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« Reply #125 on: September 09, 2016, 09:34:57 PM »

Oh, this song, this is fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR5w3EufWOo
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« Reply #126 on: September 10, 2016, 08:32:41 AM »

Tonight I shall play Madvillainy in your honour. :=)

I see what you mean----it's the best of the lot! Love what MFD does with samples.

I didn't realize he was born in London...

Madvillainy was actually produced by Madlib, one of the great hip-hop producers. It is a collaboration between him and MF. You can hear Madlib rapping as his high-pitched alter-ego Quasimoto in America's Most Blunted and Shadows of Tomorrow.
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« Reply #127 on: September 10, 2016, 05:22:03 PM »

http://youtu.be/kxwzmJhIZCo
New DJ Paul video 'these haters broke'. My favorite song from the new mixtape/album Mafia4Life dude still makes sick beats.. Definately missing Lord Infamous & koopsta knicca on this one R.I.P..    & Dedicated to playa fly
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« Reply #128 on: September 15, 2016, 12:28:10 PM »

You're not a true rap fan if you don't have "Breakin' Atoms" in your collection from Main Source
http://youtu.be/Yy8V-iUG0dw
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« Reply #129 on: March 21, 2017, 05:38:58 AM »

You're not a true rap fan if you don't have "Breakin' Atoms" in your collection from Main Source
http://youtu.be/Yy8V-iUG0dw

I'm not a true rap fan. Grin

I know Ovi looks in from time to time. I wonder what he'd make of this? It's an unholy marriage of the voice and guitar of the remarkable Jandek and the beats of MF DOOM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKw3u5qPYM
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« Reply #130 on: July 18, 2017, 04:07:11 AM »

Fresh Kid Ice (aka The Chinaman) of 2 Live Crew died last Thursday, aged 53.

Their big hit, "Me So Horny", caused no end of a ruckus in 1989. I remember it well. I thought it had, well, balls...

This is the clean version, as the dirty version is pretty dirty! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4rLkMiQ9xM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Crew

RIP, Chris Wong Won.
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« Reply #131 on: July 19, 2017, 04:17:48 AM »

Ha! After taking a long break from MF Doom, I discovered a full-album YouTube vid of Madvillainy. Grin

Great stuff so far! I was bowled over to hear a snatch of "Sleeping In A Jar" from the Mothers' double album Uncle Meat (starts at 3:47)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWY22Blwouc
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« Reply #132 on: July 21, 2017, 08:20:06 AM »

Looking forward to the new Tyler, The Creator album. I am a pretty big fan of his stuff. Great sound.
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« Reply #133 on: July 29, 2017, 11:58:24 AM »

I'm not much of a rap fan, Muggins (ask Ovi). Once the words become more important than the music I'm out of there. It's not just rap----protest songs may be well meant but they're lost on me...

There are exceptions, of course----there always are. Ovi has kindly opened up the world of MF Doom to me. The Doom album that appeals to me the most is Take me to Your Leader, where he assumes the guise of the three-headed King Geedorah. Wonderfully wacky stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leDzWauY5Tw
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« Reply #134 on: August 04, 2017, 12:43:21 PM »

I know rapmeister Ovi snorts at the mere mention of Macklemore, but I'll take the risk, lol...

This is for Rick, who, um, left the fold today. If his behaviour wasn't just an utterly over-the-top
cri de coeur and he really believes what he said, perhaps he should listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
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« Reply #135 on: September 06, 2017, 02:30:28 AM »

I took a listen to the few tracks from Kanye West's debut album available to me on YouTube and these two stood out:

"Through The Wire" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_5yTNvIt4)

"Slow Jamz" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanMCyypC68)

Really like the use of samples here. Oh, and belated happy birthday, Ovi. :=)   
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« Reply #136 on: September 06, 2017, 07:34:54 AM »

I took a listen to the few tracks from Kanye West's debut album available to me on YouTube and these two stood out:

"Through The Wire" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_5yTNvIt4)

"Slow Jamz" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanMCyypC68)

Really like the use of samples here. Oh, and belated happy birthday, Ovi. :=)   

Thanks man. Really glad you dug it. I view Kanye as the single most important artist of the 21st century, and quite a genius in what he does. It seemed like every new album he did shifted the course of popular music. I love the high-pitched soul samples on The College Dropout, the whole album has such an inviting, warm character. Naturally, everybody started doing that after and he's never returned to it.
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« Reply #137 on: September 06, 2017, 07:46:16 AM »

Looking forward to the new Tyler, The Creator album. I am a pretty big fan of his stuff. Great sound.

What do you think of it? Pretty great album.
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« Reply #138 on: September 06, 2017, 08:14:21 AM »

John (and others), I remember you really liked the video I posted a while ago with the rhyme analysis of some great rappers. Here's some more regarding MF DOOM:

An line-by-line breakdown of Madvillain's Accordion that shows how much depth there really is inside every single DOOM bar. Maybe the video is too long, but even a few minutes can send your mind to a truly heavy trip, in the same way analyzing Dylan's lyrics does. It's a huge inspiration for me as an aspiring writer and a person interested in language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3v5iqAWvvw&

On a lighter note, here's rapper Mos Def reciting DOOM lyrics and stopping every few bars just to laugh at how ridiculously cool/smart/funny they are. This is another one of my favorite videos, for it shows a famous artist acknowledging and being passionate about another one and often there's no higher praise. It's like when Keith Richards talks about Chuck Berry and you realize how much it means to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8

Highlight: When he gets to the 3rd verse of Beef Rapp and you realize along with him how funny DOOM's put-downs of mainstream rappers really are:

What up?
To all rappers: shut up with your shutting up
And keep your shirt on, at least a button-up
Yuck, is they rhymers or strippin' males?
Out of work jerks since they shut down Chippendales
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« Reply #139 on: September 06, 2017, 12:53:21 PM »

John (and others), I remember you really liked the video I posted a while ago with the rhyme analysis of some great rappers. Here's some more regarding MF DOOM:

An line-by-line breakdown of Madvillain's Accordion that shows how much depth there really is inside every single DOOM bar. Maybe the video is too long, but even a few minutes can send your mind to a truly heavy trip, in the same way analyzing Dylan's lyrics does. It's a huge inspiration for me as an aspiring writer and a person interested in language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3v5iqAWvvw&

On a lighter note, here's rapper Mos Def reciting DOOM lyrics and stopping every few bars just to laugh at how ridiculously cool/smart/funny they are. This is another one of my favorite videos, for it shows a famous artist acknowledging and being passionate about another one and often there's no higher praise. It's like when Keith Richards talks about Chuck Berry and you realize how much it means to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8

Highlight: When he gets to the 3rd verse of Beef Rapp and you realize along with him how funny DOOM's put-downs of mainstream rappers really are:

What up?
To all rappers: shut up with your shutting up
And keep your shirt on, at least a button-up
Yuck, is they rhymers or strippin' males?
Out of work jerks since they shut down Chippendales


Two cool vids there, Ovi. I gave the breakdown of Accordion about six minutes, which was enough to discover just how dense DOOM's rhyming is--
--not one wasted syllable. And the Mos Def video is hilarious! Wow, a true fan---he keeps shaking his head in wonder. 

Thanks a lot for those!

I've lined up Mad Villainy again for early morning & late night listening.
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« Reply #140 on: September 19, 2017, 01:57:32 AM »

After DOOM's brilliant epic album it's "drunk in the club" time again, haha (sorry, Ovi). "10,000 Hours" is most unusual in that it starts very upbeat and bright with some great synth lines but ends in the dark ("welcome to the heist"). I don't think you can say that about many songs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT3wLBjq53w   
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« Reply #141 on: March 10, 2018, 04:38:58 AM »

I wonder whether Ovi still looks in here from time to time?

Yesterday I caught a snatch of Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P." in the George Clooney vehicle Up in the Air (great film, as it happens) and thought it might be nice to link the whole thing here:

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« Reply #142 on: January 27, 2019, 01:35:45 PM »

I wonder whether Ovi still looks in here from time to time?

JK, have you listened to anything by OutKast? Been playing them a lot since I last posted here. Andre 3000 and Big Boi kind of remind me of Lennon and McCartney in the way they kind of have opposing personalities - Andre is the erratic, artsy one and Big Boi the old-school gangsta, though technically brilliant . Of course you must include some overlap in that generalization. But at their best, before they grew apart they really seemed to complement each other and made some masterpiece albums that went beyond what people thought hip-hop to be at the time. Here are some songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ziWLxcjk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlU7na2-xpk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAeFEmp0WFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilf-2N6ibjg
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« Reply #143 on: January 28, 2019, 04:40:32 AM »

I wonder whether Ovi still looks in here from time to time?

JK, have you listened to anything by OutKast?

Hi Ovi. All I know of them is a cool single, "Ms. Jackson". And that everyone was raving about their double CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below a while back.

Thanks for those tracks and for the tip. I'll seek out a complete album of theirs on YouTube for future listening. Wink
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« Reply #144 on: January 28, 2019, 05:24:50 PM »

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« Reply #145 on: February 11, 2019, 01:55:49 AM »

JK, have you listened to anything by OutKast?

Hi Ovi. I gave their album Aquemini a try last night but gave up after a few tracks. I guess I'm just a poor rap student! Grin

Stuff I like? Doggy Style, Fear of a Black Planet (although it's very intense!) and your friend MF Doom, particularly Take Me To Your LeaderWink
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« Reply #146 on: February 12, 2019, 06:22:09 AM »

Love all those you mentioned. Take Me to Your Leader may just have DOOM's best beats. Although I wish he would rap more on it - he's probably my favorite MC when things like flow, delivery and lyrics are considered. For Public Enemy I think I'll always go with It Takes a Nation... which I feel has their strongest songs, even though Fear is kind of a bigger album in scope. If I have one minor complaint about Enemy it would be that Chuck D, while a great lyricist, kind of falls short as a rapper for me. I think his rhymes are kind of rudimentary and rarely keep me interested. Maybe he thought that was necessary for the message to be properly understood, but I'd much rather listen to Rakim out of his contemporaries (even Ice Cube) who runs circles around Chuck. Not to mention the 90s rappers who took MC-ing to a new level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sulaqzO0ICk
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« Reply #147 on: April 04, 2019, 04:33:37 AM »

Reviving this thread. This is "Piranha", featuring Toastie Taylor, from Techno Anlmal's The Brotherhood of the Bomb, released, as fate would have it, on 11 September, 2001:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haRzBWSgAzo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_the_Bomb
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« Reply #148 on: April 26, 2019, 05:47:12 AM »

Kid Cudi's "The Rage" is the closing track on the otherwise non-verbal album of music from Andrew Lockington's 2018 film Rampage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7BnQuXvJE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(soundtrack)
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« Reply #149 on: August 18, 2020, 01:41:59 AM »

This is rap of quite a different kind. "The Crazy Ray" features on a great Gary Lucas comp called Level (the) Playing Field, which I bought and first played on 11 September, 2001 (that date again). That's K-Rob on vocals (see link for the original album):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysrhVsLj5g



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Monsters_(Gary_Lucas_album)
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