What's Hip Hop to You? Post up a Track and Explain...

Rock Well

Basically if it don't sound like it came from New York, it aint really Hip Hop. That's what i'm getting from most in this thread.

JDSTAYWITIT.

HipHop at its core is an expressive culture ...Rapping is a extension.. a root ..a stem off that heartbeat ... representing Hip Hop culture in rap form to me is simply an orator or the "rapper" creatively using a multitude of techniques whether it be verbal or instrumental that most effectively draws the audience into whatever picture is being painted....



Aint to many do it better.....

RodrigueZz

Lurk_Hinrich wrote: »

This is the definition of hip hop

is that you on the mic?

That's a hot fuckin song duke

jono

I don't know how to post videos but if you heard Illmatic you know what hip hop sounds like. If you need one particular song....that would be extremely difficult but maybe "It Aint Hard To Tell". Its just pure, uncut dope hip-hop shit.

SunflowaSeeds

icecoldstew wrote: »

Yo Seedz, how u gonna bite the quote I already use tho bruh?

Lol didn't see that. I thought I was just biting it from Phonte.

CC_Poncho

Trockm

Anything from XClan

moedays

Like this

moedays

and this

nujerz84

This is hiphop to me.......recalls when DJ's would dropped the redman joint right after B-Real said Time for Sum Action on How Could I just Kill a Man

Also we all know that Cypress Hill Joint was the one played in the house Party Scene in Juice...with Epps looking for BIshop

John_Blazini

this is Hip hop to me because I can really relate to shit he was saying.. Because with no gimmick or catchy hook Ghost was able to paint the most vividest picture. I remember listening to this song and every line being able to see what he was spittin

Soloman the Wise

these songs when I was young embodied the spirit of HipHop to me I watched as it grew then these following tracks while vastly different from these original kept to that spirit...



both songs were anthems that further showed the diversity of HipHop

I will leave it at these as HipHop is talking for the streeets it is using wordplay to tell a story it is music to set a mood by each of these songs to me set different mindstates and embody hiphop to its fullest in myes as even in the fiction they are still speaking realistically and even when kicking knowledge I am entertained and moved by it as I feel HipHop is meant to...

SHAYDEEEE

makin the kind of music you love whether its gonna sell and make you lots of money or not

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SHAYDEEEE

god dammit how do you do videos in this new bullshit format

SHAYDEEEE

Rahlow

i can go on for days but here just some quick random picks...