Hip-Hop Thread

[Archon]

Insanely good.

 

[bela5japon]

May just be my language bias but any hip-hop that's not in English just sounds so poor to me with its flow. It's like the English language is built for hip-hop and others are unnatural and inflexible when it comes to rhythm/delivery. Even UK English can struggle sometimes, with everyone using similar intonations in order to force a flow to work. The French language is maybe the only one that occasionally has moments, but even then, not that good....

Guru - Le Bien, Le Mal

Fugees - Fu-gee-la (Camp Global Mix)

you have not heard of turkish hip-hop. turkish is a language that lends itself to rap really well because it's agglutinative (you can add suffixes and prefixes to any word) and it's overall a language optimized for fast speaking. some examples that come to mind is that; the sh sound is consolidated to one letter in ş, a lot of the sentence structure can be implied instead of being spoken, words are mostly read as they are written (this had a special name i can't recall)

fast rap in particular is quite advanced, here is an example from what's considered to be the master of fast rap in turkish:

here is something newer from underground, features two really good mc's.

 

[Archon]

New Xzibit certainly hasn't disappointed! There are misses of course, but still the ones that aren't can be quite good.



And to balance it off, here's a goodie from '96.

 

[TranceFeelings]

Nas - I Gave You Power
one of the greatest songs ever written.

 

[Hensmon]

'New' Big L album out. Basically material we already heard reworked and then puffed out with some features that are quite good. Tracks themselves not mind blowing but I love Big L so much I'll take it.