Saddest rap song

What is it? I can only think of two rap songs that have affected me emotionally-- "All That I Got is You" by Ghostface Killah, and "Changes" by 2Pac. What have I missed?

I'll prob get a few zings for this, but "Dry Your Eyes"?

wu-tang 'i can't go to sleep' altho it's probably too bombastic to really count

saddest rap song not in english maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIT1w6PrAmc

"All That I Got is You" definitely a contender

I think it kinda even gets to my wife, which is rare for a rap song... otoh it came on in the car the other day and when it got to the 5 Percent bit at the end she was like "why is this guy laughing?" Which is true, it's oddly incongruous.

it's words of wisdom from a sagacious mystic who understands that our trials and tribulations are only a tiny part of a cosmic play. i guess that's pretty funny.

The Limitations of Hip-hop

all you dicks who always want sad hiphop

you and me were best friends, we talked about abortions
as little girls, hair braided on the same porches
we promised each we would share the same losses
your babydaddy passed, we shared the same losses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZMwpbJn2pU

it's disappointing that you fell off - well, not fell off
i just can't accept you not being well off
it wouldn't be me if i didn't tell all
i even tried to call you but your cell off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5srnNrICJo

obviously

What is are the saddest hiphop tracks of all time?

zvooster otm

also rap is the new blues, man

I always thought De La Soul did melancholy really well... "I Am I Be," "Pass The Plugs," "Held Down," "Trying People." Those songs are all so achy.

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

how has no one mentioned face's verse on "this can't be life" yet?

I was gonna mention My Mind's Playing Tricks On Me... def some sad shit in the Geto Boys catalog

can we do happy rap songs next

favourite introspective rap songs

angry rap songs

ugk - one day

they reminisce over you

classic song and even better cuz it's so subtle and the sadness is allowed to kind of seep in around the edges of the track, the lyrics are a little more diffuse and fractured storytelling and less straight emotional than say a tupac style sad jam but there's this overall feeling of melancholy...and they let the music evoke the feelings too instead of filling in all the dots for you....

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

Atmosphere, "Yesterday"
Scarface, "I Seen a Man Die"

the saddest rap song is probably that one that the piano guy from the style council sang on the first style council album. can't remember the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbfg7jpTT_o

what's the most ambivalent rap song of all time?

how do want it to be sad? what are the emotional and musical signifiers of the saddest hiphop you can think of?
― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, September 6, 2002 5:30 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and if this turns into a thread just listing shit like aesop rock and millie pulled a pistol on santa i swear to god i will never fucking post to ilm again
― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, September 6, 2002 5:33 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

and if this turns into a thread just listing shit like aesop rock and millie pulled a pistol on santa i swear to god i will never fucking post to ilm again
― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, September 6, 2002 5:33 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

yeah good riddance

Millie is a pretty sad song

i almost didn't want to answer this question, after reading it so late and there already being so many other good examples, but i might as well. 't.r.o.y.' and 'millie pulled a pistol on santa' are just wonderful. both'll get me misty-eyed whenever i listen to them. that piano bit on 'millie' is devastating. and the wu stuff is true, there's never a time when they aren't being emotional, and half the time it's wistfulness. what more could you ask for?

― ethan padgett, Monday, March 12, 2001 5:00 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark

wait aren't those two posts by the same guy

Yeah, Pete Rock, Scarface and Ghostface were my first thoughts.

Also, Outkast's Da Art of Storytellin' Part 1

Kanye West - Runaway

wait aren't those two posts by the same guy

― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 16, 2010

do u think maybe the plethora of threads in the interim, plus the ignorant nature of the premise in the first place, informed the second comment? could it be????

I can only think of two jazz songs that have affected me emotionally - "So What" by Miles Davis, and "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane. What have I missed?

do u think maybe the plethora of threads in the interim, plus the ignorant nature of the premise in the first place, informed the second comment? could it be????

probably but I don't really care? just confirming that ethan = simon. I have never been good at keeping track of people's IDs here

how do u know who to h8, must be tricky

well Geir never changes his name.

ethan always made it abundantly clear that he hated me, so that one was also usually pretty simple. I wasn't here when he was posting with his own name though.

The premise of all questions is ignorance. ILX will likely be around another 10 years, and someone will ask the same question then, and that will be... okay. Why waste energy pretending otherwise?

hi pete, <3 ur stuff for city pages. symsymsym's last post gets at it imo tho i would've used "indie". plus trife had to basically change the subject and call out that something fishy was going on with this.

fishy? like a conspiracy to promote De La Soul and Aesop Rock?

sounds diabolical

in any case, ilx has a tradition of reviving threads over making new ones does it not

Cadillac on 22s

The saddest rap song has to be a chopped 'n' screwed version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ2u_UhNgss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pqiqrnZE44