Deep rap songs?

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,253
    writersu wrote:
    I am sorry that I forgot. I have spoken to you other times here and didn't recognize that.

    Anyway, I love that video of Rakim and it is so funny that you and my son share the same taste in terms of someone who is awesome but not very well known in the pop terms anyway. I never heard of him and then, bam! I am turned on to him and you guys are right; he is awesome........

    thanks again..................

    I remember that sequence and I was in there somewhere too. He's great and I saw him last year and what a poet on the mike.

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  • Big Ed
    Big Ed Posts: 331
    This I know - Rehab
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    Ignoring Rusted Signs
  • writersu
    writersu Posts: 1,867
    I heard this last year and I think it speaks for itself...........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QIOPaFo5g
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    ROOTS - Sacrifice <3
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHqt7ixlkE&feature=related
    NERDS!
  • uninnocent
    uninnocent Posts: 1,565
    sage francis - makeshift patriot
    saul williams - list of demands (reparations)
    fugees - manifest
    wyclef jean - gunpowder (not really rap, but i'm always trying to pimp this song)
  • NuclearTreeFrog
    NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    what about Canibus
    "The sun is shining, but not for me."
  • The_Fixer
    The_Fixer Posts: 255
    This is definitely one of the deepest SONGS ever...

    Xzibit-Thank You

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiDPEPn0Hs
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,189
    Warning!!! Not for the faint of heart :cool:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzoBkaFxh4&feature=related
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Warning!!! Not for the faint of heart :cool:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzoBkaFxh4&feature=related
    :D


    Now THIS is not for the faint of heart:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dRgYd5Mxs0
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    :D


    Now THIS is not for the faint of heart:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dRgYd5Mxs0
    That was impressive. Very familiar with the piano sample.
  • Grasshopper
    Grasshopper Posts: 137
    most anything by

    the roots
    the fugees
    Wu-tang...(the only rappers who actually pull of the deep gangsta type rap IMO)
    Cannibus
    Lyve chaos (look him up on myspace)
    And how does Gangstarr not get mentioned here?
    public enemy
    Krs1
    Zach de la rocha (solo)
    De la soul
    Arrested Development
    sunz of man

    As far as overall depth as far as the combination of lyrics and music
    probably bone
    This guy wouldn't know magesty if it bit him in the face- Strong bad

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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    "My shit be all deep up in dat thyck azz, tryck!"

    That's about as deep as rap gets. Which I have no problem with, by the way.
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Grasshopper wrote:
    Wu-tang...(the only rappers who actually pull of the deep gangsta type rap IMO)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infamous

    :)

    Of course, they went downhill from there but that is a stunning album. Kind of a companion piece for 36 Chambers and Illmatic, in my opinion the holy trinity of east coast hip-hop.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infamous

    :)

    Of course, they went downhill from there but that is a stunning album. Kind of a companion piece for 36 Chambers and Illmatic, in my opinion the holy trinity of east coast hip-hop.


    i like the next one Hell On Earth better, lotta tupac dissing on that one. but yeah infamous album is great, mobb deep was so damn good back then.

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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    not exactly a deep rap song, but the lyrical wordplay by G Rap is legendary, top 20 rapper for sure. listen to this song, hes great. i've listened to it over and over lately. that bass line polo lays down is infectious too.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmRadOAId0
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    restlesssoul wrote:
    not exactly a deep rap song, but the lyrical wordplay by G Rap is legendary, top 20 rapper for sure. listen to this song, hes great. i've listened to it over and over lately. that bass line polo lays down is infectious too.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmRadOAId0
    G Rap's performance on Men At Work from Road to the Riches is unbelievable.

    I really love Fast Life, the song he did with Nas on 4,5,6 as well.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Immortal Technique - Dancing With The Devil, Harlem Streets, Industrial Revolution
    Immortal Technique makes me want to jump off a bridge, he's definitely a thinker
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Lukin66 wrote:
    Immortal Technique makes me want to jump off a bridge, he's definitely a thinker
    Yeah. Dancing with the Devil in particular is almost TOO depressing and disturbing. Still brilliant though.

    "And right then he know what it was to be empty and cold
    so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul"
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • MikeLammi23
    MikeLammi23 Posts: 109
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Yeah. Dancing with the Devil in particular is almost TOO depressing and disturbing. Still brilliant though.

    "And right then he know what it was to be empty and cold
    so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul"

    I just listened to this song for the first time. Wow. I will keep this short... I am very much a person of faith in something I don't understand,... God, The Devil, Angels, etc... and just put it this way... why would Immortal Tecnhique lie? Why would he say this story is true if it wasn't, and that makes the impact of it that much more intense.

    I got a very uneasy feeling in my stomach after listening to that.
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