was de la soul's 3 feet high and rising a psychedelic hip hop album?

I think Shadow and Madlib have done some shit that might border on psychedelic. Maybe Timbaland too.

...I think De La Soul (and Prince Paul!) were just very imaginative.

I've never heard of psych-rap either.

Also, Basehead Play with Toys. Stoned doesn't begin to describe it.

Without wanting to enter the backpacker trenches, the first cLOUDDEAD album is way psychedelic.

trying to put together a psychedelic hip hop mix cd, so far ive got

blue flowers - dr octagon
i told you - biz markie
the sun - ghostface

can anyone suggest any more?

Wear your love like heaven - Definition of Sound

Lots of the stuff around in the 'baggy' years could qualify.

a few tracks from my trip to planet 9 by pre synths-n-moods justin warfield would fit well i think.
"live from the opium den" being an obvious choice ..

http://images24.fotosik.pl/154/8ce6d0974e512373.jpg

that edan album fits exactly what i'm looking for, only hip hop ive ever heard to sample the small faces, although im sure ive seen 'the journey' crop up on some kind of ultimate breaks & beats style compilation

pharcyde - drop? esp. at the end

justin warfield
araknophobix' telephatic ambush... although most of it can just be lumped in with "sci-fi hip-hop" which doesn't seem to wholly separate from psych anyway

Killah Priest Heavy Mental

the word 'psychedelic' has almost no meaning (to me at least) anymore. it seems to get wheeled out so often im not sure what people mean when its applied to describe most modern music.

thx 4 the info!

xpost - other semi psych rap = organized konfusions stress album and maybe the boogie monsters too.

Rubberroom

there's also these chilean kids i've been hyping, ceaese hiperkinetiko - the beats on their album "planeta mutante" just head off elsewhere at times, it's like if timbo + the neptunes were in a spanish speaking bone thugs. on first site they just come off a some typical blog house / nu rave / whatev kids but might want to check.

http://www.myspace.com/ceaese

chile's actually kind of a hotbed... might want to check out some of the selections on tonossepia's recent mixes

http://www.neurotyka.cl/en/2008/12/tonossepia-soledad_sonora/
http://www.neurotyka.cl/2008/12/mixtape-2/

killah priest?!?

see if you can find the title track to Heavy Mental

Lil Wayne - I Feel Like Dying

I know, all over this thread, but should be repeated.

The center of psyche-Hip-Hop is Justin Warfield, circa 1993:

Also, Justin's appearance on this:
Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob Mix)

New Kingdom, of course

New Kingdom - Cheap Thrills (video version)

no divine styler?

And yeah, Jungle Brothers abandoned Crazy Wisdom Masters (which some highlights appear on J Beez with the Remedy). Portions of that album are barely hip-hop...just noise.

Specifically, the two tracks you need are JB's Comin' Through linked to Spittin' Wicked Randomness.

These two tracks remain my benchmark for how far hip-hop can go and still affect me in a good way.

(no youtube available - an early, completely different, non-psyche version of Comin' Through is on youtube)

xp Yeah, Divine Styler, Ned's friend and lover. His 2nd album is crazy. Maybe too crazy for me.

Same for New Kingdom's 2nd album. Too far gone.

i saw new kingdom live once, man they were great

X-Clan had some trippy almost proggy tracks on their breakthrough record.

Also, Son Of A Bazerk may have had a psychedelic groove at some point.

maybe some Deltron.

cann ox maybe?

Volume 10-sunbeams

I wonder how much Dream Warriors, PM Dawn, and hell, some Beastie Boys are requested here...

I mean, MCA's distorted, distant vocal in Car Thief were the first time I thought "am I on drugs?" while listening to Hip-Hop. I think the working title was "DUST JOINT" on the demos, right?

First time I thought am I on drugs watching a video was PM Dawn's Plastic (which oddly, I haven't seen since it aired in 1993, so maybe I WAS on drugs!)

The best PM Dawn that hasn't aged horribly isn't on youtube (Personal Gravity, Non-Fiction Burning with Flora Purim, etc)

Some PM Dawn contenders-maybe-not since they aren't too rappy, and more so, so damned dated:

Downtown Venus

You Got Me Floatin' (trubute to Hendrix)

Paper Doll

Maybe "Table of Contents" by The Roots from Things Fall Apart.

Not a Sixtoo fan, but I do have his track "Sultry", and it would work.

that Edan album is fucking great btw

what with all the name checking for new kingdom, justin warfield and the jungle brothers (and perhaps pm dawn ??), you'd think that scott harding was the main man for a while back there given that he is on the production credits for each of them.
in which case, lets mention his own solo joint : kill dog-e that was released on wordsound.
not exactly psyche, but in a very similar corner as the new kingdom stuff, though a little more tough.

sensational was *kind* of psych-rap-ish.

sensational was all over crazy wisdom masters /jay beez w/the remedy

the volume 10 track up there is some wack remix, so no.

UMCs "Never Never Land"
Paul's Boutique, obviously

jay beez w/the remedy

^^^this album is also amazing. lost classic

that sensational album is great

he almost had a sorta cough syrup vibe but totally different than a screw type cough syrup vibe

he was the quietest rapper ever too.

no offense to all the well-meaning folks on this thread but there's some truly terrible music being mentioned here! perhaps "psychedelic hip hop" is just...not a good thing?

I can't believe I've taken this long to finally get the Crazy Wisdom Masters boot. Kinda O_o

Good Crazy Wisdom Masters info:

http://unheard78.blogspot.com/2009/06/jungle-brothers-crazy-wisdom-masters.html
http://musichertz.blogspot.com/2008/08/crazy-wisdom-masters-payback-10-ep.html

My collected tracklist thus far

Troopin' On The Down Lo
Battle Show
Blahbludify
Good Ole Hype Shit
Hedz at Kompany Z
Man Made Material
Peace Akhi
Play To Win (From The Jungle Approach)
Ra Ra Kid
Simple As That (orig. Laswell mix)
Spittin' Wicked Randomness (JB's Comin' Through)

baby bam lives near me! i had no idea. i want to sell his dvd in my record store. great interview here:

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10044

he's into paganism. same here!

Supposedly, he was the driving force behind much of this, and some of the instrumental tracks are all him. Still digging on this...

I did interview him around the release of Raw Deluxe, and I gushed about Spittin' Wicked Randomness upon meeting him, but at that time, I really was unaware of the CWM back story to even bring it up.

hey pappa! that stuff sounds cool. thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3i2fOQ3iM

New one to me, nice. Reminded me of Beefheart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zS24izhfRM&feature=related

Divine Styler's 2nd goes too far off the map for me in places but when it's still recognisably hip hop it's astonishing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B179i79LtkA&feature=related

yeah I thought I would like that Divine Styler record but uh most of it is kind of grating

saw New Kingdom in a small club with about 15 ppl in it around the time their 2nd album came out, unreal energy

Too much spoken word on the Divine Styler record. If you can rap, why would you waste time on spoken word? And if you can ride a beat like you do on Grey Matter why twat about with sub-Hendrix guitar solos? Too many obvious signifiers of psychedelia, not enough assimilation.

The Divine Styler is basically the most #based album ever.

Holy crap.

https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-24-5-1

cool!

wau

Finally got around to listening to that mix yesterday. Soooo awesome, never would have seen it if it weren't linked itt. Thanks.