The entire Stress... The Extinction Agenda LP is laced with, well, stress. A very emotional LP to say the least.
I agree with E on "Can You Feel Me"... that entire album, too, is laced with a sort of paranoia (see "The Real Circus" and "Light Sleeper") and depth that people really don't talk about a whole lot. Even "Worship The Dick" is a lot more nuanced than the title suggests. He's dropping Penis Power bombs! The polyrhythmic flow and chaotic production are great, but there's a reason why he printed the lyrics on the j-card.
I'm dealing with a painful break-up currently so these are the songs that came to mind
Jay-z "Song Cry" - his words and voice come together in a way that makes me feel like a couple tears fell after the walked away from the mic. During a break-up this song was on constant repeat and helped me deal with the feelings of losing someone I cared about.
Eminem "KIM" - at least i think thats the name of the song, the one where he is basically just yelling to his ex-wife before killing her. The entire track is just an open emotional scar presented for the world to hear. His mixed messages of saying I hate you repeatedly and then finishing with the words "I love you" expressed the raw, identifiable confusion one can feel when the one you love leaves you empty
The entire Stress... The Extinction Agenda LP is laced with, well, stress. A very emotional LP to say the least.
Definitely. "Black Sunday" is on some soul-touching shit, especially with Monch in full-on preacherman mode.
Somebody mentioned "Da Art of Storytelling"--I agree, and I'd follow that one up with Scarface's "A Minute To Pray, a Second To Die." The story itself isn't all that exceptional, but the way Scarface tells it can really grab you (the "Inner City Blues" loop doesn't hurt, either). It's like he knows it's sort of a cliched story, but it really hurts him to have to tell it yet again.
Geto Boys. Mind Playing Tricks Bushwick Bill. Ever So Clear UGK. High Life Goodie Mob. their whole first album Nas. The World Is Yours OutKast. Growin' Old O.C. Born 2 Live T.I. Live in the Sky T.I. Prayin For Help Juvenile. Ghetto Children Organized Konfusion. In Vetro Mystikal. Dedicated To Michelle Tyler Z-Ro. I Hate You Bitch Slick Rick. Teenage Love. Too much Pac to mention
Just some stuff off the top. There's actually a shitload of this in Hip-Hop, people just don't talk about it. People hear what they want to hear.
And on the emo/indie-rap side, they got this shit in spades. Somebody mentioned Mystik Journeymen. The Grouch and Eligh should also get a mention. "Neglected" comes to mind. Aesop Rock should get a nod too.
there is tons of emotional hip hop on the indie tip
like kev brown - alone again emanon - six million ways (shits mad deep) some of the INI shit Main Source - Looking at the front door this one - diamond d
mad other shit. its kind of funny no one is mentioning any independent stuff compared to all the mainstream thug joints.
Would someone make me a disc of Rap songs with real emotional context?
i could throw together a .zip file of some of the best(in my opinion) but it depends what emotion you want. the titles named here are so wide you could say almost any song.
Would someone make me a disc of Rap songs with real emotional context?
i could throw together a .zip file of some of the best(in my opinion) but it depends what emotion you want. the titles named here are so wide you could say almost any song.
I want to listen to songs that have a strong true emotion. But I do not want that emotion to be hate, anger or revenge as in Kim that so many people have recommended.
I would rather hear songs with more "female" emotions. Love, loss, heartbreak. Think Al Green, or Smokey Robinson. A song about a friend who was killed, or an absent parent or a violent childhood are fine as long as the message isn't 'now I'm gonna get mine' or 'I want them to get theirs'.
I would rather hear more current more mainstream rap, like much of what people first started recommending. And/or* classic '88 - '94 type stuff. Underground emo stuff that people started adding later in the thread I am less interested in hearing.
Mostly I just want to hear good songs.
*What does the grammar police think of starting a sentence with not one, but 2 prepositions plus a /?
now, the first time i heard this song i got really choked up, and havent listened to it in full since then. it's from the first atmosphere lp. it not slug, but the other dude, spawn, i think, but its about his father passing away and it's just depressing:
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I agree with E on "Can You Feel Me"... that entire album, too, is laced with a sort of paranoia (see "The Real Circus" and "Light Sleeper") and depth that people really don't talk about a whole lot. Even "Worship The Dick" is a lot more nuanced than the title suggests. He's dropping Penis Power bombs!
Jay-z "Song Cry" - his words and voice come together in a way that makes me feel like a couple tears fell after the walked away from the mic. During a break-up this song was on constant repeat and helped me deal with the feelings of losing someone I cared about.
Eminem "KIM" - at least i think thats the name of the song, the one where he is basically just yelling to his ex-wife before killing her. The entire track is just an open emotional scar presented for the world to hear. His mixed messages of saying I hate you repeatedly and then finishing with the words "I love you" expressed the raw, identifiable confusion one can feel when the one you love leaves you empty
Definitely. "Black Sunday" is on some soul-touching shit, especially with Monch in full-on preacherman mode.
Somebody mentioned "Da Art of Storytelling"--I agree, and I'd follow that one up with Scarface's "A Minute To Pray, a Second To Die." The story itself isn't all that exceptional, but the way Scarface tells it can really grab you (the "Inner City Blues" loop doesn't hurt, either). It's like he knows it's sort of a cliched story, but it really hurts him to have to tell it yet again.
Bushwick Bill. Ever So Clear
UGK. High Life
Goodie Mob. their whole first album
Nas. The World Is Yours
OutKast. Growin' Old
O.C. Born 2 Live
T.I. Live in the Sky
T.I. Prayin For Help
Juvenile. Ghetto Children
Organized Konfusion. In Vetro
Mystikal. Dedicated To Michelle Tyler
Z-Ro. I Hate You Bitch
Slick Rick. Teenage Love.
Too much Pac to mention
Just some stuff off the top. There's actually a shitload of this in Hip-Hop, people just don't talk about it. People hear what they want to hear.
And on the emo/indie-rap side, they got this shit in spades. Somebody mentioned Mystik Journeymen. The Grouch and Eligh should also get a mention. "Neglected" comes to mind. Aesop Rock should get a nod too.
"name rap songs with 90-100 bpms"
i think this is the clip, can't really check at work
like
kev brown - alone again
emanon - six million ways (shits mad deep)
some of the INI shit
Main Source - Looking at the front door
this one - diamond d
mad other shit. its kind of funny no one is mentioning any independent stuff compared to all the mainstream thug joints.
where's the love for hipster hop
yeah, wtf is going on?
For real -this one gets me all verklempt...
a real gem on the otherwise
duh
Say word.
i could throw together a .zip file of some of the best(in my opinion)
but it depends what emotion you want. the titles named here are so wide you could say almost any song.
I want to listen to songs that have a strong true emotion. But I do not want that emotion to be hate, anger or revenge as in Kim that so many people have recommended.
I would rather hear songs with more "female" emotions. Love, loss, heartbreak. Think Al Green, or Smokey Robinson. A song about a friend who was killed, or an absent parent or a violent childhood are fine as long as the message isn't 'now I'm gonna get mine' or 'I want them to get theirs'.
I would rather hear more current more mainstream rap, like much of what people first started recommending. And/or* classic '88 - '94 type stuff. Underground emo stuff that people started adding later in the thread I am less interested in hearing.
Mostly I just want to hear good songs.
*What does the grammar police think of starting a sentence with not one, but 2 prepositions plus a /?