Poignant Songs

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:29 pm

Pre-emptive

and

What are the rap songs that put you in that bittersweet mood?

This thread will be a safe place - though memories are for faggots, we'll just choose to ignore that. Should be interesting to see if there is any overlap between the selections here and the ones in the Feel Good thread.

I'll start off with the single most obvious and one of the best examples:

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Call me a faggot, but "for now it's all a dream/ 'cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen" is one of the genre's most well crafted, beautifully sad couplets, amidst many others in Ghost's verse, which ends in the incredible, unintentonal bit of comedic relief "sunshine plays a major part in the daytime."

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:35 pm

Can't say I love all these songs but I think they fit the bill
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Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:37 pm

Okay, well why don't you post the ones that you do specifically love? Learning why people dig music is way more interesting than reading a thematic list of songs, no?

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:42 pm

I love the G rap song. Used to love the Fellowship song (talk about aging poorly).
I guess poignant isn't my bag really. Carry on.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:43 pm

Blockhead wrote:I love the G rap song. Used to love the Fellowship song (talk about aging poorly).
I guess poignant isn't my bag really. Carry on.

Oh, give me a fucking break.

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:01 pm

shadowmaster · Post by **shadowmaster** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:03 pm

Tragedy's Grand Groove Remix and the other one about his mother, Permanently Scarred.

Can anyone tell me the song the singing on the latter is interpolated from? It's the male vocalist 2/3rds through the song: 'Days and nights are getting colder, I can't take it anymore, death is knocking at my door etc'

O.C.'s Born 2 Live of course

Third verse of T.R.O.Y

The Legion's Rest In Peace

Bits of Nore's I Love My Life

Cormega's Fallen Soldiers

sorry if these have been mentioned, I can't see the youtube links right now

KITFUNK · Post by **KITFUNK** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:08 pm

Da King & I - Tears
Big L - How Will I Make It

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:13 pm

Personal favs that speak to my somewhat trite and emo backpack nature.

Guess Who - Goodie Mob

Balcony Beach- Latryx

Stepfather Factor - El-P

Hey Mama - Kanye West (original unruined by overproduction version)

tried to embed videos, but links didn't work.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:16 pm

The hook is tear-inducing but in a beautiful rather than sad way in spite of the song, "you used to hold me, told me that I was the best..." and so on.

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One of the most perfect attemps to make religious soul-searching in to a rapsong

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Veru poignant because you can place yourself in his shoes even if you don't have a terminal illnes, you can actually feel his pain irrespective of the song title

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The first verse give me chills, this guy is so good

"we ball like ghetto-children in life tournaments
lusting for platinum-chains and ice-ornaments"

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emo "fuck everyone" anthem that somehow isn't pussy

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here's my controversial HHI-era choice

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Req · Post by **Req** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:44 pm

obv

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battlecatmeowstab212 · Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:47 pm

Last Emperor & Too Poetic - "One Life"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZs2BZZHrU8

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Hearing someone rap about what's killing them mere months before it actually does is something I don't believe I've heard replicated before or since. The way Poetic goes from his very personal feelings to just listing everything around him and letting the listener fill in the blanks is really soul crushing.

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:01 pm

Never heard that song before battlecat...that's some really sad shit.

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:05 pm

Lil Wayne "Everything"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbfg7jpTT_o

vs.

Lil Wayne "Miss My Dawgs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWoZucAZS94

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:37 pm

The South specializes in throwin feelins...

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Can Con

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:14 pm

jay z - dream
juggaknots - clear blue skies
cube - who got the camera
outkast - 13th floor/growing old
biggie - missin u

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:25 pm

Rjd2-June, I know gay shit, but i had two really good friends die when dead ringer dropped and that song hit a nerve for some reason...

damms · Post by **damms** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:37 pm

ogie · Post by **ogie** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:01 pm

thata baby looks like it has lipstick on ^

one of my favorites:

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The Frankest · Post by **The Frankest** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:28 pm

Gangstarr - In Memory Of

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Guru dives into these memories seemingly at random. "Eyes so serious, you told me hold my head" is really fucking vivid about a person who's gone, and then that second verse about a good dude who was stabbed in his sleep, "I wish you was here cause your philosophy was mad deep" just hits home.

Bushwick Bill - Times Is Hard

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"It's kinda rough starting over, but it's worth the pain/ Instead of getting stuck with the same ol' same." Everybody's had hard times, and had to best move on from something. Gets you down but also motivated to get up.

Crooked I - Medicine (HHW Reloaded 6)

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The whole verse is one long quotable, but some standouts:

"Everybody wanna be hood, they're so fuckin dumb
Tell me why they're running to everything I'm running from
What the fuck, you live in a bubble, boy? It's troublesome
See those white sheets on the street? You could be under one
Coroner calling your mother, down goes another son
and the world keeps spinning, just like it's nothing, huh"

"Crooked, you done shot at dudes, you a hypocrite
My nigga they shot at me first, that's why I did the shit
That was long ago, I'm on a different tip
to no longer look over my shoulder, it's magnificient"

"Hip hop moguls, they were my inspiration
when I was homeless and sleeping at the bus station
Hungry as a hostage, imagine my frustration
I earned this here right to speak to my young nation"

TOO REAL.
Some of those lines get me everytime.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:01 pm

First time i heard Lil B say "streets see a lotta things so i talk to curbs/i might say nothing back 'cause i'm at loss for words" on Good Morning I was like :

with a portion of :

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:10 pm

^^^what song?

unbelievable dickhead · Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:21 pm

geto boys - six feet deep

scarface stay poignant

Rachel Hobozal · Post by **Rachel Hobozal** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:23 pm

unclebengi wrote:^^^what song?

Read his post again shitbag.

Radio Raheem · Post by **Radio Raheem** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:26 pm

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:41 pm

Without a doubt the winner for me goes to...

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mud · Post by **mud** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:21 pm

Thun wrote:
Call me a faggot, but "for now it's all a dream/ 'cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen" is one of the genre's most well crafted, beautifully sad couplets

Yet you can't quote it properly....

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:47 pm

Brenda's got a baby merks this category

I can't go to sleep obv very emotional. Spiritual successor to this is 'sunlight' on 8 diagrams. No ghost this time but rza goes in. One of my fav tracks on an underrated album.

Minority report off kingdom come always hit hard to me. Poor kids,just cause they was poor kids, left em on their porches.....

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:52 pm

Add undying love and k-issing off 'i am.' the first is a certified classic that sounds like a non comic version of slick ricks verse on treat em like a prostitute. The second I know people will hate on cause all they hear is the hook, but the verses are dope. Nas talking about his wife in a semi honest way, lotta emotion in that song, deep no homo.

microphonistwanderlust · Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:20 pm

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