Scarface - No Tears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJ9ArSlUG0

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Hardcore Gangasta rap is always good. Blaring bass, tinted window on an Audi or Vee-Dub or other "exclusive" Euro cars.. One white suburban white kid at a time across America.. Haha.

I personally like to listen to some funky lyrical interlude/duels:

Fu Schnickens: What's up Doc?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPVbtK0celM&feature=fvw

Jurassic 5 - Improvise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbQppZoEhU

Jurassic 5 were masters of tossing and harmonizing.

Bonus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 09oRE&feature=related

Self made...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Nx61nL3SI

funky stuff guys

I'm still looking for some tunes from Public Enemy, got any recommendations?

been listening to Alot of nas and scarface atm... jay z is now officially shite.

anyone know where i can get some old school dj v mc style rap ?

Bringing this back for some personal advertisement (whoring)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2elszo7NgSY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYzwB-Lsx0

Those are my own beats, with some MC's from youtube rapping to them.

Is this a thread about rap music or hip-hop? Aren't these two different types of music?

Being an old guy (58 years) old, I went through the mid to late 60's and early 70's rock era. Started earlier than most with disco in 1975 which lasted through early 1980's and still the basis of house type music. I like a variety of music, but rarely is there a country western or rap song that I actually like.

The first popular rap song, "rapping to the beat" simply ripped off the music of "good times" by "chic" (without permission in that case), starting a tradition of chatting to some old disco song (superfreak -> can't touch this, forget-me-nots -> men in black, I wish -> wild wild west, under pressure -> ice ice baby, ...)

Then again recyling riffs from other songs predates the disco / rap era, for example "spirit in the sky" is a recylced version of "on the road again" by "canned heat".

As far as complicated songs go, it's not required to be popular. There are a few one chord or nearly one chord songs that were popular. "Tommorow never knows", is two chords, C and C with Bb added. Beck's "Loser" is not only a one chord song, it's mostly a one riff song. On the other hand you have song's like Crosby's "guinnevere" with alternate guitar tuning.

Hip Hop is a form of music, a culture, rap is something you do.

Or as KRS One put it: "Rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSLPj6O7_ew

JeffR, What are you trying to say with the rest of your post? Hip Hop music is mostly sample based music and "stolen" from other records. That's just the way it is.

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JeffR, What are you trying to say with the rest of your post? Hip Hop music

Originally hip hop mean disco oriented rap, not rap in general. The terminology has changed.

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hip hop is mostly sample based music and "stolen" from other records. That's just the way it is.

Not all of it, but much of it. The later versions were done with permission, it's the early versions that were literally stolen that bothered me, since it reminded me of some of the musical rip-offs that pre-date disco as I mentioned before.

Anyway, probably because I'm old, I prefer disco and all it's descendants type of music (house, techno, trance, ....) versus most rap songs. I tend to like certain songs because I find them interesting as opposed to the type of song. For example, I like "chris rea's" "looking for the summer", even though it's essentially a country song. The video does have a caterham though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIL8PxLmjm4&fmt=18

although I prefer this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5KoAPMVV8&fmt=18

If you have the time and are interested, please take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaIVGO-wCk8

KRS speaks the truth in so many ways.

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My favorite is Heavy Rock (Iron Maiden), Gothic Metal (Lovecrave), Heavy Metal (Kiuas) and Alternative (Placebo)

Do you mean Kyuss? I think it's pronounced Kiuas, or maybe Kiuas is just some boring finnish heavy metal band : D

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Do you mean Kyuss?

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