PrimeBigTime on 11 January 2012
| toadslayer72 said: Oh wow, that's too hard to pick one, I don't know if I could pick twenty lol. I mean the 80's had some real good stuff from the likes of Eric B and Rakim, KRS-One, Slick Rick right up P.E., Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep and the Jungle Bros. EPMD has some real classics too....get the bozak!!! Then the 90's....more Tribe and De La (I always like them more though), NWA, Gang Starr, Nas, Wu-Tang, Fat Joe, Mos Def & Talib Kweli, The Roots, Company Flow, MF DOOM and so on.... I guess I can only give artists, sorry. Here are my 5 favorite based on what I've listened to most of and in no particular order. El-P/Company Flow, MF DOOM, Mos Def, De La Soul and I can't separate Nas because of Illmatic and Raekwon because of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, those two tapes/cd's got much play in the mid-90's. |
You are right on the money with 80's hip hop. Those were the golden days, when groups had to do more with less, and knew how to spit some dope lyrics. I disagree with your 90s list, however. In the 90s, and especially today, groups lost the meaning of words hip hop and RAP. They don't rhyme or even stay on beat anymore. Most people forget that RAP stands for Rythmic American Poetry, and for good reason.
Don't forget the first two albums from LL and Run DMC. Those were classic. I also loved PRT, but most people never heard of them. They had skills. I'm expecting a lot of people on this site to not even be familiar with the 80s, and list only recent crap, which is a shame.
