It pains me to see that the first few pages of this forum barely mentions anything about real hip hop artists. So, since the last legit thread was a couple of years ago, I thought it was time to share and discover whats good. I'm open to everything, I hope you are too.

Let's start off with one of the best hip hop album of all time:

Nas' Illmatic



This is the first major album of Nas' career. With powerful lyricism and mad flow, Illmatic could be consider his perfect album. With tracks like "Life's A B**ch" and lines like

"It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind "

- N.Y State Of Mind

this album was a breakthrough for lyrical rap.


If you were to listen to just one song I'd say "Life's A B**ch"



Please add to this list :]

what are we supposed to do in this topic again? the last legit hip hop topic wasn't a couple years ago, it was probably last year, but i gave up because 99% of the people here don't listen to hip hop so they aren't interested in talking about it.


i have this album. i think i always choose NY state of mind or the world is yours over lifes a bitch.

Good to know there's 1% out there.
What are you suppose to do? Share your hiphop knowledge however you want to.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Kero One. I think you should check this cat out, he has some pretty nice mixes.

Kero One Myspace

NUJABES



This man is AMAZING. Listening to his music has opened a whole new genre of music for me. With sick, chill beats you can't go wrong with Nujabes. I listen to his work when I bike, when I study, heck I'm listening to one of his songs right now. He made most of the music for the Samurai Champloo series, a real good anime :p.

Listen to: Luv(sic) Part 3, Feather, Aruarian Dance

Featured rappers like Shing02, Cyne, and Substantial all have quite notable work. I think they deserve their own posts.

DAS RACIST

COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL

Jun Seba... Rest In Beats. when i heard about his death earlier this year, i was genuinely sad.

nujabes got me into listening to more asian hip hop. like drunken tiger for instance. shit is dope. even though i don't understand, i understand the music. music is universal. ps, i read the english translation for Drunken's 845, i know what it means lol i also know the reason behind it.

lol almost trolling but he posted Nujabes what's a to do

yeah but it always evolved around arguments, or at least from my experience with that little twirp asian kid, forgot his name, the dude eddie lil kept PSing photos off of