Battle of the lyricists

[GDM]

Shame i missed this ...don't suppose Robert Smith of the Cure got on the list?

or Richard Ashcroft?

 

[Floval Flyer]

Would have loved to have nominated Rakim or Ice T, but sadly no-one else would have voted for them.

Missed the whole thread

Totally with Rakim - best rapper in history,
"Thinkin' of a master plan/Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand."

Other great rap lyricists in my view are;

Chuck D (Public Enemy)
Grandmaster Flash
Eminem
Nas
Dr Dre
DMC (Run-DMC)
Adam Horowitz / Adam Yauch / Mike Diamond (Beastie Boys)
Ice Cube
KRS One
Snoop Dogg
Erick Sermon (EPMD)
Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MCs)

I could go on all day...

Love my Hip Hop (Golden years 88-92 will always rule)

 

[MK Shrimper]

You could do the battle of the Hippedy Hop next. No uzis allowed.

 

[Napster]

Missed the whole thread

Totally with Rakim - best rapper in history,
"Thinkin' of a master plan/Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand."

Other great rap lyricists in my view are;

Chuck D (Public Enemy)
Grandmaster Flash
Eminem
Nas
Dr Dre
DMC (Run-DMC)
Adam Horowitz / Adam Yauch / Mike Diamond (Beastie Boys)
Ice Cube
KRS One
Snoop Dogg
Erick Sermon (EPMD)
Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MCs)

I could go on all day...

Love my Hip Hop (Golden years 88-92 will always rule)

erick Sermon yes! The Pharcyde as well and the Native Tongues

 

[Napster]

Missed the whole thread

Totally with Rakim - best rapper in history,
"Thinkin' of a master plan/Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand."

Other great rap lyricists in my view are;

Chuck D (Public Enemy)
Grandmaster Flash
Eminem
Nas
Dr Dre
DMC (Run-DMC)
Adam Horowitz / Adam Yauch / Mike Diamond (Beastie Boys)
Ice Cube
KRS One
Snoop Dogg
Erick Sermon (EPMD)
Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MCs)

I could go on all day...

Love my Hip Hop (Golden years 88-92 will always rule)

Ps Dre didn’t even write his own lyrics he got DOC to do them or snoop

 

[MK Shrimper]

Not really my bag, but I do like a bit of Jurassic 5.

 

[Floval Flyer]

Ps Dre didn’t even write his own lyrics he got DOC to do them or snoop

Seems to credit himself...

Doesn’t surprise me, he even got little Chinese men to make his poor quality headphones ?

 

[Floval Flyer]

erick Sermon yes! The Pharcyde as well and the Native Tongues

Could also add T-La Rock, Kool Moe Dee and LL to the list. Then there’s Slick Rick, Schoolly D, Just Ice... the list is endless

 

[GDM]

Could also add T-La Rock, Kool Moe Dee and LL to the list. Then there’s Slick Rick, Schoolly D, Just Ice... the list is endless

Kool Moe Dee or LL - you could only be one or the other?
Remember all these and loved growing up in that hip hop era

 

[Napster]

Not really my bag, but I do like a bit of Jurassic 5.

Love some J5.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Love some J5.

Just adore Charlie 2na's voice.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Does anyone over 40 seriously like rap or hip-hop?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Does anyone over 40 seriously like rap or hip-hop?

I'm 48 so was exactly the right age for rap classics like 'It takes a nation of millions' in 1988.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Does anyone over 40 seriously like rap or hip-hop?

Seeing as it kicked off when I was about 10 or so, most definitely.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Seeing as it kicked off when I was about 10 or so, most definitely.

Ha! Can't say it really interests me apart from some attempted fusions I've heard between blues and rap.After all we're not talking about scat here,so when exactly it kicked off seems rather irrelevant to me.What I'm questioning is whether it's an art form or not?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm 48 so was exactly the right age for rap classics like 'It takes a nation of millions' in 1988.

At 68 this particular rap classic seems to passed me by (no doubt along with many others).

 

[MK Shrimper]

What I'm questioning is whether it's an art form or not?

Really? Of course it is.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Really? Of course it is.

Sadly not for me I'm afraid.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sadly not for me I'm afraid.

Like it or not, it is for millions of others and possibly the most dominant form of music across the globe at the moment.

 

[blues exile]

Nor for me either. Part of a long and steady decline from the golden age of popular music when literate melodists and writers like Porter, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins etc held sway. The early fifties characterised by inane novelty songs made it easy for the rock 'n' roll revolution mid decade. A few brief interludes of musicality since then such as the bossa nova movement but popular (by now 'pop' music) has gradually shrunk to a minority interest irrelevat tomost people's lives, sadly.