Hip-Hop Music: Competition and Discussion - Tournaments

RoundTheBend · 2018-08-03T00:34:03-04:00

Welcome to what might become the ultimate Hip-Hop Music thread. This thread is not only to share your favorite/best Hip-Hop Music records to compete in the Genre Olympics, but also to learn and share all you want/can about Hip-Hop Music and all it's sub-genres. Please see the links below for a couple ways this "genre" can be viewed. And the medals go to: Gold Illmatic by Nas Silver Aquemini by OutKast Bronze Ready To Die by The Notorious B.I.G. Let the Games Begin! Alright everyone. I don't think I screwed up the final calculations, but please feel free to correct me if I did. Here are the top 10 finalists for the Electronic Genre Olympics. Next steps are for anyone and everyone to rank the following albums (even if you didn't submit during the original qualifications to rank the following albums. See OP on how the point system works (#1 weighted with 10 points and #10 with 1 point). Many of you have given commentary on why you love the albums you do, so if you haven't maybe vote why? Enjoy! Semi-Finalists: Ties are in no particular order when points are the same. 1. 29 glynspsa, Stover75, Patman360, Tha1ChiefRocka Ready To Die by The Notorious B.I.G. 2. 26 Skinny, Kool Keith Sweat, sethmadsen, glynspsa, stover75 Illmatic by Nas 3. 21 Patman360, baystateoftheart, Stover75 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan 4. 20 AfterHours, sethmadsen, stover75 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West 5. 19 Stover75, afterhours, glynspsa The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem 6. 18 AfterHours, Kool Keith Sweat, bobbyb5 Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow 7. 17 Skinny, Patman360, baystateoftheart Aquemini by OutKast 8. 16 Kool Keith Sweat, Patman360, Stover75 3 Feet High And Rising by De La Soul 9. 16 baystateoftheart, Patman360 Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar 10. 16 dividesbyzero, AfterHours The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox Competition: Submit nominations of your top 10 albums (with which region it comes from) - where #10 = 1 point and #1 = 10 points. The ten albums with the most points from these nominations will be in the running for the Olympic medal for the genre and then people could listen to all ten and rank the ten with the same points structure to determine the winners. Timeline to be determined. Discussion: 1. Social/historical/cultural significance 2. Some kind of question you want answered/discussed 3. Thoughts on the production/recordings 4. Analytical critique 5. Interesting stuff about the band/artist 6. Anything else you want to share/ask Generic Info: RYM's Take: https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Hip+Hop https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&genres=Hip+Hop&include_child_genres=t&include=both&limit=none&countries= Wikipedia's Take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_music_genres#Hip_hop

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raadfactoryxny wrote:

I don't care if I'm late, I'll post anyways since I love hiphop

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Hopsin - Knock Madness
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. K-Rino - The Big Seven Collection
5. Kanye West - Late Registration
6. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
7. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
8. Joey Bada$$ - B4.Da.$$
9. XXXTentacion - 17 (although it's more R&B/Soul)
10. Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory

Also, great that we love gkmc more than overrated tpab right here! XD

Sweet - thanks for posting. Nothing wrong with being late. These were originally designed to have discussions about genres with a side order of games. I was hoping they'd almost be like BEA portals to genres or something, but it kinda fizzled out. There's more to this project if people are still interested.

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sethmadsen wrote:

raadfactoryxny wrote:

I don't care if I'm late, I'll post anyways since I love hiphop

1. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Hopsin - Knock Madness
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. K-Rino - The Big Seven Collection
5. Kanye West - Late Registration
6. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
7. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
8. Joey Bada$$ - B4.Da.$$
9. XXXTentacion - 17 (although it's more R&B/Soul)
10. Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory

Also, great that we love gkmc more than overrated tpab right here! XD

Sweet - thanks for posting. Nothing wrong with being late. These were originally designed to have discussions about genres with a side order of games. I was hoping they'd almost be like BEA portals to genres or something, but it kinda fizzled out. There's more to this project if people are still interested.

Well thanks 😄

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By the way if anyone hasn't already checked out these songs, I'd like to thank the canon game for getting me into them... some of the best rap songs ever imo:

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sethmadsen wrote:

By the way if anyone hasn't already checked out these songs, I'd like to thank the canon game for getting me into them... some of the best rap songs ever imo:

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MF Doom is sick. Have you listened to Vaudeville Villain?

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I'll be honest, any madvillian stuff I never really got into, even after multiple listens mostly due to multiple recs. Maybe those two songs will be gateways for me into his style.

For me a good rap song can't just be from good rapping. Just like any other form of music, if it focuses 80% on the lyrics or the vocal performance... I'm out. I'm not saying he does this, but I have heard a lot of people talk about how he's the best rapper and so on. I'm just not finding a lot of tonal intrigue. His vocal samples (I'm guessing from kung fu movies, but I don't know) annoy me for some reason. I just want some good music and rapping, which is delivered fantastically in the two songs above. The rest of the album I felt like one or the other was missing.

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sethmadsen wrote:

I'll be honest, any madvillian stuff I never really got into, even after multiple listens mostly due to multiple recs. Maybe those two songs will be gateways for me into his style.

For me a good rap song can't just be from good rapping. Just like any other form of music, if it focuses 80% on the lyrics or the vocal performance... I'm out. I'm not saying he does this, but I have heard a lot of people talk about how he's the best rapper and so on. I'm just not finding a lot of tonal intrigue. His vocal samples (I'm guessing from kung fu movies, but I don't know) annoy me for some reason. I just want some good music and rapping, which is delivered fantastically in the two songs above. The rest of the album I felt like one or the other was missing.

His rapper name is MF Doom, Madvillain is the collab he did with Madlib.

Vaudeville Villain has almost no cartoonish samples. And it contains a few tunes with that caliber you like off of those two songs above from Mm..Food. I'd be surprised if you wouldn't like the title track, A Dead Mouse, Let Me Watch or Popsnot, considering what you want from him. 🤔

Trust me, I was on the same shit as you, I'm pretty much describing that on my description to Vaudeville Villain on my top 100 chart (at #86)

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raadfactoryxny wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

I'll be honest, any madvillian stuff I never really got into, even after multiple listens mostly due to multiple recs. Maybe those two songs will be gateways for me into his style.

For me a good rap song can't just be from good rapping. Just like any other form of music, if it focuses 80% on the lyrics or the vocal performance... I'm out. I'm not saying he does this, but I have heard a lot of people talk about how he's the best rapper and so on. I'm just not finding a lot of tonal intrigue. His vocal samples (I'm guessing from kung fu movies, but I don't know) annoy me for some reason. I just want some good music and rapping, which is delivered fantastically in the two songs above. The rest of the album I felt like one or the other was missing.

His rapper name is MF Doom, Madvillain is the collab he did with Madlib.

Vaudeville Villain has almost no cartoonish samples. And it contains a few tunes with that caliber you like off of those two songs above from Mm..Food. I'd be surprised if you wouldn't like the title track, A Dead Mouse, Let Me Watch or Popsnot, considering what you want from him. 🤔

Trust me, I was on the same shit as you, I'm pretty much describing that on my description to Vaudeville Villain on my top 100 chart (at #86)

Gotcha - yeah, I'll have to check it then. Thanks!

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sethmadsen wrote:

raadfactoryxny wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

I'll be honest, any madvillian stuff I never really got into, even after multiple listens mostly due to multiple recs. Maybe those two songs will be gateways for me into his style.

For me a good rap song can't just be from good rapping. Just like any other form of music, if it focuses 80% on the lyrics or the vocal performance... I'm out. I'm not saying he does this, but I have heard a lot of people talk about how he's the best rapper and so on. I'm just not finding a lot of tonal intrigue. His vocal samples (I'm guessing from kung fu movies, but I don't know) annoy me for some reason. I just want some good music and rapping, which is delivered fantastically in the two songs above. The rest of the album I felt like one or the other was missing.

His rapper name is MF Doom, Madvillain is the collab he did with Madlib.

Vaudeville Villain has almost no cartoonish samples. And it contains a few tunes with that caliber you like off of those two songs above from Mm..Food. I'd be surprised if you wouldn't like the title track, A Dead Mouse, Let Me Watch or Popsnot, considering what you want from him. 🤔

Trust me, I was on the same shit as you, I'm pretty much describing that on my description to Vaudeville Villain on my top 100 chart (at #86)

Gotcha - yeah, I'll have to check it then. Thanks!

Good riddance 😄

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Yeah but Doom said "borderline schizo, sorta fine tits though". So you're objectively wrong.
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Skinny wrote:

Yeah but Doom said "borderline schizo, sorta fine tits though". So you're objectively wrong.

That line illustrates his prominent rhyming!