Can you all recommend me some great gangsta rappers or songs or albums? I have a hard time enjoying most of what I can find.
I already know of all the stuff by
Big L
Tupac
Biggie
NWA and all of it's solo shit
Wu-Tang Clan
Mobb Deep
Nas
Mos Def
And some others that I can't think of I'm sure. I really love pic related, any stuff similar to it?
>Mos Def
>gangster rap
Choose one. Mos Def is the pinnacle of conscious hip-hop
East Coast:
Showbiz & AG - Goodfellas and Runaway Slave
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Onyx - BacDaFucUp
Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
West Coast:
Spice 1 - 187 he wrote
Mac Mall - illegal business?
Mac Dre - Young Black Brotha
Mac Dre - The Game Is Thick... Part 2 (extremely underrated)
King Tee - Tha Triflin' Album
DJ Quick - Safe and Sound
Southern:
UGK - Ridin Dirty
UGK - Super Tight
UGK - Underground Kingz
Scarface - The Diary
Geto Boys - Geto Boys
8ball and Mjg - Space Age Pimpin
Kingpin Skinny Pimp - Space Age Pimpin
Big Moe - City of Syrup
Outkast - Southernplayalizticcadillacmuzik
Project Pat - Ghetty Green
Project Pat - Mista dont play
Project Pat - Murderers robbers
I was just listing guys, I don't know how to divide the genres, I just mean really dark or violent rap without being hipster shit
Thank you, another time I will go through that list
But anyways, here's a few recs:
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Scarface - The Diary
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Freddie Gibbs - Pinata
Compton's Most Wanted - Music to Driveby
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
There's a few albums to get you started. If you haven't done Raekwon and Ghostface Killah's solo stuff, you should look into that as well.
Oops I meant King Of Da Playaz Ball for Skinny Pimp not space age pimpin and the 8ball and mjg album is called on top of the world
Mos Def is pretty "hipster" but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think you just mean general 90's hip-hop.
professional 1 and 2 by dj clue
Also, if you like Mos Def check out his collab with Talib Kweli, Blackstar, and Talib Kweli's Reflection Eternal.
I didn't say I liked him, those are just the ones that I've exhausted their libraries so I wouldn't get recommendations from them
Thanks
I actually just listened to that yesterday, but it was out of boredom so I wasn't really paying attention
Listen to Kanyes first 2 albums they are kinda similar to Talib Kweli
Try not to blow through albums. Spend time with each one and give them multiple listens. Most albums you'll hear when you're getting started are really good and it ruins them if you listen to too many without really absorbing each one.
Yeah I've realized that, there's plenty of shit I ended up going back to after i went through them quickly at first
brother lynch hung's first 2 albums and his collaboration with sixc
>No one mentioned Troy Ave
I knew I was the only hip hop head here.
Jk some quality shit above, sans Kanye. Fucked up to think someday people will be posting Drake tracks in threads like this. Fuck.
Dipset doesn't get mentioned enough around here
I was watching some of his interviews on youtube the other day and the man is a dope.
Also this.
True, but Mathematics is a conscious lyrical masterpiece.
Brotha Lynch Hung is definitely the guy you want. He talks about killing people and then eating them.
Mathematics is a classic; everything about it is definitively early "conscious" hip-hop, including the beat.
Fucking Premo did his job on that one
check out $ha hef and the lox
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