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Rappers that rap about things other than sex, money, and being gangster.
I recommend Sweatshop Union, great group. They are not famous like 50 cent because they don’t rap about the usually stuff.
youtube.com/watch?v=MrC-yum82MI
Yours?
check out K-os
he doesn’t ryhme about rims and tims
Early Tupac. I think me against the world was like, one of the best rap albums of all time.
Thats not what he’s looking for. Not ganstas. Not guns or drugs or rappers lifestyles shoved in your face. Not ho’s
Even so, Wu-tang Clan offers more than tupac, if you want to talk thuggery with intellect twist. You know, more knowledge for you wig, kid. More knowledge for your wig.
DAM ru.youtube.com/watch?v=zIo6lyP9tTE
Siwan Erdal ru.youtube.com/watch?v=3zgatKcWkMc
ПРИХАН ru.youtube.com/watch?v=2mNYLfh9PGo
Tupac didn’t originally rap about being a gangster or having things. He rapped about brenda having a baby, and keeping your head up. Only after he got out of jail on that rape charge and had all that money from his last albums did he really turn into a raging prick.
alot of eminem has nothing to do with gangsters sex or money.
Hits from the bong is one of my favorites… but cypress hill is one of the best examples about 1 track rap: guns and weed
To be honest most people don’t listen to rap because of what gets rapped about.
Sure there are a few good songs about important issues, but we don’t like what they say, we like how they say it.
We call it “flow”.
Listen to some Big-L, Jay-z, Tupac, eminem, Bishop Lamont… You will find that these rappers songs sound alot better than most all else.
here’s a song you guys might be interested in.
QFT
not hip to the lingo . … what?
Downsyde youtube.com/watch?v=LFCWHshsw_M … the Aussie scene’s got lots of very thoughtful rappers.
Anyone like The Streets?
Oh, and I forgot to mention- me! 
myspace.com/mcimpious
I like Curse of Dialect from Australia (i think)
the Def Jux veterans still amaze me - Cannibal Ox and El-P
Also Aesop Rock - he’s incredible.
Shouldn’t this be on Mundane babble 
Anyways for what its worth buck 65 - surely the most philisophical of all rappers (last album kinda dissappointin’ tho)
Krs1, Kool Keth (a lot of sex stuff too mind you!)
and for sure MF Doom in his many guises…
public Enemy still got it going on in 2008
(and from Buck 65 on his myspace:)
I’ve long argued that the roots of hip hop music go all the way back to folk and blues – even minstrel music that pre-dates the birth of both those genres (take a listen to a song called ‘The Gypsy’ by Emmett Miller to see where I’m coming from, for example). But I can understand how that could be seen as an unpopular and controversial idea. Also, I have a broad definition of the genre that includes a lot of records most others probably wouldn’t include.
Yes!
“I’d say you’re about an 8 or a 9. Maybe even 9 and a half in 4 beers time! That blue topshop top you’ve got is nice, bit too much fake tan but yeah you score high!”
youtube.com/watch?v=cr4TpXqlPhI
He has his moments I guess
kp
dizzee rascal, like him too. As an american, I like a lot of British stuff, football, music, ect. I also support the local soccer team, called The Revolution.
UK hip-hop is smacking it at he moment - lots of collaborations with big US producers and such…
LL Cool J.