DJTre

Wanna burn a hip-hop CD with some new tracks on it.
I haven't really listened to hip hop for years, but i'm in the mood to burn one with some of the newer songs on it.
Post some songs so I can d/l them and check them out.

Thanks!

Loca_Boo

I dont really listen to new rap but I know lots of good OLD songs?
not OLD OLD
but nothing "new"

DJTre

Yeah I know, I know lots of good old hip-hop too...in-fact, old hip-hop is the best.

I just wanted some newer songs to pimp out while driving

shaque

Listen to Imortal Technique.. hes a pretty talented underground rapper

666

Jedi Mind Tricks

DJTre

Thanks guys, keep em coming.

Cmon, I know there are tonnes of e-thugs on here, let me know what you're listening to these days!

Colly

kanye west/g unit is hot right now.......if you don't like the commercial stuff, there's an old one called "super mario brothers rap" by Benefit......funny ****.

underground **** by eminem is my fav......the stuff he did against ja rule was funny and his DJ Green Lantern is pretty good.

Buff 'n Stuff

bust a move... young mc?

TeSt DrIvE

Lean Back Remix - Fat Joe, Mase
Joe Budden - Not you average Joe
Loyd Banks - Fire
Jim Jones Feat Game - Certified Gangsters
Young Buck - Let me In
Lil Flip - Sunshine (not really HIP HOP)
Young Buck feat Ludacris and Game - Stomp
JadaKiss - Why
Twista - (I wont post a particular song cause all of his stuff is crazy!)
Game feat Fabolous - Brooklyn Bound

That should get you started, good luck!

imported_kane2k

If you used to listen to rap a while back, check out the new Beastie Boys album. The beats are classic, looping drum tracks with electronics thrown in to fill it out. "It take time to build" sounds awesome, and has the added benefit of the lyrics not being at a 4th grade reading level. And it's got the mandatory Beastie Boys bass.... Nothing sounds quite like an 8 0 8.

Trizza

LEEEAn BACK RMX
Jesus Walks RMX

DJTre

Yeah, I got both of those tracks.


Kane, Beastie Boys used to be the isht. Is there new stuff similar to the old? Or has it changed to sound like the new stuff?

Roacho2

the new Beastie Boy album is a modernized Pauls Boutique.

Pauls Boutique was amazing and there was a lot of variety between tracks.

The new album sounds like a generic mishmash of the same old ****. Every song sounds like "a beastie boy song". There is nothing that makes any one stand out above any others, and I thought it was a really uninspired album.

The whole thing with the Beastie's, for me at least, has been about their attitude. fsck the world, who cares, anarchy, down with everything.

now you get them apologizing for their humour in the past.

They should have at least changed their name to something else after Ill Communication... it was all downhill from there.

Licensed to Ill I think is their best album. Not in terms of music, but in terms of the energy you can get from it.

Check out Afroman. I got three hours of afroman... it's horrible, but I can't stop listening to it. All he raps about is selling CDs, getting fscked up, and his low rider caddy with hydraulics.

He's what is wrong with society today, and I love him for it!

Gunmetalef

o ised to like rap but it aint going n e where.. jus same thing over and over.. matt got me into jungle.. i am really liking it

imported_kane2k

If you want to get tied down in the fact that the Beastie Boys had to grow up a little and become a little smarter about **** that's fine. As you said you liked the anarchy of their old stuff. I personally like their attitude and how it has evolved. From Tibet, to speaking out about sexual abuse at Woodstock, to the political themes in their new album, at least they don't bore me when they decide to use their celebrity to advance a cause. They pick decent issues to stand behind and make good music too.

I haven't even listened closely to most of the lyrics from the new album, except for a few tracks where they caught my attention. I've just had it playing really loud in the background a lot of the time while I'm around the house. All the songs do sound like Beastie Boy songs but they also sound like nothing else out there right now. There are no choruses, no collaborations, no bitches, no hoes, no drug dealing, no cars, no skits involving phone conversations with random idiots(seriously, what the **** has been up with that for the past 10 years?).

There is a lot of scratching, a lot of nice samples, a lot of good hard beats. All the things I used to like about rap are in this album. Brings me right back to Grade 5 and "Tougher than Leather" except for the fact that I never had a decent stereo back then and now I can play it as loud as I want.

Roacho2

i want an entertainer to entertain me. if i wanna hear about politics, i'll go to a political rally.

i am not knocking their stand on things, but what happened to entertainment for the sake of entertainment?

i've liked the beastie's for a number of reason's from when I was in grade 2.. i didn't know what the hell getting dusted or high was.. but i liked the music... unlike a lot of bands.. they have stood the test of time.. have not needed to swear and big themselves up all the time.. or put out a fake image even.

i respect that.

but the new album is good background music.. that's about it... don't all the tracks sound the same? like one big long song?

they've turned ****. when i saw them in molson park, they were trying to get a dance contest going. you got 20 000 people in front of one stage.. a lot of them are drunk and/or stoned.. a lot of them are there to mosh... you tihnk everyone is going to be given space to dance?

their actions are consistent with their image, but nowadays, I think people give them far too much accomplishment for anything they've done recently.

imported_kane2k

What happened to entertainment for the sake of entertainment?

Here's the simple answer: people are really stupid, especially in America.

Your average person has absolutely no clue what is going on in the world. We're lucky in Canada to at least have some news on TV which is not controlled by huge conglomerate corporations, Americans aren't so lucky. If a General Electric nuclear plant had a leak would it be the leading story on NBC's 6 o'clock news? Doubt it.

Aside from that bit of conspiracy mongering, your average American is not interested in what's going on around them, which is why if you watch Buffalo stations for your news you get 25% weather coverage 25% sports coverage 25% stupid stories about how John Baker from Cheektowaga just finished up his memorial garden to Elvis and his neighbour Nancy saw a vision of the King himself eating a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich in the lilac tree. That leaves about 25% of airtime for some local nitwit to dumb down any international news into either terror threats or stories about those wacky Belgians and their waffles and those damn Frenchie cowards and their berets. And people tune in every night. These same people probably think they have a clue about the world.

You think these people want to hear an expert on foreign policy? A scientist concerned about global warning? An expose on the plight of the Tibetan people? Not a chance, far too many big words. The only chance you have of reaching this herd of sheep is to get Janet to flash a tit and scream "Save the whales". They might not know what whales are, but they know who Janet is, so they are infinitely more likely to pay attention.

This used to be something that was inflicted mainly on children with "role models" and such. The thinking is that "Eat your vegetables" coming from a sports hero is going to have far more impact than bringing a nutritionist into class to talk about vitamins and fibre. It does and so we have SNL alumni becoming political icons simply because the idiot masses remember Stuart Smalley and think Al Franken must be telling the truth because he was on television.

It's an absolutely pathetic state, but reasoning and facts are being completely surpassed by celebrity endorsement because one works and the other doesn't. Thus some responsibility has to be put onto these people who hold the keys to the public's attention. They are the only chance, sad as it may be.

Roacho2

kane, you have a point.

It's not just Americans that are stupid. Look at the elections here in Toronto.

Forget healthcare, education, or international policy. The most important topics of the election included homosexual marriages and marijuana.

Who the hell cares if two guys want to wear wedding rings and dance around in nothing but purple capes and smoke weed?

Anyone who listens to Kool Moe Dee over a nutritionist about what they should eat is an idiot and should die anyway.

I see your point about the Beasties and accept that you have some valid arguments, I just think it really sucks that the Beastie Boys being about entertainment above all else, changed to the degree where they sounded like a lame vegetarian aunt who thinks about nothing but the environment.

Rage Against The Machine used to mesh politics and entertainment together very well. Zak never spoke on stage about his beliefs, he never preached to people about what they should think. He'd go on stage, perform, say peace and leave.

Let your art speak for itself.

When I go see a concert (or used to at least) I wasn't there to hear about what some entertainer thinks of society and the direction it is going towards. I go to be entertained. When I buy a music CD because I like the beats or whatever, I get it for that, it has nothing to do with what they believe in.

The Beastie's has pussed out. They don't want to offend soccer moms, they want to be politically correct, they want to preach love with open arms.

To me, they've lost almost all their appeal. I'd rather listen to them more than Puff Daddy or whatever passes now as hiphop/pop/rnb crap, but that really isn't saying much.

To state it briefly, the Beasties are no longer "ILL"

imported_kane2k

You have a point too, I've noticed that the Beastie's have become a bit wussy, but I don't think it reflects in their music, and I think they're moving out of that phase. They still swear, that's one thing that surprised me about the new album, there's a lot of swearing compared to what i was expecting.

As far as pushing their message through music, I think that if they can make it sound good then go for it. I'd much rather hear their objections to the US dropping the Kyoto agreement than about how Mike D used to sell crack on a streetcorner and be a gangster, and carry a gun, and have all the cash and the bitches. I mean, image aside, which one should you actually care about? Rap started out as a way to express yourself but virtually nobody uses it to express anything worth thinking about. I've listened to underground **** too, sure it's better but they still aren't talking about anything that affects my life, so why should I listen? It might be entertaining but it's not interesting. Make me laugh or make me think and I might be entertained, try and make me think you're tough or special and I just laugh at your insecurity, yeah I'm talking to you, every rapper with a stupid bandanna on.

I wouldn't go too far with the politically correct thing either. I don't think the views that they are expressing on their new album are politically correct, although many of them are political. When you talk about the things they do, you end up pissing off half of America regardless of what you say. Not many other artists have had the ***** to say anything about Iraq, Jay Z dropped a weak message about peace in one song that touched on the subject, but nothing close to what gets said on 5 boroughs. If it weren't election season and the right wing windbags in the states didn't have Kerry to bash on 24/7, they might have picked up on the Bush bashing on the album and you'd be seeing a lot of ink on the topic. I think they might have caught on that they shouldn't bring attention to that stuff though because most of the Bush bashing that goes around is heavily based on facts, but we'll see. All it takes is one Rush Limbaugh to set off a national campaign against an artist. You can be pretty sure that anything on the album criticizing the President is not going to get national radio play regardless, so it's not like they went the easy way.

Wow, way off into left field for a thread on new songs. I guess I had some free time today.

imported_jayp6969

fabolous - breathe
lean back mase remix
Keysha Cole ft. Shyne - I changed My Mind
Mase - Gotta Survive
Young Buck ft. 50 Cent, Tony Yayo - Bonifide Hustler
Shyne ft. Ashanti - Jimmy Choo
Mobb Deep - Shorty Wop
Christina Milian Ft. Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri - You Never


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