Rap.

[Lowerdeck]

Lupe and Nas definitely. The new Clipse album is good, but that's if you can put up with Neptunes production. Oh, Papoose definitely is good. He's the future of the NY rap scene.

[K]

Roots Manuva.

Roots Manuva.

Roots Manuva.

Roots Manuva.

Roots Manuva.

[timbawolf]

NWA

Dogg Pound

2Pac & Thug Life, Outlawz

Redman

Yukmouth & The Luniz, Regime

Scipio

Xzibit (Pre- Pimp My Ride)

Eminem & D12

Ras Kass

Crooked I

Hood Surgeon (Doc. Dres son)

Lil Eazy

WC

Nationwide Rip Ridaz

DJ Quik

Mausberg

and loads more

[Riceman 4K]

Seriously man, check out some MF Doom. That guy is solid.

[tristy]

I just listened to Nas' new album, and it's seriously a return to form for him. "Hip Hop Is Dead" is a fucking fantastic single, and there's barely any filler on the damn thing. Excellent stuff. Check it out.

[paidelr]

Here are the new album releases for this past year I've been bumpin:

The Game - Doctor's Advocate

Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead

Tech N9ne - Everready: The Religion

Eminem: Presents The Re-Up

Snoop Dogg - Blue Carpet Treatment

Ill Wayz - F.A.M.E.

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor

Obie Trice - Second Rounds on Me

Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang

Young Jeezy - Thug Inspiration 102

2Pac - Pacs Life (Not too Great IMO)

Akon - Konvicted (Ditto as above, a few good songs though.

Styles P - Time Is Money

[Lowerdeck]

Yeah, keep the new Jeezy, Pac, and Akon (especially Akon) albums out of this.

[Guest The Human Tripod]

Little Brother, Lupe Fiasco, Joe Budden

[DMN in the House]

And keep the shitty (IE, mainstream) East Coast shit out of this too.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Man, DMN's clinging to a dead coast. The best they've got is Kurupt and Crooked I and still nobody cares about them. Most of his beloveds have moved base to NYC anyway. The west is a dead fucking coast. If you try to bring Game into it I'll just laugh you off. (Y)

Anyway, I'll second or third or whatever the new Nas. At first I didn't care a whole lot for it, but after a few more listens it is a really ace album.

[DMN in the House]

The West isn't dead. You can laugh off Game, but his shit is STILL better than 90% of the bullshit made on the East Coast.

West will always be the best. We invented that gangsta shit, and NYC still hasn't caught up.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Hahahaha. Game's no better than Budden, Nas, Busta, Styles P, Jadakiss, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon - and for that matter most of the Wu-Tang Clan - The Roots, Beanie Siegel, or Esoteric.

I will give the west coast MURS though.

Edited December 19, 2006 by Cloudy - A Broadway Show

[DMN in the House]

I'll give you Nas and Wu-Tang, I was actually going to name them in my post, but I figured it went without saying. As for the rest? Better than Game? No. In fact, HELL NO. Busta? What, are you going to say Diddy next?

West Coast is were REAL rap came from. NYC = Hip-Hop, LA = Rap.

[MalaCloudy Black]

The Roots are LEAGUES above Game. He's got a good flow going for him and that's about it. Even on Doctor's Advocate most of his "rapping" was namedropping. :/ Sometimes he gets good beats too, but even still - both of his albums are hit and miss. There's about 4 standout tracks on DA and The Documentary wasn't much better, with around half the album being passable and the other half being snooooresville.

Edited December 19, 2006 by Cloudy - A Broadway Show

[DMN in the House]

Eh, I probably wouldn't argue too much on The Roots. Really two different styles though, almost two different types of music.

I've always looked at it like this... there's Hip-Hop, which covers most of the more 'artsy', for lack of a better term, stuff, and most of the east coast 'rap'. There's 'rap', which is generally what gets played on radio and TV, although some of the third category gets some play too, and thats 'gangsta rap', which is primarily west coast stuff, and I think we all know the difference. Game is pretty much what passes for gangsta rap these days, although its almost a dead scene.

Of course, that leaves out shit like club bangers, which fall someone in there, like Lil' Jon type shit, all hooks, beats, and whatever, and underground, which is really a whole different music scene, IMO.

[MalaCloudy Black]

if I was the West Coast I'd be shoving Game back in the closet or ushering him back to Comp-toooooon and promoting MURS and Crooked I as the next big thing. MURS has the whole "gangsta" thing going on, as well as the collab albums with Slug. It's almost like conscious gangsta rap if there was ever such a thing.

And Crooked I's just badass.

http://myspace.com/crookedi

http://www.mixunit.com/balance2.html

Edited December 19, 2006 by Cloudy - A Broadway Show

[Lord Nibbler]

The only people who listen to West Coast rap are gangstas and wannabe gangstas. It was always going to be a flash-in-the-pan, there's only so many songs about guns and bitches you can listen to before you think "This is lame, I should probably start listening to people with brain cells".

[Guest muddatrucker]

We invented that gangsta shit.

[DMN in the House]

Holy stereotypes Batman!

'Gangsta Rap' isn't all about guns and bitches, and not just 'gangsta's and wannabe gangsta's' listen to it. I, for one, am neither, and prefer it, because it usually has some meaning, and isn't that bullshit 'bling and bitches' mainstream shit.

[TOG]

I, for one, love bling and bitches.