That hip hop thread...

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The Feline Solution 2 dijo:
Listening to some classic Aesop Rock right now.
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Oddly, I just realized most of Aesop's albums I like came later when he moved labels from Def Jux to Rhymesayers. The production really hits me.


The Feline Solution 2 dijo:
Listening to "Fantastic Damage" in full tonight for the first time in a million years myself. Perfect album from start to finish.
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I'd add the weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx (cringey to type 😬) tapes contain some memorable instrumental works.


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WaterDeluxe dijo:
I wish I lived in the alternate universe where Camu beat his lung cancer. Without his passing, Def Jux probably wouldn't have dissolved, and he could've shown the world his genius.
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Speaking of less than six degrees of separation, from Camu's wiki page:

He was also part of the MHz crew with Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki tha Motamouth, and Tage Future.
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Never thought I'd see Copywrite and RJD2 being mentioned in the same sentence.
 
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I was listening to Armand Hammer lately and I thought one of their beats stood out. I found out on Discogs that the producer was A.M. Breakups. 90% of his work is instrumental and he's very solid.

A.M. Breakups' Bandcamp (his discography on Discogs is incomplete)


Instrumental version

 
The Feline Solution 2 dijo:
YT feed hitting me with the utmost nostalgia:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pNJHDrPAYgBeen so long ago since i last heard this track that i only clicked because i couldn't remember which exact track this was, despite listening to the album non-stop in my very early teens. Gang Starr, and especially "Full Clip", was my first conscious contact with US rap. I did listen to other stuff like Snoop's "Murder was the Case" before that via one of my older brothers but Gang Starr's stuff was the shit i first listened to of my own volition.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-h6HygbWyGw
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RIP to the legend Guru. Fun fact: he voiced 8-Ball from GTA III. You know if you listen to a Gang Starr album, you'll get nuggets of wisdom coated with raw intensity.


This song and the self-titled album is one great example. His voice, and rhyming perfectly blends with the somber beat from DJ Premier. When you hear it in Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, it gets harder to digest if you know what happened to Mirra.
 
sodomy lifestyle dijo:
Oddly, I just realized most of Aesop's albums I like came later when he moved labels from Def Jux to Rhymesayers. The production really hits me.
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I love Aesop, but after (and including) Skelethon he changed the way he records vocals and now he sounds like he's struggling. His voice used to sound warm and he was more relaxed, what the hell happened?

Old:

More recent:
 
Hentai-Semitism dijo:
I love Aesop, but after (and including) Skelethon he changed the way he records vocals and now he sounds like he's struggling. His voice used to sound warm and he was more relaxed, what the hell happened?

Old:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V_WcqTRrDh0
More recent:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7T_KKiQiolk
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I think I remember reading an interview he gave around the releases of Skelethon to Impossible Kid, where he said he changed the tone of his delivery because he thought he sounded like he was always angry, even though that wasn't how he felt. It could also just be him aging, plus all the touring/performing over the years couldn't have helped, since his songs are like 10x more lyrically dense than anyone else's.
 

Definitely one of the best racially conscious songs yet thanks to the minstrel animation and juxtaposition of "nigga."

No matter if you're rich, poor, light-skinned, or dark-skinned, your status in America is still "nigga." Now, who's to blame for that?
 
Lil Yachty has been saying very unpopular things about old school hip hop, particularly that Rapper’s Delight was wack. Of course, since he is a “mumble rapper”, he is getting a lot of backlash from the old heads: IMG_2803.png IMG_2805.png IMG_2806.png IMG_2807.png IMG_2808.png IMG_2809.png
 
As you can tell from my avatar, BULLY by Ye/Kanye West is a B/B-

I'm content with it and I found out his recent So-Fi stadium concerts were a big success. Either way, I'm really happy for him. Plus, Billboard just reported its on the verge of selling 150k-200k in the first week and it will land at #2 on the Billboard 200.
 
The Feline Solution 2 dijo:
"Just a kid growing up"
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that whole song samples and uses video from a legendary documentary called 'Style Wars'. he actually does a lot of contrasting in his music video with the documentary which was pretty cool
i linked the timestamp it appears, if you keep watching for a couple minutes you see how he layered his video and the doc at the subway underpass.
finding the original photo is super hard, i scoured for way more time than i'd admit on the published images of train cars from Henry Chalfant & Martha Cooper.
but i think the style resembles 'Blade' who used clouds a lot as his backdrop, and you can notice around the phrase there's what looks like clouds. just a guess:

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could also be the artist 'Seen' as in the documentary it's around that segment of his stuff.
also could be 'Skeme' as he liked his little phrases as well. but he was left handed and i think you'd tell his handwriting apart.
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sorry i couldn't be more help.
 
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tarzor dijo:
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that whole song samples and uses video from a legendary documentary called 'Style Wars'. he actually does a lot of contrasting in his music video with the documentary which was pretty cool
i linked the timestamp it appears, if you keep watching for a couple minutes you see how he layered his video and the doc at the subway underpass.
finding the original photo is super hard, i scoured for way more time than i'd admit on the published images of train cars from Henry Chalfant & Martha Cooper.
but i think the style resembles 'Blade' who used clouds a lot as his backdrop, and you can notice around the phrase there's what looks like clouds. just a guess:

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could also be the artist 'Seen' as in the documentary it's around that segment of his stuff.
also could be 'Skeme' as he liked his little phrases as well. but he was left handed and i think you'd tell his handwriting apart.
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sorry i couldn't be more help.
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Has been forever ago that i watched Style Wars, it was what got me into graffiti originally, like so many other kids around my age back then. It could very well be Seen (legendary writer, together with Cope 2 and T-Kid the best artists out of NY. Revolutionaries, really.) who did the "Just a kid growing up" and not T-Kid but i am still fairly sure it's on a T-Kid train. Early NY graffiti scene was crazy, kids did Whole Cars with hair spray nozzles, long before the invention of the fat cap, don't even want to know how long that took standing in the yard on average.
 
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