Good lesser known rap between 85 - 95.

[skinnybutphat]

I'm putting a disc together for my younger brother. He's 23 so he missed a lot of stuff from what I consider the golden age of hip hop. Any suggestions? This is the type of stuff I'm talking about.

BDP - Criminal Minded (1987)
EPMD - Strictly Business [1988]
Guru - Step in the Arena
Just_Ice-Back_to_the_old_School

[MC Moot]

Pharcyde "Bizarre Ride II"

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy "Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury"

(y)

[The Notorious LOL]

Black Moon - How Many MCs

[Guy Incognito]

Tricks of the shade - The Goats

[mickill]

These albums:

Marly Marl - In Control Vol 1
Just Ice - Kool N Deadly
Schoolly D - Saturday Night or Smoke Some Kill
Smif N Wessun - Dah Shinin
Kam - Neva Again
Too $hort - Life Is...
WC & The MAAD Circle - Ain't A Damn Thing Changed
Compton's Most Wanted - Music To Drive By
Brand Nubian - In God We Trust
Diamond - Stunts Blunts And Hip Hop
M.O.P. - Firing Squad
Kool G Rap - Live And Let Die
Masta Ace - Slaughtahouse
Threat - Sickinnahead

[dirtydan11]

I'm putting a disc together for my younger brother. He's 23 so he missed a lot of stuff from what I consider the golden age of hip hop. Any suggestions? This is the type of stuff I'm talking about.

BDP - Criminal Minded (1987)
EPMD - Strictly Business [1988]
Guru - Step in the Arena
Just_Ice-Back_to_the_old_School

no offence at all, and i mean that, but these artists are among the well known, not lessr known, but yeah, my vote is for the late 80's early 90's for sure. you're gunna need erik b and rakim, run dmc, ummm how about the hit squad groups such as k-solo, das-efx, redman, erik sermon.... or the heroglyphics groups such as Casual, Del, souls of mischief.... there are thousands of great groups out there.. dont forget PE !!!!!!!!!!!!

[dirtydan11]

and some native tongues!!! Tribe, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul.. man are you only making one disc haha

[mickill]

BLACK SHEEP.

[Ason Unique]

Lord Finnesse-Return of the Funky Man and Showbiz & AG-Runaway Slave (if you can find it).

I had the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy album as a youngster and got rid of it because Michael Franti, although well meaning, had an awful flow.

Lench Mob. Lench Mob. Lench Mob.

[Ally Al]

I'm putting a disc together for my younger brother. He's 23 so he missed a lot of stuff from what I consider the golden age of hip hop. Any suggestions? This is the type of stuff I'm talking about.

BDP - Criminal Minded (1987)
EPMD - Strictly Business [1988]
Guru - Step in the Arena
Just_Ice-Back_to_the_old_School


just curious, if you think this is lesser known hip hop from that period, what do you consider known ?

also, click on the link in my sig for some uptempo tracks from that era (well probably 88 to about 91 if memory serves correctly)

The tracklisting

01 - give the drummer some - ultramagnetic mc's
02 - long live the kane - big daddy kane
03 - follow the leader - eric b & rakim
04 - back to back rhyming - lord finesse & dj mike smooth
05 - get loose - cool c
06 - transformers - leaders of the new school
07 - subrocs mission - kmd
08 - trivial pursuit - jvc force
09 - can't win for losing - the new style
10 - straight up - three times dope
11 - what, you don't know - tuff crew
12 - hey hey can you you relate - dj mink
13 - men at work - kool g rap & polo
14 - simon says - masta ace
15 - the contract - hijack
16 - all in - king sun
17 - miracles - mc duke
18 - put the needle on the record - criminal element orchestra

[The Notorious LOL]

Masta Ace - Slaughtahouse



Slaughtahouse is that piff, son!

[Brother McDuff]

Ultramag MCs, Bush Babees

[chromium05]

The tracklisting

01 - give the drummer some - ultramagnetic mc's
02 - long live the kane - big daddy kane
03 - follow the leader - eric b & rakim
04 - back to back rhyming - lord finesse & dj mike smooth
05 - get loose - cool c
06 - transformers - leaders of the new school
07 - subrocs mission - kmd
08 - trivial pursuit - jvc force
09 - can't win for losing - the new style
10 - straight up - three times dope
11 - what, you don't know - tuff crew
12 - hey hey can you you relate - dj mink
13 - men at work - kool g rap & polo
14 - simon says - masta ace
15 - the contract - hijack
16 - all in - king sun
17 - miracles - mc duke
18 - put the needle on the record - criminal element orchestra

Man - I can't believe Mink is on there. One of my all time favorite tracks and he gave me a lift home after a Blade gig in york in 1992.

coolio...

[Otis Driftwood]

23? He must be a dumb fuckwit with so few years behind his ears.
Give him some Stezo, Digital Underground, Main Source, 3rd bass, Nice & Smooth, Kwame the Boy Genius, Geto Boys, Brand Nubian, KMD, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, Special Ed and one of the most underrated ever: Poor Righteous Teachers (y) ! Da shit!
If you don't wanna use it too much as a youth subculture learning tool, be sure to include CONSOLIDATEDs Friendly Fascism!

[Ally Al]

Man - I can't believe Mink is on there. One of my all time favorite tracks and he gave me a lift home after a Blade gig in york in 1992.

coolio...


ha! nice one (y)

that still bangs to this day

[ggirlballa]

stetsasonic, or if u can't say it all just say stet!:D

[Lex Diamonds]

I used to listen, to Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim, and BVSMP,
But before that, in 1983, I'd go breakdancing after my tea.

[chromium05]

Just give the guy a copy of "Rapcats" by Quasimoto and tell him to check out every name dropped on that track - it pretty much covers everything you need to hear from that era.

[chromium05]

ha! nice one (y)

that still bangs to this day

Heh heh. Thing is, about 2 months after that 12 dropped and everyone was loving it, we used to do a night at the Afro-Caribbean club in Doncaster and K.I.D and Carruthers turned up. Unfortunately, no-one knew what they looked like and so we didn't realise it was them until the end of the night when they introduced themselves - by which point it was too late for them to get on the mic. Bugger.....

[Ally Al]

Heh heh. Thing is, about 2 months after that 12 dropped and everyone was loving it, we used to do a night at the Afro-Caribbean club in Doncaster and K.I.D and Carruthers turned up. Unfortunately, no-one knew what they looked like and so we didn't realise it was them until the end of the night when they introduced themselves - by which point it was too late for them to get on the mic. Bugger.....

LoL!

What was your night called ? Did you ever go to the jive turkeys night in Sheff ?

I've got a mate from Donny who used to know Mink at the time, he used to live in Tick (tickhiiiiiiiiiil tickhiiiiiiiiiiill as Meth might say)

[HEIRESS]

OMG NICE N SMOOTH!

[The Notorious LOL]

stick up kids is out to tax!

[BroomHead]

Ultramagnetic MC's! you have to!

and all that obligatory Native Tongue hip hop.

[steve-onpoint]

You're welcome. (http://www.allmusicvideocodes.com/p/Punk-Barbarians/14731-Hooptie-Car/index.html)

[steve-onpoint]

Tricks of the shade - The Goats

(y) (y)

I can't help but be read as a bit biased nowadays. But yo, I got to agree with the Guy Incognee. Peep my posts from the days of way back before I was a got damn Goat. I was touting The Tricks from day one and then some. It's definitely worth tracking this joint down.

[chromium05]

LoL!

What was your night called ? Did you ever go to the jive turkeys night in Sheff ?

I've got a mate from Donny who used to know Mink at the time, he used to live in Tick (tickhiiiiiiiiiil tickhiiiiiiiiiiill as Meth might say)

Can't remember the name of the night, but was Fridays. 1 room hip hop, 1 room reggae and 1 room Jungle, when jungle was first coming up.

I know Tickhill, and a few guys from there - mainly ex graf writers. I am 33 so if the person you know is between 30 and 36 - I'll probably know them (especially if they were part of Brotherhood, Eyecatchers or Untouchables crews)

[Ally Al]

I know Tickhill, and a few guys from there - mainly ex graf writers. I am 33 so if the person you know is between 30 and 36 - I'll probably know them (especially if they were part of Brotherhood, Eyecatchers or Untouchables crews)


ah yeah

my man used to do graf, until he got busted and his mum made him sell all hs vinyl

i'll inbox his name, for security reasons obvioulsy :D

[b-grrrlie]

Am I the only one who liked Lords of the Underground?

[chromium05]

^^ Nah - Chief Rocka was dope. In fact - I used to love the whole 1st album.

Funkdoobiest 1st album
Black Moon 1st Album
Alkaholiks 1st album
Beatnuts 1st album
Some Chubb Rock tracks
Das Efx 1st album
Divine Styler 1st album
Some Fu-Schnickens tracks
Grand Puba 1st album
Group Home 1st album
Jeru 1st album
Justin Warfield - field trip to planet 9
Jungle brothers - done by the forces of nature album
Keith Murray 1st album
LL Cool J - Mama said album
Latyrx 1st album
Main Source - Breaking Atoms album
Nine - Nine Livez album
Pete Rock / CL Smooth first album
Organized Konfuzion 1st album
Slick Rick - great adventures and rulers back
Terminator X first solo album
UMC's 1st album
Wildstyle soundtrack album
X-Clan 1st album

to start

[steve-onpoint]

Am I the only one who liked Lords of the Underground?

No, you are not.

[chromium05]

OK. I have put together a 30 track mix thing covering 86 - 95. It's pretty much stuff that I was into at those times and is not meant to be a "best of" compilation. Some of the tracks are pretty rare so there may be some things that people might not have heard or haven't been able to find.

The DL is 130 Mb and the track list is as follows:

00 - K Solo - Spellbound
01 - Black Moon - Shit Iz Real
02 - De La Soul - My Mindstate
03 - Das Efx - Gimme that Microphone
04 - Resident Alien - Shaky Ground
05 - Bush Babies feat Q-Tip - 3 MC's
06 - Jeru, Chubb Rock, O.C - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
07 - Fu-schnickens - Back Off
08 - EPMD - Brothers on my Jock
09 - Slick Rick - I Shouldn't Have Done it
10 - Jungle Brothers - Tribe Vibes
11 - Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest The President
12 - Erick Sermon feat Keith Murray - Hostile
13 - Masta Ace - Top Ten List
14 - Nine - Any Emcee
15 - Big Daddy Kane feat Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes - Come on Down
16 - Grand Puba - What goes Round (SD50 rmx)
17 - Ice Cube - Kill at Will
18 - Terminator X feat Celo - Wanna Be Dancing
19 - Terminator X feat Whodini - It All comes Down to Money
20 - X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer - What time is it?
21 - Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
22 - Showbiz and AG - Next Level (Primo rmx)
23 - Ed O.G - Let's be Realistic
24 - JVC Force - Big Trax
25 - Heavy D feat Q-Tip, Kane, Pete rock / CL Smooth, Grand Puba, Kool G Rap - Don't Curse
26 - Roxanne Shante - Go On Girl
27 - The DOC - Portrait of a Masterpiece
28 - Original Concept - Charlie Sez
29 - KMC - Terrifying Tracks
30 - UMC's - One to Grow On

DL it HERE (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCF6PV14)

[steve-onpoint]

OK. I have put together a 30 track mix thing covering 86 - 95. It's pretty much stuff that I was into at those times and is not meant to be a "best of" compilation. Some of the tracks are pretty rare so there may be some things that people might not have heard or haven't been able to find.

The DL is 130 Mb and the track list is as follows:

00 - K Solo - Spellbound
01 - Black Moon - Shit Iz Real
02 - De La Soul - My Mindstate
03 - Das Efx - Gimme that Microphone
04 - Resident Alien - Shaky Ground
05 - Bush Babies feat Q-Tip - 3 MC's
06 - Jeru, Chubb Rock, O.C - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
07 - Fu-schnickens - Back Off
08 - EPMD - Brothers on my Jock
09 - Slick Rick - I Shouldn't Have Done it
10 - Jungle Brothers - Tribe Vibes
11 - Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest The President
12 - Erick Sermon feat Keith Murray - Hostile
13 - Masta Ace - Top Ten List
14 - Nine - Any Emcee
15 - Big Daddy Kane feat Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes - Come on Down
16 - Grand Puba - What goes Round (SD50 rmx)
17 - Ice Cube - Kill at Will
18 - Terminator X feat Celo - Wanna Be Dancing
19 - Terminator X feat Whodini - It All comes Down to Money
20 - X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer - What time is it?
21 - Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
22 - Showbiz and AG - Next Level (Primo rmx)
23 - Ed O.G - Let's be Realistic
24 - JVC Force - Big Trax
25 - Heavy D feat Q-Tip, Kane, Pete rock / CL Smooth, Grand Puba, Kool G Rap - Don't Curse
26 - Roxanne Shante - Go On Girl
27 - The DOC - Portrait of a Masterpiece
28 - Original Concept - Charlie Sez
29 - KMC - Terrifying Tracks
30 - UMC's - One to Grow On

DL it HERE (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCF6PV14)

Cool mix. Thanks for sharing it.

[Ally Al]

OK. I have put together a 30 track mix thing covering 86 - 95. It's pretty much stuff that I was into at those times and is not meant to be a "best of" compilation. Some of the tracks are pretty rare so there may be some things that people might not have heard or haven't been able to find.

The DL is 130 Mb and the track list is as follows:

00 - K Solo - Spellbound
01 - Black Moon - Shit Iz Real
02 - De La Soul - My Mindstate
03 - Das Efx - Gimme that Microphone
04 - Resident Alien - Shaky Ground
05 - Bush Babies feat Q-Tip - 3 MC's
06 - Jeru, Chubb Rock, O.C - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
07 - Fu-schnickens - Back Off
08 - EPMD - Brothers on my Jock
09 - Slick Rick - I Shouldn't Have Done it
10 - Jungle Brothers - Tribe Vibes
11 - Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest The President
12 - Erick Sermon feat Keith Murray - Hostile
13 - Masta Ace - Top Ten List
14 - Nine - Any Emcee
15 - Big Daddy Kane feat Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes - Come on Down
16 - Grand Puba - What goes Round (SD50 rmx)
17 - Ice Cube - Kill at Will
18 - Terminator X feat Celo - Wanna Be Dancing
19 - Terminator X feat Whodini - It All comes Down to Money
20 - X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer - What time is it?
21 - Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
22 - Showbiz and AG - Next Level (Primo rmx)
23 - Ed O.G - Let's be Realistic
24 - JVC Force - Big Trax
25 - Heavy D feat Q-Tip, Kane, Pete rock / CL Smooth, Grand Puba, Kool G Rap - Don't Curse
26 - Roxanne Shante - Go On Girl
27 - The DOC - Portrait of a Masterpiece
28 - Original Concept - Charlie Sez
29 - KMC - Terrifying Tracks
30 - UMC's - One to Grow On

DL it HERE (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCF6PV14)


oh shit!

very nice

[Kid Presentable]

Labcabincalifornia needs to be on there, and Straight out the Jungle (JB's).

edit: and Digable Planets' A New Refutation of Time and Space is real fucking good, and I don't hear many people admit it.

[skinnybutphat]

just curious, if you think this is lesser known hip hop from that period, what do you consider known ?



I see it in 4 levels, and break it down like this:

Pop Hop - Top 40 & MTV shit - Run DMC, Dre, Cool J, etc.
Good stuff all hip hop fans know about, Tribe, De La, EB & Rakim, etc.
Good stuff that never got the attention it deserved
Obscure shit that's underground for the sake of being underground

I'm looking for the good stuff that never got the attention it deserved

He doesn't like Kool Keith or Ultramagnetic.
He knows about Pharcyde, Funkdoobiest, Slick Rick, Black Sheep and such.
I played him Masta Ace before, and he thought he bit Eminem's style.

Thanks for the suggestions. There is some good stuff here I didn't even think about, and shit I've never heard of. I'm downloading that mix right now

[ggirlballa]

OK. I have put together a 30 track mix thing covering 86 - 95. It's pretty much stuff that I was into at those times and is not meant to be a "best of" compilation. Some of the tracks are pretty rare so there may be some things that people might not have heard or haven't been able to find.

The DL is 130 Mb and the track list is as follows:

00 - K Solo - Spellbound
01 - Black Moon - Shit Iz Real
02 - De La Soul - My Mindstate
03 - Das Efx - Gimme that Microphone
04 - Resident Alien - Shaky Ground
05 - Bush Babies feat Q-Tip - 3 MC's
06 - Jeru, Chubb Rock, O.C - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
07 - Fu-schnickens - Back Off
08 - EPMD - Brothers on my Jock
09 - Slick Rick - I Shouldn't Have Done it
10 - Jungle Brothers - Tribe Vibes
11 - Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest The President
12 - Erick Sermon feat Keith Murray - Hostile
13 - Masta Ace - Top Ten List
14 - Nine - Any Emcee
15 - Big Daddy Kane feat Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes - Come on Down
16 - Grand Puba - What goes Round (SD50 rmx)
17 - Ice Cube - Kill at Will
18 - Terminator X feat Celo - Wanna Be Dancing
19 - Terminator X feat Whodini - It All comes Down to Money
20 - X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer - What time is it?
21 - Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
22 - Showbiz and AG - Next Level (Primo rmx)
23 - Ed O.G - Let's be Realistic
24 - JVC Force - Big Trax
25 - Heavy D feat Q-Tip, Kane, Pete rock / CL Smooth, Grand Puba, Kool G Rap - Don't Curse
26 - Roxanne Shante - Go On Girl
27 - The DOC - Portrait of a Masterpiece
28 - Original Concept - Charlie Sez
29 - KMC - Terrifying Tracks
30 - UMC's - One to Grow On

DL it HERE

thank you sooo much, i wasn't born til 93' so this is a great mix to listen to to let me know what went down before i was born(y)

[chromium05]

^^^ you are welcome.

By the way - track 17 is Ice Cube - "Jackin' For Beats" from the Kill at Will EP.

[Gareth]

i always liked blahzay blahzay danger
how about smif n wessun bucktown

[koolBASD]

These days I'm listening more different hip-hop thanx to u :)
Here i found some stuff.

me (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZDPAQG4O)

[Videodrome]

1988
It takes Two - RobBase & DJ EZ Rock
My Philosphy - BDP
The Symphony - Marly Marl
Plug Tunin' - De La Soul
You gots to Chill - EPMD
Jack of Spades - BDP
Sally - Stetsasonic
Potholes in my Lawn - De La Soul
Going back to Cali - LL Cool J
Paper Thin - MC Lyte
Do This My Way - Kid 'N Play
Microphone fiend - Eric B. & Rakim
Posse on Broadway - Sir Mix-a-lot

1989
Fight the Power - PE
Children's Story - Slick Rick
I got it made - Special Ed
Just a Friend - Biz
Warm it up Kane - Big Daddy Kane
Mona Lisa - Slick Rick
Buddy - De La Soul
Funky Dividends - Three Times Dope
It's Funky Enough - The D.O.C.
Straight outta Compton - NWA
Express Yourself - NWA
Gas Face - 3rd Bass
Doowutchyalike - Digital Underground
Cha Cha Cha - MC Lyte
You Played Yourself - Ice T
Wild Thing - Tone Loc
The Rhythm - Kwame
Glamorous Life - Cool C
...and of course, anything off of Paul's Boutique

1990
Welcome to the Terrordome - PE
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Jingling Baby - LL Cool J
Can I Kick it - ATCQ
Brothers Gonna Work It Out - PE
Lookin' at the front door - Main Source
Buck Whilin' - Terminator X feat Chuck D & Sista Souljah
Call me D-Nice - D-Nice
Treat 'em Right - Chubb Rock
Your Mom's in my Business - K-Solo
Rock this funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
I'm the Magnificent - Special Ed
Peachfuzz - KMD
Boomin' System - LL Cool J

excellent choices.

[mickill]

excellent choices.
Then you might wanna buy Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists, considering those are the same songs they chose, in the same order, with a few of the songs left off. Weird, huh?

[Ally Al]

Then you might wanna buy Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists, considering those are the same songs they chose, in the same order, with a few of the songs left off. Weird, huh?


lol

busted!

[mickill]

Well, not to mention that most of those songs are well known, especially considerng they were all singles.

[mickill]

Whatever man.

[koolBASD]

Milkbone - Da Milkarate
Jamal - Last Chance, No Breaks

[Videodrome]

Boogiemonsters - Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album

I just pulled this back out after over a decade on the shelf. AMAZING.

[mate_spawn_die]

losing my mind by liza minneli