Yeah it’s alternative hip hop so it counts in my book lmao

ngl had me hesitant but I guess its closer to hiphop than anything
def influenced the artist we see today ..

i be giving this genre a lot of s*** due to its current state and my overall dissatisfaction with the current sounds that are hot, but i love rap so much man

My top 10 favorite rap albums

To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Stankonia Outkast
Midnight Marauders A Tribe Called Quest
Madvillainy Madvillain
Late Registration Kanye West
Hell Hath No Fury Clipse
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon
Illmatic Nas
Blueprint Hov
Flower Boy Tyler or BTI Childish Gambino

Honorable Mention: Supreme Clientele Ghostface

The GOAT art form/music. Truly owe a lot of who I am to hip hop.

I just wanna give them credit for making a rock album

Its so hard for an album with a black vocalist to get called a rock album

It makes me sad that album won’t get the rock album title

Pharrell is singing on every song and they play like a band, i feel like if white people made that same album niggas would let it live as a rock album

i genuinely believe that hip hop is the purest form of human expression

tales of decrepit neighborhoods, crime, black identity, inner city life, self love etc all told through exquisite rhythms and poetry over beats

rock n roll is black baby
hiphop the new rock n roll

Yeah but its like actually a rock album though lol

yeah you right but lets let this slide cause it's a classic

Yeah I don’t want to stop it from being mentioned because thats one of my fav albums ever

Seeing Sounds was like the best mix of rap and rock ever to me too

this song alone

See that’s the thing, I’m only including the Electronic joint and not the rock version

I’m not trying to start a fight or anything I just feel like both versions of in search of… are still rock albums i know ur not doing this though but i just always get a little on edge when people call them rap albums just bc i feel like they’re only saying it bc they aren’t white

But ik u dont mean it like that so my post are unrelated to you

I feel that but there are some elements of rap in it too, which is why I’m putting it in there. It’s a great fusion album at the end of the day though

one of my earliest memory of hip hop is watching this music program where they'd ask random people on the street to recognize famous musicians, actors, etc. one of those famous people was Tupac. I remember knowing him and his 'story' from an incredibly young age without even listening to the music properly. but still somehow I just knew it was him whenever a track would come in. I think that my first-ever rap album proper was 50 cent's discography on 2 cds. there would be a ton of mixtapes on there and my dad would play them in his car. not that he was even into rap like that in his 40s, but I do remember us almost bonding over 50 even tho we would never go super deep into that. my schoolmates would be head over heels for 50 and game and Eminem of course; there would be a small shop selling durags and fake g unit clothes and f***ing chains and we'd spend so much time there for my generation this was the first time there was an aesthetic so strong coming from a musician and the genre. games such as gta san andreas and getting up would only contribute to that further

OP tagged me in this thread a while ago but I couldn't get around to writing anything here. as I tried to I had to start over multiple times and draft multiple things out because I realize now that my memories are a huge mess when it comes to hip hop. for me this is like trying to describe and contextualize your entire life event by event. I would do everything with hip hop in the background over the years. I would dive in and out of the genre musically, I would learn about the history and read all types of things about people who made it, I would participate and live hip hop with my friends and strangers, id laugh and cry and get into trouble over it. at this point I dont think theres one recognizable enough hip hop project that I aint listened to

it is an omnipresent fact of life for me and a lot of people all over the world, and I'm truly glad that it is

Lowkey one of my favorite beats. Lotta nostalgia tied to this beat from playing NBA 2K on the Dreamcast with my brother and uncle

I always thought its august 12. happy 50 hip hop youre only getting started

For sure. One of their artists you probably heard being name dropped on the forum, MONDAY NIGHT. He has the most upside imo but the others are pretty dope too. They're based in New York and Chicago. Some of their songs that have been on my playlist:

Happy birthday to the greatest genre to ever exists on this earth. Changed my life and I don't know where I would be without it

Happy Birthday Hip Hop!!!! The greatest genre and mode of musical expression, the evolutionary step forward from poetry, the art form that most effectively collapses barriers of identity and differences in the human experience, jazz renewed, the engine which accelerates literary and verbal progress, the great cultural export of our lifetimes that out-rivals cinema and sport, the tool capable of commenting on it’s own distorted commodification, the perfect form that has only begun to explore it’s own power, portal to joy, relief from strained and stressful existence, facilitator of escape, catharsis funneled from one mind to your own, symbolic notifier across every strata of the caste system, encyclopedia of lived experience, decoder ring of contemporary culture, monument to Black expression so vast and wide in its depth that corporations who seek to sell you access to it amount to a single toll booth in front of the ocean. You will never die!!!!!