Can anybody give a list of the mellowest[ist] songs. Perferably ones with strings(violins and stuff).

DJ Vadim - London Mind State is the mellowest hip hop song I`ve heard....no violins though. Or Guru - Jazzmatazz 1 if you haven`t allready heard it (Loungin, Down The Backstreets, Sights in the City). I don`t know if violins can be used in mellow stuff, they allways seem to sqeeze the last bit of noise out of them.

Rascalz - Top of the World you'll like i do think

I missed DJ Vadim here in Cape Town last weekend... How disappointing. Is it worth checking him out some more? I don't know much about him?

he rocks ... very intelligent hip hop ... check out following albums:

U.S.S.R.: Life From the Other Side (1999)
U.S.S.R.: The Art of Listening (2002)

the other albums are istrumental ones but also good.

I'll check it out for sure. I'd probably prefer the instrumental ones, actually. But I'll give most of it a listen eventually.

check out cavemen speak. this guy´s often use some analog instruments like piano or violins. on shadowanimals.com is a .mp3 section of the whole stuff of cavemen speak. the other kollobo is hymie´s basement. they are signed on lex records. h´s b is dosh, the drummer of fog and why? of anticon. nice stuff for mind and soul

th.

Much of that WarrenG. stuff is really mellow.

Bone Thugs n Harmony ~ Crossroads

Xbibit ~ Papparazzi