Hip Hop: The real, The Ill Options

[dao]

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 :]

[dao]

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.