On the subject of annoying hip-hop personalities, I'd rank Wyclef Jean somewhere approaching other clowns like Pufffy and Solar. Of course he didn't downgrade the entire hip-hop game or destroy the life of one of our greatest emcees, but like them, he is for me a hugely irritating buffoon whose musi...

aREAL wrote:Not many people voting.

I'm just finally getting around to this.
It takes a only time to download and listen to all of these.... But I like what I'm seeing! Nice work fellas.

Oops... sorry Verge. While I'm here, might as well post up the latest update. http://suckazneedbodyguards.blogspot.com/2010/06/others-had-their-turn-to-flex-jeru-is.html I tracked down the White Label only release of an un-official Jeru The Damaja remix and I must say it's pretty dope. The B-side i...

Im disgusted at what happened after the No Way Out period, the jignorance as it was, those days of cuntent over content, the feigning of skills and talent all for the sake of a buck, the man makes me cringe. He was on a UK chat show last week and he performed some silly new song, it just seemed so ...

What you tend to overlook is the fact that Puffy is an opportunistic entrepreneur and nothing more. Great business man. But also understand that he played a major role in ushering in the age of the bling and garbage rap shit, and ushered out the golden era. He helped make hip hop be more about imag...

Common- Funk Shit (original) http://www.mediafire.com/?y5mdzj52obq Yeah, I think that is the same as the Divshare one above. So there's another Discogs entry for it (http://www.discogs.com/Marley-Marl-Hip-Hop-Dictionary/release/1479616). Seems like the original is Marley Marl and the natural vibes ...

Perhaps the Nautral Vibe mix is the one on youtube , and its produced by EQ.
http://www.discogs.com/Marley-Marl-Hip- ... ase/865494

But where is this doper "Japan" version from? Mike Nice, any info?

I think I got this track from a download of Common's Resurrection Instrumental album. But does anyone know where it is actually from? Or who produced it? All I have is the title: Common - Funk Shit (Japan Only) <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload....

Supercat and 3rd Eye are both wack as fuck. No... Supercat is not a dancehall heavyweight, but in his peak he had more dope styles than 90% of rappers today. I'd rather listen to Ini Kamoze.. DEFinitely no. Supercat was definitely one of the heavyweights of his era. His clashes with Ninjaman are le...

Thun wrote:Supercat and 3rd Eye are both wack as fuck.

No... Supercat is not a dancehall heavyweight, but in his peak he had more dope styles than 90% of rappers today.

vermillion wrote:I'd rather listen to Ini Kamoze..

DEFinitely no.

Wow, am I the only one who wishes he got punched in the face in this video? Or any other time? lol You are absolutely not the only one Verge. LOL. I can not stand him. Fluff Daddy is by far the most annoying pompous moron in hip-hop. (not including Solar of course) But back to that track, I would n...

Anyone know a dancehall song that came out around '94-97 in which the beat changes in the middle of the song? First beat was fast tempo. And the second beat was slow and the artist would toast slow. I can't remember if the second beat had six million dollar man's bionic sound effects or not. There ...

For all of those that asked for Red Fox...how is this for you? http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/be/f6/322ec060ada0b7b79c6ba110.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://www.megaupload.com/?d=oQ0AP226 1. Born again black man 2. Dry head shakira pt.1 3. Good body runs in yah family 4. No condom, no fu...

Part of what is dope about this is, look at how humble DJ Premier is. He's teling all this stuff about how he didn't know what he was doing on the first album, even some of the second, etc. He's not posing up, claiming to be some divinely perfected superproducer . He's being real... foolish mistakes...

What makes this tricky/contentious is the ambiguity of the term "classic." I think you'll find a wide range of opinions on that very term, let alone the dopeness of Hold It Down. I love Hold It Down mainly because it has some seriously knockin beats on it. Plus it really surprised me when it came ou...

This is tight. DJ Premier breaks down the production context on each of the Gang Starr albums. --------------------------------- Full Clip: DJ Premier Gives Backstory On Entire Gang Starr Catalog No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989) What comes to mind during that time was my amateur production skills [laughs...

Wow. This looks really dope. Props KB.

Did the 45 King really have a productions hand in these gems?:

kevin beacham wrote: 13)X-Clan-Heed The Words Of The Brother ג€˜89
32)Diamond D-Check One ,Two Instrumental ג€˜92

Rawcotiks-Hardcore Hip Hop (Instrumental) Das EFX-Real Hip Hop (Instrumental) PMD-Swing Your Own Thing (Instrumental) Erick Sermon-Hittin Switches (Instrumental) Fierce-Crab (Instrumental) Jaz, This has the "Real Hip-Hop" instrumentals on it. - Das EFX Hold It Down Instrumental LP - http://www.mega...

That Dead Prez "Food Clothes Shelter" is monumental to me.

That's from the days when they were much, much doper.

As far as I remember this tape was the only thing that ever had it. Am I wrong?

Props for this post though.

Compton's Righteous - Eargasamick Vibes VLS (1994) aka Compton's Righteous EP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPL5gb7THc
http://www.discogs.com/Comptons-Righteo ... se/1656669

Yo Mike, Big respect to you. I only know you through this little hip-hop virtual zone, but besides being legendary to me in that realm, you seem like a generally cool cat who's got his head on real straight. (Anyone ever see Mike get entangled in the all-to-common online tiff? Never.) Of course, the...

OK. Perhaps T.R.O.Y. is not the place to continue to track this saga. But this news was just too satisfying not to share. In case you missed it, some hip-hop cyberhero has hacked Solar's email and twitter accounts ( twitter.com/7grandrecords & twitter.com/Solar_7Grand ). They've been clowning him on...

Classic material! Big props on this post.

Glad to see this thread get bumped. KRS-One & Roy Johnson are both national treasures. This thread caps the colection at 1986-1997. Anyone see any problem with continuing to build this out adding in later years? It seems this could be the definitive collection anywhere on the web if it covered more ...

Here's a press statement from Guru's sister. She tactfully sheds light on some key facts and mentions that the memorial they will do will be "all-inclusive" (ie. DJ Premier welcome). This is how you write a clean and clear press statement. I think Solar's biggest liability is not that he's shady, bu...

He may be overrated by only 2 people on the planet, but the overrating is so extreme that he's a contender for most overrated.

Super Pro-doucher Solar.

A few others deserving mention here:

DJ Scratch
Kankick
Curt Cazal
Lord Jamar
Lord Finesse
Masta Ace
Groove Merchants
Guru
Joe Quixx
Tony D

(Showing my age like Kevin Beacham...) My older sister had the 12" to Rapper's Delight in '79/'80. I was 6 and I made her play that over and over until I memorized it. Then when Sucker MCs came out in '83, I was officially hooked, starting trying to B-Boy, and the record hoarding began. Growing up i...

Lots of highly underrated names posted already. I'd second strongly Ced Gee, Buckwild, Nick Wiz, Easy Mo Bee, T-Ray, Salaam Remi, EZ Elpee, S.I.D., No I.D., DJ Too Tuff, & Godfather Don. And I'd add Domingo, Carlos Broady, and KRS-One. But if we are talking about "underrated" in the overall hip-hop ...

And what about Madlib. Is his "streak" too late to be considered? Madlib isn't on par with someone like Premier, RZA etc as far as streaks go, but this is a great streak in it's own right. Regardless if you like the MCing or not on these albums, the production is great.. Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da ...