remphish1 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Since Wilco is about as far away from rap as you can get I am curious? What percentage of our collection is rap albums? Do you have a favorite rapper? Have you seen any rap concerts? Well for me I just bought the new Jurrasic 5 Alubum...(only $6.99 at best buy ) It has its moments. Besides them I have all the Beastie Boys cds and that is it (So less than 5% for me!?) I have seen Run DMC (The original Lineup) and Busta Rhymes in concert. I also got to spend time with LL Cool J and Naughty by Nature (heh) They filmed a music video at my dads work! Anyways tell me your stories?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parisisstale Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Teenage years (late 80s-early 90s): huge collection, pretty much all I listened to Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Eric B and Rakim, etc...etc... These days: ummm, not so much (but I will still pull out the old ones every once in a while. I'm sure Mr Stewart and Feelgood will have plenty to say on the subject. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Maddie Hope Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Since Wilco is about as far away from rap as you can get I am curious? What percentage of our collection is rap albums? Do you have a favorite rapper? Have you seen any rap concerts? Well for me I just bought the new Jurrasic 5 Alubum...(only $6.99 at best buy ) It has its moments. Besides them I have all the Beastie Boys cds and that is it (So less than 5% for me!?) I have seen Run DMC (The original Lineup) and Busta Rhymes in concert. I also got to spend time with LL Cool J and Naughty by Nature (heh) They filmed a music video at my dads work! Anyways tell me your stories?! Well my collection is 0% rap... (I have a VERY, VERY large vinyl collection)I have seen Run DMC right before that one guy from the band passed away... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 my wife likes old school hip hop.the only rap record i've ever purchased was anthrax's I'M THE MAN. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 In my collection, probably 10 out of 2500 recordings are rap. I like some rap, but never care to listen to it at home. Plus, I live in Atlanta, so I can't EVER walk down ANY street without hearing rap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
c53x12 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Have a couple of tunes that snuck into my library through compilations, but 0% all-rap albums. And I like it that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Do Beastie Boys count? If so, Pauls Boutique. Otherwise, nada. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mrs. Peel Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I'd say 20% of our collection is rap. A lot of old school, a few more current. I'm a Beastie Boys freak. A Tribe Called Quest, Boogie Down Productions/KRS-One, all the Sugar Hill artists, Run DMC.....I had to choose tonight between Rogue Wave and Slick Rick. I'm going to see RW but I'm very disappointed I'll be missing Slick Rick. If Doug E Fresh was with him though, it would be no contest. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 .6% Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eli Cash Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I'd say about 30-40% of my collection is rap. I listened to a ton of it in high school (mid to late 90s). Mostly 2Pac, Biggie and the Bad Boy crew, PE, A Tribe Called Quest, Ghostface, the whole early 90s LA scene, Nas, and a lot of old school compilations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 40-50%. Half of that happening via falling back in love w/ the genre over the past year or so. Just didn't listen to much from 2000-2004. Older stuff ranging from: Grandmaster FlashAfrika BambattaKool Mo deeWhodiniRUN DMCFat BoysLL Cool JBeastie BoysBig Daddy KaneBiz MarkieEric B & RakimEPMDSlick RickPublic EnemyX-ClanTribe Called QuestDe La SoulDigital UndergroundIce-TNWAGhetto boys Ice CubeFuSchnickensDAS EFXLords of the UndergroundPete Rock & CL SmoothSouls of MischiefDel the Funkee Homospaien/Hieroglyphics ...blah, blah, blah. To more recent stuff like: The RootsJurassic 5Giant PandaTime MachineMF DoomEdanMr. LifOhMega WattsLighteheadedPeople Under the Stairs Turntable/DJ stuff like: RJD2DJ ShadowCut ChemistDJ FormatZ-TripMixmaster Mike/Invisible Skratch PicklesDan the Automator/Handsome Boy Modeling School I haven't seen enarly as much live and in person as i'd wish, but I have seen: Beastie BoysTribe Called QuestIce TIce CubePublic EnemyYoung Black TeenagersJurassic 5The Hieroglyphics and then throw in the years of religiously watching Yo! on MTV and various videtapes/DVDs. I could go on and on, but i've got to split for the day. The timing of this is impeccable, as I found a completely awesome Golden Era mix (Early 90's) put together by DJ DL from Get Down Alliance yesterday via a music blog that I HIGHLY reccomend DL'ing for a crash course in just how good REAL hip-hop can be... WORD! Plus, i'll be putting out my second all hip-hop mix 'Son of Mixtape Manifesto' soon. I keep getting too busy to finish it off, but i'll be posting the first and that one on my blog w/in the next week or so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
El Picador Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 .001% Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OOO Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 .001% seconded Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 for those in such low %...can I ask why and what you have tried to listen to that you didn't like? promise not to judge or try to convince you to feel otherwise, i'm just curous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Probably between 5% and 10%. My first vinyl ever purchased with my own money was Run DMC's Raising Hell, and my most recent purchase was Common's Be. El F - Everything I've heard by Del the Funkee Homosapien, I've really liked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 El F - Everything I've heard by Del the Funkee Homosapien, I've really liked. My younger brother loved him, but i've just more recently really delved into his catalog...there'll be a tune w/ him and the Hieoglyphics ('Burnt') on my mix dropping soon that is just too fucking awesome for words. You should check out the Deltron shit he did w/ Automator too...Jeff (imdwiener) turned me onto that a few years ago and it's amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 none Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 none and you work and live right near the epicenter of it...where it all began. damn shame. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 You should check out the Deltron shit he did w/ Automator too...Jeff (imdwiener) turned me onto that a few years ago and it's amazing.Deltron 3030 is my main knowledge base for him... I haven't really delved too deeply. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OOO Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 for those in such low %...can I ask why and what you have tried to listen to that you didn't like? promise not to judge or try to convince you to feel otherwise, i'm just curous. I was a staunch Beatles/oldies fan in gradeschool and junior high, and the only rap i heard was when my friends would blast the biggest rap songs, like "Mo Money Mo Problems." In general when I hear a rapper doing his thing over an older rock or pop song, i just think to myself "I don't want to hear this guy, but I do like the song he's rapping over." So instead of listening to Kanye's Diamonds of Sierra Leone like all my college roommates, I listen to Shirley Bassey doing Diamonds are Forever. As far as hip hop goes, the only stuff I hear all has the same beat and some guy talking about girls breasts or something. I went to a good number of sorority invites where throngs of rich white girls were grinding to song after song that sounded exactly the same to me. I wanted to kill myself. In otherwords, the lack of musical strength in mainstream rap has turned me off to the genre as a whole. I know thats like being turned off of rock and roll based on fall out boy, and that i haven't listened to anything considered good, but its not something that interests me at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Is Chicago Is Not Chicago Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 15 - 20% all from my formative earyl teen years. I was real into the wu-tang clan the most (including each of the individual rappers from the group), all the older death row label members (dr. dre, snoop, tupac) Nas, Biggie, Beastie Boys... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parisisstale Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Phife Dawg used to shop and hang out in my store in the mid 90s. Real cool dude. Low End Theory's one of my favorite all-time records. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I grew up in NYC at the time that Qwest exploded so my music universe for a good 2-3 years revolved around them, De La, Jungle Bros, Brand Nubian, etc. I appreciated the harder stuff of the time, like Public Enemy or NWA or Geto Boys, but that kind of rap was never fun for me like the east coast stuff was. For whatever reason -- maybe I never gave it enough of a chance -- rap since the early to mid-90s just never did anything for me. For me, it just never held a candle to Qwest's "Can I Kick It?" or De La's "Buddy" or Big Daddy Kane's "Pimpin Aint Easy". All in, I'd say my collection is 5% rap. I suppose thats pretty darn low considering how enthralled I was with rap for a time, but like I said, I felt like the golden era passed. I guess I sound like a crotchety old geezer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skian Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Subterrianean Homesick Bluesand a couple tapes of Neal Cassady ramblingare as close to rap as I'll ever get.I missed it and I sure ain't sorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
airtaco Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 This is the summer I've been getting into Rap/RB/Hip Hop. Frankly, it simply sounder fresher than the new rock stuff I've been listening to. I have Jay Z's The Blueprint and The Black Album, which are both tremendous. I just bought Outkast's Stankonia, which is so freaking wierd it's awesome. In addition, I have most of the Beastie Boys stuff, some Lauryn Hill/ Fugees and a little old school stuff. While I d Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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