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THE HIP HOP THREAD
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Your Old Droog and Billy Woods are personal favorites. Wiki too. Love Homeboy Sandman. I've only recently discovered Vinnie Paz and Jedi Mind Tracks, but he makes me laugh.
For some reason I often return to this clip with Droog, Wiki and the great Edan:
Somehow the line: 'your crew too slow to do so' hits me hard every single time.
Enjoy!
I go through long periods where it comprises most of what I listen to, tbh.
Ka put out one of the best albums of last year, imo. And, he died last year. Fucked up. Went out on top I guess at least.
Also a big fan of Memphis' own, Lukah, especially his last two albums. Temple Needs Water, Village Needs Peace came out last year as well and was pretty incredible. Concepts of utopia.
I'm going to post an all-time classic in my book:
By the way, is footwork allowed, or is it too derivative?
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The Touch The Feel I liked the Ka track on this record: http://djpreservation.bandcamp.com/album/eastern-medicine-western-illness. Very laidback and kind of sad. The whole record is pretty cool.
They're perfectly fine separately but the two Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin joints are some of my favourite hip-hop of the best decade. The $mokebreak EP in particular.
I'll have to check this out. Good names on there.
Will have to listen to this one as well. I listen to the Pink Sifu & YUNGMORPHEUS album Bag Talk Deluxe quite a bit. I think they put out a Bag Talk album then a Bag Talk Deluxe and now there is a new Bag Talk Deluxe with 6 more songs. I kind of like that concept, just adding more and more songs to an album. I've never looked for their other stuff though. There's too much out there. I listen to God Fahim off and on for long stretches and the discography is absurd.
oh and hell yeah a classic. DJ Screw rules but also Z-Ro had a run as one of the greats. Not a family friendly track but homie was singing the hook and rapping like he was the South's Pac on this whole album. and one of the top of all time, Scarface, has a verse.
I really really like Open Mike Eagle too. Super consistent, funny, thoughtful. I don't get how he hasn't crossed over more. He does a bunch of podcasts too. His What Had Happened Was show talks to one hip-hop person for an entire series about all of their work. The Prince Paul series in particular was fantastic.
Allez Al Saw Open Mike on tour with Paul F. Tompkins, of all people. Good shit. Tompkins did standup, Open Mike rapped a couple tracks, there were sketches and stuff with Tompkins and some other comedians.
I find it more difficult to stay up to date on underground hip-hop than punk. Like the actual good shit that's being released, seems like it takes more effort to find. So much modern hip-hop is straight-up trash. But there's still good stuff if you dig.
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excited about the new billy woods
see-saw.fun's evan minsker Awesome! I did not know a new one was in the making. It had been quiet for too long already.
It seems pretty hard to obtain Billy Woods records here in Europe. He releases everything on his own label. I happened to stumble on Hiding Places at the record store this weekend and bought it with Transportation by Your Old Droog. Both cool.
I'd be remiss if we didn't circle this back around just to say this album is so good. incredible production. so many heavy hitters. great stuff. cheers.
I think Component System with the Auto Reverse might be Open Mike Eagle's most complete album, really feels like everything he aims at coming together. Often find A Special Episode Of is what I play first though. He's super consistent, has lineage with the Project Blowed scene - always loved Freestyle Fellowship and the connected releases, as well as the later LA beat tape stuff like Ras_G.