Polital Rap/Hip Hop

[ernestodekam]

I have been into a lot of political metal like Amen, RATM, Nevermore, etc. I ahve a few mates into the likes of Public Enemy and Cypress Hill and was wondering of any of you guys had any opinions of a few Hip Hop/Rap bands that are worth a gander?????????????????????

[Dutch Commie]

you should check out these songs

Nas - Rule
Nas - My Country
Nas - What Goes Around/Poison

[libereco]

what got me into listening to Hip Hop was Boogie Down Production (BDP) and the solo Projects of KRS-One (their Rapper).
Also the Roots are great...and maybe you'd enjoy Blackstar...there is a bunch of good stuff out there.

Not all of this is Political, but Cypress Hill isn't really either.

oh...the Dead Prez (or spelled differently maybe) are pretty political.

maybe i should dig up my old collection...

[ernestodekam]

Yeah dude Dead Prez are a influential band in my world. They make me think. KRS One did a cool song with Rage Against The Machine and The Last Emporer that is neat.

[Guest]

binary star and subterraneous form michigan, they are leftist underground islamic activist hip hop.-mark

[CheGuevara]

Control Machete, a Mexican rap group, has some fairly political songs.

[pastradamus]

bob marley
2pac
xzibit
NWA
Outlawz
EAZY e they may not be communist's but they kick the shit outa most other rap stars!

[Guest]

This is La Rainbeaux... Some good rappers, though not always political, but they are good:

Common
Blackstar
Talib Kewli & Hi-Tek
Mos Def
Nas

Also, there's an anti-Capitalist (maybe) rap duo (I think it's a duo) called "The Coup." I've never heard them myself, but I hear they're good.. Check 'em out.

Peace & Love

[Kez]

red dagger - class war
r&b

good shit

comrade kamo

[Soledad Brother]

Mos Def

Common

Black Thought

[red head]

the coup-communist hip hop at its best. check out the songs "ride the fence" and "breathing aparatus"

[anarchoveganLAM]

Dead Prez
NWA
Public Enemy
Tupac
Black L.I.B
N-12
Poor Righteous Teachers
some DMX
some Wu Tang
J.Uprising (i can never find some of him:( )

for heavy political messages, i recommend thrash,anarcho, and crust like Crass, Conflict, Subhumans, Riot/Clone, Passive Resistance, Anti-Flag, Dead Kennedys, and stuff like that.

Reggae is good for it too. Like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff, and shit.

[TovarishAlexandrov]

Back to the classics - REM - I Feel Fine

[El Brujo]

Cypress Hill
Ice Cube
Ice-T
NWA
Public Enemy
Run DMC
Frost
N*E*R*D
Ignore The Machine
Wu-Tang
Sunz of Man
Dead Prez
Black Knights
Mastakilla
ICP
The Beastie Boys

[Sasafrás]

Oh, El Brujo, I love you! You've got really good taste in music.

Also, some fresh stuff to check out is:

The Fugees
Arrested Development :)
Digable Planets

And, though it's more Latin-y than Hip-Hoppy (CDNow calls it "Hip-hop-meets-reggae-meets-Latin- meets-acid jazz" ), it's still good and they've got some political messages, especially the songs on their album "Embrace the Chaos" especially the songs "Embrace the Chaos" (they did it with Common) and "Guerrillero" (even though I'm not able to translate everything they say in it, I still love it).


(Edited by La Rainbeaux at 5:45 pm on Feb. 28, 2002)

[Guest]

looptroop from sweden is the greatest political rap group in the world

[ernestodekam]

Arrested Development, top band guys.

[CHUX39]

RasKass, the album is called 'Soul On Ice', some songs to download if you don't wanna pay fifty million dollars for a CD, nature of the threat, soul on ice, ordo abchao.

don't sleep on wu-tang, some specific songs to check out, i can't go to sleep, a better tomorrow, there's others but i can't think of them

[Michael De Panama]

Quote: from pastradamus on 7:03 pm on Jan. 31, 2002
bob marley
2pac
xzibit
NWA
Outlawz
EAZY e they may not be communist's but they kick the shit outa most other rap stars!


WTF? Bob Marley isn't a rapper!

[militantmindLAM]

DEAD PREZ is my mother

[Lefty]

the coup kick ass! and they are communist. there was a big fiasco after 9/11 about the cover of their album cover. it showed the wtc being blown up

[pRinZe]

DEAD PREZ.. fully no question...

-----Very into Hippittie hopaty.. But trying to recollect on the socialism level to them all... Many have freedom in them without no doubt... I mean you can take it to the back in dem dayz.. Rakim..and so.. Brand Nubian..... But if you are into the now.. Yo.. Go get yourself Dead Prez.. Doubt you'll be pissed with the purchase.. And they are forever helping out the Organizing world.. Helping us do more outreach..

Shit [sorry the franze].. But they helped a lot of us [mentally through the music] to flip on our ED [executive Director], and make moves.. [let's leave it at that].. heh heh..pR

[ernestodekam]

The coup are very good.

What do you guys think of Cypress Hill?

I love them but only for their earlier albums before (and including) IV.

[IzmSchism]

OZALMATI!!!!

[BOZG]

Cypress Hill were good up to IV but their stuff is too much about legalising hash.

NWA
PE
The Coup
Dead Prez
Eric B & Rakim
KRS (BDP)
Ultramagnetic MC's
Doug E Fresh
Big Daddy Kane
Ras Kass (One of the most slept on emcees)
Last Emperor
Mos Def
Common
Roots
2Pac
Tribe Called Quest
Afrika Bambaataa
Gravediggaz
Gangstarr
Wu-Tang
Jurassic 5
Kool G Rap
Cold Crush Brothers
Grandmaster Flash
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Talib Kweli
EPMD
Fugees
Killah Priest

I know they're not all political but still great emcees.


(Edited by BornOfZapatasGuns at 7:25 pm on May 4, 2002)

[Alejandro C]

Holy shit, man you just named almost my intire CD colection, even the more underground, love Rass cass and KRS-one. Also Doug E Fresh but his best shit was with Slick Rick. Eric B and Rakim- fuck yeah

[Sasafrás]

Quote: from La Rainbeaux on 11:17 pm on Feb. 27, 2002
And, though it's more Latin-y than Hip-Hoppy (CDNow calls it "Hip-hop-meets-reggae-meets-Latin- meets-acid jazz" ), it's still good and they've got some political messages, especially the songs on their album "Embrace the Chaos" especially the songs "Embrace the Chaos" (they did it with Common) and "Guerrillero" (even though I'm not able to translate everything they say in it, I still love it).This is funny.. I did that long description of a group that I didn't even name and I didn't notice until more than two months later..

I was talking about OZOMATLI!! :)

[BOZG]

*clap clap clap*

:D

[Sasafrás]

Quote: from BornOfZapatasGuns on 4:09 pm on May 5, 2002
*clap clap clap*

:DWhy the applause, B.o.Z.G.?

[BOZG]

Sorry I was being sarcastic. It took you two months to realise it.

[sypher]

Zack de la rocha
outkast

are two that evryone seems to be forgeting

[Dhul Fiqar]

Quote: from Guest on 5:58 am on Mar. 1, 2002
looptroop from sweden is the greatest political rap group in the world


Definitely, comrade!

I urge everyone to check out Promoe and Loop Troop, starting with "Biggest Hustle" , "Long Arm of the Law" and "Government Music"

Totally hardcore underground guys that used to have to live on the street and steal. Anyway, their lyrics are probably the best political rhymes I've heard in my life.

--- G. Raven

[j]

Political Rap?? Hmmmm. Not a whole lot of groups are that political. I guess Mos Def can be, the Roots.

Anybody still like Arrested Development? I was digging through some old CDs and found the solo album that Speech put out. The second song is called "ask somebody who ain't" it goes "If you think this system's working, ask somebody who ain't." One could construe this song to mean the capitalist system. Am I stretching?

Other groups worth noting:

a tribe called quest
ed og
nappy roots
krs-one/bdp
public enemy
de la soul
jungle brothers

[queen of diamonds]

i gotta stick with 2pac & outlawz.....they give a great description of the life they live (in 2pac's case, lived), and how the govt deals/doesn't deal with it

[Dhul Fiqar]

So did anyone check out Loop Troop's stuff yet? I guarantee you'll like the lyrics if you do :)

--- G. Raven

[BOZG]

I'm just downloading Biggest Hustle now

[samaniego]

Hey all those main stream groups maybe cool, but for the real deal you need to go underground. My friend introduced me to this hip hop group called PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. And the kick ass. They drop old school jazz beats and wicked, messages. They start the album down playing other rappers for not saying anything worth while to the people. Man I highly recommend this. May be a hard find.

[Menshevik]

Was Afrika Bambaataa listed? Soulsonic force is the shiznit.

[j]

menshevik-Soulsonic: weren't they a hip-hop/funk band in the 90s? Are they still around? I used to work at college radio station back in the mid-ninties. I think I remember hearing them.

also-anyone ever heard of Paris? He can be deep.

samaniego-people under the stairs are hot--i think i heard them a few months back on a college station.

j

[BOZG]

I listed Bambaataa and the SS Force (I think, too lazy to check).

J,

Bambaataa and the SS Force were a hip-hop group back in the 70's and 80's and made some of the greatest music for breakdancin' and body poppin'.
He is known as the 'Godfather of hip-hop' because of his influence and his input to hip-hop.

[GWF]

Here you have some cool hiphop artists:

Xzibit
Fugees
Snoop Dogg
DMX
Ice Cube
2pac
Wu-Tang Clan
Cypress Hill
Busta Rhymes
ICP
NWA

[Nateddi]

I don't like rap generally, however 2pac would have to be the best, no doubt.

[Divine Soldier]

Check out Dead Prez songs:
Murda Box
These is the times
We need a revolution
Cop Shot
Also peep Nas song:
Black Nombie

And website www.AWOL.com

[Divine Soldier]

The televisions have eyes
Your modern religion is live
Plotting a collision world wide
Watch the hour glass, the power class
Showing currency for world supremacy
Burroughs is burned down deliberately, son
We ain't about whats devil level
Smell the gun metal
King to mo' man
I read Mao Tse-Tung
Feel the foul taste that run on my tongue
Burn a L for everyone of my sons
There so much more than just herb in my lungs
Similar to spilt Mercury,
With enough force
They could've killed Hercules
This whole nation was built
Virtually, from capital to captivity
The earth could be the modest ??
You not listening
It's cold outside
They got the whole South side
Using bar codes,
Military blocks on all the state roads
And worse, somebody's chold got hung
They took his pants off,
Covered his whole body with ants, and cut his hands off
The type of shit that have your brain bleedin'
They about to start scanning the back of niggas hands
And get your vein readin'
They call it New World Order
But, son, this game is in the fourth quarter
World War 3, don't drink the water
Because...

These are the times that try a nigga soul
Population control, we wasting time chasing gold
They after more than your mind
They want your nation as a whole
It's time to take off the blindfold (I know)

-Stic Man (Dead Prez)
"These are the times"

P.E.A.C.E.
(Postive Education Always Correct Error)

[Overdose]

I really wished that The Coup were able to keep their original album cover (in my avatar) the one they switched it to is pretty bland and unoriginal... Steal this album was classic

[Overdose]

I really wished that The Coup were able to keep their original album cover (in my avatar) the one they switched it to is pretty bland and unoriginal... Steal this album was classic

[hXcPetey]

I'm not much into rap but die for the struggle (by red dagger) aint to bad

nor death penalty for mumia (also red dagger)

but i just dont like rap all that much

[antieverything]

Yep, the coup's origional album cover was pretty cool...but also kinda creepy post 9/11

so, the coup rules (they also have the best rap lyric ever in "me and jesus the pimp..."...check this out!..."His name was jesus(hesus) but his pimp name was jesus, slapped the hoes to pieces with his plastic prosthesis!")

Dead Prez is awsome!