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Underground Hip Hop

If you’re sick of the hip hop artists that talk about gunshot wounds, cars and a life of luxury over and over again, maybe it’s time for you to start listening to underground hip hop.

Compared to mainstream hip hop where the artists have been ordered to portray the life of a Don, underground hip hop pretty much antagonises all that. At the underbelly of society, what you get from artists from the underground is realer than real. If you want to hear the pains of the youth, the cries for freedom and the will to survive in this world in a raw manner, uncoerced by studio execs, then underground Hip hop is what you need. Although sadly, these artists from the underground who prefer to stay underground start out poor also die poor. Read More

What are Underground Rap Lyrics?

How can you differentiate underground rap lyrics from the lyrics of any other artists? Well, for one, undeniably, underground rap lyrics are raw. They come from within and speak directly from the soul. Usually, it deals with topics that try to open peoples’ eyes to the different wrong doings our society today tries to cover up. These rhymes frequently speak of poverty, untimely deaths, the government and its inability to aid its constituents, the ghetto life and the hopes and dreams of the forgotten.

These raps are the people’s cry for help and sadly, almost too often, they go unheard. This is the case because these raps are the ones you probably might not care to hear because instead of giving you an escape from everyday life, they actually reinforce the troubles we care to disregard in today’s community. Read More

Top 100 rap Songs in Our lifetimes

The top 100 rap songs in our lifetime should be based on a solid criterion that can definitely stand the test of time. Rappers come and go but if their song’s message has become a sort of anthem for that generation, then they deserve a slot in the top 100 rap songs list, (even if they were only a 1 hit wonder).

To choose the following songs, they must be weighed in terms of influence, impact on society, quality of lyrics, lasting popularity and overall mass appeal. These days, there are a lot of heavy hitters in the rap game but before mentioning the more familiar ones, let us do a backtrack and do a shout out to the og’s who set the path of rap. Read More

The Rap Video Girls or Hip Hop Honeys

The rap video girls

In all the hip hop music videos, aside from the over flowing champagne, stunner shades and wicked auto mobiles, another thing in common is the rap video girls or the hip hop honeys. They are the girls rap stars place in the background dancing like there is no tomorrow.

Back in the day, it was not called rap video girls but rather Fly Girls. One famous fly girl that soared to international success is none other than J. Lo herself. Anyway, rap video girls add a certain spice to music videos. They heat up the screens with their gyrating moves that turn men into jell- o. On the contrary, these girls are not predominantly beautiful black women. They can be of any race ( Latina, Canadian…), as long as they got the face and body and well within the 19 to 28 yr old bracket. Read More

90’s Rap: The Best Rap Music to Listen To

If you are looking for the best rap music to listen to, turn off MTV and start digging for old school jams, especially the ones that came out during the late 80’s to the 90’s. Not hating on newer rap music, I just am one of the many people that appreciate kick ass tunes that are not overrated. Time and again, it has been said that the best rap music to listen to was made in the 90’s.

The golden Age of Hip Hop, this was the time when the media gave rise to developing rap into becoming mainstream. This was when rhyme and poetry was characterized by its multiple influences, diversity in theme, quality and innovation. This period in Hip Hop set forth to rap music becoming more afro centric and politically aware as well. Read More

Reasons why to look up rap lyrics to songs

Have you ever listened to rap songs on the radio and went WTF, what did he say? You know, it happens to the best of us and no matter how much of an aficionado you are of hip hop, there are still those times when you just can’t grasp whatever the heck the emcees’ saying. And asking a friend about it just seems embarrassing. Read More

How to listen to Hip Hop Music…

How to listen to Hip Hop Music...

As the youngest of all the musical genres, it is no wonder why some people find it hard to listen to hip hop music. Since Hip hop music is like your youngest brother annoying you for attention, appreciating it does take time and effort especially if you got no patience for the little runt. Having only about 4 decades under its belt, expect to see hip hop flourish right in front of your eyes.

But to get things started, how should one approach or even attempt to listen to hip hop music? First thing to do is to research to understand the different elements of hip hop. There are 4 basic elements which comprise of Dj-ing, Emceeing, Break dancing and graffiti. Once you get these 4 down, now it’s time to read up on the rich history of hip hop. You might be surprised to find out that hip hop is actually not a trend but a movement, a life style per se that refers to the urban youth artistically expressing the self through music, dance and words. Read More

Freestyle Rap Lyrics and Freestyle Rapping – Through the Years

Freestyle Rap Lyrics Through the Years

To really test an emcee’ s skill on the M – I – C, better have him spit out a couple of freestyle rap lyrics. See, there are 2 definitions of freestyle rap. The first one that the old school heads refer to is done basically free of form, written then memorized and of course usually brags about one’s self. The new generation though, when they do freestyle rap lyrics, they end up speaking what’s off the top of their heads, improvising on their flow so their rhymes make sense.

Surprising, I know but a movement as underground as this does have many remarkable aspects. This sudden change in definition of freestyle rapping is suggested to have taken place in the mid to late 1980’s. Kool Mode Dee, one of the first few Grammy award winning rappers claim that before the 1990 ’s, freestyle rap lyrics were all about the written word that exhibit one’s lyrical prowess. Read More

One of the Best Rap Songs, Rapper’s Delight

Whenever you ask a regular person to spit out a few verses of rhyme from the mind, more often than not, they would end up reciting lines from one of the best rap songs in the whole world, Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight.

Personally, this rhyme is catchy as hell and easy to memorize. And thanks to that Adam Sandler movie the Wedding Singer, even old ladies have now learned a thing or two about hip hop. This 1979 single by the American trio SHG is considered to be the very first song that popularized hip hop in the United States. The Rolling Stone magazine even ranked this gem at #248 in the 500 greatest song of All Time, while VH1 ranked it #2 in the 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs. Read More

From the current top 100 rap songs…

From the current top 100 rap songs...

Looking through the different charts of rap music online, I could tell which ones were the current top 100 rap songs people were diggin’ on an international scale. These jams are this week’s most popular rap songs that have been ranked by mainstream R & B/ hip hop and rhythmic radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Neilsen BDS.

For the number one, it’s no wonder that the current favourite is B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars’ Nothin’ On You. This track is infectious! With its dope video and catchy chorus, I agree that this one should be on top right now. And it don’t hurt that Bruno Mars is kind of a hottie.

Timabaland’s Say Something is also in the top 100. He’s the man so I pretty much already expected one of his singles on the chart. Ludacris has 2 tracks (My Chick Bad and How Low) in the top 100. Nothing unusual for our boy Luda. T.I.; the King of the South is back with his track, efficiently titled I’m Back. This song is pretty tight. Seems like he’s convincing everybody to forget about his incarceration or is it only me? Read More