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Rap Covers Rap

TheKindCromangTheKindCromang 1,463 Posts
edited July 2013 in Strut Central
The jackin for beats thraed got me wondering??? has a rapper or rap group ever done a straight up cover of another rap song? Seems like covers are common place in almost every other genre. Is the idea of a straight rap cover too meta?

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  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    TheKindCromang said:
    Has a rapper or rap group ever done a straight up cover of another rap song? Seems like covers are common place in almost every other genre. Is the idea of a straight rap cover too meta?

    Priority put out a rap covers album at the end of the 90s which had some good moments. I don't remember what it was called, though.
  • strataspherestratasphere Blastin' the Nasty 1,035 Posts

    :-S
  • YemskyYemsky 711 Posts
    stratasphere said:

    :-S

    that whole album In Tha Beginning...
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Snoop did Vapors and reworked Lodi Dodi.

    And this, while not a true cover, is my favorite reworking ever...

  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    Buckshot had that I aint no joke cover with funk master flex
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    My favorite rap concert moment of the past couple years was Worldwide covering Young Bleed's How Ya Do That.
  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,481 Posts
    HarveyCanal said:
    Snoop did Vapors and reworked Lodi Dodi.

    and also Low Profile - Pay Ya Dues its word for word as well...pretty friggin dope.

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    rock covers rap??

  • EL CHAMACOEL CHAMACO 96 Posts
    Pharaoh Monch did a "cover" of sorts of Welcome To The Terrordome..
  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    Delay said:
    rock covers rap??

    The White Mandingos cover Minor Threat's "Guilty Of Being White" on their debut album, though I guess it's not technically a rap album.
  • pcmrpcmr 5,591 Posts
    dipset covered broken language
  • jdeezjdeez 638 Posts
    file under: trrble

  • JATXJATX 258 Posts
    Will Sessions is killing it.

  • BeatChemistBeatChemist 1,465 Posts
    Yeah the Elmatic album might be the closest thing to rap covers done right.
  • countmaculacountmacula 196 Posts
    The Roots do it all the time.
  • jdeezjdeez 638 Posts
    not word for word... but NY, NY bodies the prodigy track

    ..

  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts
    stratasphere said:

    :-S

    Wasn't Rappers Delight a cover version of an old Grandmaster Caz/Cold Crush song?



    Does Big Pun/Fat Joe's 'version' of Deep Cover count as a (deep) cover?
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    Sort of a cover:
  • DawhudDawhud 213 Posts
    http://dawhud.bandcamp.com/album/revisionist-history-vol-1-2

    This is a project I've been working on. I drop a track 1st Friday every month. (September-June) It's called "Revisionist History". Not really covers, but taking the same sample sources, flipping them and paying homage to the original.

    In September I'm starting off Vol. 2 with "The Symphony."

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    LokoOne said:
    stratasphere said:

    :-S

    Wasn't Rappers Delight a cover version of an old Grandmaster Caz/Cold Crush song?

    No, Hank just jacked his lyrics from a book. There was no routine, performance or song to deem that bite as a straight cover.

    Wonder Mike & Master Gee werent using Caz shit.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    To me Yomo & Maulkie For The Of Money is the OG to Bone's For The Love Money even if its in house.
  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts
    batmon said:
    LokoOne said:
    stratasphere said:

    :-S

    Wasn't Rappers Delight a cover version of an old Grandmaster Caz/Cold Crush song?

    No, Hank just jacked his lyrics from a book. There was no routine, performance or song to deem that bite as a straight cover.

    Wonder Mike & Master Gee werent using Caz shit.

    dude it was a joke ;)
  • Controller_7Controller_7 4,052 Posts
    jdeez said:
    not word for word... but NY, NY bodies the prodigy track

    ..

    @ 1:27 is funny.
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