Hip Hop/Rap recommendations
 

in time for matt's hip hop special i would like to ask for some recent hip hop/rap recommendations, since i seem to be a bit...errrr....outdated.
in general, i don't like the mainstream bling bling gangsta rap, although there are exceptions if it's well produced (e.g. the new Clipse album). some of the few recent hip hop albums i listened to:

Nas - Hip Hop is Dead (surprisingly good)
Mos Def - True Magic (crock of shit)
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (pretty good)
Jedi Mind Tricks - Servants in Heaven... (they are becoming more mainstream, but i still like their orchestral style)

i generally like the oldschool productions (more east than west coast in general), e.g. the rawness of some of the wu tang solo albums (Raekwon and Ghostface), sparse beats, jazzy samples, crackling bass etc..., but i also like the cleverness and abstract productions out of the Def jux/anticon camp (aesop rock, buck65, mr. lif).

anyone into that underground shit? :)

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Chrome Children - Stones Throw comp, only on one and a half listens but seems pretty solid...

Oh No - Exodus into Unheard Rhythms: This is good; he got Galt McDermot to open up his catalogue for sampling, and so the entire album has the very cohesive feel on it. Very jazzy.

Ghostface - Fishscale: Just buy it. Haven't heard More Fish yet, though.

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Non-Phixion - The Future Is Now (Premier, Pete Rock, Large P, and Necro on the boards, nuff said)

Sensational Meets Kouhei (extremely gritty, lo-fi & underground)

Origami - Origami (ditto, in Japanese)

M.O.P. - Warriorz (could begin to grate, but it doesn't get more raw East Coast)

Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2 (Dilla's snares are amazing)

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got the fishscale, some good stuff on there, but i think it can't quite reach "supreme clientele". will check out the others

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the Non phixion is great, have it for a couple of years now.
and japanese hip hop? now that's something i wanna hear :)

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Jay-Z: Reasonnable Doubt/The Blueprint/The Black Album

Black Star: Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star

Goodie Mob: Soul Food

Common: Resurrection

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anything more recent maybe? :)

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Also, Roots Manuva's latest full LP, Awfully Deep, is one of my favorite hip-hop albums evah. Don't know if you have that one, but every track is solid.

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don't expect any new stuff tonight on my show, but if you wanna check out the 'origins' of hip hop and rap tune in tonight 8-10pm UK (GMT) dirtyradio.net

i've got lots of flavas from all your well known hip hop and rap stars of the 80's and 90's

rundmc ericb&rakim grandmasterflash icet nwa icecube snoop dre delasoul atribecalledquest 2pac oledirtybastard sugarhillgang llcoolj publicenemy steinski natedogg cypresshill and many many more

i have no recommendations for eik - as i'm living in the past

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The Sound of Then, NOW!

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stop plugging in my thread!

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Maybe Kanye West - Late Registration (2005) ?

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i thought more of....like...the last couple of months?

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there's a new EL-P album. i'm soooo out of the loop!

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forget about kanye -

I'm not kidding -> 7L & Esoteric's "A New Dope" is incredible.... I guess they used to be like the stereotypical "backpacker" or "granola" rappers, so they didn't get that great of reviews b/c it sounds nothing at all like that...nice electro influences, great beats and clever sampling. I kind of get the feeling that this was the album that Dj Shadow had wanted to make with "the Outsider"


also [B]Roots Manuva[/I] Awfully Deep is quite good... but it's a couple of years old now...

at least the first half of the Chrome Children compilation is good too...

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those two are great! i remember i wanted to pick up the sensational because of the autechre remix, but forgot about it. really gritty. cheers mate!

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sure. now i have to get them too ......... -_-

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i've got the Sensational Eikman, hit me up on RTSR

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kind of mainstream but i really liked lupe fiasco's food & liquor album released last year

the new rjd2 is ...different and not really hip-hop. haven't given it enough plays yet to decide whether i like it or not

the last roots album was pretty solid too but then what else would you expect from them

other than that i haven't picked up much new stuff either so will be checking out some of the recs

ryan - how old is that non-phixion album? i have some of their stuff from a good few years ago on my computer somewhere and really liked it..

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Jay Dee - Donuts (last try...)

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that's a good one, but i have it already :)

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maybe 4 years old? some of the tracks on it are from even older 12" releases. the whole album is really good, an underground classic.

the Ill Bill album is probably as good as the Non Phixion!

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Le Klub des Loosers

i really dig french hip hop.

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wow! i got a number of the albumns recoomended here but the non phixion one stands out immediately! i wanted to find the origami one but i couldn't find it :(

anyhow, that one is gold...

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Detect makes dope beats !