Hey people,

I would like to introduce my 51 year old music loving uncle to the wonderful world of rap.

He is fairly openminded but his (and most 'haters'') problem is that the only rap he is confronted with is the commercial shit. His biggest objection to it is that there isn't any real music in it but that it is mostly computer generated beats...

He grew up with The Beatles, and loves Pink Floyd, Genesis and the like, so my plan was to show him the 'musical' aspect of rap rather than the lyrical one. I know there are some that sort of qualify: RJD2, for instance, but this is mainly the work of nice mixing software (although Smoke & Mirrors and June are fairly 'musical', but then again: the first one does not contain any rap).

Other tracks I have thought of are:
A Tribe Called Quest - Description Of A Fool
Jurassic 5 - Great Expectations
Atmosphere - Always Coming Back To You
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Jedi Mind Trick - Blood In, Blood Out
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (Seven Minutes of Madness) [The Cold Cut Remix]
2Pac & Nas - Thugz Mansion
Moloko ft. J-Live - The Truth
Mos Def - Umi Says
Common & Jill Scott - I Am Music

But I am sure that you can think of many others!
Maybe some psychedelic rap? :P Ohh please, keep it rockish, no gospel please! (He hated De La Soul - It Ain't All Good) [edit]And I don't think something like Rage Against The Machine will be very appreciated either.[/edit]

well the new RJD2 "Someone's Second Kiss" is very musical you could probably use 1976 or icicles to turn him onto rjd2...You couldn't go too wrong showing him reall any Talib Kweli, but specifically show him some stuff off of Quality, some of the J-Dilla-produced tracks...Any of DJ Shadow's stuff would work, although i'd reccomend giving up the ghost and napalm brain/scatter brain, as they are musical and less electronic than rjd2