I've always liked the East Coast's "style" and production *cough PRIMO cough*. I can't quite put my finger on what it is though. A good example I think is Wu-Tang Clan. I don't think any other group on the West Coast has their style. Does anyone else agree with me?

 

I love primos distinct beats...you can always tell if Premier is on the 1's and 2's. Gotta love the Gangstarr
Wu Tang is definitely a talented group...not one of my favorites(which is kind of bad being Im from NY lol), but the GZA really is a genius, gotta love Method Man

 

Inspectah Deck I think is one of the more if not the most talented artst in Wu Tang. I never really followed GZA. Speaking of Inpectah and Gang Starr, one of my all time favorite songs is Above The Clouds. I'm pretty sure you would agree w/ me, Simplyscion. That production completely blew me away.

 

definitely a hot song

 

OMG, I love the Roots. I have all of they albums (I know they are on CD's). I think they embody what hip hop is. Its all real and all original music with a little of the older classic stuff sprinkled in. Not like main stream Rappers that produce what I call Hip Pop i.e. Rip Daddy oh, I'm sorry Puff Daddy.

 

The Roots are definitely hot...I went to the okayplayer tour when it came around NYC...we sat in the Rawkus Records VIP box at Hammerstein Ballrom next to Dead Prez, Slum Village and a few other upcoming artists...they were pretty cool to hang out with. The highlight of the night was hearing Scratch vs. Rhazell in the beatbox battle...Scratch definitely killed it

 

anything by kwest the madd ladd, demigodz (apathy, louis logic, celph titled, rize and others who i can't remember right now), kaze, rjd2's black album remix is dope, all justus league/9th wonder/little brother stuff because it's chill when you drive, and cunnynlinguists southern underground album. all dope lyrically but they have hot beats too so you don't pass out from boredom. i'll think of some more later. i'm a scrubby back packer with way too much obscure hip hop.

oh yeah, and all of slum village's older stuff. fantastic vol. 1 is godly.

 

hahah I remember Rawkus records!

Cunninglinguists: worst rap name evar! ROFL

Anyone here hang out at he soulstrut.com forums?

 

DeLaSouL

 

Have you listened to MIA yet? she is featured on the last missy cd and i think she is better than anything out there right now. i have seen her three times. anyone i have played her stuff for has liked it.

 

a classic track among classic tracks indeed! I must have played that damn song 100 times and memorized all the lyrics when it came out.

another dope one was "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" with Chubb Rock, O.C. and Jeru the Damaga. Again, with Primo in the production.

Someone said Diamond D. his first album had some sick beats, lyrics were just ok though. You know who else had dope beats was Portishead. Crazy musical stuff going on there, even though they arent technically Hip Hop.

You know who else was dope back in the day was Keith Murray and Redman too.
On the West Coast, I dont think anyone named Rass Kas. That fool got lyrics too.

Not really a lyrical album, but one of the hardest most energetic albums when it dropped was M.O.P. "Warriorz".

 

Keep an eye out for an east coast underground group named TNK...Its a couple of friends of mine from high school...my boy James from TNK works at Fatbeats in NYC so all of his connections has helped them a lot through the past couple of years.

 

M.I.A. "Arular" was one of my top 5 albums of 2005.... bada$$ beats beats w/ semi-political lyrics....kinda like Public Enemy mixed with Madonna ...she's hot too!

 

she sucks sooooooo hard. i don't get it but i guess different strokes for different folks.

 

^i agree. she HORRIBLE. but like you said, to each his own. Now I have to go throw on Hell's Winter to get that horrid sound outta my ears.

 

very cool that everyone has gotten to give some good names. i have listend to quite a bit of what you people have said.

im really likeing Jedi Mind Tricks, Little Brother, Hieroglyphics are pretty cool and im still trying to get a few others.

thanks to all the people that responded and got me into some good stuff!

keep this thread goin. i think it brings alot of people on the same page with something cool to chat about and give heads up on new stuff coming out!

 

Mos Def, Rakim, KRS One, Common, Inspecta Deck, Raekwon, Outkast, Nas ( 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse is the shiite!!!), The Wu-Tang Clan, Canibus,Tu-Pac, Biggie, LL Cool J, Big Punisher (RIP), Rza, Gza the Genious, Cypress Hill, Roots, Slum Village, Gangstarr, Slick Rick, Talib Kweli, Dilated Peoples, Beatnuts, Jeru the Damaja, Digable Planets, Tribe Called Quest.

 

glad we could be of assistance. Also check out the 9th Wonder and Buckshot album "Chemistry".

 

Word!

 

yeah, she is really hot.