The 30 Greatest Hip Hop Demos

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:35 pm

OMG COMPLEX LISTS ARE SO HORRIBLE YOU HAVE TO CLICK YOUR MOUSE BUTTON EVERY SO OFTEN OMG

List is legit. Chairman Mao. My only complaint is that OC's demo is top three material.

I mean he's got demos from Lord Finesse, Del, Cage, 213, Casual, etc, and no stupid concessions to random hick brain-dead regional scenes that only popped up in the last decade to appease the ever annoying contingent that complains when lists like this are skewed towards NY. What more can you want?

http://www.complex.com/music/2011/03/gr ... hop-demos/

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:39 pm

The Common demo is crazy dope.

Wicked · Post by **Wicked** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:04 pm

Wow, this is grrreat!!!

multsanta · Post by **multsanta** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:11 pm

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:23 pm

It's awesome but I'm going to make a complaint anyway. Had a shitty day.

With the Native Tongues list (and other prior lists I assume) you could go into the source code and grab the html for mp3s. It required an effort but you could dl the songs if you wanted to. Hoewever, that doesn't seem to work anymore. You can view the source, but I can't figure out how to isolate the mp3 html, if that can be done.

These are demos. I'm not an expert but I can't imagine any legal ramnification arising from making old non-sold tracks availbable for free download. COMPLEX, post the demos so we can download them.

Am I missing something here?

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:40 pm

That was extremely dope. A decent amount of shit I've never heard before. Props to them for posting so many MP#'s. Not to be that retard but are the mp3's downloadable?

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:10 pm

I want to hear that Casual demo. Dope list overall.

DJCommunist · Post by **DJCommunist** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:41 pm

gold mine!!

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:43 pm

Amazing. Somebody on here must know how to make a downloadable folder of them. Thanks in advance.

Escobar305 · Post by **Escobar305** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:52 pm

Dope shit! I want that B.I.G. demo on mp3 please..

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:07 pm

Escobar305 wrote:Dope shit! I want that B.I.G. demo on mp3 please..

THE big is on the soundtrack to the notorious movie.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:08 pm

Quite a few of these can be downloaded from this folder, which was linked on the very first TROY blog post:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f519 ... e9b67342b8

^you'll have to find out on your own if the ones chairman mao posted are of superior quality or exactly the same or whatnot.

If you like demos, TROY has lots:
http://www.thetroyblog.com/tag/demo/

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:33 pm

This list is okay/cool. But Biggie's demo is not number one at all, imo.

edit: there's lots of good shit here, though, can't front.

Mindbender Futurama · Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:43 am

Thun wrote:OMG COMPLEX LISTS ARE SO HORRIBLE YOU HAVE TO CLICK YOUR MOUSE BUTTON EVERY SO OFTEN OMG

List is legit. Chairman Mao. My only complaint is that OC's demo is top three material.

I mean he's got demos from Lord Finesse, Del, Cage, 213, Casual, etc, and no stupid concessions to random hick brain-dead regional scenes that only popped up in the last decade to appease the ever annoying contingent that complains when lists like this are skewed towards NY. What more can you want?

http://www.complex.com/music/2011/03/gr ... hop-demos/

EAST COAST BIAS
but genuine

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Gurped Out · Post by **Gurped Out** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:00 am

great list, I got the Liks demo in good quality if yall want it

Teddy C.D. · Post by **Teddy C.D.** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:19 am

The Artifacts demo is fucking awesome!

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:08 am

This is massive... I've never even heard of these eminem/kid chaos songs. Ah man the nautalis version of Lord Finesse's. I've been playing Return of the Funkyman in the whip for a week.

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:24 am

I gotta say: Public enemy should have been #one.. one.. one .one. one....

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:44 am

good shit

most of these look like they're streaming through an embedded player, so you wont be able to easily take them from source code. you need a streaming audio ripper or Download Helper if you use firefox

but more importantly i'm thirsty for some Belvedere, lets all hop in an accord to go get some

Busta Ry · Post by **Busta Ry** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:11 am

Wow. This list is incredible. I haven't heard too many of these songs, to be honest.
Nice job. I guess we owe a lot to Bobbito for this one, presumably.

stype_ones · Post by **stype_ones** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:13 am

Dope list.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:39 am

fucking awesome. But no Nickki Minajh? How does that make you feel THUNder.?

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:58 am

Trademark wrote:fucking awesome. But no Nickki Minajh? How does that make you feel THUNder.?

I doubt the world is even ready for Nicki Minaj's demo, so I'm fine with it.

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:40 pm

it's not 'east coast bias'

it's 'rap started in the east and demos were the established way to get an a&r to get someone who matters to listen and get a record deal offer and the majority of such established rap labels were in the east so naturally the majority of the demos were from the east and thus the majority of these top 30 are from the east

fag mindfaggotbender

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:40 pm

this list and the streaming music was fucking awesome btw

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:42 pm

Reason wrote:it's not 'east coast bias'

it's 'rap started in the east and demos were the established way to get an a&r to get someone who matters to listen and get a record deal offer and the majority of such established rap labels were in the east so naturally the majority of the demos were from the east and thus the majority of these top 30 are from the east

fag mindfaggotbender

in all fairness he was jokingly replying to my exaggerated elitist steez

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:45 pm

Thun wrote:
Reason wrote:it's not 'east coast bias'

it's 'rap started in the east and demos were the established way to get an a&r to get someone who matters to listen and get a record deal offer and the majority of such established rap labels were in the east so naturally the majority of the demos were from the east and thus the majority of these top 30 are from the east

fag mindfaggotbender
in all fairness he was jokingly replying to my exaggerated elitist steez

oh.

well in all fairness mao's first sentence directly applies to bender:

"Hard as it may be to imagine nowadays, there was a time when you needed more than just an Internet connection and a liberal dose of self-delusion to launch your career as professional rapper"

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:46 pm

Whatever. Can we all just bask in the glory that is the o.g. version of "Attack Of New Jerusalem"?????

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:52 pm

fucking Rass Kass demos are fire!

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:16 pm

yeah i can't view the page right now but ras kass demo had to be up there.

The 30 Greatest Hip Hop Demos

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