Hardcore Rap

I’m a rap fan. But i don’t like much of it…

Most rap is nothing more than mediocre rythyms over mediocre beats with mediocre egocentric lyrics…

Don’t post any of that shit here.

whenever you’re on ILP and listening to a hip hop song that you like, consider going to youtube, finding the song, and then posting it in this thread for any other hip hop fans to listen to and comment on.

in order to post a video you get the youtube adress, put in between this [youtube] [/youtube]

also make sure it’s the short adress and it’s a www adress.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmr3sD65cwo[/youtube]

regrettably the song is cut short in this video.

Necro isn’t a very deep rapper, but he knows how to entertain. He invented what is known as “death rap” whose purpose is in part to just be brutally shocking; it can be gory, disgusting, sadistic, and at times his lyrics have even disturbed me.

here is another necro joint

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLv3J-8-nE[/youtube]

most rappers rap about themselves in grandeose ways, Necro tends toward the opposite and rap about other people aswell as himself in shocking sadistic ways.

He describes himself as getting excited thinking about death.

in any case, this white jewish rapper knows how to entertain…

His vulgar words roll off my mind like elegant beams of sunshine…

Here is another necro song called “Evil shit”

The lyrics in this song are vulgar but not overly disturbing. I’m posting it here because i like how it sounds rather than enjoy these lyrics. I don;t enjoy all of necros songs, but this one is a good example of his average level of work

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDraxqkmp8[/youtube]

Here’s a few by Downsyde, a hip hop group from Perth whom I really like. Their style is laid back and groovy though (ie not ‘hardcore’). I’ve seen them live and I must say, they put on a good show.

El Questro

Lesfortunate

Fortune and Fame

They are pretty decent. Their beats sound old school and the lyrics aren’t bad.

Overall they have a good sound, i added fortune and fame to my library.

Here is “Caught in a Hustle” by immortal technique

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nia0_dMFfE4[/youtube]

it’s not “hardcore” meaning noisy or anything, just real.

one thing i don’t like are noisy songs, they have to have a flow and good sounding rhythm.

Here are a couple more immortal technique songs

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjp8yuEBjxs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKg4isEZ0jE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlpNkCP6dew[/youtube]

one of the most important things in my opinion is simply that you can undersstand what the rapper is saying, and immortal technique is very consistent in that department.

Here is an example of those hardcore disturbing lyrics i’ve mentioned. It’s not as good of a song as the other ones i posted but it’s entertining in a disturbing sadistic masochistic way…

educational too…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2q8WPfjG_0[/youtube]

Big L, timeless rapper.

A bit of an ego but he was a class act.

He got shot and killed in harlem by someone who thought he was his brother who owned them money.

RIP

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZo6FRONGs[/youtube]

And now for a trip to the old school

2pac, “Brendas got a baby”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wsBDHg0kw[/youtube]

as always 2pac raises the bar with serious lyrics and a smoothe sound.

Enjoy.

Dead Prez Search http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=dead+prez&aq=f

2pac - Thug Nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ueKSu-ANlk&feature=related
Scarface - Now I Feel Ya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pNzviB_dP0&feature=related
Scarface - Seen A Man Cry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-HmYZdfvc&feature=related
Scarface - Hand Of The Dead Body http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4OuDPp3f4&feature=related
Scarface - My Block http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odq2Mvvw6XA&feature=related

Nujabes Eclipse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3uV4Ziq4WM&feature=related
DJ Okawari - Bluebird Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LNyyd0JXKM&feature=related
Nujabes-Luv (Sic) Pt3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Br-73l-LuE&feature=related
Samurai Champloo - Mists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5rPgXrNZA&feature=related
Nujabes - Windspeaks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHdyS3jf3vQ&feature=related
Nujabes-World Without Words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuKcl8e_7J0&feature=related
Nujabes feat.Substantial-Think Different http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wrs-mK5xqQ

Fat Jon - How you Feel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb_BsQRkrQ&feature=related&fmt=18
Nujabes Tsurugi no Mai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CywMxwBOU&feature=related
Nujabes - Latitude -Remix (feat. Five Deez) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIExT2TMgmg
Fat Jon - 14 years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPiNl_QjWi4&feature=related
Fat Jon - Raindance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTWP1qf9mNk&feature=related
Mobb Deep - Still Shinin’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRUQm3d8F0&feature=related

DMX - Slippin’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFMdvhavMgc
DMX Right or Wronghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1eOi_RsKWo

Scareface “My Block” brings back some memories.

Necro- The world is gore

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf9W6cOtB7k[/youtube]