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Q: Favourite Hip Hop Acts?
Hip hop is the new big thing in China: Man do those haircut kids love break dancing. Let's celebrate thirty years of great music with a little tribute.
1) Ice T and Body Count
2) NWA
3) Ice Cube - Specifically the Album "Amerikkka's most Wanted"
12 years 14 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
It would probably have to be Tupac Shakur one of the most famous hip hop artists of all time. Most of all of his Hip Hop Acts are memorable for people who listen or watch that sort of stuff.
kchur:
Agreed, he's one of the best. I particularly like his song "Violent."
actually kchur hiphop has been big in china for a while. break dancing has been praciced here for many years. public enemy , krs onethese days they are into more of the modern stuff
but i like eric b rakim, big daddy kane, biz markie for them. it's cleaner and real rap music. when i played these artists for my first class they loved it, i had to copy it to about 15 usbs. many told me they heard before, a long time ago but could not get. bigie smalls and tupac and songs that have too much cursing and foul language i will not play for them in class. because they will not fully understand the lyrics to the songs and when they repeat they "what's up my nigga!" it could create a serious problem for them because many people are easily offended without taking a second to be understanding.
kchur:
Wow, I'm surprised about KRS. He's good, though. "Sound of the Police" would be one of my more favourite songs.
crimochina:
and speaking of recent hip hop there has been a big push by many hip hop fans to try and clean up the music , or at least make it more representative of the culture (any culture or group has good parts and bad parts, record execs were only releasing gangsta rap . see masta p. when he decided not to do gangsta rap, never got distribution again. ) common, twalib kwlb (sth like that) the roots, black eyed peas mos def these are all examples of artists who had to fight the industry because they were "too positive" eminem actual was a victim of the industry quest to push gansta music. many record execs stayed away from white rappers because they couldn't use the word "nigga" but dre who had clout and his own label which was desperate at the time took a gamble. recently (from what little i know of recent music) kanye west outdoing 50 cent on many occasions was seen as a major vicory for hip hop fans who wanted hip hop to shift. that paved the way for a bunch of other atists to move a way from gangsta rap and be successul cee lo , akon, some others like pitbull they now make more main stream party music. disclaimer: i know many words were spelled wrong FU i'm not a damn dictionary, i'm hung ovr i've been in china for over 2.5 years and im from new jersseuy , and this is a smal laptop with small keys!!!! i'm not a hip hop fan just a music lovrr . everything from 5 to 1 , show me the way to the next whisky bar - doors, queen, aerosmith, let the devil get the best of me - big and rich (that song sums up my life) reggae lenny kravitz sade jimmy hendrix many others i cant remember now. what was my point...
crimochina:
listen to step into the light by krs one. he was one of the biggest casuaityies of the industries shift to gangsta rap. he had to release everything else himself. you can download a whle lotta unrealeases stuff from torrent (this is why USA will start banning torrents) it is a way for artiests to get around the big record companies
Digable Planets
A Tribe Called Quest
MC Solaar
The Roots
Nas
and also...
Public Enemy
Jurassic Five
Young MC
Wu Tang
Run DMC
Run DMC
Coolio
Egyptian Lover
FatBoys
Bllod Hound Gang
Newcleus
Beastie Boys
Bel Biv Devoe
New Edition
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
And one of the sexiest men alive... LL Cool J.
I like my rhymes old skool.
I admit to having to open up my iTunes to remember some of the names.
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/H8yVpxjTGF8/
:)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/JEM8mmTFtXc/
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/BP9YGzuS1nQ/
I honestly don't know where the hell people get off thinking today's hip hop is better. Ignoring the sad loss of political, positive music (Remember when hip hop artists actually told kids to stay off drugs and do well in school?) the actual breaks and skill are so much better in the old stuff.
Nobody mentioned Pete Rock & CL Smooth...
I get the message thing with a lot of hip hop but I think it is more akin to poetry than music.
I don't like hip-hop... (being a metalhead, what would you expect?)
But, I can appreciate some of the Aussie hip-hop that has come out that keeps its political message.
I HATE hip-hop/rap that all they can do is crap on about 'bitches' they can do, or how great they are...(and you've never heard before, nor ever will again...).
crimochina:
you've got big big balls for saying that, but i've got biggest balls of them all (i cant use quotation marks becoz i may have screwed up somewhere)
