- Jan 15, 2004
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What (little) I've discovered that I like so far:
-The Streets
-Eminem
-Jay-Z
-Kanye West
-Gorillaz
I know, boring and mainstream, right? So help me out.
What I do not want:
-repetitive lyrics
-annoying, crappy R&B whenever the artist gets too lazy to write another verse
-misogyny/homophobia/an overabundance of over the top offensive profanity just because the artist is a lazy bigot with a four-letter vocabulary and a rhyming dictionary
-tone-deaf gangster rap without any ear for lyrical music
Right, now that I've ruled out 90% of the crappy stuff, recommend me your favorites. Collaborations/mashups with rock songs are always nice too, ease me in to the genre.
edit: If you know any foreign-language artists, I'm all for those, too.
-The Streets
-Eminem
-Jay-Z
-Kanye West
-Gorillaz
I know, boring and mainstream, right? So help me out.
What I do not want:
-repetitive lyrics
-annoying, crappy R&B whenever the artist gets too lazy to write another verse
-misogyny/homophobia/an overabundance of over the top offensive profanity just because the artist is a lazy bigot with a four-letter vocabulary and a rhyming dictionary
-tone-deaf gangster rap without any ear for lyrical music
Right, now that I've ruled out 90% of the crappy stuff, recommend me your favorites. Collaborations/mashups with rock songs are always nice too, ease me in to the genre.
edit: If you know any foreign-language artists, I'm all for those, too.