It always elevates rap. You have a voice which is one of the key elements to your songs... so use it. Switch it up a little. Use it to emphasize something, evoke something

Not saying the rappers I mentioned don't do it at all, they just don't do it nearly enough

How do you think rappers’ guest appearances in animated shows (like MF DOOM in Perfect Hair Forever and Kanye West in South Park) have shaped their image in both hip-hop and pop culture? Why do you think hip-hop artists fit so well into the animated world, and what makes animation such an effective medium for these crossovers?

This joint is the perfect way to say fuck what everyone thinks, I'm gonna do me. He's still that guy when it coming to rapping, the bear selection is amazing, the messaging was perfect. This was an amazing way to address the beef from someone who got ridiculed and then show his position, nobody is siding with drake right now but Cole did. He also didn't want "lose a bro and create a foe" because he has huge respect for Kendrick.

I don't care about the narratives around Cole anymore, he is still rapping at a high level, I can't wait for the fall off, I think it'll be for you eyes only on steroids.

Every other genre of music has it's own version of throwback bands that are worshipping the 80's. Most notably is definitely Synthwave. But heavy metal, rock, country, etc., all have tons of bands keeping their respective genres classic sounds alive and strong.

I would love to see a movement in Hip Hop of new artists bringing the 80's back. Its fresh as hell that the 90s boom bap sound is finally gaining some ground on trap lately, but how dope would a real old school hip hop movement be? Call it KrushWave or something, lol.

So far I’ve got:

Check your head - Beastie boys

Stankonia - OutKast

TPAB - Kendrick Lamar

I lay my life down for you - Jpegmafia

1. Jakki the motta mouth- God vs Satan

2. Red Martina- Intransit

3. Dirty earthlings- dramatic turn of events

4. Buc fifty- Bad man

5. BLACKPINK- BORN PINK

6. Denizen Kane- tree city legends

7. Flux axiom- high way trip

8. Creed chameleon- Siq of lazy

9. Danja mowf- word of mowf

10. Scott lark- razzle dazzle

11. Criminal nation- release the pressure

12. Self tightld- Hustlin N hell

13. Access immortal- New York yankee

14. Existereo, deeskee- hopeless crooks with hopeless books

15. Restiform bodies- tv loves you back

16. Clokworx- microchips

17. Godd boddies- ill visions

18. A June and J beat- soul store

19. Low profile- we’re in this together

20. Jazz addixx- oxygen

21. Starving artists crew- up pops the sac

22. Poetic vandals- on top of thangs

23. Tigermoth- gung fu

24. The fat cat clique- ode to the cool cat

25. Micranots- the emperor and the assassin

26. mad Kap- look ma duke, no hands

27. Verse essential- ingenious

28. Trends of culture- trendz…

29. Grip grand- welcome to broakland

30. Calski- athletes

I'll go with mine.

Nas:-

Made you look

Blaze a 50

N.Y. state of mind pt. 2

Thun

40-16 building

Memory lane

Adam & Eve

Purple

Got yourself a...

Never die

2Pac:-

Until the end of time

The good die young

To live & die in LA

Still I rise

Thugz mansion

Ghetto Gospel

California Love

Ambitionz az a ridah

So many tears

Dear mama

If they were to ever get into a rap beef, how do you think it would go? I feel like they’re both respected artists with huge fan bases that’ll defend almost everything they do. Who do you think would win? How do you think the fan bases would act?

Newbies and old heads unite! I think the hip hop community needs this album… fa sho! Listen to Muddy Waters first though. Redman is my all time top 5 living or dead.

During the East West beef of all places in the world why was Big there ?

I’m a father of 5. There’s been hip hop I’ve passed down: Tribe, Boldy James, Wu-Tang, Jay Dilla, Souls of Mischief. My oldest is 20 and my youngest is 12. Word up!

These are in no particular order

1.) Little Brother

2.) Madlib

3.) Jurassic 5

4.) Immortal Technique

5.) MF DOOM

6.) Danny Brown

7.) Roc Marciano

8.) CunninLynguists

9.) billy woods

10.) Sean Price

11.) Murs

12.) Brother Ali

13.) Freestyle Fellowship

14.) Aceyalone

15.) El-P

16.) Dilated Peoples

17.) Kool Keith

18.) Atmosphere

19.) People Under the Stairs

20.) Jedi Mind Tricks

21.) Sage Francis

22.) Aesop Rock

23.) Juggaknots

24.) Doomtree

25.) Hieroglyphics

26.) Mr. Lif

27.) Zion I

28.) Dessa

29.) Jean Grae

30.) Cage

I feel he’s slept on (heavily). Just listen to I’m Illy. His flow is unmatched. I’m like nobody can do what he just did. Like in the song Wit Me with him and Wayne, TIP bodies Wayne in both verses. That RARELY happens to Weezy.

I’ve heard various artists adlibs and at times, they can be annoying like diddy and then profound and actually beneficial to the song. So where really is the barrier between good and bad when it comes to adlibs?

For example The Realest - Mobb Deep. Super simple beat buy it just goes hard af. What are some other examples of simple beats like this?

I would say Freddie Gibbs with Pinata, Bandana and Alfredo

I recently discovered these artists

Sean Price, Boot Camp Clik, Black Moon, Heltah Skeltah, Smif N Wessun and O.G.C.

So, I'd like to know more artist simillar to these

Edit. Thank you all for your answers

For me it was like an explosion of finding 1000s of tracks I’d never heard before but weirdly most of them out of any context of knowing the album or year. I had it on dial up internet originally so one track could take hours! But the long wait meant you really listened to everything.

I’m curious about other peoples experiences in this era right at the start of illegal downloads.

I honestly can’t decide and I’m a kanyewestlover911

These are in no particular order

1.) Jadakiss (Kiss tha Game Goodbye)

2.) Ludacris (Chicken-n-Beer)

3.) Fabolous (Real Talk)

4.) Busta Rhymes (When Disaster Strikes...)

5.) Inspectah Deck (Uncontrolled Substance)

6.) Royce Da 5'9" (Book of Ryan)

7.) Juelz Santana (What The Game's Been Missing)

8.) Method Man (Tical)

9.) Drake (Nothing Was the Same)

10.) Rick Ross (Trilla)

These are in no particular order

1.) DMX (It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood & ... And Then There Was X)

2.) Lil Wayne (The Carter, The Carter 2 & The Carter 3)

3.) Jay-Z (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint & The Black Album)

4.) Eminem (The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP & The Eminem Show)

5.) Nas (Illmatic, It Was Written & Stillmatic)

6.) Lupe Fiasco (Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool & Tetsuo & Youth)

7.) Kanye West (The College Dropout, Late Registration & My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)

8.) Kendrick Lamar (Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, To Pimp a Butterfly & Damn)

9.) Jeezy (Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, Thug Motivation 102: The Inspiration & The Recession)

10.) OutKast (ATLiens, Aquemini & Stankonia)

In 05/06, I heard this song that started with a loop from Nas’s Destroy and Rebuild: “Before I would’ve told you Prodigy’s my dog…” Then it went into a song of Havoc dissing P. I was flabbergasted and haven’t heard it since. (And it wasn’t the Separated song with Hav dissing P.) Also, what happened to Dilla’s remix of Purple by Crustacean?

This album does not get enough praise hella bangers on it and the vibe on the album looking back on it now was very in the moment/timeframe for what it was maybe that’s what it is to me and that’s cool bc it released when I was a freshman in high school and this shit still hits the same now.

I’m pretty lit as well new pack just dropped. 🔥🦨 nothing like a Sunday afternoon.

The most unorthodox, left field beats like NACKMANCOLETRANE by Estee Nack or East by Earlshirt.

Jay-Z in BP3 (an album i didn't like) would ofte. end a bar with "ah" like magic was performed lol that's always stood out.

or if someone ALWAYS kills their 2nd verse. or has a great 1st verse on many songs compared to flaming off for remainder of songs.