Whats the best rap/hiphop song you have heard?

col22

Mine is multiply by xzibit, i just love the bass in the background. brilliant song!!!!!

Chong

In my opinion it has to be California Love by 2pac.

Ay Cee

Best songs ever?! Or like, best song you heard on your stereo today?

Are ye serious?

Makaveli

Will Smith - Men In Black
Because the video is so cool.

Orizio

Xzibit and Will Smith!?!?! :eek:

2pac's california love was pretty kick ass,pity Dre can't rap.

My fave would be NY State of Mind by Nas.

Makaveli

Don't dis the Fresh Prince.

David19

Lol@this thread. The fresh prince is coming back! He's making a new album, not sure when its coming out though.

col22

Orizio wrote:

Xzibit and Will Smith!?!?! :eek:

2pac's california love was pretty kick ass,pity Dre can't rap.

My fave would be NY State of Mind by Nas.

Dont dis x to the z

Chong

Orizio wrote:

Xzibit and Will Smith!?!?! :eek:

2pac's california love was pretty kick ass,pity Dre can't rap.

My fave would be NY State of Mind by Nas.

Dre cant rap are completely crazy, The Chronic and 2001 were two of the best rap albums of the nineties.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the beatnuts feat dead prez - look around
jurassic five - improvise
arrested development - raining revolution/fishing for religion

3 classics off the top of my head there

David19

Willem D wrote:

Dre cant rap are completely crazy, The Chronic and 2001 were two of the best rap albums of the nineties.

From a production point of view they were. Dre doesn't write a lot of his lyrics. He doesn't really say anything in his songs. He has a good voice for rapping but thats about it.

Makaveli

Willem D wrote:

Dre cant rap are completely crazy, The Chronic and 2001 were two of the best rap albums of the nineties.

The Chronic - Dr Dre Presents Snoop Dogg
2001 - Dr Dre Presents a load of people nobody really cares about

Chong

Makaveli wrote:

The Chronic - Dr Dre Presents Snoop Dogg
2001 - Dr Dre Presents a load of people nobody really cares about

I still disagree both were quality albums.

Cannibal Ox

Production wise, sure but Dre's mediocre rapper at best.
Good on 100 Miles & Running though.

daymobrew

3rd Bass "Product of the Environment". 1989.
Excellent bass.
Lyrics:
"I left more than a mark, I left a dent; I'm a product of the environment"

Eminem's "Lose Yourself" has a great energy.
For anarchy, speed and noise you'd do well to beat Ice T/Slayer "Disorder" (Judgement Night soundtrack).

Orizio

Willem D wrote:

Dre cant rap are completely crazy, The Chronic and 2001 were two of the best rap albums of the nineties.

Snoop Dogg made Chronic.Dre is alright on parts of Niggaz4life,but the majority of the time his flow is clumsy and lyrics unoriginal.As a producer on the other hand,hes one of the best.

Dont dis x to the z

Do yourself a favour and get Nas's illmatic and the D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better.And a dictionary.

radiospan

DJ Format and MC Abdominal - Vicious Battle Raps

col22

Willem D wrote:

Dre cant rap are completely crazy, The Chronic and 2001 were two of the best rap albums of the nineties.

so 2001 is in the ninety's now?..........CABAGE!

col22

Orizio wrote:

Snoop Dogg made Chronic.Dre is alright on parts of Niggaz4life,but the majority of the time his flow is clumsy and lyrics unoriginal.As a producer on the other hand,hes one of the best.



Do yourself a favour and get Nas's illmatic and the D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better.And a dictionary.

I have a dictionary!

AND DONT DIS X TO THE Z!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CABBAGE!

ubu

Get your facts straight, 2001 was released in 1999
Seriously, if you dont have something half intelligent to say dont bother saying it at all, your favourite song ever is multipy, because of "the bass in the background", that says a sh1t load about what you know about hiphop. lyrical content mean anything to you? didnt think so

cabbage

Makaveli

col22 wrote:

so 2001 is in the ninety's now?

Yes.

Cannibal Ox

For anarchy, speed and noise you'd do well to beat Ice T/Slayer "Disorder"

Gonna check that out, used to like Slayer back in the day.

MC Abdominal

Is he ever going to release a new album? His stuffs ****ing great, but there's not enough of it.

Seaneh

Gangstarr feat Freddie Foxxx and Big Shug - The Militia

echomadman

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, The Message.
Never gets old for me.

gary the great

dizzee rascal - stand up tall

derv

here here ubu, well said. Dre is wicked, no one can take that away from him. as i producer and a solo rapper. wouldn't be selling albums if he wasn't.

"let's get high" on the album 2001
"serial killa" on the chronicle album

tman

Slick Rick - Children's Story
Warren G & Nate Dog - Regulate

and as echo said - The Message

Ay Cee

Busted sell a lot of records.

Sales isn't always a reflection of talent.

Dre is a decent rapper at best. He has a lot of his stuff ghost wrote apparently.
He's a great producer though, if a little lazy lately.

David19

Afaik most of dres stuff is ghost written. Most of 2001 was anyway, if not all of it. Also he's part of a production team, its not just him making the beats. Still im not trying to take anything away from him, hes a legend.

Ay Cee

So basically he boils down to being a West Coast Puff Da...sorry P Diddy

He is a legend though!

big syke

immortal technique - You never know

col22

ubu wrote:

Get your facts straight, 2001 was released in 1999
Seriously, if you dont have something half intelligent to say dont bother saying it at all, your favourite song ever is multipy, because of "the bass in the background", that says a sh1t load about what you know about hiphop. lyrical content mean anything to you? didnt think so

cabbage

i didnt say jus because of the bass i said i just love the bass in the background
get your facts right

cabbage!

fade2black

Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill gang
Next episode
Dre's remix of Rolling Stone's Miss you

ubu

col22 wrote:

i didnt say jus because of the bass i said i just love the bass in the background
get your facts right

cabbage!

Oh, right it must be because of the astounding lyrics so,
lets see, "We back on line, We came to ride,
We deal, We stack, We multiply
We stay on the grind until we die"

nope, sorry nothing ground breaking there either.
Maybe its because as i said already, you really dont have a clue about Hip-Hop.

Truth be told anything Xzibit has done since At The Speed Of Life has been sh1te, then again you probably never even heard that album, with songs like Paparazzi or The Foundation. Just because these songs didn't have Eminem or Dr.Dre starring/producing doesnt make them bad, in fact the opposite is true, it can have a positive effect on a song, not having the same formula applied to every song, honestly try it sometime, stray from what you find in the "urban" section in Golden Discs theres a world of quality, meaningfull, inspiring, uplifting Hip-Hop out there, with good beats and bass in the background, coz i know thats important to you.

Judging by the fact that you thought 2001 was actually released in 2001 and havent mentioned anything other than "x to tha z" and the game on here, im gonna make a few presumptions, you're probably too young to actually remember when it was actually released which would make you about 16 and thus you have only been exposed to MTV's version of Hip-Hop music which is utter crap to be honest and this the reason for your ignorance so its not really your fault but you can do something about it and id be more than willing to make a few recommedations if your willing to lift your head out of the box that its currently stuck in, just ask!

50_pennies

My favourite rap song would be Boom Biddy Bye Bye- Cypress Hill.

Last greatest rap songs and album, before rap turned into pop would be Dre 2001.

http://www.dre2001.com/

1990 - 1999

R.I.P. Rap.

(1990 is when I started listening to it )

Makaveli

sigh

Ay Cee

I suppose Xzibit made a money move hooking up with Dre.

He was class when he was rolling with the Liks.

Didn't they have a big falling out after he started rolling with Dre or something. They called him something like a "clique jumper" or "set changer" or something. Basically he used to roll with them and then he ****ed off with Dre et al.

Ah Paparazzi & The Foundation...tunage to the max!

Makaveli

Yeah basically they called him a sell-out and didn't want to be associated with him anymore.

50_pennies

Did he sell out to MTV? lol

Pimp my ride show.

Cannibal Ox

Isn't he off Aftermath now?

David19

He was never on aftermath.

littlejay

ten crack comandments notorious big.
serious slick lyrics.

FTA69

KRS One - Step into the World, the lyricism in that is dazzling, my favorite one ever has to be Brenda's Got a Baby though. Unreal.

As an aside, I feel the best English lyricist to be Klashnekoff from the Terrafirma.

In terms of beats 2001 or Get Rich would be by far and away the best in my opinion but in terms of lyrics they are repetitive and boring. In terms of lyrics I'd nominate Marshall Mathers LP or Get Free by Dead Prez. (And of course Fear of a Black Planet)

King_of_NY

Couldn't narrow it down to one, but all of these are pretty f.uckin decent IMO;

Represent - Nas
Gin N Juice - Snoop
Method Man - Wu Tang
Just to get a rep - Gangstarr
Machine gun funk - Biggie


As for 'Ten Crack Commandments' .......you're spot-on there Little Jay, serious sh1t.

FTA......ya, agree about K-lashnakoff......you know that track 'Murda'?? Wicked sh1t.

galactus

Anything by the Pharcyde or KRS1

col22

ubu wrote:

Oh, right it must be because of the astounding lyrics so,
lets see, "We back on line, We came to ride,
We deal, We stack, We multiply
We stay on the grind until we die"

nope, sorry nothing ground breaking there either.
Maybe its because as i said already, you really dont have a clue about Hip-Hop.

Truth be told anything Xzibit has done since At The Speed Of Life has been sh1te, then again you probably never even heard that album, with songs like Paparazzi or The Foundation. Just because these songs didn't have Eminem or Dr.Dre starring/producing doesnt make them bad, in fact the opposite is true, it can have a positive effect on a song, not having the same formula applied to every song, honestly try it sometime, stray from what you find in the "urban" section in Golden Discs theres a world of quality, meaningfull, inspiring, uplifting Hip-Hop out there, with good beats and bass in the background, coz i know thats important to you.

Judging by the fact that you thought 2001 was actually released in 2001 and havent mentioned anything other than "x to tha z" and the game on here, im gonna make a few presumptions, you're probably too young to actually remember when it was actually released which would make you about 16 and thus you have only been exposed to MTV's version of Hip-Hop music which is utter crap to be honest and this the reason for your ignorance so its not really your fault but you can do something about it and id be more than willing to make a few recommedations if your willing to lift your head out of the box that its currently stuck in, just ask!

well said! Any way its my opinion wat does it matter to you any way?

Im not 16!

50_pennies

Why did he diss Eazy E in one of his songs? I think he said, they thought I was a mark cuz I used to hang with eazy?

Cannibal Ox

When Dre left NWA he and Eazy went at it over a couple of songs.
Dre Day & Real mutha ****ing G's spring to mind.
Eazy's was better

All of a sudden Dr Dre is the G thang, but on his old album covers he was a she thang

Dre on the far left.

The Fitz

lol

King_of_NY

Cannibal Ox wrote:

When Dre left NWA he and Eazy went at it over a couple of songs.
Dre Day & Real mutha ****ing G's spring to mind.
Eazy's was better




Dre on the far left.

Ha ha, ya, and to think he had the cheek to dis Ice Cube.......the state of him! Anyway, Cube killed him, Easy, Ren and Yella on 'No Vaseline' - one of the best dis tunes ever.

bombidol

As Far as i know, "Disorder" was originally An Exploited song, if not 2 or 3 merged into one.

daymobrew wrote:

3rd Bass "Product of the Environment". 1989.
Excellent bass.
Lyrics:
"I left more than a mark, I left a dent; I'm a product of the environment"

Eminem's "Lose Yourself" has a great energy.
For anarchy, speed and noise you'd do well to beat Ice T/Slayer "Disorder" (Judgement Night soundtrack).