Anyone here checking any recent Hip Hop...

[Freddy C]

....or have you enough to do keeping up with all things JA?

[admin]

Are Dilated Peoples still going?

I liked their albums The Platform and Expansion Team.

Also love Jurassic 5 (just got Chali 2 Na's solo album).

I love hip hop as long as it's got that old school fun vibe to it and it ain't all gangsta shite.

Respect

Gordy

[professor]

Jurassic 5 are mighty, DJ Format's records have that old school thing but I love Dr Dre productions, slackness and all.

[bedward]

Eden - Beauty and the Beat
Buck 65
but not too much

[Freddy C]

In case anyone is going to do a search - just thought I'd mention that it should be 'Edan'.

There's so much good stuff out there from recent times that I think I shall bother this thread some more a little later.

Y'all know the way you say 'reggae' to an unsuspecting casual music listener and they say 'Bob Marley' ....

....well with Hip Hop it's much more worrying .... they'll probably think of 50 Cent or 2Pac.

[admin]

Here's a top tune from a couple of years back:

Mr Brown by Styles Of Beyond

s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MX0CU9YG9BBF2XWHD30CLYBS7

Respect

Gordy

[Freddy C]

I have that one already - but just in case anyone's curious - yes it is that "Mr. Brown".

[Richter Atmosphere]

Have you guys seen Scratch (the hip hop DJ documentary)? I'd say that it's my favorite music documentary that I've ever seen, and I respect the art form much much more after having viewed the DVD.

[kalcidis]

Hiphop was the first music I fell in love with so I've been listening to it a whole lot actually. But I'm more stuck on the late 80's vibe than the new stuff. One of the few groups that always check out is The Coup!

They're political, funky, intellectual and just cool like hiphop should be!

[Richter Atmosphere]

My radio station's putting on a hip hop night at a carribean restaurant tonight. Gonna check it out with my girlfriend...

Here's the link to KDVS' programming schedule. There are some hip hop shows that you can stream.

www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/schedule_grid.cfm

[BMC]

With all these sections, this topic almost went by unnoticed by me. I love recent (and not recent) hip hop. Some artists / groups that I play frequently:

Blackalicious, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Afu-Ra, The Pharcyde, The Roots, Pete Philly & Perquisite (from the Netherlands, wicked first album out!), Arsonists.

Great music I tell ya!

[gryffe]

Freddy - not really got much time for hip hop after mid 90s to be honest. For any "old skool" fans here, Tommy Boy Records are 2/3rds of the way through a major overview of hip hop from 1979-1991. The albums are called Hip Hop Essentials Volume 1-12. I have just acquired Vols 1-4, am awaiting delivery of Vols 5-8 and Vols 9-12 will be released in March. Artists include Public Enemy, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, A tribe Called Quest, Kurtis Blow etc. This months issue of Record Collector has a big 5 star review of these albums - here is a link to the official website - www.hiphopessentials.net


Truly recommended

[jahspear]

My first post, following a migration from the blood and fire forum ;D

I've recently re-discovered Three Foot High and Rising by De La Soul. Wow, this is still so so fresh. What is their other stuff like?

I must admit I've bought a lot of hip hop in the past and I'm often left disappointed. I cannot get into any of the madlib, victor vaughan, dangerdoom stuff. The recent stuff I have liked has been

Cannibal OX - Cold Vein, GhostFace Killah - Supreme Clientelle, el-p, anti-pop consortium and anything by buck 65. The illegal download of the grey album by dangermouse (Jay Z black album remix) is quite good.

[Freddy C]

quoting Gordy:
"Are Dilated Peoples still going?I liked their albums The Platform and Expansion Team".

Their new album "20/20" is dropping next week in the US. Capleton's on it -

Firepower (The Tables Have To Turn) feat. Capleton

www.undergroundhiphop.com/

...."Dilated Peoples, are getting ready to gear up for a full North American tour/assault on your senses and getting serious TV love in the process. Carson Daly, while not stuffing his face with choch, throws down with Dilated on his late night show. The lead single “Back Again” is getting major west coast radio play and a video with all types of west coast cameos just got shot for it. All this is gearing up for “20/20.” Dilated really went for broke on this one, coming with their hardest hitting beats to date and really seeming to be as focused as ever. You know you need to check this; your friends who don’t even listen to hip-hop will be telling you about it if you don’t. God they’ve come along way since “Third Degree” back in 97 on a then fledgling ABB."

[Freddy C]

Here's a few albums I've bought and enjoyed over the last couple of years:

8000000 Stories - Soul Position
Scars And Memories - MF Grimm
Weather Proof - Cage
Revolutionary Vol.2 - Immortal Technique
My Own Worst Enemy - Ed OG & Pete Rock
Original Rude Bwoy - Mighty Casey
Self Science - Self Scientific
Soon Come - Asheru and Blue Black of The Unspoken Heard
Clear Blue Skies - Juggaknots
Masters of Illusion - Kutmasta Kurt
Plantation Rhymes - Bigg Jus
Big Bang Boogie - Akbar
Embedded Joints - Various
Embedded Studios Presents the Bedford Files - Various

[gryffe]

i would recommend the madvillainy album to you freddy - easily the best hip hop album in recent memory - www.metacritic.com/music/artists/madvillain/madvillainy

[Freddy C]

quoting Gryffe: "i would recommend the madvillainy album to you freddy - easily the best hip hop album in recent memory"

Agreed - I just reckoned that the more mainstream of the music press have probably all reviewed it - looking at your web link, I think that is the case. MF Doom is getting lots of coverage now - even a cover on WIRE magazine last year.

Here's a discography of his stuff from Peanut Butter Wolf's site:
stonesthrow.com/madvillain/mfdoom-discography.html

Plenty I don't have there. I bought that 3rd Base album that he first appeared on way back when it came out but didn't get KMD's debut "Mr. Hood" until maybe 3 or 4 years after it came out. Then I was hooked and started buying his 12" releases on Bobbito's Foldle'Em label whenever I could.

One artist I would probably collect everything by - but he's prolific now and I hardly keep up. He's really collectible now, too and there are loads of rarities and bootlegs which I usually miss.

Kinda nice that he was born in London (later moving to the US)and has Caribbean and South African heritage.

I just found out recently that another US based MC I like called Jean Grae (formerly known as What What and originally from South Africa) is the daughter of Abdullah Ibrahim of "Dollar Brand" fame!

[gryffe]

another release I liked last year was by a guy called Edan - kinda psychadelic hip hop
www.humblemagnificent.com/

[stephen]

bedward said:

Eden - Beauty and the Beat

Excellent record!!
I like London's own Infinite Lives as well

[Freddy C]

For some reason I've never heard that Edan album or the one before it "Primitive Plus", which really blew up for him. I have an older mix album by him though which mixs a lot of old skool tracks, called "Fast Rap".

Yeah, like the Infinite Livez too.

[lankou2]

not too much, no, apart from a few UK acts once in a while.
while digging in my closet a found an early 90's album by a guy called Laquan, from California.
it is absolutely tremendous musically speaking, great rapper too, though some nation of 5 % creeps in, which may not be everyone's cuppa.

[Freddy C]

I remember that name and the track "Now's The B Turn" just don't remember what is sounded like. I found the album listed here and it's not too expensive.
tinyurl.com/d3exy

Speaking of five percenters, I'm pretty keen on the Poor Righteous Teachers. I even picked up Wise Intelligent's solo album.

[lankou2]

yes, i really enjoy one PRT album, but their message is somehow less articulate than Laquan's.
his album is very musical, very jazzy, with very powerful beats, not unlike the great Sons of Bazerk, no idea what they became but that is another of my fave hip hop albums.nothing new, eh!