Looking to share tracks and playlists of favorite rappers ^^
I don’t have a ton I follow but do like the following a lot;
Danny Brown
Run the Jewels
Stormzy
Pusha T
JPEGMAFIA
Open Mike Eagl
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Yep. Old school stuff for me such as:
A tribe Called Quest
Jurassic 5
The Pharcyde
Souls of Mischief
DJ jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
Dela
etc etc.
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Old school here too - before it was all guns bitches and bling.
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My favorite old-school rap is square dance calling.
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Not directly a fan ^^’
Metal is where my heart roars,
but i grew a certain love for well made Hip Hop,
somehow i discovered the beauty of well spelled
lyrics, and a good beat.
But to be honest mostly German Rappers,
and mostly sarcastic or trashy Hip Hop 
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So women artists or like a type of ap women listen to?
Lol am so lost
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THE hip and THE hop
:3 honestly I listen to punk gay music sooooo
but can I still be HIP?
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I have to admit I’m very picky about Rap/Hip Hop. Some of it’s great and I Love it, lots of great foreign rappers too with amazing songs. (Mexico, Italy, China, Japan, France, Germany, some Arab rappers) Plenty of American rappers are good too.
But, there’s also A LOT of crap that you have to sift through in order to find the good stuff.
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I love some rap, but I totally agree with you, Lyokodl, and I’m also very selective! But… Rap/hip-hop covers such a broad range of sub-genres from drill to west-coast/gangsta to almost spoken-word poetry. I think it’s really cool how many really different influences there have been on hip-hop that make it so interesting and exciting to listen to. Some genres come and go, but hip-hop is just going to keep on inventing and reinventing ways to evolve and stay relevant.
I discovered hip-hop when I was 13, and randomly bought N.W.A.'s “Niggaz 4 Life” from a bootleg cassette shop in Cyprus. I wasn’t even sure if I liked it at first: it was shockingly abrasive; there were sections without any music at all; and the misogyny was breathtaking…! Yet at the same time it was mesmerising… The more I listened, the more I got into the “fantasy dystopia” described in the lyrics, like I was an extra in a gritty film. Yeah! F*** you! Guns! Biyeetches! Sex! Drugs! Hippety-hoppity! lol
Then I took it into school, trying to “up” my street-cred a bit with the “edgy” music I listened to. Apparently, I was such a square swot that everyone assumed I only listened to classical music. :cautious:
Little did I know that the album hadn’t even been released, that N.W.A. were actually quite famous, and there were so many protests about the offensive content that it seemed likely that it would be banned in many countries! Well, suddenly I was the coolest kid in the class. Even the bullies looked at me with a weird look of awe and respect as they begged me to make a copy for them. 
So… when Dre’s 2001 came out I probably shouldn’t have put the CD on, turned up the volume, then left the room for long enough that when I returned my mum and my girlfriend were sitting in awkward silence as Snoop repeatedly announced how much he liked to f*** bitches. Ooops. That was awkward…
A bit like this track… it starts off sounding so calm and innocent… it’s only half-way through you’re suddenly telling young and old to cover their ears as you scramble for the stop button! Great tune for a sunny day, though…
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Damn lol
I totally agree. Some rap is fire, some rap has a beat that gets stuck in your head and plays in your mind in the middle of an exam, and some are just trash. Like they put no effort into the lyrics.
And sometimes, you hear the most effortless flow, try to sing along and… no matter how well you know the lyrics you can’t keep up! :ROFLMAO:
The oral dexterity of many rappers is so underrated.
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The other cool thing about hip-hop is how it has a “serious” protesting side, and a side that doesn’t take itself seriously. This tune makes me chuckle:
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still better than modern day 
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Rockabye baby, homicide baby, that’s more teardrops, call me crybaby.
Lil Wayne weezy f baby!
Yeah DD, I’m big into rap/hip hop
Mostly like old school 90s stuff and I’m still discovering more from that era that just blows me away and I can’t believe wasn’t huge.
Not just 90s though, basically anything that slaps and makes me stop and think this is the absolute shit.
Anyway, here’s a few tracks I’d love to share
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And five more:
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Peace 
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I like a lot of The Roots stuff. Their albums are a bit “over-produced”, but the tracks vary in style quite a bit and keep you interested… I’m going to suggest this track to get your groove on. It’s eternally funky with that Sly & The Family Stone sample that breaks into your head with its monotonous insistence, and the beat that never breaks… and the vocals are like another percussive instrument.
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Talking of roots… I also like Roots Manuva. The track Witness is about how the experience of losing a (running) race at a primary school sports day drove Rodney to get fit, get famous, and return to take the highly coveted winner’s trophy! Woooo! Bad ass!
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Gotta love hip-hop that doesn’t take itself too seriously. “I’m sat here contending with my cheese-on-toast.” :ROFLMAO:
WITNESS THE FITNESS!
The prophets are living:
One hope; one quest!
:ROFLMAO:
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Yeah man this track is killler!
Speaking of Sly, let me just drop my fav Sly track - it’s not rap but it slaps 
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