SO. I just barely "discovered" A Tribe Called Quest. I do not know much about rap/hip hop, but these guys are fantastic. Midnight Marauders is amazing. And this topic is basically to recommend me GOOD rap/hip hop. I REALLY want to give this genre a chance, but I need somebody that knows a lot more than I do to give me a hand. Also, let me know what rap/hip hop artists suck, because I need to know these things, too.

Thanks in advance, GANG.

sayy waaaht?!

Fantastic, thanks man. Appreciate it.

try some shad yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX986jOjhtY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjweYhRUWc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQ1Lc9hfgE

if you liked Del, check out Deltron3030. It's an afrofuturist concept album about the (afro)future, and my favourite rap album.

both albums he released so far are pretty solid, but i really recommend "The Old Prince"

a bit of the album can be heard from his myspace-> http://www.myspace.com/shad

I'm going to be really cliched and say that if you enjoyed ATCQ then you'll probably enjoy Blackstar.

Most people who like them also like Common. His newer stuff has actually remained consistent as well.

Blu and Exile had a really good, easily accessible album out a little while ago as well.

Atmosphere are awesome when you're in the mood for them.

Lots of people I know really dig Jurassic 5. They've got a pretty old school, boom bap sort of vibe and they're all pretty good artists.

Lastly Cage is one of my favourite rappers and he has really great lyrics. He used to be pretty off kilter but he calmed down a fair bit on his last album and wrote a lot of introspective stuff and it turned out fantastic. There's some pretty chilling songs on there as well as some stuff that's a bit reflective and so on.


I didn't really go far outside the box with recommendations but I figure that's a decent spread of fairly light stuff! Afura's recommendations are pretty close to exactly what I would've done and all those artists are very good.

Terrible rappers are a dime a dozen nowadays, but I will make special mention of Lil Wayne who's an average emcee with an interesting style and somehow has everyone claiming he's the best of all time. If you listen to him and are very disappointed don't be surprised.

FRICK. I have a lot to check out. Thanks guys.

Holy shit new Rhymefest!

That video is like that Tongue one in my TOTW a bit.

But yeah Jojo, I forgot to mention Rhymefest. He's really great.

why does nobody ever mentioned the roots on gw. i love the roots.

The Roots are one of my favourite groups. Black Thought is such a good emcee it hurts.

Their latest album had this grimy/industrial sort of vibe that I really liked. ?uestlove's drums would make everything worth listening anyways.