I like Hip Hop.....

[twain]

but i can't believe i've only just come across this chap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGt7XeBwkw

Oakland underground scene was quite the gold mine back then it seems...

 

[theproudhighway]

I like Hip Hop too! Especially Golden Era stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mt3vZHDiM8

 

[cyfa2809]

First reminds me of slick rickk and the second of wu tang.

Good finds.

I think the problem was there was just far too much and im guessing you probably mostly listened to people from your hood or gang.

 

[jonXmack]

Haven't listened to the first one yet but the second track is awesome, think I've heard it before as my boss is into old school HH so may well have played it in the office at some point.

I listen to a lot of modern underground hip-hop. Currently looking forward to the release of Aesop Rock - Skelethon. He's really, really abstract but it's worth a listen, personally I can't get enough of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd4h1kaFlY

 

[twain]

Haven't listened to the first one yet but the second track is awesome, think I've heard it before as my boss is into old school HH so may well have played it in the office at some point.

I listen to a lot of modern underground hip-hop. Currently looking forward to the release of Aesop Rock - Skelethon. He's really, really abstract but it's worth a listen, personally I can't get enough of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd4h1kaFlY

i have some Aesop somewhere in my archives

takes me back to my Uni days - discovered a lot of my hip hop from swapping albums with a guy in the flat above me

 

[jonXmack]

I got into hip-hop solely through skate videos, not many kids were listening to Busta Rhymes at age 12, but I was! I distinctly remember my sister picking up the first Jurassic 5 LP when we were on holiday not long after it had been released, and as hip-hop was really the only stuff that was being used in skate videos, and all I did was skated, hip-hop saw me through until I started college age 16.

Around that time I started listening to more "rock" music, and moving into undeground hip-hop which was being featured on the skate videos, stuff like Atmosphere, Sage Francis, El-P, Aesop, etc. Then I went to uni, got into hardcore punk, and now I listen to pretty much anything!

I tend to stick to the same few labels these days, you can't go wrong with Rhymesayers, Definitive Jux, Strange Famous or Doomtree.

 

[lumos2000]

this is taking me way back, i remember watching anmial chin and listining to BDP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU7jJBM ... ure=fvwrel

i recenlty dug out my old tape colection, lots of electro mix tapes there

 

[kaiser]

this is taking me way back, i remember watching anmial chin and listining to BDP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU7jJBM ... ure=fvwrel

i recenlty dug out my old tape colection, lots of electro mix tapes there

This still pops up on my I pod now and then watching the video takes me back to taping 'Behind the Beat' on BBC2, I must have watched that video 100 times before I could find the LP.

 

[theproudhighway]

this is taking me way back, i remember watching anmial chin and listining to BDP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzU7jJBM ... ure=fvwrel

i recenlty dug out my old tape colection, lots of electro mix tapes there

Nice!

Another Old School Classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIolpeRPkfA

Nice Talking Heads sample in there. Coincidentally, and since this is a bike forum, David Byrne has a really good Audiobook about cycling. It's called The Bicycle Diaries.

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

Hip hop is Ok, but what about Skipping or a little light mincing ?