The Official Rap Thread

[electric mole]

that Krs one & buckshot joint is hot. can't wait for that one.

BIG-O & DJ WATARAI FT.LUPE FIASCO-CITY WINGS

I wish lupe had another verse in this.

[thatonezombie]

Nike SB - Today Was a Good Day - Extended Version

[electric mole]

1 Saint - Can't Relate－Cradle Orchestra Remix－
2 CL - Bozack－DJ Deckstream Remix－
3 Verses - Ms. O'Ginny
4 Awon - Still Got Love
5 49ers - Champagne
6 Good People - About You－Cradle Orchestra Remix－
7 Jazz Addixx - Say Jazzy
8 Saint - About Time
9 Momentan - Die Stadkinder Vom Landei featuring Summersmann
10 Hiroki Mizukami - Break It Down
11 Art Official - Big City Bright Lights
12 Poems - Blooming Sounds
13 Incise - The Sheep Step featuring Need Not
14 Archetype - Blocked Up
15 Tony Stone - Prelude featuring Braille
16 Mark-J - New Slave Trade

http://www.twitter.com/?d=0QMJFTPA



01 - The Antidotes - Got Rhymes (Cradle Orchestra Remix).mp3
02 - Nieve & Cook - Chronic Intoxication (Anan Ryoko)
03 - Rhema Soul - I Been (featuring Nicole Amina).mp3
04 - CL - Dedicated.mp3
05 - Apollo's Sun - Finding Sunshine.mp3
06 - Inherit - The First Day (featuring Aloe Blacc).mp3
07 - Nieve & Cook - Another Day Comes (Aria Asia Remix).mp3
08 - Tha Connection - Take It Higher.mp3
09 - Incise - Scorpion Tail (featuring Need Not Worry).mp3
10 - Soulution - Moodswing (featuring Talib Kweli &
11 - Art Official - Eyes of a Stranger.mp3
12 - G Frequency - Picture Perfect (featuring Othello &
13 - Verses - We Do It (Radio Edit).mp3
14 - Archetype - You See.mp3
15 - The 49ers - Half Drunk (Beat by Think Twice).mp3
16 - Tony Stone - Thank You.mp3

http://www.twitter.com/?d=BKMWFQJN



1.Bee（Cradle with Aloe Blacc）/ Anymore
2.Emskee / From The Heat−Valentin remix−
3.CL / Bozack −JFK remix−
4.Move.meant / Myself In You feat.Mike James
5.Incise / Nothing To Do
6.Inherit / Traveling Man feat.The 49ers
7.ArtOfficial / Skunk Ape
8.The Antidotes / Speed It Down
9.Tha Connection / Hibernation remix
10.Jazz Addixx / 1200 Jazz
11.Poems / Way Back When
12.The 49ers / I Don't Want No
13.Awon / Rain Drops
14.Mark-J / Intercession
15.Soulution / Anthem feat.Project Move
16.Archetype / Best Song

http://www.mediafire.com/?oyz0ejeczm4



01. Re:Plus - Everlasting Truth
02. Cradle Orchestra - Only One feat.Need Not Worry (PE'Z Remix)
03. Incise - Your Soul feat. Skyrise
04. Audible Mainframe - The Clout pt.2
05. Rhema Soul - All You Are
06. CL - Catch a Vibe
07. Robert de Boron - Focus feat. Othello
08. The Antidotes - One of a Kind
09. The 49ers - In Love With Two Women
10. Emanon - Blind Love
11. Collective Efforts - The Worst Is Over (Valentine Remix)
12. The Residents - What We've Got feat. Shuanise & Shad K (Hidetake Takayama Remix)
13. Move.Meant - What Goes Around - Radio Edit
14. Soulution - Soulshine feat. Mr J Medeiros, Kam Moye, Bahamadia and Nicole Amina
15. ArtOfficial - Too Nasty - kagero Remix
16. Eightrack Mind - Slow Down

http://www.twitter.com/?d=LP7U0HKL

I love all the In ya mellow tone series.
Don't sleep on these!

[cool_kickin_dude]

just thought I share this since I saw it this morning..this has Ice Cube in it

Nike SB - Today Was a Good Day - Extended Version

[SomethingWild]

As you may know I don't like rap music, but I just wanted to share this classic. I'm 100% you know this song, but it's the one rap song I really dig.

Delinquent Habits - Return of the Tres

[thatonezombie]

just thought I share this since I saw it this morning..this has Ice Cube in it

Nike SB - Today Was a Good Day - Extended Version

I posted that 4 posts ago bro. But it aint no problem

[thatonezombie]

Jack Splash - Flashback feat. Lupe Fiasco
http://www.zshare.net/audio/637855404167cc0b/

[Masa]

Exclusive Clip - Big Pun: The Legacy (First Look)

[daigong]

^ Shit, I thought they were gonna show clips from his rap career. not how many buckets of KFC he ordered lol

WERD!! CKD + TOZ. That new Nike SB commercial is dope. and when Kobe walks by I WAs like DDDAAAMN! NO dEY didn't!:/!?

i been listening to House of Flying Daggers non stop...WE POP LIKE A MOBSTER BOSS!! Meth can't wait to get his hook off and he just overtook Ghost. Nuttin but OBCL2 TALK

[Masa]

[Masa]

http://twitter.com/RAEKWONICEWATER/status/3197049291

OB4CL2 US tracklist
1. Return of the North Star (feat. Papu Wu)
2. House of Flying Daggers (feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah and Method Man)
3. Sonny's Missing (Produced by Pete Rock)
4. Pyrex Vision (Produced by Marley Marl)
5. Cold Outside (feat. Ghostface Killah and Sugar Bang)
6. Black Mozart (feat. Inspectah Deck)
7. New Wu (feat. Method Man and Ghostface Killah)
8. Penitentiary (feat. Ghostface Killah)
9. Surgical Gloves
10. Broken Safety (feat. Jadakiss and Styles P)
11. Canal Street
12. Ason Jones
13. Have Mercy (feat. Beanie Sigel and Blue Raspberry)
14. 10 Bricks (feat. Cappadonna and Ghostface Killah)
15. Fat Lady Sings
16. Catalina (feat. Lyfe Jennings)
17. We Will Rob You (feat. Slick Rick, GZA and Masta Killa)
18. About Me
19. Mean Streets (feat. Inspectah Deck and Ghostface Killah)
20. Kiss The Ring (feat. Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa)
21. South Star (feat. Papa Wu)
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Built-Cuban-Linx-Vol/dp/tracks/B002GZQZX8/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

OB4CL2 UK tracklist
1. Return to the North Star ft Papu Wu
2. House of Flying Daggers ft Deck, Ghostface Killah, Method Man
3. Sonny's Missing
4. Pyrex Vision
5. Cold Outside ft Suga Bang, Ghostface
6. Godfather ft Inspectah Deck
7. New Wu ft Method Man, Ghostface Killah
8. Penitentiary ft Ghostface Killah
9. Criminology 09 ft Ghostface Killah
10. Fat Lady Sings
11. Canal Street
12. 10 Bricks ft Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah
13. G-hide ft Ghostface Killah
14. Rockstar ft Inspectah Deck, Gza
15. Catalina ft. Busta Ryhmes
16. 40 Deuce ft Jadakiss, Styles P
17. Walk Wit Me
18. We Will Rob You ft Slick Rick, Gza, Masta Killah
19. Have Mercy ft Beanie Siegal
20. Surgical Gloves
21. n**** Me
22. Mean Streets ft Inspectah Deck,
23. Kiss the Ring ft Inspectah Deck, Masta Killah
24. Ason Jones Prod by J-Dilla
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Built-Cuban-Linx-Pt/dp/tracks/B002I639UC/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

I think I'm gonna cop both versions

[thatonezombie]

2 tracklistings? This is madness.

[thatonezombie]

Big Pun, DMX, Canibus, Mos Def, Mic Geronimo & John Forte Freestyle Cypher (Throwback Video)

[Masa]

Differences between US & UK versions:

1. Blue Raspberry added to Have Mercy (US Ver) [unknown if shes on UK Ver]
2. Busta Rhymes cut from Catalina, replaced with Lyfe Jennings (US Ver) [unknown if both will appear on UK Ver]
3. Busta Rhymes still on Catalina (UK Ver) [unknown if Lyfe will appear like on US Ver]
4. South Star feat Poppa Wu track added (US Ver)
5. South Star will not appear on (UK Ver)
6. Cut tracks from (US Ver) includes..The Jihad [Necro], Criminology Part 2 [BT & RZA], Rockstars & Smoking Barrels [RZA] & Walk Wit Me [Scram Jones]
7. n**** Me (UK Ver) and About Me (US Ver) hopefully same track on both releases
8. Black Mozart (US Ver) and Godfather (UK Ver) hopefully same track on both releases
9. Broken Safety (US Ver) and 40 Deuce (UK Ver) hopefully same track on both releases
10. Ghostface verse added to Mean Streets (US Ver)
11. No Ghostface on Mean Streets (UK Ver)

[Masa]

Old but still funny:
Charles Hamilton raps about getting punched by a girl.

[Masa]

Joe Budden CONFIRMS Raekwon Confrontation/Getting Punched

http://twitter.com/mousebuddenseye
http://twitter.com/Raekwonsfist

[daigong]

Joe was too busy protecting his neck to see the jab towards his eye. It's an old shaolin tactic.

[Masa]

Raekwon - 30 Days Vlog

[MochaNutz]

twitter.com/mouseBuddensEye, haha

Now I know how Rihanna felt.
BRB. Getting some advice from Charles Hamilton.
This is my first hit since "Pump It Up".
Now when someone gets punched in the face, everyone's gonna say "Damn son, you got Buddened!"

who's making these twitter pages?  I saw Kanye's Beard and Drakes Knee up in there

[Masa]

Does This Purple Mink Make Me Look Gay? The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia.

In August, 2005, three weeks before his nationally televised declaration that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," Kanye West made a statement he'd later describe as braver and more difficult than his attack on the White House. Hip-hop, he told MTV, was supposed to be about "speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people … I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it.' " Taking on Bush was a perfectly hip-hop move, but taking on homophobia, West feared, could be career suicide. Undeterred, he revisited the subject in a November 2005 interview, discussing his love for his openly gay cousin, not to mention his conflicted but evolving attitude toward his interior decorator. West's call for tolerance remains the highest-profile rebuke of gay-bashing that hip-hop has seen.

But old habits die hard, and last week, West amended his position somewhat on "Run This Town," a new Jay-Z single on which the Chicago rapper is a featured guest. "It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow," West begins his rap, "to everybody on your dick—no homo." No homo, to those unfamiliar with the term, is a phrase added to statements in order to rid them of possible homosexual double-entendre. ("You've got beautiful balls," you tell your friend at the bocce game—"no homo.") No homo began life as East Harlem slang in the early '90s, and in the early aughts it entered the hip-hop lexicon via the Harlem rapper Cam'ron and his Diplomats crew. Lil Wayne brought the term into the mainstream, sprinkling "no homo" caveats across cameos, mix tapes, and his Tha Carter III LP, which was 2008's best-selling album. (Jay-Z has used the word pause in a similar way.)

The term's appearance in hip-hop coincided with the rise of the so-called "down-low brother," a closeted black figure often demonized as a disease-spreading boogeyman, invisible by definition and thus potentially, frightfully, everywhere. Saying "no homo" might have started as a way for rappers to acknowledge and distance themselves from the down-low phenomenon. As the phrase has spread, many have decried no homo as depressingly retrograde, a pigheaded "That's what she said" for homophobes. But the term functions in a more complicated way than a simple slur. As society becomes increasingly gay-tolerant, hip-hop is reassessing its relationship to homosexuality and, albeit in a hedged and roundabout way, it's possible that no homo is helping to make hip-hop a gayer place.

I once asked Method Man whether he thought we'd ever see an openly gay gangsta rapper. He grew visibly agitated. "You can't be fuckin' people in the ass and say you're gangsta," he responded. As Kanye West has observed, gay and hip-hop have traditionally functioned as mutually exclusive terms, Venn diagrams that don't touch (and get really testy at the suggestion that they might, you know, want to). In 1989, Big Daddy Kane summed up the reigning attitude: "The Big Daddy law is anti-heterosexual." When DMX insulted rivals 10 years later by rapping, "Y'all n****s remind me of a strip club/ 'Cause every time you come around it's like I just gotta get my dick sucked," hip-hop was still so aggressively understood as hetero-centric that it was inconceivable to DMX that there might be anything the least bit gay about his fantasy of a roomful of men fellating him.

No homo tweaks this dynamic because it allows, implicitly, that rap is a place where gayness can in fact be expressed by the guy on the mic, not just scorned in others. In the very act of trying to "purify" an utterance of any gayness, after all, the no homo tag must contaminate it first—it's both a denial and a flashing neon arrow. This isn't to suggest that saying no homo is a radical act, but there's an appealing sense in which the phrase refuses to function as tidily as some of its boosters might like. This is especially striking in those cases when rappers add no homo to statements of sexual pleasure we'd otherwise have no reason to think of as gay. "No homo, I go hard," Chamillionaire rapped on a recent mix tape, implying that an erection is inherently homosexual. Even more absurdly, when Cam'ron named a song "Silky (No Homo)," it was hard to decide what he was disavowing. The emotions of sadness and longing expressed in the lyrics? Or the tactile sensation of silkiness itself?

Often, no homo appears not just as a disclaimer but as a punch line, a See what I did there? that flaunts one's cleverness. "Just shot a video with R. Kelly, but no homo though," Lil Wayne rapped in 2007. In this line—a sly nod to both a music video co-starring Wayne and Kelly and to the R&B singer's alleged sex tape—no homo isn't an afterthought; it's the keystone that holds the whole joke together. A funny side effect here is that the no homo vogue doubtless encourages rappers not only to scrutinize everything they say for trace gayness, but to actively think up gay double-entendres just so that they can cap them off with no homo kickers.

Beyond this, there's a sense in which no homo, rather than limiting self-expression in hip-hop, actually helps to expand it. We see this play out in the rhymes and personas of the term's most famous practitioners. Cam'ron and the Diplomats are, ironically, among the most homoerotic MCs in rap. They wear pink and purple furs and brag regularly about how good they look. In the video for "Pop Champagne," Jim Jones and Juelz Santana giddily douse each other with frothy white geysers of bubbly. On Cam'ron's "Hey Ma," he describes having sex with a female paramour with seven vague words—"She was up in the Range, man"—but when the girl leaves, he immediately calls Santana to narrate the act in detail and, in a sense, to enjoy and consummate it fully. Similarly, Lil Wayne has been photographed kissing his mentor, the rapper Baby, on the lips and cultivates a shirtless, slithering, rock-star-worthy air of libertine sexuality. Kanye West attends runway shows, keeps an entourage of designer-clad dandies, and blogs regularly about design. When these rappers say "no homo," it can seem a bit like a gentleman's agreement, nodding to the status quo while smuggling in a fuller, less hamstrung notion of masculinity. This is still a concession to homophobia, but one that enables a less rigid definition of the hip-hop self than we've seen before. It's far from a coup, but, in a way, it's progress.

http://www.slate.com/id/2224348/

(no homo)