HipHopHeads: Your best Hip Hop Albums ever!

[Thorsten Hasenkamm]

"40 Dayz & 40 Nightz" is not Xzibit's first album, it's "At The Speed Of Life" (1996)...



What I like about "Restless" is that it's some sort of a "complete" XZIBIT-album; Dre's beats really add a lot to Xzibit's style...some of the best trax on this LP are "X", "Best Of Things" & "Don't Approach Me"...

[HellboyOne]

My bad... But it's still my favorite.

I find that the rhyming got a little lazy on Restless. A lot of that is probably Dre's doing. He taught Snoop to simplify his style and while his rapid fire delivery was great, slowing it down made Snoop unique. It didn't do as well with X's style, in my opinion.

[Thorsten Hasenkamm]

That's a good point!

[HellboyOne]

That's a good point!

Why do my friends who speak fluent hip hop have to live in Germany?

[Thorsten Hasenkamm]

Hehe ...

[BlueHarp411]

Thorsten am i allowed to ask a dumb question? Going to anyway lol. What is the difference between R&B and Hip Hop? Seems the majority of the artists in this thread are rappers.

Jill

[Thorsten Hasenkamm]

To explain it in a simple way: Hip Hop is Rhymes & Beats, R'n'B is "Rhythm 'n' Blues" (--> no rhymes/raps, just singing, with some additional raps sometimes/guest appearances)...

[Dvontu]

Hip Hop is a culture. Art (graffiti), Dancing (B-Boy), DJing, and MCing. Rap is not Hip Hop. Rap is a commercial, corporate offshoot. R&B is an offshoot of the Blues, Gospel, and Jazz fused into one. In the early 50's, R&B records were actually called Race Records, or Colored Music (because of it's African-American upbringing.) R&B has, of course, it's different branches (Soul, Neo-Soul, Funk,Hip-Hop Soul ect.)

Hip Hop grew out of the R&B (Soul) movement of the 60's. Even though Cool Herc is the Father of Hip Hop, you can trace similar tones in James Brown, Isaac Hayes, and others. Cool Herc bought the "Big Beat" sound from Jamaica using Sound Systems. The sound created the dance, during New York's graffiti era. Eventually, DJing came into play at parties and so fourth to extend the break beat in a record. MCing came from that, to give party goers a little something unique, but the MC always backed up the DJ. The DJ was the star! In the early 70's Hip Hop was widely inbraced by the Punk Rock scene, which is why Blondie (Debbie Harry) is the first white person ever to kick a MC verse on wax.

The Sugar Hill Gang were the product of Corporate Music. None of the members knew one another. They were assembled. Even though Rappers Delight was the first "Rap" record to gain mainstream success, it was not the first Hip Hop record. Actually, Sugar Hill Gang's Rappers Delight was widely criticized in New York by fellow MC's and DJ's, because the of it's blatant use of none talented performers. Big Hank, for instance, actually spells out the name of the MC (Casanova Fly) who wrote the rap for him.

[Dvontu]

The first ever recorded "Rap" song is King Tim III (Personality Jock). The album: XII. The group The Fatback Band.

[da peacekeeper]

... and I always liked rappers delight.

[HellboyOne]

More keep trickling out of my brain...


3rd Bass - The Cactus Album.

[spacesick]

Dvontu - Is it true that Big Hank was actually crafted in a lab using several smaller Hanks?

[Dvontu]

I think so! It's the same lab that created West Coast fruad The Boss, Vanilla Ice, and Dancehall joke Snow!

[spacesick]

I'm not joking.

[zak29]

I finally managed to pick up a copy of this the other week. The beats are on point and Pharoahe is simply incredible- he's got some insane rhyming styles on this album! Check it if you haven't.