Favorite "rap" song?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-05-05 01:41am

oh, oh, Beasty Boys does some great stuff every once in a while.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-05-05 01:47am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Additionally, did Outkast recently change their image or something? Because I had a HS friend who I think listened to Outkast, and I can't much imagine that the same group who just recently released the light (if annoying) ditty "Hey Ya" earlier had a song that was extremely agressive and around the likes of "Mass Vagina Fucker" (I swear something like that; that's at least what the refrain sounded like)...

Outkast is actually two dudes, Andre 3000 and some other guy. That other guy did Hey Ya as a solo, and Andre 3000 did some other song as a solo.

As for me, I like
Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta by Ghetto Boys, as Zaia mentioned. Fun song.
Without Me by Eminem. Hilarious.
Lose Yourself also by Eminem. Great song.
Pretty much anything by the Beastie Boys, esp. Sabotage. They're funny as hell.
The rock/rap fusion that Aerosmith and Run DMC did on Walk This Way was awesome beyond words.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-05 01:50am

Yeah, but what I'm wondering is if they did a total 180 with their image, because the tracks I heard about three years ago were total fucking hardcore, like "death-rap, for lack of a better word.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-05-05 04:54am

Hamel wrote:The Star Wars rap songs~~~

Yes, any other rap is just "yuck" to me.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-05-05 07:26am

Weird Al stuff like Amish Paradise and All About the Pentiums, and then soem Beastie Boys stuff. Intergalactic's my favorite, probably.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-05-05 08:31am

I generally hate rap and all of its ilk, as it's partly responsible for the abomination that is Nu-Metal... but I kinda like parodies such as Amish Paradise by Weird Al Yankovic.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-05-05 08:38am

Homespun suburban blues- Bob Dylan

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-05-05 09:07am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Homespun suburban blues- Bob Dylan

I think it's "Homeless Subterranean Blues"...

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-05-05 09:50am

Outkast, N.E.R.D if they actually count as rap, Run DMC and Beastie Boys. I can't really name specific songs.

Oh and im addicted to that eminem song about the LSD trip. Drug ballad or something like that.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-05 09:50am

Rappers Delight - Sugar Hill Gang
It's Tricky - Run DMC
My Adidas - Run DMC
Hand That Rocks the Cradle - Big Stan
Hey yah - Outkast
Where is the Love - Black Eyed Peas ft Justin Timberlake

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-05-05 09:58am

If Outkast counts as rap (which I'm not sure they do--they seem to be a bit of everything instead of just one genre), they're definitely up toward the top of my list--I love "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below."

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » 2004-05-05 01:45pm

I just gotta go with Gin and Juice, its a classic by now as far as I'm concerned.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-05 01:51pm

While i tend to despise most everything that's related to rap, i do enjoy the beastie boys for their brand of humor. and weird al. other than that rap is an abomination in the eyes of allah and must be expunged! . . .err, ignore that bit of ranting. carry on.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-05-05 03:03pm

I'm sorry there is no rap song that i can honestly say i like. The cloest i can think of is some of Bubba Sparxxx's tracks.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2004-05-05 03:12pm

Kyle wrote:I just gotta go with Gin and Juice, its a classic by now as far as I'm concerned.

And Phish should be smacked with a ball peen hammer the size of a makerel for that remake.

The Third Man · Post by **The Third Man** » 2004-05-05 05:12pm

What loads of people have said of course, Grandmaster Flash and Sugar Hill.

Forget about Dre is a personal favourite.

Unexpurgated version of Goldie Lookin Chain's Half-Man-Half-Machine is making me giggle right now. MC Tunes - Only Rhyme that Bites and John Barnes on the New Order En-ger-land '90 have in the past.

Peregrin Toker wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:Homespun suburban blues- Bob Dylan
I think it's "Homeless Subterranean Blues"...

That would be "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-05-05 10:49pm

Nobody's mentioned Group-X! Greatest rap in the world, idiot! Shigity shwa.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-05-05 11:03pm

Eminem feat. Dido | Stan

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-05-06 02:43am

verilon wrote:Eminem feat. Dido | Stan

I heard that's a "sentimental" one but I haven't been able to pick it up.

Is the version with Elton John any good? I heard it was.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-05-06 03:11am

well how about sea chantee's roucheous sailor songs, with the lyrics spoken in a chantable shout. very simular to rap in style, and often the lyrics had many double meanings.

lets go into "what shall we do with the drunken sailor"

where they:
lash him to the top of the mast, tie him to a barrel while the whole crew ass fucks him, tie him to the cannon while the whole crew ass fucks him, leace him out in a dingy, dump him into the ship's sewars while everyyone takes turns pissing on him. hang him to the point of unconciousness but not death many, many times (but still don't kill him), string him up buy his ankles and dunk him into the ocean repeatbly, and finally death by keel hauling...

now hows that for subject matter...

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-05-06 03:18am

I'm not a big fan of rap at all. More of a casual listener....but I gotta say I really enjoy ICP's Murder Go Round and Sir Mix-A-Lot's Monsta Mack.

I've gotten into Missy Elliott's newer stuff....it's not too shabby. Especially a song of hers called Slide. I guess that song isn't quite that new, but hey.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-06 06:07am

Ooooooh addition to the list:

U Cant Touch This - MC Hammer

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-05-06 11:05am

RogueIce wrote:
verilon wrote:Eminem feat. Dido | Stan
I heard that's a "sentimental" one but I haven't been able to pick it up.

Is the version with Elton John any good? I heard it was.

NO. Elton John BUTCHERED it.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2004-05-06 01:12pm

verilon wrote:
RogueIce wrote:
verilon wrote:Eminem feat. Dido | Stan
I heard that's a "sentimental" one but I haven't been able to pick it up.

Is the version with Elton John any good? I heard it was.
NO. Elton John BUTCHERED it.

Which one? Thank You or Stan?

Dido's original Thank You was pretty sentimental, but cool. Stan is more Psycho-mental.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-05-06 06:16pm

SAMAS wrote:Which one? Thank You or Stan?

Dido's original Thank You was pretty sentimental, but cool. Stan is more Psycho-mental.

Stan. Dido sang the first verse to Thankyou (yes, that's how it appears on the album) in Stan. Elton John butchered it *horribly* when he did it with Eminem. And I'm not just saying that cos I'm a Dido fanwhore.