[Closed] Hip Hop you Don't Stop

what about Maybachs?

Ugly Duckling

Deltron 3030

Handsome boy modelling school

Blockhead

+1 for Deltron

MF Doom
Soul Position

Deltron 3030

Handsome boy modelling school

Yes

None of this is 'new' exactly, but try:

Common - Resurrection
Jurassic 5 - J 5
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Nas - Illmatic
Madvillain - Madvillainy

Listening to a lot of Virus Syndicate of late...

..but then I am a 17 year London Yout trapped in a the body of a 35 year old Fenland Tiger.

try Oddisee - Tangible Dream (or People Hear What They See) - Oddisee is great but underrated IMO.

Little Brother might well be up your street too.

Not exactly new but if you missed Wale's Mixtape About Nothing (2008 i think) give it a spin. He went a bit mainstream after that which is a shame, but that tape was awesome.

I'm a lifelong lover of Hip Hop, since the days of Doug E Fresh's 'The Show', Jazzy Jeff Live at Union Square etc. but didn't like the direction it went in the early 90's and lost faith a little. Recently been listening to the following and they've seriously helped restore my love 🙂

Not exactly brrrannd new but serious Hip Hop and none of yer commercialized 'gangsta shillz-nit'....

J-Live
J-Zone
Blueprint
Cool Calm Pete
Sandpeople
Jake One
Vast Aire
Cannibal Ox
Danger Doom
Doppelgangaz
Senim Silla
Talib Kweli
Company Flow
Audible Doctor
Grayskul
Atmosphere

quite alot of old 'new' stuff being listed... ! I'm going to add to this and say Quasimoto/madlib , he is fantastic.

I know Pitchfork like him but i really got into Kendrick Lemar's good kid maad city. Parts of it are a bit Rnb but it became my fave album of 2013, but it takes time i found

A lot of the Blackalicious/J5 people did other things after:

Chali 2na
Ozomatli
Dino 5
Gift of Gab
Lyrics Born

Then there's
Lateef
DJ Format
Lifesavas

The Pharcyde.

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

+1 for Quasi / madlib / MF Doom

for some brizzle action and not to be taken seriously how about Aspects

or some intelligent(ish) UK Hip Hop from Braintax

some bleep based stuff from Prefuse73 or for sh*ts and giggles try out MC Paul Barman

Jurassic 5
The Goats
Lords of the Underground
Funkdoobiest
Warren G
Snoop
DMX
Cypress Hill
KRS-1
House of Pain

Hilltop Hoods (if ya fancy some Aussie hippity hop?)
Scroobius Pip (ok not hip hop per se, more spoken word on decent beats, but still some awesome stuff)

Akala (check out Akala Fire in the boothpart 1).... in fact, im gonna listen to that now, heres the vid:

[url= https://clppng.bandcamp.com/music ]Clipping[/url] (my no.1 album of 2014 - its a bit nuts)
Shabazz Palaces
[url= https://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/jimmy-the-burnout ]Milo, Nocando & Busdriver[/url] (Hellfyre club don't go wrong)
[url= https://gorgeouschildren.bandcamp.com/album/gorgeous-children ]Gorgeous Children[/url] (mellow as they come)
[url= https://yellowmaskcxllective.bandcamp.com/music ]Jeremiah Jae[/url] (the JJ of JJ Doom)
Danny Brown
Subtle/Themselves (anything with Doseone!)
[url= https://greenhousecrew.bandcamp.com/album/electric-purgatory-part-one-retail ]Greenhouse[/url] (first album only, second one was rubbish)
Run the Jewels.

I could go on all day!

If you like your hip hop with more poetic/concious/witty/politcal/angry bent, or fancy something a bit leftfield for a change, try Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust is the best of his albums IMHO.

Conforms to your list of stuff you don't like.

'When I say "hip"' [i]'what do I say?'[/i] -'You say shut the f*ck up and I'll respect it.'

Check "Gunz Yo" - a good satire of gangsta hip hop culture:

4130 my mate is in the recently reformed Aspects..! Witness the Pitness Pitman too

Check out this comp:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Solesides-Greatest-Bumps/release/49167

Some great stuff from Lyrics Born, Latyrx and Gift of Gab. If you like it then look into their albums etc.

Homeboy Sandman too (similar to Milo)

For other 'talky beaty' stuff that may not be strictly hippity hop:

I remember Pitman! "What you always saying 'what, what' for?"

Dizraeli

I'm a lifelong lover of Hip Hop, since the days of Doug E Fresh's 'The Show', Jazzy Jeff Live at Union Square etc. but didn't like the direction it went in the early 90's and lost faith a little

That's a pretty accurate description of me 🙂

We were all about the electro albums, ghettoblasters, spraypaint, lino and the Rocksteady Crew in the mid 80s, but I haven't really listened to anything much other than the oldschool funk and breaks since '93..

A lot of my teenaged crew stayed true to the B-Boy lifestyle though.. Check out Ruztik Records, The Journeymen and Kilo Sinstars FBA

Wow some really good recommendations there, cheers. Handsome Boy Modelling School\Deltron3030, Solesides and People Under The Stairs were ones I probably should have already added as favourites. MF Doom I already appreciated was good but hadn't realised how good until picking up JJ Doom recently.

There's loads there I haven't listened to so looking forward to checking them out. I can't YouTube in work but will check out all the links when I get home.

Calamity James - Solesides is one of the best records ever!
But once you go - ooh I like that, lets find some more like that - you end up very disappointed indeed 🙁

Mantronix aswell.

Dirty North - contemporary, talented.
Or classics like Dead Prez, Jedi Mind Tricks...

"A lot of my teenaged crew stayed true to the B-Boy lifestyle though.."

Same. We were TUF (the unity force) - country boy white kids trying to live the B-boy lifestyle. Ghettoblasters, breakin, spraying graff in disused factories with car paints nicked from the local car parts shop etc. bombing walls in town. Some of the guys are still living like that (and I take my Kangol off to them) - I'm a 40-something typical Dad now 😀

+1 for homeboy sandman
Also check out 'my crews all thinner' by 2 Hungry Bros. My most listened to hip hop album of the last while

Too Many Ts (Londons answer to the Beasties?) Are a fun jump up hip hop boom blap outfit with their tongue firmly in cheek

Abdominal for me, he's done a lot with Format and the Pedal Pusher tune is kind of fitting!

But once you go - ooh I like that, lets find some more like that - you end up very disappointed indeed

Know what you mean. I remember hearing this and thinking there must be loads of hip hop that is this good that isn't about BitchesGunsAndDollaDollaBills y'all. I have found some (albeit maybe not quite as good as this) but it seems pretty difficult to find.

Don't get me wrong. Straight Outta Compton was awesome, so was 36 Chambers but they made a lot of the stuff in between and after seem...well..a bit bollocks.

I'll chuck my (Kangol) hat in.

Nehruvian Doom
People under the stairs.
Oddisse - that's really good call
Willie Evans Junior
Crown City Rockers

Old stuff I still love:-

Kool Keith
t la rock
Sadat x
Brand nubian
Public enemy
Anything from cold chillin
Kool G rap
MC Shan
Roxanne Shante

Philly connection

Schoolly D
Steady B
Tuff City Crew
3 times dope
Mc breeze.

This type of thread makes me think back to my beautiful youth, rapping with ultramagnetics, Gil Scott heron, roy ayers, mc solaar, k creative, and dozens of uk rappers. Happy times indeed.

[i]hip hop that is this good that isn't about BitchesGunsAndDollaDollaBills y'all[/i]

You need to follow my Hellfyre club link 😉 Some fab stuff on there (go for Milo first). Real intelligence in the lyrics as well.
Clipping are different, the lyrics grate for some people but the production is unbelievable, so original, impossible to find a comparison.

When I hear something that makes me think wow! I've not heard anything like that before, that's when I get excited about music. Shabazz Palaces are like that too, but more mellow than clipping.

j dilla
the roots
slum village
j electronica

all worthy of a listen

Has Dilated Peoples been mentioned

Recommended listening from my Aussie Hip Hop collection........

Dialectrix - Cold light of Day
Bliss n Eso - Circus in the Sky
Horrorshow - King Amongst Many
Hilltop Hoods - Walking Under Stars
Mainline - One Day
Spit Syndicate - Sunday Gentlemen.
Illy - The Chase.
Urthboy - Smokeys Haunt.

ha ha taught my little boy a poo song to the theme of the OP's title.

Plip, Plop you don't stop
Coz, Im not stopping
You're gonna hear the poo drrrroooopp!

Dying for him to sing it at nursery.....

Nothing else to add, apart from listening to a bit of DJ Krush at the moment and Kool Keith (Dr Octagon) has released a new album, Demolition Crash this year which is pretty good.

Pharoahe Monche for intelligent lyrics if a little angry in places. PTSD isn't a great album (his latest) apart from the title track but everything else has been pretty good.

Another vote for People under the stairs

Some of the older Mos Def stuff is pretty good

ANYTHING with Q-tip in it,

Souls of Mischief

The Roots

Del the Funky homosapien

Clipping are different, the lyrics grate for some people but the production is unbelievable, so original, impossible to find a comparison.

great tip. thanks! really fresh sounding.

more like lyrical peotry, but it's home grown 😀

Saul Williams?

Really liking The Herbaliser's "There Were Seven" album at the moment. Stand out track for me is Crimes And Misdemeanours

Also, [url=

Nu-Mark's "Broken Sunlight"[/url] is pure magic

Jedi Mind Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs are the good stuff:

Also worth a listen:

Hilltop Hoods
Atmosphere
Cannibal Ox
Z-Trip
Prince Paul

Of course, you could peruse the websites of labels like

Tommyboy Records

Definitive Jux

Ninja Tune

etc etc to get the latest on what is hawt

Task force still flying the UK flag.

[url=

FORCE. Music from the corner vol 5 - Another Day[/url]

Oh boy hip hop thread. Aesop rock is well worth a listen (try none shall pass), I'm a big fan of killer mike, el-p and run the jewels as well although you might find them a bit gangsta

Granville Sessions
Edward Scissortounge
Stanley Odd

Dirty Dike if you want it rude and achingly UK.

How about a shout for the UK:

Caxton Press
Manage
Verb T
Skuff
Fliptrix
Four Owls
Jam Baxter
Jehst
Task Force
Low Key
Dr Syntax and Tom Curuana

It is all quite incestuous and a lot of the solo artists listed appear in some of the collaborations. Some incredible albums released by all of the above.

Ninja tune is good, every now and again Kitsune have some decent hip/hop rap stuff.

I think these guys are German, and it's a bit jazzy/flowy but still soooooo cool

flow.... 😆

Masters of the Universe by Binary Star. 'tis awesome.

Mac Miller

That Lupe Fiasco - it's a mystery to me how stuff like that gets any success... it's not [i]bad[/i], just. so. incredibly... [i]ordinary[/i]!

This thread is a goldmine so far! I will add a couple to the list that I don't think have been mentioned so far, not brand new by any respect:

Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
Mark B & Blade - The Unknown
Buck 65(Ahem) - Talking Honky Blues and Square specifically for this thread
Saian Super Crew and MC Solaar if you can put up with not understanding the lyrics
Bike for Three - More Heart Than Brains
Childish Gambino - Camp
Dels -GOB

discovered [b]Masta Ace - Disposable Arts[/b] a few weeks back. Can't believe I missed that first time round....up there on the best album lists for sure

MF Doom & Run the Jewels - both keep me listening.

Another kid from a norther town thinking he was growing up in the 6th borough of Brooklyn here.

Lots of really good stuff has been mentioned already but hope this fills some gaps...

Aim - predominantly DJs but also some super chilled hip hop
Antipop Consortium
Beastie Boys - not sure how they've not come up so far!
Blown Celeb (side project of Dizzy from UD)
Common
Danger Mouse
De La Soul
Fatlip
Gangstarr - in fact anything produced by Premier
Giant Panda - great old school
Grand Puba - if you like a bit of Japanese
Hieroglyphics
J Dilla
J-Live
MF Doom/King Geedorah/Monsta Island Czars/Viktor Vaughn
Madlib - anything on Stones Throw
Mos Def (earlier stuff especially, black on both sides etc)
Percee P
The Pharcyde
Phil The Agony
Planet Asia
Rae and Christian
Rasco
RJD2 - producers but well worth a listen
Rob Swift
Saian Supa Crew - if you like a bit of French
Slum Village
Souls of Mischief
A Tribe Called Quest
Ugly Duckling - just super dooper fun times
Wildchild
Wu-tang Clan/RZA/GZA/Ghostface/Raekwon etc

Look on Soundcloud for
Mykki Blanco (Another oddball one 🙂 )

Some ladeez:

Azealia Banks
K Flay
Kid Sister
Kitty

Jon Wayne

Akala (check out Akala Fire in the boothpart 1).... in fact, im gonna listen to that now, heres the vid:

ruddy hell thats kinda good

Some ladeez: Azealia Banks

I listened to that 212 song non-stop for months.....amazing tune. Wasn't really that fussed on her other stuff though. For anyone who hasn't heard it.....it's well worth a listen. Bear in mind....it is very rude 😳

She has an album coming out "Broke With Expensive Taste" - it's not all brilliant, but the good stuff is really great.
Some of it is a bit r'n'b (I think she is trying for commercial success, unfortunately), but still ok by me.

Heard big things about this guy:

https://soundcloud.com/doubleohshreddin/united-splish-splash

😆

This afternoon I have been mostly listening to [url= https://soundcloud.com/octopusfleg ]DJ Fleg's[/url] B-Boy breaks mixes..

And if you like good time party breaks with a healthy dose of super slick turntablism check out the SW best kept secret [url= https://soundcloud.com/mixmastamullet/party-at-the-back-mix ]mix masta mullet[/url] who you can catch supporting Grandmaster Flash at Exeter Phoenix on 19th Dec 🙂

Am mainly lining too killer combo album by pete cannon an dr syntax. I bloody love it. also escape music by the mouse outfit. therer trying to get the cash together on kickstarter for a bus at moment 🙂
[url=

I thought that Azelia Banks 212 tune was Hip House... 🙂

[url= https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/816608177/a-tour-bus-for-the-mouse-outfit ]kickstarter[/url]

Iggy Azalea is dope.

Lots of good suggestions, used to love stuff like The Goats, Jeru, Goodie Mob, Da Lench Mob and EPMD etc. Check out John Wayne, Dabrye, Zackey Force Funk and Onra.

if you like Roots Manuva

try

Dels
Young Fathers
Ghostpoet
Scroobius Pip

Sweatshop Union
Kyprois

botanybay - Member
Iggy Azalea is dope.

How could I have forgotten:
[i]Young Fathers[/i]

Best live band of the year for me.

Also on a Brit tip Wiley's new album is great.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien

And this from Grand Central is teh asumzzzzz

There's loads!
Some of my favourite uk acts

Phi life cypher
Headcase Lads
Kid acne
Pitman

My buddy blade

Ra the rugged man
Large professor
Acrobatic

Love it

As an aside, probably not a thread to get into the rights/wrongs of the Ferguson situation... but here is Killer Mike - one half of aforementioned Run the Jewels - on stage last night & speaking about the current atmosphere of fear and anger.

Powerful language - and not even remotely safe for work.

[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/killer-mike-breaks-down-on-stage-over-ferguson-verdict-at-run-the-jewels-show-riots-are-the-language-of-the-unheard-9881354.html ]Killer Mike breaks down on stage over Ferguson verdict at Run The Jewels show: 'Riots are the language of the unheard'[/url]

Mac Dre - my all time favourite..

RIP ..

Ringo - Member

also escape music by the mouse outfit.

Very good shout, excellent album. Was gutted to miss them play recently.

eskay - Member
Ringo - Member
also escape music by the mouse outfit.

Very good shout, excellent album. Was gutted to miss them play recently.

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In no particular order but here is some artists to get stuck into....

The Roots
Common
Beastie Boys
Odd Future
Dead Prez
Abdominal
Best of Decade - Rawkus Records
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf
Quannum
Pharroahe Monch
People under the Stairs
Edan
Doom
Del the funky Homosapian
Cut Chemist
Ugly Duckling
TY
Time Machine Album - Krush - DJ Shadow - UNKLE
The Nextmen
Mos Def
Stones Throw Records 101
Roots Manuva
Talib Kweli

This just makes me chuckle

The Nextmen 🙂

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