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Little hip hop help please

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Can anyone recommend me any good conscious hip hop artists with decent intelligent lyrics. Would be much appreciated. No gangsta shit please.
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Post by Dead Rats »

As in modern hip-hop?


You must be joking.
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Post by magma »

Dälek
Common Sense
Mos Def
Talib Kweli

Should be a decent enough starting point. Dälek RULE!
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Magma wrote: Common Sense
Never has the case of "As it says on the tin" been more applicable!

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MF Doom
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£10 Bag wrote:MF Doom
This
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Soundcloud

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Dead Prez.
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Post by spaniard »

Yeah Talib Kweli and Nas for me.
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Magma wrote:Dälek
Is this 2 latino looking dudes that mixup rock with spaced out beats. They played at The Haward Gallery earlier this year with Flying Lotus? If so, sorry but they were shit.
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Little Brother

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Melanin 9
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Brother Ali
Deep puddle Dynamics
Swollen members
sweatshop union
blackalicious
looptroop
pigeon john
def sheppard
defari
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PETE PHILLY & PERQUISITE - could listen to them all day.

tribe of course, foreign exchange, new q-tip album, new roots manuva, and for a classic.... talib kweli & hi-tek's reflection eternal. blissssssss.
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Post by solphy »

nas kills everyone in every style

i'm feeling blackalicious as well these days
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Solphy wrote:nas kills everyone in every style

i'm feeling blackalicious as well these days
Been back on the Nas big time recently after catching him on Colbert doing Sly Fox. Nice tune.

NY State Of Mind and Doo Rags are two of my favourite tunes ever. :U:
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Post by sirmitchie »

The Roots
Quasimoto
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immortal technique?
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Solphy wrote:nas kills everyone in every style
this.

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Post by ST100 »

Aesop Rock (his older stuff)
Del
Common
Talib
Prime
Blackstarr
Word a' mouth
Talib Kweli
Jurrassic 5
Quasimoto
Nas

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