Aussie HipHop Thread.

[JonnyB]

Anyone here dig the aussie hiphop, dont mix, but i def have a sweet spot for it.

Aussie battla

Pegz

Tzu

The Herd

Downsyde

hilltop

BnE

The Tounge.

Urthboy

All guys/groups i get a little excited about when i hear them on the j's.

Aus hiphop is a great live genre too, love it.

[ChevChelios]

FREAKIN HATE IT!!! makes me wanna vommit.

[JonnyB]

FREAKIN HATE IT!!! makes me wanna vommit.

LOL, each to there own i guess

[eggssell]

yeah man, loves it.

been down since the days of def wish cast and sound unlimited.

i find aussie hip hop producers do it better than heaps of their us counterparts. aiight there are some biggies like dre and 9th wonder who still kill, but i think oz producers hold their own. ut i think the breaks that oz producers find, plus the use of live instrumentation just make it tops.

did ya check the m-phazes album, he's a producer and he wheeled in several mcs pegz, bliss n esso etc.

and yeah im a big hilltop, herd and tzu fan.

some other ones to check, who verge on funk/ hip hop are king farook and kid confucius (well their first album anywho) who both have live bands.

resin dogs rock.

quan's solo last year also killed, one of my fave albums. check his collabo with spod called blox. spewing it was onl a 5 track thing.

[ChevChelios]

having said that, I do like the beats, just hate the MCs, they all sound the same, and and I hate how they sound

[eggssell]

i must admit that is true in some small part.

i dont think all mc's sound the same, rather the same mc sounds the same track after track. just the same speed same tone for each 16 bars of every verse of most songs. (US mc's are the same, say eminem if it aint got d12 or someone else from his camp on a song, i can barely stand it for the whole 3 verses). while you can get pro's like snoop or even some of the youngins like cudi who can mix it up. snoop can use his voice alone to be both melodic and percussive such that its a song to itself (yeah yeah i know these days he has a lot of filler too, but in there are always gems).

but i think the oz scene is changing. people like phrase, bliss n esso on their second album, tzu most definitely, have really started to mix it up such that whole albums can rock.

i rection the adding of the female vocal to herd has added wonders to them (just like fergie to bep ).

[Cupe]

there's a whooooooole lot of shit mc's that get alot of rep and airplay and shit.

i've dug aus hiphop for years (i have also mc'd and produced beats for a long time)

[JonnyB]

i dont like hiphop for the way it sounds, but rather what they sing about, ESPECIALLY the herd and a fair bit of tzu, i can relate to so many of their tracks its rediculous. i dont listen to them because i like the sounds or flow, but because when i do listen to it, i can match it up to real life situations ive been in, and it just makes it alot more real then all other music,

Which is why i hate american hiphop rap.(with the exception os Nas, that guys a fukin genious) where they rap about money bitchs glocks 9mm's drive by's killing niggas, 95% of the guys arnt speaking from any experience at all. just rapping what the public wanna hear so they can blast that shit out of the car systems rolling down the street with a hard arse image.

where as aussie hip hop, 95% of the rappers speak from true experiences or which experiences they rap about are real and of which there listners have most likely had similar experiences making the listen more real.

[JonnyB]

there's a whooooooole lot of shit mc's that get alot of rep and airplay and shit.

i've dug aus hiphop for years (i have also mc'd and produced beats for a long time)

Where can we listen? Im keen to hear

[ChevChelios]

the mc from the herd is sick, he MCs for void occasionally, he MC'd skream and bengas sideshow, which I missed would have loved to have seen that

[eggssell]

what you aint got any guns and hoes, man you missing out!... heh.

yeah for sure i hear what you saying. not that i dont mind my gangsta gangsta (straight outta compton still rules!). theres heaps more US artists who've adopted the conscious rap/ backpack rap/ alternative rap especially in the new school so i wouldnt write it off. if you want to check em, just looking at what ive bought in the last couple of months check out

murs

felt (which is murs and slug)

kidz in the hall

cool kids

reflection eternal (talb kweli with the producer hi-tek who use to do mainly gangsta gangsta)

mos def

even common who hasnt dropped anything in a while

oh yeah speaking of nas, i picked up his collabo with junior gong (bob marleys kid) yest. havent listened to it yet. gonna rip it to my ipod tonight after i do some tunes buying from juno (that time of the month).

mc cupe in the hizouse... say hooo

[eggssell]

yo cairo. which mc? urthboy or battla or one of the others.

yeah herd has gotta be one of my faves.

[JonnyB]

what you aint got any guns and hoes, man you missing out!... heh.

yeah for sure i hear what you saying. not that i dont mind my gangsta gangsta (straight outta compton still rules!). theres heaps more US artists who've adopted the conscious rap/ backpack rap/ alternative rap especially in the new school so i wouldnt write it off. if you want to check em, just looking at what ive bought in the last couple of months check out

murs

felt (which is murs and slug)

kidz in the hall

cool kids

reflection eternal (talb kweli with the producer hi-tek who use to do mainly gangsta gangsta)

mos def

even common who hasnt dropped anything in a while

oh yeah speaking of nas, i picked up his collabo with junior gong (bob marleys kid) yest. havent listened to it yet. gonna rip it to my ipod tonight after i do some tunes buying from juno (that time of the month).

mc cupe in the hizouse... say hooo

yeah i know what yoursaying, i should of just said i hated the typical rap stereotype which seems to be a very very large majority of american rap.

Although i do like a few select song, e.g as you mentioned staight out of compton and real mutherfukkin gee's

[ill_spector]

drapht from Perth is pretty bombed

brothers grimms not bad, but if you want more raw underground aushop try get your hands on "who am i"

i think it was his 2nd release?

[ChevChelios]

Ozi battla I beleive

[eggssell]

side topic: that distant relatives (nas & damien marley) is tha shyte.

top album this year now.

broooklyn hip hop w/ a reggae spin; or some reggae tracks with some conscious rapping. a few radio friendlies but even these are pretty good.

[JonnyB]

yeah man heard a promo track on the J's a few weeks back, so so good hey

[eggssell]

remix of one of the distant relative tracks by foamo. avail for download too

rocks

http://www.thefatclub.com/nas-damian-ma ... amo-remix/

and anyone who doesnt mind a bit of hippity hoppity and hasnt checked this album, gets it. album of the year fer me right now.

[ruggs]

get onto Optamus he's the lead guy from downsyde but has started his own thing now.I opened for him when he was in newcastle at the start of the year he's new stuff is awesome.

here is his facebook

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pag ... 927?ref=ts

[crundyy]

if you want some heaps raw skip hop listen to tornts..his stuff is hectik uleh

[DifrntMusic]

http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/where-the-fires-at-one-ep/id393162824?uo=4

Peace,

Blades

[callmeyo]

not a huge fan either. just doesnt turn me on. prefer jayz etc.. but if it floats ur boat its good for aussie support

[DifrntMusic]

http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/where- ... 62824?uo=4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUS4n_Op ... r_embedded

[JonnyB]

jayz and nas go so well together, and then their hate rymes against each other are sick too

ether by nas, best intro 'FUCK JAY Z'

black republican is sick too, where they rap together

[RichoKidd]

Drapht has the most unique voice in Oz Hip Hop.

I could listen to that dude rhyme all fucken day!