Favourite Rap Track

A Crimson Mellotron wrote: Hmm, you got me with these. I've never heard neither these artists, nor the albums. Maybe I should check them out, although I don't believe in this kind of music. As I said, RTJ is a really surprising exception for my taste.

nick_h_nz wrote: dougmcauliffe wrote: Here's my favorite from 2020: I'm not nearly as deeply knowledgeable on hip hop like I am with other genres, so my favorites tend to be some of the more standard stuff like Kendrick, Kanye, Tyler the Creator, Outkast, MF DOOM. However, it's an easy pick but nothing gets me more amped up then: Honorable mention: Your honourable mention is not playable for me, so I am unable to see who it is. Can you please tell me, so I can find another way of listening to the track? I doubt any of us are as deeply knowledgeable on hip hop as we are with other genres. (Hence why I would never try to school anyone, but that’s for another post.... 😜) But you don’t need to be knowledgeable to appreciate it. It stands to reason, also, that because we’re not so knowledgeable we probably tend towards stuff like Kendrick, etc. I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.

^^ Same experience for me with Opeth, except it was Blackwater Park. However with time Ghost Reveries became my favorite, and is a top 3 record of all time for me

The good thing about nonsense words is, you can always find a rhyme :)

nick_h_nz wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: That Moses Boyd album is terrific, personally I prefer the Nubya Garcia album but its close. Similarly I came to this stuff from the London nu jazz scene that is such a current hotbed. My favorites are The Comet Is Coming and Sons Of Kemet who I saw live at the Big Ears festival a couple years ago. I'll checkout the Leron Thomas recommended, HA Chuck and More Elevator Music, right? Yeah, the two are pretty close in quality and enjoyment for me, but where Nubya Garcia seems to edge out Moses Boyd for most people (including you), there’s just something about the latter that puts it just above the former for me. There’s really not much in it, though. As for The Comet Is Coming or Sons of Kemet, anything that includes Shabaka Hutchings is likely to float my boat. It stands to reason, then, that this year’s Shabaka & The Ancestors album was another favourite of mine. My favourite jazz albums from 2020, though, have been in near constant flux. On 20 December, according to what I posted on Facebook, my fifteen favourites were (in alphabetical order only): Aadal - Silver Ambient Jazz Ensemble - Aura Arcing Wires - Prime Moses Boyd - Dark Matter Dwiki Dharmawan - Hari Ketiga Doringo - Gužva u Svemiru Eishan Ensemble - Afternoon Tea at Six Tania Giannouli Trio - In Fading Light Ishkero - Brume Dusan Jevtovic - If You See Me Kilter - Axiom Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz Møster - Dust Breathing Shabaka & the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History’s Leron Thomas - More Elevator Music Nubya Garcia is notable for her absence, and as of today, she would be in and Aadal would be out. But like any list, it is kind of arbitrary, and depends on my mood at any one moment. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm not definitely a rap guy, but I like Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise.

This is the first rap song I ever heard. I’m not sure how many others may have made it to the airwaves in New Zealand prior to this. Certainly not on the radio stations at the time where I lived (two mainstream AM stations, a Christian AM station, a classical AM station, and a student radio FM station which would be the only one that might have played it, but which I remember only playing indie rock). But the video was played on the weekly chart show on tv. It was 1988, and I would have been around 12, and only just beginning to take an interest in music, thanks to a new school friend and his older brother’s LP collection. I actually liked this song, but was convinced by my friend that rap wasn’t real music, and somehow managed to keep that narrow mind set for some years subsequent.