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:58 (five months ago)
Who knew Kwame put out an album this year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3CNvPy5yvI
― erasingclouds, Friday, 17 October 2025 17:59 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSdbKXjkgUA
― A floating crown, but an extremely small one (President Keyes), Friday, 17 October 2025 18:12 (five months ago)
damn this kwame is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6SO0ovKZE0
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 October 2025 17:02 (five months ago)
thx erasingclouds
some ugliness on that though :/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 October 2025 17:03 (five months ago)
monaleo got some texas vets on her "we on dat" remix.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6eWdK5xKc
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 15:53 (five months ago)
Kid Capri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2oW2Xa2YDs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 November 2025 14:10 (four months ago)
Tash of the Alkaholiks, this is super fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siq7Lq_brcA
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 March 2026 14:58 (three weeks ago)
loving this guest spot by the D.O.C with a Fat Wreck band — he’s found a tone and flow that the broken version of his voice really work for, if only for one minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5BqVO33pg
(this led me to one he did on their last album, which is also good but far more in the “raspy DOC shows up and talks-ish a bit” usual mode of his post-crash appearances)
― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Monday, 23 March 2026 17:06 (three weeks ago)
Nice, I love how he's (Tash) responding to all the youtube comments :)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 23 March 2026 21:29 (three weeks ago)
I've had the hook from Tash's song stuck in my head.
Interesting how "old rap guys" are around the same age "old blues guys" were when they were neglected in the 70s/80s. (Thinking of John Lee Hooker not making The Blues Brothers soundtrack.)
― Come On, (Eazy), Monday, 23 March 2026 21:32 (three weeks ago)
Natural Elements with a nice backpacker jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xNr6jgAmKQ
still diggin' in the crates
AG & Stu Bangaz feat. D Flow and Diamond D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTmolpfAcc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 April 2026 19:35 (one week ago)