Yep..

 

ha ha ha its too f'n complicated and where do you guys get those avatars of your cars.

 

Boss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMOy9SsUQ7U&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psdgRH_p3XI

 

Are you capping on Barry Manilow, favorite artist of Judge Harry T. Stone??

 

Never, you can't go wrong with Barry.

 

Listening to some Unknown Prophets right now (all in my head/phobia).

 

Man.. in high school I use to knock "this one" "changes" non stop.... memories

 

My favorite bay area rapper is Del the funky homeosapian. . .Since I'm originally from LA Aceyalone and the Freestyle Fellowship is my Favorite of ALL. . .off course they don't make rap music like they used too "back in the day. . ."-Ahmad (who remembers this cut??)

 

Oh man I lost all my Del, have like 5 tracks somehow. For me it was Del, Total Devastation, Pharcyde, Rappin 4-tay, such like that. Listening to Haiku D'Etat now - All Good Things.

 

I'll admit it - I love gangsta rap. 2pac, Westside Connection, Mac Dre, Biggie, E-40, Too Short and lil Wayne to name a few. I dunno, the beat and flow of some rappers can get me stoked! There is a lot of crappy rap out there but I still dig some of it.

 

I live eat breathe and bleed hip hop. Anyone else?

 

As far as hip-hop goes, I listen to errrthang. I don't really hate on much these days. Grab a cup of coffee cuz I love talking about rap music. Besides the standard issue Pac, Biggie, Nas, Jay-Z list. I'd support my local stuff like Hiero, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, and what not. I grew up listening to Sick Wid It label that dominated half of the early 90's (E-40, B-Legit, Suga-T, Celly Cel, etc, etc). LOVE Mac Mall. I'm cool with the hyphy movement and fire up the Mistah FAB or Federation stuff on the iPod from time to time. Love for LA with Dilated Peoples, J5, Pharcyde, Xzibit, etc. One of my favorite producers, Alchemist, is from LA. Even don't mind the Jerk scene with that New Boyz joint. Cannot, CANNOT ignore the birth of (real) gangsta rap with Snoop, NWA, Westside Connection, etc.

I dig the south, wasn't a HUGE fan of the chopped n' screwed stuff out of Texas years back, I'll admit. Really dug Scarface and Geto Boys (I loved listening to Bushwick Bill's interviews on TV). Big fan of OutKast, who I think were the hottest thing out of the ATL, EVER. T.I.'s pretty good, Jeezy's my guilty pleasure. I listen to stuff here and there that's got that southern swang to it. I used to talk mad crazy about Cash Money's stuff, but man, I can't help, but love a lot of Mannie Fresh's work. Florida's got me with the late 80's, early 90's Miami bass stuff. 2 Live Crew especially. Flo Rida and Pitbull, IMO, is "kinda" bringing back that kind of party music. Celph Titled from the Demigodz is from Tampa, FL. That man's got some of the most entertaining and quotable punchlines I've ever heard. Jin (Tha MC)'s also from FL (now Hong Kong, dig the Canto-rap, LOL).

Out of the midwest, Detroit's got Slum Village (RIP Baatin), Royce da 5'9", Eminem. J Dilla's a legend, as far as sampling records go (outside of Pete Rock, to me). At some point, I even indulged in some Juggalo stuff with Insane Clown Posse. Crazy, insane, funny music. Chicago's got Kanye (duh), Common, Twista's "okay", dabbled in a bit of Do Or Die, then Kidz in the Hall, Lupe gets regular spins in the Subaru. HUGE fan of Cool Kids (one dude's from Detroit, other's from Chicago, I think?). Then there's a phase where I listened to a lot of Bone Thugs n' Harmony. Could not understand 80% of what they said. That double timed flow blew my freakin' mind. Well, until I heard Twista's world record breaking clips. Haha. Speaking of Cleveland, I'm warming up to Kid Cudi.

I'd cover New York, but there's way too many bases for me to touch here. KRS, Rakim, Gang Starr, LL, Wu-Tang, Big L (hell, the whole DITC), Papoose (I seriously think he's going to get shelved by his label), Busta Rhymes, MOP (love that in your face grimy, stick-up kids music), there's a TON I could name here. I miss the old Mobb Deep stuff, really bad. Go further up in Canada, you got Kardinal Offishall, k-os, and recently, Drake. In Philly, you got The Roots, Freeway, Cassidy, Bahamadia, Jedi Mind Tricks, etc. Then Demigodz (Apathy) out of Connecticut. Go further down, in Virginia, you got Skillz (love the annual year end "rap-up"), Missy Elliot, and my favorite, CLIPSE. The Neptunes and Timbaland's from VA, I always liked a lot of their work. Out in the UK, you got Dizzy Rascal and Lady Sovreign with that grime/electronic stuff. Out in Asia, I dug Drunken Tiger (Korea) and Teriyaki Boyz (Japan). I already mentioned Jin, who's now doing really well in HK.

I truly think that I approach hip-hop in a way where I just want to absorb everything from all regions and popularity. I try not to have a snob-like mentality about it either because I might miss out on some good stuff out there. I feel everything deserves at least a spin out of me. Hip-hop's been my best friend since I was 10. Dabbled in random hip-hop stuff like graffin', went through a breakin' phase. I still do some poppin', real fun. Learned how to DJ a lil' a while back. I can't write or rap, but I did try at some point. It was a hilarious failure, so I stuck with making beats for a while. The moment I heard Ice Cube's "Steady Mobbin'" on KMEL, I didn't turn back since. Sorry about the HUUUUGGEEE name-dropping post. =)

 

^ fun read

 

killah priest and the wu tang era in the mid 90s was the ****

i used to walk home from middle school everyday listenin to triumph and cream

 

Triumph and cream are effing hard ^^. But yeah its all about real hip hop from back in the day like J5, tribe called quest, Dell, wutang etc. There are even some artist now who still make real hip hop like nas, talib kweli, Lupe fiasco, kanye west etc. Like Nas said " hip hop is dead". I don't consider this new stuff hip hop. It's garbage to me. Back then they rapped about different topics. They told u a story through their song. Now all they rap about is how much money they have, how many bit**** they Fu**, their cars, how big their rims are, how many people they shot and so on. It all sounds the same. I want some real music not some fake crap just so they can get rich off it. Artist now are just making like one hit wonders. A stupid lil song with a corus that catches everyone. They rap like five lines and the rest of the song is the corus over and over again. That's not hip hop. Well that's all I have to say haha.