The Hip-Hop Thread

#1
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? :p
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

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#2
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...
 
#3
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
 
#5
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.
 

kingsboi

Hall of Famer
#10
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

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#11
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.
 
#13
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.
 

Mr. S£im Citrus

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Staff member
#15
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

Hall of Famer
#16
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
 
#19
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.
 
#21
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.
 
#23
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.
 
#26
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Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em - MC Hammer
Music for the People - Marky Mark
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