By: Chichibio
/lets the beat.... drop. Sorry to wreck what would have been a great way to end the thread Artw, but am I the only one to wish that Maestro Fresh Wes had kicked off a cummerbund-wearing...
View ArticleBy: P.o.B.
And you want to hear something that will blow your mind if you haven't heard it already? The first Dre/Ice Cube song is a total Beastie Boys rip-off . Grab every Beastie Boy album you can get a hold...
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
I'd give Premier credit for being a covert influence on a huge amount of rap, but for "revolutions," if you're claiming DITC, you might as well bring out all the Virginia Beach crew (Timba, Clipse,...
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
I dunno, Premier and DITC kinda perfected the East Coast/NY sound in a way that people are still emulating 20 years later. A lot of people don't even know they're listening to Premier though when they...
View ArticleBy: billyfleetwood
That's not how I remember it. 1992-4 were fantastic years for hiphop that produced some of the best albums the genre has ever seen and established it as more than just a fad. No Doubt. That's kind of...
View ArticleBy: Bookhouse
BDP also. And you want to hear something that will blow your mind if you haven't heard it already? The first Dre/Ice Cube song is a total Beastie Boys rip-off. I somehow hadn't heard this until about a...
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
>Pretty much any rapper from now til forever who raps about his dick, his gun, or selling dope owes NWA a nickel Ice-T was doing that shit a few years before NWA crawled out of the shopping mall...
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
Pretty much any rapper from now til forever who raps about his dick, his gun, or selling dope owes NWA a nickel cough*Schooly D*cough
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
The eraly 90's were kind of a wasteland of Hip Hop Anyway. It was starting to get Big, the West Coast was on the map, but there was still enough room for lots of regional and independent acts to make a...
View ArticleBy: Uther Bentrazor
I never followed PM Dawn as a rap group. However, as a fan of both rap and industrial music, I will say I give them props for showing up on some of my favorite guitar-industrial remix albums, making...
View ArticleBy: iamck
They're ripping off De LA Soul who wrote a whole song about Burger King on their highly underrated second album. (for those that slept)
View ArticleBy: Zhai
I saw MC900 ft Jesus live in the mid nineties for the One Step Ahead Of The Spider tour. Very large band onstage. One of the best shows I've ever seen. He did everything I wanted to see ("Adventures In...
View ArticleBy: billyfleetwood
...but if you really enjoy geeking out on Hip Hop to this degree I highly, highly reccomend Ego Trip's Big Book of Rap Lists. Best book on Hip Hop ever written. Also, the most frequently stolen book in...
View ArticleBy: billyfleetwood
That article made me want to punch my screen. All the P.M. Dawns and Me Phi Me's were not sparks to aborted revolutions. They were the tail end of the real revolution started with groups like...
View ArticleBy: Navelgazer
Yeah, sorry if I implied that. I think a lot of Gangsta (particularly the West Coast stuff) is great. I just think it set a formula which was easier to (poorly) recreate than a lot of other stuff going...
View ArticleBy: norm
Yeah, I was mostly just knee-jerking at the repeated use of "gangsta rap" as a pejorative shortcut for a) all bad hip-hop and b) an invented creation to crush the nascent positive rap developing in the...
View ArticleBy: Navelgazer
norm, a lot of that sloppy history was surely coming from me. As I said, I'm not a fan, just a dabbler.
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