The Hip Hop Thread - Part 2

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Pusha-T will surely deliver, let's just wait.
 
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Chris25 said:
I like what I've heard from Hodgy, but haven't heard enough yet. I keep meaning to download both YelloWhite and BlackenedWhite, but keep getting distracted. Will do so now before I forget again.
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fwiw, MellowHype just signed to a label to re-release BlackenedWhite, so I don't think it's available on their tumblr anymore. The re-released version is going to be re-mastered and have a few more tracks, should be cool. I think OF's catchiest songs are mostly off BW, so maybe it'll be successful.
 

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person_pitch said:
fwiw, MellowHype just signed to a label to re-release BlackenedWhite, so I don't think it's available on their tumblr anymore. The re-released version is going to be re-mastered and have a few more tracks, should be cool. I think OF's catchiest songs are mostly off BW, so maybe it'll be successful.
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most of the links on their tumblr are dead anyway.

blackenedwhite and goblin will be first physical releases ive bought in a while.
 
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Posting this here as I know you all love commercial label rappers

I thought this song was the bomb in 2001 and still think it is today (even though Bad Boy is dead)

[youtube]tHL3jgAfb5k[/youtube]

I think he should've tried harder with G Dep and Black Rob, or maybe they just didn't have what it took to blend in with the rnb/pop direction he chose to head in from 02 afterwards. Still, it might've stopped Dep from becoming the crackhead he supposedly is today.

Either way, the beat is hard as nails. Alan parsons Project sample.
 
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Power King said:
Posting this here as I know you all love commercial label rappers

I thought this song was the bomb in 2001 and still think it is today (even though Bad Boy is dead)

[youtube]tHL3jgAfb5k[/youtube]

I think he should've tried harder with G Dep and Black Rob, or maybe they just didn't have what it took to blend in with the rnb/pop direction he chose to head in from 02 afterwards. Still, it might've stopped Dep from becoming the crackhead he supposedly is today.

Either way, the beat is hard as nails. Alan parsons Project sample.
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Chicago Bulls intro as the beat is awesome.
 
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nice sig

Ryder Is God said:
G-Dep's in jail awaiting a trial for a murder case, PK.
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lol **** me

Always knew he was a bit of a headcase and hearing about him being a crackhead around 07 didn't surprise me that much, but the way your broke that - shaking my head

Speaking of rappers with potential - another guy that had some strong and warranted hype around him was Quan who featured on 'just a moment' with Nas in 04. Last I heard of him was that he was facing a number of years in jail for doing some stupid shit (robbery I think).

[youtube]eyZ0Ce3Gico[/youtube]

can't find Nas, Cassidy & Quan's track 'cant fade me' on youtube, but this is a remix with biggie and jay-z using the same beat with the same vocals from nas, cassidy and quan (who is singing)
[youtube]1ROhXK5dZ5M[/youtube]

edit: just saw this.. wow

Dec 18 2010 1:24 PM EST 43,183
G. Dep Confesses To Murder
Former Bad Boy MC and Diddy protégé admits to shooting a man 17 years ago.

Former Bad Boy MC G. Dep admitted this week to fatally shooting a man nearly 20 years ago.

The New York Post reports that on Wednesday, the 36-year-old rapper, born Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem and confessed to killing a man way back in 1993.

"I shot and killed someone 17 years ago," he reportedly told an officer at the precinct.

According to the Post report, Dep told police that he was riding a bike when he approached his victim, 32-year-old John Henkel, on Park Avenue and East 114th street near the James Weldon Johnson housing projects. Dep, just 18 years old at the time, was planning to rob Henkel, but when he resisted, shot him three times in the chest with a .40-caliber hand gun. He then fled from the crime scene and threw the gun into the East River. Henkel was pronounced dead at St. Luke's hospital.

The crime took place in the 23rd precinct, so investigators from that station house were contacted. William Dunn, a detective at the 23rd precinct, reportedly reviewed the case, which had gone cold, and found that the rapper's story went hand-in-hand with what was on file.

G. Dep was charged with murder for the 1993 shooting, and is being held without bail.

A police source, in an attempt to explain why Dep would suddenly confess to the crime, said "It was just eating away at him."

"My client is presumed innocent, and the case is going to grand jury," said G-Dep's lawyer, Michael Alperstein.

G. Dep came to hip-hop's attention in 1998 with a guest appearance on "The Mall," from Gang Starr's Moment of Truth LP. He signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records the same year, and released his debut LP, Child of the Ghetto, in 2001. Despite two well-regarded singles, "Let's Get It" and "Special Delivery," the album was heavily bootlegged and failed to move many units. He later split with Bad Boy Records, and in 2004 dropped a mixtape, The Deputy: The Sheriff Is Back in Town Volume 1. But since 2003, he's racked up 25 arrests for crimes ranging from drugs to burglary to grand larceny.
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sixteenstraws said:
don't like hodgy? i think mellowhype - blackenedwhite is one of their best releases.
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I downloaded both MellowHype albums. They are easily the most 'normal' of the group, and probably the most mainstream sounding too. YelloWhite is a stronger album than BlackenedWhite in my opinion, and CopKiller is a great song.

Also downloaded the OFWGKTA mixtape Radical.
 
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The new single from "Game" came out today featuring Lil Wayne and sampling Zombie Nation. It's actually pretty good, but definitely not like his older stuff.

[youtube]smfZNFikua4[/youtube]
 
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NERDY said:
The new single from "Game" came out today featuring Lil Wayne and sampling Zombie Nation. It's actually pretty good, but definitely not like his older stuff.

[youtube]smfZNFikua4[/youtube]
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Awful, hip hop and rnb is over. Artists make dance music now or use samples from house/techno/rock. Good clubbing songs maybe but just not what hip hop should be about.
 
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flight23 said:
I just can't bring myself to click that
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I couldn't either, The Game ain't actually too bad, but lawd Lil Wayne is annoying, hearing his voice makes me cringe.

Shit, listening too bad, this song ain't too bad imo
 
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HSSB said:
I couldn't either, The Game ain't actually too bad, but lawd Lil Wayne is annoying, hearing his voice makes me cringe.

Shit, listening too bad, this song ain't too bad imo
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His old stuff was awesome. I think he's released at least four different singles to try and get The R.E.D. Album released but all have flopped. Hopefully this one does OK so his label lets him release the album. It was supposed to come out in April last year. :eek:
 
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NERDY said:
His old stuff was awesome. I think he's released at least four different singles to try and get The R.E.D. Album released but all have flopped. Hopefully this one does OK so his label lets him release the album. It was supposed to come out in April last year. :eek:
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Another single from the album will be leaked tonight.
 
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Hiphop singles, albeit more pop orientated, have fallen from being the number one threat to topping the pop charts. Throughout the 00's they were at the forefront, but now it is electro (which may or may not be fused with elements from other genres).

Never thought I'd see the day, but times change. Hiphop is still a force but not in the way it was in the 00's.

I mean, take the 2004 american number one singles for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_2004_(U.S.)

Practically every single week for the entire year had a hiphop song at #1, and if it wasn't hiphop, then hiphop's had a strong influence in it (eg Goodies). Not one white artist there (eminem would be the only one that wouldn't have surprised me if he was, simply because he's a hiphop artist). Wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar pattern for 2001 to 2008. Now it's electro as the main influence fo number one singles:

Can you imagine a song with similar style to those in the 2004 link above reaching number one today? I can't. My point is, rightly or wrongly, if rappers want commercial success with their singles, they either need an incredibly original sounding record (eg Cudi with Day n Nite) which are becoming seemingly rarer, or they need to hop on board the electro train.
 
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