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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 1:49:28 GMT
If there was one hip hop album you could recommend to anyone who doesn't normally like hip-hip, what would it be?
It's a tough call, but I'd probably go with Doggystyle....
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Post by fees on Mar 4, 2017 2:35:58 GMT
Doggystyle is one of the greats. Snoop peaked early.
I'll go with Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Smooth jazzy samples under hard as fck beats, with smooth jazzy Tip adding the final layer. It's representative of Dope Hip Hop, it's unobtrusive, and the lyrics have none of the usual gripes non-headz usually have with rap; no misogyny, no gangsta posturing, no materialism or champagne popping or anti-white-ness or reinforcements of the idea that all rap is the same. Just pure dopeness of the most excellent kind.
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Post by filmfan95 on Mar 4, 2017 5:02:59 GMT
Oh yeah. Can't get enough of the that "Snoop Doggy Dogggggggggggg! (The bomb!) Snoop Doggy Doggggggggggggggggg!" I used to have that whole song memorized.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Mar 4, 2017 14:34:12 GMT
Have the Doggystyle fans all listened to the source album, George Clinton - Computer Games? Now that is a fine record...
As for an alternative intro, howsabout The Blueprint? V smooth, and got that "Girls, Girls" track which is a completely inclusive song which everyone can enjoy...
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Post by Mr_K_Pratt on Mar 5, 2017 1:45:52 GMT
I can remember loads of people who didn't normally like hip hop liking Cypress Hill's 'Black Sunday'.
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Post by misternick on Mar 6, 2017 18:41:54 GMT
It's really hard to boil it don't to just one but I'd go with A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
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Post by cypher on Mar 9, 2017 1:21:24 GMT
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Mar 9, 2017 11:41:37 GMT
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
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Post by Times Up on Mar 12, 2017 0:51:21 GMT
Guess it depends on one's age and taste. Otherwise to just choose one of my favorites, I'll go with Gang Starr's "Step in the Arena" since I'm a jazz fan and they turned me on to the genre.
As far as modern stuff, Run the Jewels' 2nd album, appropriately titled "Run the Jewels 2." Great independent hip hop supergroup.
Great recommendations y'all, especially those last 3.
For sheer lyricism, Rakim "The 18th Letter."
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Post by misternick on Mar 13, 2017 17:29:09 GMT
Guess it depends on one's age and taste. Otherwise to just choose one of my favorites, I'll go with Gang Starr's "Step in the Arena" since I'm a jazz fan and they turned me on to the genre. As far as modern stuff, Run the Jewels' 2nd album, appropriately titled "Run the Jewels 2." Great independent hip hop supergroup. Great recommendations y'all, especially those last 3. For sheer lyricism, Rakim "The 18th Letter." ONE.
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Post by Times Up on Mar 13, 2017 18:11:56 GMT
Guess it depends on one's age and taste. Otherwise to just choose one of my favorites, I'll go with Gang Starr's "Step in the Arena" since I'm a jazz fan and they turned me on to the genre. As far as modern stuff, Run the Jewels' 2nd album, appropriately titled "Run the Jewels 2." Great independent hip hop supergroup. Great recommendations y'all, especially those last 3. For sheer lyricism, Rakim "The 18th Letter." ONE. DORK
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Post by danielplainview on Mar 21, 2017 6:51:58 GMT
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 16:10:40 GMT
Jan El SeñorI would agree about Snoop Dog's Doggie Style record. Another mainstream rapper I recommend because of it's decent sound would be Drake's Thank Me Later. His subsequent records have like one or two good songs. That reminds me to listen to this record again.
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Post by itsthatguyme on Aug 1, 2017 23:23:30 GMT
If I had to pick one ...mmmmm..prolly Enter the 36 chambers by Wu Tang . It changed rap forever.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 21, 2017 8:35:23 GMT
1990's is easily the golden-era of rap music in my mind (damn near anything of any real worth is from that decade) as it's what i grew up on as a teenager (i was a teen from late 1992 through most of 1999). but since the OP mentioned it... basically what first got me into music was the song Dre Day (from Dr Dre - The Chronic (1992)) but after that was the CD the OP mentioned and more specifically the "What's My Name?" song. i remember seeing those music videos (Dr Day/Whats My Name) on MTV back in the day. in fact, i still have a recording from the radio of that song (What's My Name) which i first taped off the radio to cassette tape on Oct 22nd 1993 which i would have just turned 14 years old a little before that date. but obviously, i don't use that cassette anymore as i just hang onto it for nostalgia sake so while Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg got me into music (as i listened to basically nothing but rap from about 13 years old til my mid-20's simply because no other music was enjoyable enough for me to listen to back in those days) i think raps all around peak for me personally is with 'No-Limit Records' (Master P's record company) in 1998 as a higher percentage of everything they released from 1998 or older is quality but after that they began their decline and were never the same overall. one of my favorite CD's (if not my #1 overall) from No-Limit Records would be 'C-Murder - Life or Death (1998)' (sadly, that was his first and only truly good album). i still have a large portion of these CD's i bought back around that time to which would be generally in the 1998-2000 range or so. i used to have a bunch of random rap CD's (including that Gravediggaz CD mentioned in another post in here above(but i dumped this to but i did rip the 'Bang Your Head' song to my computer in FLAC format before dumping this as i remember that was basically the main song i liked on that CD back in the day but i am not even sure if that would hold up for me all that much now) but i have since dumped a good portion of the ones i don't really care for/use much (i just backed some of the ones i dumped to FLAC) not all that long ago (earlier this year). but i still have about 69 Rap CD's (like the actual CD's i had since the old days) though as i just took a quick count and that's after i dumped a decent portion of what i did have earlier this year as i mostly just kept the ones i still might use from time to time. but as far as the topic... with that 'recommend to someone who don't normally listen to rap', i might go with something from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony like The Art of War (1997) or Krayzie Bone - Thug Mentality (1999) (those are amongst my favorite rap CD's in the 1990's) as they don't sound like your typical rappers with their overall style/voice. i think those two CD's are easily the Top 2 CD's released from anyone tied to that group (Krayzie Bone is a rapper in the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony group if anyone is wondering. he was always my favorite rapper of the 4-5 of em and when he released the Thug Mentality album that further confirmed it). but with that said... Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle album i am sure is going down as one of those more hall-of-fame type of things. but i suspect for rappers in general that 2Pac would be hard to beat as he seems like he's got wider appeal than the vast majority of rappers i suspect. p.s. if anyone finds what the OP is talking about (i.e. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)) interesting then this link will be of some interest... www.datafilehost.com/d/e4269017 ; have fun fees Yeah, but that usually happens with either someones first record, or not long after that, they peak and then go downhill. there are probably not that many who remain popular for many years as i figure you might get 5 years or so, maybe 10 if your lucky, and then mostly disappear off the radar. i realize there are exceptions but this seems to be the cast for most. but i definitely agree that Doggystyle is definitely Snoop's best all around album and it's his first one.
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Post by poelzig on Sept 23, 2017 8:34:00 GMT
Sup with y'all silly white folks? No one has mentioned Fear of a Black Planet OR Hello Nasty Or even Greatest Messages?
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Post by cypher on Sept 27, 2017 12:39:22 GMT
Ugly Duckling - Taste The Secret
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Post by sostie on Oct 9, 2017 14:53:52 GMT
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jan 3, 2018 10:36:41 GMT
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