Best Rap Songs of the past five years
Please post your favorite rap songs of the past five years (I'll take anything up to 2000). Want to make me a little collection. Outside of my favs Luda and Jayz, I know very little about rap.
So far I have very little: Kayne West - Gold Digger Nas - Hip Hop is Dead Lil Scrappy - Gansta, Gansta |
T.I. - Goodlife, Rubber Band Man, 24s, What You Know
Nelly - Country Grammar Slim Thug - I Ain't Heard of That (feat. Jay-Z) Kanye West - Touch the Sky Talib Kweli - Get By, Listen Nas - One Mic just off the top of my head. |
The Roots, "The Seed 2.0"
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Jurassic 5 - A Day At The Races
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Wamp Wamp (What It Do) by Clipse
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Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy
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Ben Folds - "Bitches Ain't Shit"
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Originally Posted by The Bus
The Roots, "The Seed 2.0"
That's an instant mixtape song. The last Roots album was really good as well IMO. |
Talib Kweli - Expansion Outro
Kanye West - Spaceship Nas - One Mic DangerDoom - El Chupa Nibre |
heres the Cannibal ox song if youre into weirdness. you get a Ghost in the Shell reference right off the bat.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/etc1ft Iron Galaxy |
R.a.g.u
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Does "Hey Ya" count?
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Eminem/D12 - How Come
Aesop Rock - Daylight Aesop Rock - No Regrets Aesop Rock - Shovel Aesop Rock - Flashflood Beastie Boys - Oh Word? Bubba Sparxxx - Ms. New Booty Clipse - Ain't Cha Eminem - Square Dance Eminem - Soldier Eminem - When the Music Stops Eminem - 'Till I Collapse Eminem - The Way I Am Eminem - My 1st Single Ghostface Killah - Ghost is Back NaS - Mastermind NaS - Dance |
Originally Posted by RyoHazuki
R.a.g.u
The single best answer to the question, though, is of course Jaylib - The Red. :) |
Originally Posted by nodeerforamonth
Does "Hey Ya" count?
Damn, it's been four years since that album. Got another one to add: Fabolous, "Breathe" |
Honestly, I don't think there are any. IMO, hip hop has been so forgettable these last few years. A few of the songs mentioned were from 6 years ago as well. Not to nitpick, but I'm just sayin' I personally think 2001 was the last overall good year for the genre.
Hip hop needs a hero. |
Lil Wayne - Shooter, Hustla Muzik, I'm a Dboy
TI - Ride With Me, Front Back, ASAP The Game - Let's Ride, One Blood, California Vacation I think these guys' last efforts have been 3 of the better albums of the past couple years |
Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push.
K-Os - B Boy Stance Ghostface - Run Will Smith - Holy Roller (go ahead, clown me) Busta - NY Shit De La Soul - Church Slum Village - 1,2 |
Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell- Drop It Like It's Hot
Kanye West featuring Mos Def and Freeway- Two Words |
Originally Posted by Arpeggi
Kanye West featuring Mos Def and Freeway- Two Words
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Originally Posted by TheGodfather
Honestly, I don't think there are any. IMO, hip hop has been so forgettable these last few years. A few of the songs mentioned were from 6 years ago as well. Not to nitpick, but I'm just sayin' I personally think 2001 was the last overall good year for the genre.
Hip hop needs a hero. |
Any person who says that just isn't looking hard enough, IMO. There has been plenty of worthy hip hop to come out this decade. Start with Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, MF DOOM/Viktor Vaught/DANGERDOOM, etc., NaS, Ghostface and go from there.
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Originally Posted by Quake1028
Eminem/D12 - How Come
Aesop Rock - Daylight Aesop Rock - No Regrets Aesop Rock - Shovel Aesop Rock - Flashflood Beastie Boys - Oh Word? Bubba Sparxxx - Ms. New Booty Clipse - Ain't Cha Eminem - Square Dance Eminem - Soldier Eminem - When the Music Stops Eminem - 'Till I Collapse Eminem - The Way I Am Eminem - My 1st Single Ghostface Killah - Ghost is Back NaS - Mastermind NaS - Dance This is coming from a DJ and hip hop fan from day 1 born, bred, and still living in the Bronx - I spin this shit all the time so believe me I'm paying attention. I love Nas, Ghost, Em, and Beasties as artists but those joints don't do it to me like some of their earllier stuff. I'm not trying to change anyone's opinions, I'm just giving mine. |
Originally Posted by TheGodfather
Not a "Smooth Operator" among them. Or a "Passin' Me By", or a "I Get Around", or a "Protect Ya Neck", etc... I don't think 1 song on this list will be known 5 years from now. Except for "Goldigger" and "Drop It Like It's Hot" I'd apply that to this entire thread's songs. IMO this list and others' choices are good club bangers, or radio joints, but I don't see the staying power of yesterday's hip hop anywhere in the past 5 years.
This is coming from a DJ and hip hop fan from day 1 born, bred, and still living in the Bronx - I spin this shit all the time so believe me I'm paying attention. I love Nas, Ghost, Em, and Beasties as artists but those joints don't do it to me like some of their earllier stuff. So I'm not surprised that there aren't many new "classic" songs being made now, but that happens in every genre. So 70's rock rings bells in ways that the shit of today does not, 90's grunge, 80's pop, 60's r&b/pop, 70's soul...etc. Genre's get built and then everything that comes after can't help but seem lesser. The songs that I fall in love with now are personal classics, but I do agree that none of the hip-hop today makes me feel like the stuff did from 89-95 did and continues to do. But that has as much to do with the time I heard them as it does with the actual music. I doubt if you heard "I get around" today for the first time you would hold it in such high esteem as you or I do. It would be a catchy song, but it wouldn't make you remember the summer of 93'. Hip-hop has been the soundtrack of my youth, so I can hear certain songs and be taken back to certain events in my life like they're actually happening, y'know? Nothing today can compete with that. In fact "I get around" makes me think of summer camp and this girl I was seriously crushing on and how she and I finally got together on the last day. About quality though, I will agree that that certain sound I really love is gone. There is definitely good stuff coming out now, but there was a time where the sound seemed tailor made for me. A lot of the "grainy" and "grimmy" is extinct and has been replaced by a very polished sound. And the people that do try and use that early sound, you can tell it's a nostalgia trip and not really...I guess I want to say genuine. Like you can tell MF Doom, as well as creating his own style, is trying to recapture something from an earlier time. I really don't get Aesop Rock. I think he's a clever lyricist, but his sound really grates on my ears. Maybe I've just listened to the wrong albums, but his stuff doesn't make me want to nod my head and that is essential for hip-hop to me. I do like some of the other Jux artists though. |
Sage Francis- Makeshift Patriot
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