Live instrument hip hop band UNappreciation post

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  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts

    Where's the modern soul slap bass live instrument rap group?

    That would be noice!

    SG

  • asstroasstro 1,754 Posts
    I agree that 90% of "live hip-hop bands" are completely wack, but back in 88 or 89 I saw Schoolly D play twice backed by a punk band called Scram (I believe) and that shit was the truth. Thr problem IMO isn't that the concept is bad, but that the bands are just too genteel to play with the energy that a live hip-hop show should have. Of course it's really easy to go too far, as MOP proved beyond any doubt last year.

  • maybe the concept can be executed well,
    but who has done it?


    Most definitely. This album is ...

    Peace...
    FNM

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    BUMP

  • high_chigh_c 1,384 Posts
    Bsides. Ha. Takin it back.

  • Kind of related, but did anyone see The Avalanches when they were a live band? I hear they were really good.

  • man I said "wigger"? wow.

  • corsiccorsic oakland, ca 232 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121There's one in every city... possibly three or four ... People in every city, especially college kids, LOVE these groups.b,121b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121Argh, don't remind me. Aside from the entire show being boring in general, this is why I stopped going to hip hop shows in college. Always had one of these atrocities opening. And, since it was in santa cruz, they were almost always white dudes with dreads (I think that was what qualified you as a "live" hip hop group there - had to have at least one white dude with dreads, preferably blonde), awful. b,121img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hi.gif" alt="" 21

  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    Wow.. What a hilarious thread. b,121b,121I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates hip hop bands.b,121b,121I thought it was just me. I'm constantly trying to tell promoters that my band has NOTHING to do with hip hop.b,121b,121But, I also hate Live hip hop shows, Always have.b,121b,121- spidey

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  • ThermosThermos 307 Posts
    It's funny how in the 3 years since this thread started skateboard rap has gone from:b,121b,121 img src="http://www.rapreviews.com/coverart/muskabeatz.jpg"1b,121b,121to:b,121b,121 img src="http://saladdaysmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/cool-kids.jpg"1b,121b,121But hip hop bands still suck.

  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    Since this thread was created I've done a tour with Pharoahe Monch backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/orgonemusic" target="_blank"1THIS BAND and I've done a Redman and a Brand Nubian tour backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/conniepricethekeystones" target="_blank"1THIS BAND.

  • verb606verb606 2,518 Posts
    It's all about a group's material. If a band comes out with well-written, clever songs, tight musicians, and good MC's, I'm not going to get mad. I don't hate these groups on principal. b,121b,121The reason Outkast's and Common's shows with live bands are dope is because the MC and the material is good. b,121b,121Most of these live bands think that just because they have lots of people on stage making noise that their songwriting game doesn't have to be tight. b,121b,121Unfortunately, Granola Chad and Hemp Becky are all too happy to simply have a band "jamming" onstage and don't realize that the shit is weaksauce. It's just a spectacle for them.

  • /font1
    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Since this thread was created I've done a tour with Pharoahe Monch backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/orgonemusic" target="_blank"1THIS BAND and I've done a Redman and a Brand Nubian tour backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/conniepricethekeystones" target="_blank"1THIS BAND. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121DOPE! I also enjoyed the Rhythm Roots All-Stars w/ Ghostface!!

  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    How about Rhymefest rapping over thriller?b,121b,121object width="425" height="344"1param name="movie" value=""1/param1param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"1/param1embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"1/embed1/object1b,121b,121- spidey

  • ThermosThermos 307 Posts
    /font1
    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Since this thread was created I've done a tour with Pharoahe Monch backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/orgonemusic" target="_blank"1THIS BAND and I've done a Redman and a Brand Nubian tour backed by a href="http://www.myspace.com/conniepricethekeystones" target="_blank"1THIS BAND. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121DOPE! I also enjoyed the Rhythm Roots All-Stars w/ Ghostface!! b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rapper x (Bass + Drums + Keyboard)

  • God damn that thriller shit sucked. Wow!

  • ThermosThermos 307 Posts
    "FLAMINGO CANTINA: M.O.P. backed by CONNIE PRICE and the KEYSTONES feat. MC PERCEE P"b,121b,121 img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/melt.gif" alt="" 21b,121b,121I need to hear this!

  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    QUESTION:b,121How many of you enjoyed this album? b,121b,121b,121b,121- spidey

  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    Connie Price & The Keystones are doing the entire new Big Daddy Kane album.

  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121QUESTION:b,121How many of you enjoyed this album? b,121b, 21img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_lkbEIUVHzjY/R7ROD3r2rXI/AAAAAAAAAV4/tRhcbWMeR8w/s400/Connie+Price+&+The+Keystones+-+Tell+Me+Something.jpg"1b, 21b, 21- spidey b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21Nobody gonna respond to this?

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    Ras Trent likes these groups.

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,126 Posts
    I saw the Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra a couple of months back for free. Stuff like "7 Minutes Of Funk" and "Inside You" with a 50-piece horn and string section is all well and good, but everything "hip-hop" about it aside from UBB sample staples being played screwed it all up. There even was a part when one of the obnoxious "YEAH! WHAT!" hypemen threw his pimp cane across the stage and mockingly sang "GOOOOOOOOOdd Bless UHHHHHHH-muuuuurica!!!" during one of the guys lousy spoken word conspiracy theory rap.
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