The Hip-Hop Thread

[macadocious]

So, can we talk about how DU only had, like, five songs that got mainstream radio play, and your Top 5 just happens to include all four of them?

I was hoping that would go unnoticed. However, sometimes the best songs are the ones that get played.

I own(ed) sex packets and Sons of the P. and the Nothing but Trouble Soundtrack. But didn't really love their non mainstream stuff. :shrug:

Pick a different artist and lets see if I come back with the radio hits.


My wife took my son to the Luda/DMX/DU concert at G1C (Shock was not there) and he got to see DMX pray rap, which I was so excited for because it confused him mightily. RIP DMX/Shock/Black Rob

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Oh, it wasn't a diss: just having a little fun. Like, I love "Same Song," but it's also only my fourth-favorite song from that EP.

I also own every full-length album (and most of the EPs) ever released by DU, and I've listened to them all about a hundred times, so if anybody was going to catch that...

 

[macadocious]

Oh, it wasn't a diss: just having a little fun. Like, I love "Same Song," but it's also only my fourth-favorite song from that EP.

I also own every full-length album (and most of the EPs) ever released by DU, and I've listened to them all about a hundred times, so if anybody was going to catch that...

I understand it wasn't a diss, and I actually fully knew you would probably catch that. That being said. why don't we play the top 5 songs from X group. That could be fun for a few posts. I'll start with my favorite posed to you.

ATCQ - And go

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Top 5 Quest songs? Let's see:

1. God Lives Through
2. Check the Rhime
3. Midnight
4. Ham 'n' Eggs
5. Lyrics to Go

I wonder if you can guess what my favorite Quest album is?

 

[macadocious]

Midnight Marauders is a bit slept on for whatever reason, but I might be in agreement. It's really close to w/ Low End Theory.

Ok, so this is really hard for me

1. Scenario (not the remix)
2. Buggin Out
3. Award Tour
4. Find a Way
5. Steve Bilko (stir it up)

But I could list like 12 songs here.

Have you listed to their most recent album that was done just before Phife passed?


Now you pick a group.

 

[mrlaze]

I dont think I could ever pick my 5 favorite Tribe songs.

 

[mrlaze]

Vibes and Stuff, and Scenario are in the top for sure.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Have you listed to their most recent album that was done just before Phife passed?

I have not. If it's on Spotify, I'll have to spin it, once I get caught up on my backlog of podcasts.

Now you pick a group.

Now, I pick? Man, I don't know... Gang Starr, I guess?

 

[macadocious]

I have not. If it's on Spotify, I'll have to spin it, once I get caught up on my backlog of podcasts.



Now, I pick? Man, I don't know... Gang Starr, I guess?

1. code of the streets
2. dwyck
3. Mass appeal
4. Work
5. Take it personal

 

[kingsboi]

I have to contribute here with my personal Gang Starr top 5. Didn't realize there were more Hip-Hop heads on this forum. Let's keep this going.

1. Betrayal
2. Above the Clouds
3. Mass Appeal
4. Deadly Habitz
5. Moment of Truth

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I'm not really a hip-hop head, to tell the truth. I couldn't have done more than another couple rounds of "Name your five favorite hip-hop tracks from X?" I've always been more of an R&B/New Jack Swing kind of guy; Digital is actually the only group that I really **** with the long way, like that. As for my own five favorite Gang Starr tracks:

1. B.Y.S.
2. Words I Manifest
3. Mostly the Voice
4. Much Too Much
5. (tie) Rite Where U Stand/Take it Personal

In any case, I think I'll split this into its own thread, so that people will actually know what's being talked about, and maybe it'll get a little more attention, that way.

 

[macadocious]

I forgot about manifest, that should be on my list.

 

[mrlaze]

I too am not that much of a hip hop guy. I like it a lot I'm just not well versed. I'm pretty niche in what I like and don't like.

For example I dont think I can name a single Gang Starr song. I would probably recognize a few.

 

[macadocious]

Slim, I guess I always just assumed you knew my SN origins base on some previous interactions, but maybe that was an incorrect assumption.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I would say that I think I guessed rightly, but when it comes to hip-hop, I know a little about a lot, but I only know a lot about very little.

 

[kingsboi]

let's go with top 5 Wu-Tang songs next. I'll start

1. Mystery of Chessboxin'
2. Gravel Pit
3. Protect Ya Neck
4. Can it be so simple
5. 7th chamber

 

[macadocious]

ok, now we are getting into my zone

1. Protect Ya Neck
2. Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit
3. METHOD Man
4. Triumph
5. CREAM

 

[kingsboi]

favorite Wu member? and favorite album from your choice

 

[macadocious]

Thats like asking me to pick my favorite child.


But I'll try

RZA

Enter the 36 Chambers

Method Man & Tical are close.

GZA and Liquid Swords would be next.

 

[kingsboi]

no mention of Supreme Clientele? I am shocked

 

[macadocious]

Im old

Honestly after the double CD, I didn't love a lot of what came out.

When Bobby Digital came out, IDK, it was a bit weird.

I'll give it a re-listen, but its not in the rotation.

 

[kingsboi]

I'd definitely recommend another spin. Word play is on point. Production top notch.

 

[serbiangoat]

Warcloud when I use to listen to rap was my favourite Wu-Tang member very underground type rapper and I think he went to an insane asylum which if you listen to his strange raps is not a surprise.

 

[macadocious]

There are only 9 Wu members of + capadonna

 

[kingsboi]

next topic of discussion, give me your top 5 favorite underground hip-hop albums

 

[macadocious]

Whoomp There it is - Tag Team
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em - MC Hammer
Music for the People - Marky Mark
As Nasty as they Wanna Be - 2 Live Crew
12 inches of Snow - Snow

 

[kingsboi]

Can't say that I've listened or even heard of a single one of those albums mentioned

 

[macadocious]

Lol, what?

I mean it was a joke post, but what?

 

[kingsboi]

not my era and before my time

 

[macadocious]

My son is 15 and has heard all of those. I wasn’t born when Ray Charles was popular, but I’ve heard most of his music.