Old School Rap. What to acquire?

[Motorhead350]

I would like to know what Old School Rap to pickup. All I have is N.W.A. Run DMC and The Fat Boys. I know there is a lot more to it than that. Maybe someone has something that shows the link between Rap and Country music. Most don't believe that until they hear this song....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx59fmP7jYE

What should I look into guys?

Thanks!

[Haggis]

Don't listen to that crap, burn it. :flamer:

[Egon Spengler]

DAS EFX
Dilated Peoples
Fu Schnickens
Eazy E
Notorious BIG
Ice Cube
Black Sheep
Tribe Called Quest (Midnight Marauders)
Special Ed
Geto Boys
Shaq Diesel (Shaquille O'Neal)

Just to name a few....

If you have Sirius radio, I suggest you tune into "Backspin" which is Sirius 40 I believe and it will give you some options.

[Motorhead350]

DAS EFX
Dilated Peoples
Fu Schnickens
Eazy E
Notorious BIG
Ice Cube
Black Sheep
Tribe Called Quest (Midnight Marauders)
Special Ed
Geto Boys
Shaq Diesel (Shaquille O'Neal)

Just to name a few....

If you have Sirius radio, I suggest you tune into "Backspin" which is Sirius 40 I believe and it will give you some options.

Thank you. Funny how two artists you mentioned were in N.W.A. guess it was a supergroup before anyone knew it.

Now I need to see if Office Space has a soundtrack.

[musclemerc]

Ha.. You gotta get LL Cool j's 1st album "Momma Said Knock You Out", Africa Bambatta, Eric B and Rachiem, Whodini, Beasty Boy's, Stetsasonic, The Johnson Crew, MC Shy D, Megatron, I can keep going and going.....

You did say Old School!

[CBT]

Vanilla Ice. Yeah, I said it.

[CROWNMARAUDER]

N.w.a.
Run dmc
ICE T

[Motorhead350]

Okay I forgot I do have a lotta Beastie Boys stuff. My favorite Jewish Rap group!

[vkirkend]

sugarhill gang, Houdini, curtis blow to start.....

[Egon Spengler]

Eric B and Rakim
Above is good, correct spelling too for looking it up.

[musclemerc]

Egyptian Lover, the 2 live Crew, Too Short, Public Enemy, Cool Moe D, Gigolo Tony...

Don't make me goto the music server.

[Motorhead350]

the 2 live Crew, .

Pretty Woman... haha I forgot about that one.

[massacre]

"Momma said knock you out" is not L.L. Cool J's first album, and a lot of the stuff listed is not really old school rap, just older than the stuff that's out there now.

Definitely:

UTFO ("Roxanne, Roxanne" was the first rap song I ever heard, had to be like 1980 or '82)
Whodini(already listed)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five with Melle Mel
Kurtis Blow(already listed)
Newcleus
Sugar Hill Gang(already listed)
Doug E. Fresh and the E. street crew

[justbob]

+1 on the sugar hill gang. I'll have to look at my 80's collection and report back.

[CBT]

+1 on the sugar hill gang. I'll have to look at my 80's collection and report back.
Fail. You have to go back to the 70's. Specifically, 1979. Love yooooooooooooo!

[Egon Spengler]

Digable Planets
EPMD
KRS ONE
Kool G Rap
DMX
Big Pun
Freaknasty
House of Pain
Naughty by Nature
Public Enemy
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch :-)
Method Man
Redman
Wu-Tang
Onyx
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Slick Rick
Doug E. Fresh
Tone Loc
Whodini

[musclemerc]

J.J. Fad, Salt&Pepper, Queen Latifa, Cool G. Rap, The Geto Boy's, 8 Ball & MJG.

This is all off the top of my head so please forgive me if i'm off a little with the specific's

[RoyLPita]

Let me know if you want my 2 Live Crew collection.

[Motorhead350]

I'll take it when I can spot you for shipping.

[musclemerc]

^^^ Ha...Ha... I grew up in South Florida and can still remember when Sherriff Nick Navarro banned anything from the 2Live Crew from being played or sold.

[Egon Spengler]

aaaaaand....

The Funky Four +1 More
Goodie Mob
Rob Base
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Boogie Down Productions
Pharcyde
Biz Markie
Digital Underground (The Humpty Dance)
The Roots
Young MC
Too $hort
Arrested Development

[Motorhead350]

I am really starting to like 2 Live Crew!

Do Wa Diddy!!! LOL!

[CBT]

aaaaaand....

The Funky Four +1 More
Goodie Mob
Rob Base <----He wants to rock right now, he's Rob Base and he came to get down, he's not internationally known, but he's known to rock the micro-phone....
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Boogie Down Productions
Pharcyde
Biz Markie
Digital Underground (The Humpty Dance)<----Oh yeah!
The Roots <---Very under rated, IMHO.
Young MC
Too $hort
Arrested Development

Good stuff.

[Egon Spengler]

Good stuff.
The Roots opened for Wyclef Jean at Bentley College here in MA when I was in college and I drove out to the college excited to see The Roots and Wyclef, but my friend and his girlfriend were both drunk and didn't have much info on the concert, so we missed The Roots! I was PO'ed. Wyclef did a great job though. He interacted with the crowd BIG TIME! I wanted to see the Roots though. Questlove is a great drummer and wanted to see them perform!

[LANDY]

Tupac shakur, bone thugs, jt-money, master p.

[CBT]

The Roots opened for Wyclef Jean at Bentley College here in MA when I was in college and I drove out to the college excited to see The Roots and Wyclef, but my friend and his girlfriend were both drunk and didn't have much info on the concert, so we missed The Roots! I was PO'ed. Wyclef did a great job though. He interacted with the crowd BIG TIME! I wanted to see the Roots though. Questlove is a great drummer and wanted to see them perform!

True. I liked him just from the songs, had no idea what he (or the band)looked like for the longest time. Then they were on some late night show a couple years back, Sat. Night Live or Letterman, somebody. Anyway, I remember thinking "that drummer is going OFF, man" and it turns out it was the Roots, lol.

[Egon Spengler]

jt-money
This is where my name came from. We were listening to JT Money and my friend said TJ Money because my initials are TJM, so it stuck and is now on my motorcycle helmet! I get compliments on it all the time! Hand painted...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/238/62/562932925/n562932925_976133_8261.jpg

[GAMike]

Big Daddy Kane
Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5
Kurtis Blow
Beastie Boys
Boogie Down Productions

Newer Stuff
B.G. The Prince of Rap- Not old school per se but one half decent song- "This beat is hot"
Fat Joe
Big Punisher
Pete Rock & CL Smooth

BTW- LL's 1st album was "Radio", and its a must have if you are into rap music.

[RoyLPita]

I'll take it when I can spot you for shipping.

Which format would you like? I have them in 78rpm record and 8 track tape.

:jk:

5 each in cassette and CD. Also have Luke Skyywalker, too.

[justbob]

aaaaaand....

The Funky Four +1 More
Goodie Mob
Rob Base Good one!
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince I have their greatest hits.
Boogie Down Productions
Pharcyde
Biz Markie
Digital Underground (The Humpty Dance)
The Roots
Young MC One of my fav's!
Too $hort
Arrested Development

Cypress hill.


I could listen to early rap at any time. It's the new crap I can't stand.

[breeze]

def. The Roots.. drummers A BEAST!
Waka Flaka, Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, Devin The Dude,
Pastor Troy...

[Egon Spengler]

Waka Flaka, Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, Devin The Dude, Pastor Troy...
Dude, he said old school rap, not born yesterday rappers! haha

[2,4shofast]

Haystak FTMFW, some good stuff listed:beer:

[breeze]

Dude, he said old school rap, not born yesterday rappers! haha

hey i saw big pun, dmx, jt money, master p and there late 90's rap. :P

[Egon Spengler]

def. The Roots.. drummers A BEAST!
Waka Flaka, Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, Devin The Dude,
Pastor Troy...


hey i saw big pun, dmx, jt money, master p and there late 90's rap. :P
Dudes in bold probably weren't even born yet for "old school rap" hahaha

[massacre]

Dude, he said old school rap, not born yesterday rappers! haha


I must be old, because when I look the stuff you posted, I say the same thing!
hahahaha

but -
i was there.


Old stuff as far as 1st gen is actually a small list.

The 2nd gen is when it got big, and then 3rd. gen, exploded.
The **** from 10 years ago is 4th gen, and who knows what the 5th or 6th gen will bring?


In the early days, rap was on par with blues, simple, not a lot of production.

Eventually that escalated into everyone wearing a poofy coat with a bandana and a sideways hat, with bitches and hos and fridges full of forties, lo rider wimpalas, gats and busin' caps.........videos on yo mtv raps 23 hrs a day(which is probably where you saw it)

As kids we were into rap before radio play, before breakin', before beat street, etc.
BTW I have witnesses.....lol
and if tempted may do the windmill
haha

[justbob]

Breakin. dang, I forgot about that. God i'm old....

[ChiTownMaraud3r]

Listen to some older hip hop such as Common (resurrection), GangStarr, Geto Boys, Scarface, Pete Rock, The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, KRS One, LL cool J. Just to name a few.

Here's my fav Common song it's on resurrection, he put Chicago on the map back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99iG4HoO1c

There's alot of newer decent hip hop out there too, not just the ******** on the radio.

[justbob]

Mantronix....

[Egon Spengler]

Mantronix....
Didn't Caset used to call himself "Mantranix" in high school?

[breeze]

Dudes in bold probably weren't even born yet for "old school rap" hahaha

only Wia khalifa, Drake and Waka Flaka. there prolly my age 21 no older the 24. the rest are late 20s early 30s.

[Egon Spengler]

Fu-Schnickens Featuring Shaq Diesel (Shaquille O'Neal)
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