All Time Favorite Rap Song - Page 6

septhl · 11-21-2003, 02:02 PM

wutang-protect ya neck
method man- bring da pain
roots- 100% Dundee

Jobraham · 11-25-2003, 02:12 AM

these are a few of my favourite songs...

good buddha - ultrasound (Australian!!)
resin dogs - take off (features good buddha and nice funky beats)
kool kieth - earth people
dilated peoples - worst comes to worst

also in terms of hip hop mixes... DJ RECTANGLE... rectangle is the shit...

hope a few people like tha same!

Refusion · 11-25-2003, 02:32 AM

Good Buddha are pretty sick, I like Hilltop hoods, the Herd those guys are mad sick

HeAvY - P · 11-25-2003, 02:27 PM

Ice Cube - You can do it

beatmaster · 11-26-2003, 12:32 PM

gangstar-DWYCK, Grand Puba - What goes around, KRS1 - Black Cop, Lords of the Underground - Psycho and Funky Child.

bec · 11-27-2003, 05:11 AM

eye on a gold chain - Ugly Ducklin

KraX · 12-01-2003, 04:20 PM

Mine would be 'why we die' by Busta, gotta luv that beat!

horakhti · 12-02-2003, 03:07 PM

Now that's the kind of post I like to see around here! It really makes me want to take a look at that song again. Keep up the good work, tool!

Just Blaze · 12-02-2003, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tool
Here's a little something i wrote elsewhere about my favourite rap song: Warning by Notorious BIG

This song is a great piece of storytelling. It's just the thoughts flying around BIG's head when he gets word that some old acquaintances are coming to rob him now he's so wealthy.
The track's real masterstroke is the opening exchange between BIG and his chum on the phone(the chum being BIG with a different vocal treatment, i think). The pal has already told him some folks are coming to get him, and then reminds BIG of some folks he used to hang with.("Remember them niggas from the hill up in brownsville / thatcha rolled dice with / smoked blunts and got nice with?")

Big remembers, but says nah, they wouldn't do that. His pal cuts in quickly - he didn't say it was them, it was just that those chaps introduced him to the real villains!

Great attention to detail - instead of the pal ringing up and immediately revealing the identity of the attackers, the exchange takes an unnecessary de-tour. It's much more conversational and unforced this way - human exchanges are full of false starts and tiny misunderstandings like this. It's excellently observed.

Lots of great moments still to come! When his pal finishes, BIG wastes no time in telling him to "Call the coroner!" The rottweilers by the door being fed gunpowder. The pronounciation of "Hard-COOORE!" reprised from the previous track "Machine Gun Funk".

An odd personal observation - the "sss" sound Big uses at the end of "dang-er-usss" sounds curiously effeminate to these ears - most definitely at odds with the macho tone of the track. I prefer not to bother listening to the short skit after the song, where the two robbers arrive on BIG's property and get shot. I prefer to think of "Warning" as the sound of BIG psyching himself up for a violent conflict, without any real ACTION.

There's so much going on in this song, i could write all day about it.

beautiful

Digger · 12-02-2003, 09:23 PM

PE - Night of the Living Baseheads