POV hip-hop tracks as good as souls of mischief's "'93 til infinity"

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preferably ones that I don't know!

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

tracks in a similar vein or just any hip hop?

search the thread on 'breezy hip-hop' for some suggestions

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Humble Mumble" by Outkast. It baffles me why it wasn't released as a single.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bug Powder Dust" by Bomb the Bass (Kruder and Dorfmeister remix)

Not quite as good, but still good - "The Force" by Aim

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

tracks in a similar vein or just any hip hop?

just hip-hop. I'm after some A-grade, top notch shit that I haven't heard before (!)

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of the hip-hop heads don't seem to post anymore :(

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

well if you stopped listening to "good" hip hop in 93, i think you've got a LOT of catching up to do

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

you're being a bit presumptuous, Jason. I was just listening to that song and had a yearning for some more stuff of that kind of quality that I'm not acquainted with. Perhaps this thread should be retitled Hip-Hop Gems That Aren't Widely Known?

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Hit Song" - DJ Format feat. Abdominal

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Non-Phixion "Cult Leader"
Mos Def "Speed Laws" (by far my favorite song offa Black On Both Sides)
Madvillain "All Caps"
Cee-Lo "Big Words (Damn)"
Lifesavas "Hellohihey"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

In the Souls of Mischief / Herioglyphics vein...

Boogiemonsters - all
Trendz of Culture - Off and On
The Legion - Jingle Jangle
Casual - That's How It Is
Alkaholics featuring King Tee - Make Room
Capital Tax - I Can't Believe It

shit man there's tons - i can get more obscure if you like

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

shit man there's tons - i can get more obscure if you like

hey, please do!

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Lordz of the Underground - Psycho (actually most of their first album is great)

Bush Babeez - I don't remember the song's title but the single was good

MadKap - "The Whole Kit and Kaboodle"

oh and i CAN'T beleive I forgot about...

YALL SO STUPID. Man they were our favorite group, the best kept secret, even among our friends. They were on the short-lived Atlanta-based Rowdy label (a good label - Da King and I also had an album out on that label called Contemporary Jeep Music that's worth seeking out) and their self-titled album is the SHIT. Pretty much great from start to finish (with the usual hip hop pitfalls, natch - skits, obligatory song about "Skinz," etc) - not sure if you'll find it on filesharing but try to find "Introduce Me" or "Van Full Of Pakistans" on p2p for a taste

they were WAY better than Souls at their peak (and 93 till was a mighty high peak IMHO)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything Rowdy Records put out in their short-ass lifespan was fucking GOLDEN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Nasa and I were the only East Coast kids up on that shit at the time

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't have heard of them, except that they put out the Fishbone (who I had been a fan of since I was 9) album Chim Chim's Badass Revenge, right after their volatile break from Sony, so I was all like "uh huh, now who are these Rowdy folks then?" and lo and behold all this great hip-hop shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

basically you just want foax to name GOOD hip-hop songs? ok...

big punisher - punish me
dmx - who we be
geto boys - i just wanna die
ghostface killah - wildflower
mobb deep - right back at you
bone thugs - down '71 (the getaway)
snoop dogg - the shiznit
gza - shadowboxing
jay-z feat dmx - money, cash, hoes
capone n noreaga - parole violators
dj quik - sweet black pussy
rza - b.o.b.b.y
method man - tical
notorious big - suicidal thoughts
the beatnuts - off the books

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, man. Some of that stuff is GOOD, but not at all as uppity / lighthearted / clever (well, GZA is way clever, but...) as the Herio crew.

DMX? Ninja please.

and if you want Beatnuts, you gotta go back to the Intoxicated Demons EP, which is classic. The s/t album is decent too, but they never did anything half as good as "Reign of the Tec" - best Sadat sample ever (and lordy there are many)?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

redman - time 4 sum aksion
wu tang clan - careful (click, click)
canibus - 2000BC
ice cube - you can't fade me
gravediggaz - bang your head
nas - nas is coming
ice-t - mind over matter
method man feat. cappadonna - sweet love
odb - shimmy shimmy ya
ll cool j - boomin system
warren g - this is the shack
tupac - life goes on

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the following are all highly recommended...

dmx - bring your whole crew
dmx - keep your shit the hardest
dmx - slippin'
dmx - school street
dmx - what's my name?
dmx - x gonnna give it to ta
dmx - one more road to cross
dmx - party up
dmx - here we go again
dmx - the professional

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

dmx - when i'm nothing; DMX raps over syrupy disco breaks

az - hoe happy jackie; more illmatic-esque wistful reminiscence from AZ

capone n noreaga - channel ten; zoned out on the bus listening to this, the beat is almost psychedelic,kinda sleepily menacing, sounds like what El-p tried to cop on 'the cold vein'; i guess if you don't have 'the war report' you should just get that

― jake b. (cerybut), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the artifacts
del the funky homosapien
freestyle fellowship

― Von, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.spinemagazine.com/db/Jewels/

That's a list of singles. Click on "Gems" for a list of albums.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ego trips the big playback has some great hidden gems:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067CLK/qid=1091041413/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-8889965-5888608?v=glance&s=music

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

basically you just want foax to name GOOD hip-hop songs? ok...

er, no.

― OCP (OCP), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hoooly shit ... i haven't thought about YSS since like 1994. man ... VFOP was the shit. "85-South", "Introduce Me" ... wow good memories.

off to p2p to find it ... wish me luck.

― tk, Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The best Beatnuts' track is "No Escapin' This (single version)". Fact.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

kurious - walk like a duck (or the whole a constipated monkey cd even)

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 July 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

gaz otm!!!

even pete nice's solo joint had some decent tracks

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 July 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

thnx roger and i second (or third or whatever) van full of pakistans with some reservations...i relistened to it about 6 months ago and found the rhymes on the single (uh...forget the tunes name "think of all my problems, all i ever do is try and solve 'em") about slapping women to be rather offensive given the otherwise bouncy context.

also (recently made threadworthy by djdee i think) the ahmad disc from 94 is nice. try "back in the day" to sample.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

POV is being taken a bit liberally ...

So my only suggestion right now is "Crosstown Beef" by Medina Green feat. Mos Def

― Dare, Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i was going to mention Kurious

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 1 August 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

POV is being taken a bit liberally ...

ah, whatever. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 1 August 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

gaz - i'm pretty sure the single was called Van Full of Pakistans, the album is self-titled. I'm not sure that he's talking about beating women necessarily, it's a little ambiguous, especially if you consider the time - who knows what kinda Hotlanta slang was popular? The lyrics, from memory, are:

"All these bitches always gettin' in my way
Buy me this ring and that ring, OK?
So if you think that you're better than me, come on and bring it:
I'll run ya down till ya beat."

Could just be on some 'playa' shit. I only defend it because, as you say, it's inconsistent with their vibe - they were just some like laidback teenage skater dudes.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

There are few songs as good as 93 Til Infinity.. a lot of those listed here are def not

― billstevejim, Saturday, 10 January 2009 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

Burnt Batch - Brown Concoctions
East Flatbush Project - Tried by 12
Mad Skillz - The Nod Factor
Charizma - Red Light Green Light
Just Ice - Cold Gettin Dumb

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

Da Bush Babees - Remember We (Saalam Remix)

― Congeniaal HOe is de Collective Animal (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:29 (seventeen years ago)

Shortie No Mas & Da Beatminerz - You Like My Style

― Congeniaal HOe is de Collective Animal (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:42 (seventeen years ago)

Questionmark Asylum - Hey Look Away

― Congeniaal HOe is de Collective Animal (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

Pigeon John - Identity Crisis

― Congeniaal HOe is de Collective Animal (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:46 (seventeen years ago)

Jigmastas - Thiefs Theme

― Congeniaal HOe is de Collective Animal (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

same sample
2xp's

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

ha I cut Jigmastas "Don't Get it Twisted" from my list

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:51 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

what's yalls opinion of the Girlies track on www.myspace.com/rootbeersound

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 30 January 2009 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

Girlies - Pigeon and Flynn

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 30 January 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

even better might be the songs on Flynn's ep: http://www.myspace.com/flynnadam - first two songs on his player

― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

bumping this thread for people to suggest stuff in the same vein

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 28 August 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

I mean funky hiphop
hiphop having fun

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 28 August 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

People Under the Stairs?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

Alkaholiks?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

Devin the Dude?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

the 1st Edan album

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

Funkdoobiest?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

Back on the scene, crispy and clean
You can try, but then why? cause you can't intervene

- Dres of Black Sheep from "The Choice Is Yours (remix)"

― The Love Song of J Alfred Pluot (Oilyrags), Friday, 28 August 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsDcfy9a84

― am0n, Friday, 28 August 2009 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

Redman
(i have no idea of the extent of your knowledge here, so forgive if some of these are obvious)

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 28 August 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

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