Real Hip Hop

No, I'm not talking about that main stream crap that you'll hear if you turn on the radio. I'm talking about a great blending of samples that make a beat to rap to. Some hip hop doesn't even have any "rap" to it, believe it or not. Just give this artist a listen. I doubt you've ever heard of him so just give it a try. And it actually is somewhat progressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUwRGPxCG_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pF6_PeamU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJP_eI3j_g


The reason I'm doing this is because a lot of people on this site believe all hip hop is terrible but... maybe you'll change your mind if give this a listen.

Many of these  artists will mix samples of "real" music but the problem is it isn't actually  played live. It probably could be but that's not really how hip hop works.  Sometimes artists will add their own instrumentation to the samples they've taken and the music they've mixed. But if you asking if notes are computer generated then the answer is no.

So I would say it is real music not very playable 

Check out Dayton Family, Esham, Gang Starr for excellence.

f**k the police is a real hip-hop song , i like it 

boo boo wrote: Your knowledge of hip hop is very lacking I think. For one, does hip hop have to use live instrumentation to be "real". What is music? Is it not just the arrangement of sounds? If that's true then how does hip hop cease being music because it uses samples? It may be using sounds produced by other musicians, but those sounds are often deconstructed and rearranged to become something new. A turntable is very much a musical instrument, it's still a tool used for producing and arranging sounds.   Furthermore hip hop and rap are not mutually exclusive. Hip hop doesn't need rapping, DJ Shadow and Madlib are identified as hip hop even though what they do is instrumental.

Of course it doesn't have to be played  live. I was just trying to interpret what The T meant by is it "real". And the instrumental hip hop is what I'm trying to show people. Did you look at the links? Those songs are made up of samples and are instrumental for the most part.

boo boo wrote: DJ Shadow

This guy's immense knowledge of countless types of music from years of record hunting makes for some pretty good sample based music, imo.

If you're looking for innovative Hip Hop Curse ov Dialect is probably one the greatest discoveries you can make. Then there's Deltron 3030, Dälek, Gravediggaz, The Coup, Soul-Junk, Wu-Tang Clan, Sage Francis, Divine Styler, Jedi Mind Tricks, MF DOOM.