[uchiharonaldo]

okay much debated but i really prefer UK to USA in the hip hop scene. here are my favourite artists.

TASKFORCE(namely chester p, farma g, ramson badbones, dj louis slipperz, remus, skuff, inja,d-molish, dj toeman,)

JEHST
FORIEGN BEGGARS
STIG OF TEH DUMP
DR.SYNTAX
SKREIN
MUD FAMILY
MOORISH DELTA 7
ASAVIOUR
BURY CREW
BROKE N ENGLISH
MICALL PARKNSUN!
DUBBLEDGE
ETI
CstrikeZ( a friend)
REVEAL
DOC BROWN
MENAGERIE
and many more
anyone share the interests?

[Zorba_8]

I do mate, but you seem to have nailed most of them, although you missed Ricochet Klashnekoff who's album, the Sagas of Klashnekoff is probably the best out there (IMHO).

[5un]

Yep big fan of home grown rap!


Cappo, Scorzayzee, Jehst, Braintax, Taskforce, Foreign Beggars, PhiLife, Sonny Jim, Stig of the dump, prolly some of our best emcees this side of the ocean, but as i hate to say it america have so many good lyricists (from Atmosphere to Immortal Technique) our talent is completly diluted by very poor bedroom/wannabe emcees with even worse productions, dont get me wrong u gotta start somewhere but there is alot of faff out there.

i would even say the french hiphop scene is as good as ours.

Peace

Sun

[uchiharonaldo]

Originally Posted by Zorba_8

I do mate, but you seem to have nailed most of them, although you missed Ricochet Klashnekoff who's album, the Sagas of Klashnekoff is probably the best out there (IMHO).

yess people, forgot to mention k-lash and phi life! cant believe i did that! lol

dont like sonny jims freestyle stuff but his recorded stuff is amazing.

got to say though america does have sum sick emcees, jedi mind tricks, reef the lost cause, immortal technique, madvillian, quasimoto, jaylib, mf doom, wu tang clan, but uk is the dappa don.

chester p for mayor!

[DJT75]

Never felt so out of touch, ever. Where's Derek-B amongst that lot?

Can't beat 80's US Hip-hop - Schoolly-D

[unique]

Originally Posted by DJT75

Never felt so out of touch, ever. Where's Derek-B amongst that lot?

Can't beat 80's US Hip-hop - Schoolly-D

i've never heard of a single one of them uk rappers!

i must be getting old, as schoolly d was the very first live act i ever saw. the first 12" i bought was the show by doug e fresh (who i've seen and met a few times) featuring slick rick

the main uk rappers i know are the streets, wiley, professor green, the mitchel brothers and stuff like that. i prefer common, mos def, q tip, kayne, eminem, from todays rappers, and going back a bit, public enemy, beastie boys, and paris. not so keen on 50 cent or jay z

[insomniak123]

for something a little different,

Iron Bridge
(or Jibbarish)

well recommended

[sparky_123]

i probably prefer UK HIP HOP, but only because im biased! dont get me wrong though, there are some sick emcees from the US. they just arent mainstream enough for the majority of people in this country to of even heard of them!

i think the most notable UK rappers have been mentioned, but a couple of the top my head that i havent seen listed.

Lowkey
Baby J (he's a producer but still worth checking)
Sir Smirf Lil
Sway
Mystro

[nigel1210]

Not that keen on u.k hip hop but roots manuva is pretty good.

[uchiharonaldo]

Originally Posted by unique

i've never heard of a single one of them uk rappers!

i must be getting old, as schoolly d was the very first live act i ever saw. the first 12" i bought was the show by doug e fresh (who i've seen and met a few times) featuring slick rick

the main uk rappers i know are the streets, wiley, professor green, the mitchel brothers and stuff like that. i prefer common, mos def, q tip, kayne, eminem, from todays rappers, and going back a bit, public enemy, beastie boys, and paris. not so keen on 50 cent or jay z

id suggest checkin out all the taskforce stuff
music from the corner volumes 1-4
voice of the great outdoors
new mic order
food
there is others


check chester p out indefinately,

all jehsts albums sick, everyones sick youtube em all. forgot about mystro, and yungun and im sure theres ovvas im missin ere.

everyone though, BOYCOTT BRAINTAX!!!!!!

[Zorba_8]

Originally Posted by uchiharonaldo

everyone though, BOYCOTT BRAINTAX!!!!!!

Why, he's produced and featured on some quality tunes in the past, the grip? rivera hustler?

[drunkenmaster]

Originally Posted by uchiharonaldo

all jehsts albums sick, everyones sick youtube em all. forgot about mystro, and yungun and im sure theres ovvas im missin ere.

[uchiharonaldo]

Originally Posted by Zorba_8

Why, he's produced and featured on some quality tunes in the past, the grip? rivera hustler?

hes a money hoe.

taskforce made voice of the great outdoors, and they just wanted people to hear it and braintax had a struggling label. so they said to brains " put our record on ur label, u take all the money from the sales and well make money from the live shows".
taskforce dint make *** all from the live shows but still let brains take all the profit, THEN, when taskforce wanted to release either new mic order or mftc 1(i cant remember) they asked brains to put it on their label and he said he wanted a big cut out of the money, AFTER they had already done him a massive favour, he wanted to take a cut when his label was already making loads and taskforce were making sweet FA.

thats why we should boycott braintax. he has dome sum sick tracks, last tenner, riviera hustle, biro funk, escuchame and all them but he is a dhead man.

[Zorba_8]

I was meriting Braintax on his musical involvement rather than his financial acumen. Don't know much about the ins and outs of all that, I just listen to the music!

Anyone heard Tommy Evans album "Turbulent Times of........."

"Water Torture" feat. Jehst is well worth a listen, especially as it was recorded in a tent I remember reading somewhere!

[uchiharonaldo]

Originally Posted by Zorba_8

I was meriting Braintax on his musical involvement rather than his financial acumen. Don't know much about the ins and outs of all that, I just listen to the music!

Anyone heard Tommy Evans album "Turbulent Times of........."

"Water Torture" feat. Jehst is well worth a listen, especially as it was recorded in a tent I remember reading somewhere!

cnt believe i forgot tommy evans aswell, yeh water torture is a fat tune, the wasteland by him is good aswell.

yeh in that sense braintax is quite sick, i do like a lot of his tunes, well the early stuff but he did start to think he was a politician.

[danuk]

My love for hip-hop has gone off the boil a bit over the last few years but here's the artists i still listen to :

TY
Ty on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

Big Dada Ty

Blak Twang
BLAK TWANG on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

Speaking From Experience by Blak Twang at Audio Lunchbox


But they're both big names and you probably have heard them.

[DrWise]

YEah uk has some good emcees and all
but for me USA do it big
Talib Kweli
Immortal Technique
Jedi Mind

[5un]

Originally Posted by uchiharonaldo

everyone though, BOYCOTT BRAINTAX!!!!!!

What??? A money hoe? hmmm imma have to disagree mate, this guy who was the founder of Lowlife records, that most of the emcees listed on this thread have released stuff on, so without it the scene would be even worse then it is now (diluted by very poor grime ****), so to hate on Brains is ****** retarded. from BiroFunk to Panorama, the man is dope and has done more for UK hiphop then you or anyone mentioned on this list.

Peace

Oh and check out The Get Out Vol 1 & 2 by Cappo, one of the best ukhh lps released in recent years.

[unique]

MOD COMMENT

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simply put, if you want to post on the forums, it must be in proper english so anyone reading can understand it. foreign language is also not allowed as it's a UK based site with UK mods, so if we can't understand what we are reading, we will usually delete it

[Rizob]

Originally Posted by nigel1210

Not that keen on u.k hip hop but roots manuva is pretty good.

I was about to ask why there's no love for Roots Manuva. I think he's great! Although his last album was a bit of a let down.

[danuk]

Originally Posted by Rizob

I was about to ask why there's no love for Roots Manuva. I think he's great! Although his last album was a bit of a let down.

I agree totally. His last album was a bit rubbish but Awfully Deep, Run Come Save me and Brand New Second hand were brilliant.
His best song is probably Witness (1 hope).

[5un]

Roots Manuva goes without sayin, the man is a legend and puts on one of the best live shows ive seen

also Dirty Diggers and Focus Few are very good.

[Rizob]

Originally Posted by danuk

I agree totally. His last album was a bit rubbish but Awfully Deep, Run Come Save me and Brand New Second hand were brilliant.
His best song is probably Witness (1 hope).

I love the video for that tune too, makes me laugh every time.

[drunkenmaster]

Originally Posted by unique

MOD COMMENT

as well as a no swearing rule, which includes no circumventing the swear filter by mispelling or inserting other characters, we have a rule that doesn't allow "txt speak". this includes alternate non standard english ways of communicating

I found this text speak and swearing go hand in hand with this type of music and most modern hip hop, which is why I don,t listen to it any more

[Officer M168]

Originally Posted by sparky_123

there are some sick emcees from the US.

Why is it no longer spelt MC's ???????
Kidz dees dayz !

[sparky_123]

Originally Posted by Officer M168

Why is no longer spelt MC's ???????
Kidz dees dayz !

i always thought MC would be the 'kid' way to spell it?!

[unique]

Originally Posted by sparky_123

i always thought MC would be the 'kid' way to spell it?!

M.C. is short for master of ceremonies, you wouldn't type D.J. for disc jockey as dee jay

[Therage79]

Originally Posted by unique

M.C. is short for master of ceremonies, you wouldn't type D.J. for disc jockey as dee jay

Are you the woman off 'Midnight Marauders'? lol

Slightly off topic (Continent wise), as not so well versed on UK Hip Hop, but for US MC's its got to be:

Guru (Gangstarr)
GZA (Liquid Swords anyone?)
Q-Tip
Kool keith
Mos Def/Kweli (Blackstar)
Jeru
Quasimoto

Old school shouts to:
Brand Nubian/Beasties/KRS/slick Rick etc

[5un]

Originally Posted by Therage79

Are you the woman off 'Midnight Marauders'? lol

Slightly off topic (Continent wise), as not so well versed on UK Hip Hop, but for US MC's its got to be:

Guru (Gangstarr)
GZA (Liquid Swords anyone?)
Q-Tip
Kool keith
Mos Def/Kweli (Blackstar)
Jeru
Quasimoto

Old school shouts to:
Brand Nubian/Beasties/KRS/slick Rick etc

All very good, Liquid swords one of the best wu solo lps? 2nd to cuban linx maybe???

just to brag really i saw KRS play in my home city Coventry (of all places) last summer, was amazin! i grew up listenin to this guy and there he was kickin knowledge in my own city lol

[Tetlee]

Not often UKHH gets a mention here, been into it for years myself since getting tired of USHH(with a few exceptions) after my early love of Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul etc.

Jehst being one of my personal favourites, for me his debut album Return of the Drifter was his finest but all his stuff's good, also really like Braintax, Taskforce, Lewis Parker, Verb T, Kashmere, Rodney P........

So much choice in UKHipHop now, I remember when the debuts from the likes of London Posse, Lewis Parker, Black Twang and Brotherhood were about the only albums you could hope to find in the highstreet

BTW, not to everyones taste but does nobody rate Aspects? Great bunch of guys and absolutely fantastic live(haven't seen them about in ages though)! Going back a few years earlier Parlour Talk, Padlocked Tonic is such a great album IMO, still cracks me up now, hillarious lyrics