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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (three 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 (three months ago)
Been loving the Chip-Fu stuff
― goose! geese! gossé! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 October 2025 16:27 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (one month ago)