Rap Music's Place In Prog

Citizen Erased wrote: If there's one thing that undergroup rap beats "prog rock" artists at everytime, it's the lyrics. Sage Francis is one of my favourites in particular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4KiuvLo6Y Really simple when you think about it but so poetic. It's not what you'd expect from a rapper.

One band, Pink Floyd. Who beats them in lyric section ? (Dard Side - Final Cut period, 5 albums)

Rap's place in Prog is with Daniel Gildenlow

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Also checking out the new record from Rob Swift, The Architect. A DJ album but quite a different one, doesn't sound like typical hip-hop beats at all. Once it really gets going on track 5 (the first four are short intro type thingies that sort of set up an atmosphere of spookiness and wierdness with the ocassional old school beat) it becomes more or less a continuous piece of music that segues into different parts almost unnoticeably and makes very unusual use of classical music samples- those are nothing new to hip-hop but the high, creepy, droning way Swift deploys them is. It's almost entirely instrumental but rapper Breez Evahflowin turns up for two tracks, though he may as well not have, the focus here is and should be on Swift's cuts. Some tunes are spread over several tracks- Lower Level has three movements and Rabia has three movements and a prelude. I smell prog!