Hip Hop Heads!!??!!

[koolaidluva]

Im sittin here going through music, and BAM, i find Tribe Called Quests - Low End Theory

Of course Biggie n Tupac are automatically on the list
who are your favorite street poets < mainstream or underground> have your pick

-Tribe-Low End Theory- Check The Rhyme, We Got the Jazz
-Nas-Illmatic
-Fugees-When we were Kings
-BlackStarr- 8thLight
-Twalib- I get high but my feet never leave the ground
-Mos Def-ANYTHING
-Blackalicious- Purest Love
-WuTang- Enter the WU, 36 Chambers
-Lost Boys-RENEE
-Outkast-Players Ball

[Fetterbug]

all the ones you listed are great lyricists.....

[badkitty3804]

Originally posted by koolaidluva
Im sittin here going through music, and BAM, i find Tribe Called Quests - Low End Theory

Of course Biggie n Tupac are automatically on the list
who are your favorite street poets < mainstream or underground> have your pick

-Tribe-Low End Theory- Check The Rhyme, We Got the Jazz
-Nas-Illmatic
-Fugees-When we were Kings
-BlackStarr- 8thLight
-Twalib- I get high but my feet never leave the ground
-Mos Def-ANYTHING
-Blackalicious- Purest Love
-WuTang- Enter the WU, 36 Chambers
-Lost Boys-RENEE
-Outkast-Players Ball

wow. I get down to everyone of those.

Add in dialated peoples, People under the Stairs, J. Rawls and The Roots and I'm happy.

[Fetterbug]

oh yeah, def. the roots........illadel, 2-1-5!

[dj intreeg]

SouthernPlayalisticCadillacMusic no doubt. Add a lil old skool J5 and some Mobb Deep and we gotta party.

[SiK BuG]

Originally posted by koolaidluva
Im sittin here going through music, and BAM, i find Tribe Called Quests - Low End Theory

Of course Biggie n Tupac are automatically on the list
who are your favorite street poets < mainstream or underground> have your pick

-Tribe-Low End Theory- Check The Rhyme, We Got the Jazz
-Nas-Illmatic
-Fugees-When we were Kings
-BlackStarr- 8thLight
-Twalib- I get high but my feet never leave the ground
-Mos Def-ANYTHING
-Blackalicious- Purest Love
-WuTang- Enter the WU, 36 Chambers
-Lost Boys-RENEE
-Outkast-Players Ball

all are great but renee isn't my fav lost boys song. I still kick myself to this day I had a ticket to go see them and didn't end up going:lame:

[brkbt junglegrl]

ahhh fuck I still love me some Wu, some Dead Prez, Outkast has my heart as well..so does J5 and Dilated Peoples...and NOBODY fux wit my babies Twalib and Mos....mmmmm mmm good! oh and ms Erykah Badu.....lady got souL!!

[badkitty3804]

Tawalib and Mos..the blackstar CD...god I love that.

And how could I forget my J5.

[badkitty3804]

Anyone a jill scott fan?

(you might know her from the Roots song "You got me", she wrote the female vocal and sang it before Badu.)

[Someoneonthenet]

Tupac Shakur
Method Man
Rza
Outkast
Luniz
DMX
Easy-E
Bone Thugs`N`Harmony
Dj Quik
Goodie Mob
KRS-1
Run DMC
Kurupt
Fugees

Thats right off the top of my head.

[brkbt junglegrl]

Bone.....ahh i love them.....and fuckin Eminem..gotta give tha white man props!

[teknostate6]

saul williams #! (he inspires so much of my poetry )
krsone
gfe (crazy asheville underground hip hop started in the rainbow scene somea the most spirtualy and politcaly consciness hip hop out there and they have killer shows )
digable planets
most def
zach de la rocha (esp his shit with krs )
tribe called quest
roots
dead prez

[teknostate6]

man eminem sucks , i hate all corprate rap really that shit isnt real. mostea those guys are off the street and living well and dont care about the betterment of ne1 but themselves. they bastardize the whole culture. saul tears it up in amethyst rock star.

[brkbt junglegrl]

i dont give a fuck wut ppl think about eminem....hes fuckin producing Pac tracks...it can get no betta! tha mans got talent

[teknostate6]

sum real hip hop
twice the first time lyrics by saul williams
(sung)
i will not rhyme on tracks
niggas on a chain gang used to do that (Huh!) way back

i will not rhyme over tracks
niggas on a chain gang used to do that (Huh!) way back

don't drop the beat on me
don't drop the beat no
ah

i am not the son of sha klak klak
i am before that
i am before
i am before before before death is eternity after death is eternity
there is no death there's only eternity
and i be riding on the wings of eternity like
CLA CLA CLA SHA KLACK KLACK
GET ME THE FUCK OFF THIS TRACK

as if the heart beat wasn't enough
they got us using drum machines now
the hums of the machines
tryin to make our drums humdrums
tryin to ???? our magic
insturments be political prisioners up inside computers
as if the heart were not enough
as if the heart were not enough

and as heart beats bring percussions
fallen trees bring reprocussions
citys play upon our souls like broken drums
redrum the essence of creation from city slums
but city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrums
cuz city slums have never been where our drums are from
just the place where our daughters and sons become
offbeat heartbeats
slaves to city streets
and hearts get broken and heartbeats stop
broken heartbeats become breakbeats for niggas to rhyme on top, but..

i won't rhyme on top no tracks
niggas on a chain gang used to do that (Huh) way back

i won't rhyme over tracks
niggas on a chain gang used to do that (Huh) way back

don't drop the beat no
don't drop the beat noooo

not untill you've listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top
have you heard hip hop
extract the urban element which created it
and let a open wide country side illustrate it
riding in a freight train
in the freezing rain
listening to Coltrane
my reality went insane
and i think i saw Jesus
he was playing hopscotch with Betty Carter
who was cursing him out
in a scat-like gibberish for not saying 'butterfingers'
and my fingers run through grains of sand
like seeds of time
the pains of man
the frames of mind
which built these frames
which is the structure of my urban superstructure
the trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your planes of thought
so you that forget how to walk through the woods
which ain't good cuz you ain't never walked through the trees
listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop

and you must stop that damn track from going...
please don't drop the beat
don't drop the beat nooo

and...

i will not rhyme on tracks
niggas on a chain gang used to that (huh) way back
(repeat)

don't drop the beat noooo

don't drop the beat no
don't drop the beat no
don't drop the beat
...heartbeat
my heartbeat
goes on
and on
and on...

yeah