Sorry man, I am more into psychedelic rock these days.

I love Atmosphere, as well.





He's really the only rapper I listen to regularly and actually explore their catalog.
Don't give much of a fuck about anyone else.

Currently, my favorite is MF Doom and his dozens of side projects. He is slick as fuck with word bending, like, i don't know of anyone better. Anywhere.

Annnnd he is maybe the closest with his production to the kind of sources and utilizations i dig for my own stuff. I am always recognizing random samples and shit from my cheeselounge musical travels, all over his trax.

Hard to pick single songs, but Mmmm... Food, and the Viktor Vaughn records are both extra excellent.

I won't even post videos(too hard to choose), but here is a pretty good one of Mos Def(also a badass) talking about why Doom is Bast.



He blasts of a bunch of classic examples from various Doom tunes.

IMO, everyone needs to hear all of it. And take some time to figure out what is being said because he is fucking SLICK.

Love that album

Calle 13 is the shit

Give me a good rundown of what's what, you reliable source you!

One of my favorite Atmosphere songs. Not trying to sound like a slick balla just tellin it like it is

Scapegoat is probably my favorite, personally.

Get all of them?

Okaaaay!

Get:

As MF DOOM:
1. MM... Food?
2. Operation Doomsday

As Viktor Vaughn:
1. Vaudeville Villian
2. Venomous Villain

As Madvillian(i.e. with Madlib on productionness):
1. Madvillainny

As DangerDoom(i.e. with Dangermouse producing):
1. The Mouse And The Mask

BUT. I would say start with MM..Food?, Vaudeville Villain, and maybe the Madvillain record for a mini cross section.

Later on, if you dig what he does, he ALSO has released a huge portion of his tracks as just the instrumentals he made for them, as "Metal Fingers", under the albums series name of Special Herbs (there are like nine volumes of them). It is interesting to hear them stripped out without the vocals, you start to hear a lot of the more esoteric samples that are less obvious with someone rapping over the top.

OH. Another hip hop rekkid that everyone who digs the style should have is The Cold Vein, by Cannibal Ox.

Cool production, and excellent words. Vast Aire has a way with phrases that is similarly off-kilter like some of the Doom stuff, but distinctly unique.

Really a modern classic sort of record.

Cannibal Ox is damn fine stuff.

Oh, and Snaxo, further regarding MF Doom.

1. The 'regular' "MF Doom" stuff, is a general mix of goofy and serious, with Doom doing most of the beats, and lots of 70s rock and fusion sorts of samples.
2. The "Viktor Vaugn" stuff, is (generally) a darker electonic sorts of noise production, some weird mechanical sounds, and well, some more 70s cheese samples. But an overall darker vibe, and a little less goofing off with the lyrics.
3. The "DangerDoom" stuff is pretty goofy. Lots of Cartoon Network samples and a generally brighter vibe to it.
4. The "Madvillain" stuff is almost like an odd sort of cross between the Viktor Vaughn stuff, and the DangerDoom stuff.
5. He also has done some stuff calling himself "King Geedorah". This stuff, is a pretty eclectic mix of styles that is difficult to classify. I almost feel like this is just what he does with all of the random production he does that doesn't "fit" on his other personas' records.

Like i said, my favorites are probably the Viktor Vaughn stuff, then the normal Doom stuff, then the Madvillain stuff. Also like i said though, i really like pretty much ALL of it.

It is really pretty fucking special. The solo Vast Aire records are pretty good too, but it really is on a whole other level when he and Vordul Mega do it as Cannibal Ox. I almost feel like on his solo stuff, he is a bit more lazy or something, like he isn't trying as hard. But the way Can Ox is put together is pretty close to brilliant.

Which is another thing that is interesting about Doom, IMO. He has been kind of ridiculously prolific, but really, about 90% of everything he has put out has been really high quality stuff. It is pretty rad.

The first rap I ever listened to, thanks to my older bros.

I listened to a lot of Wu back in the day, especially 36 chambers and RZA/Bobby Digital and GZAs solo stuff.



I also started getting into this cat, you might recognize the song from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.





or you might recognize him as:



That song is actually from his album Deltron 3030, which is really awesome in a funky space futuristic way. Actually Snaxie you might like that album.

Wu Tang is really slick also.

Hey Devin, have you heard the mashups that someone did with the Doom instrumentals and a bunch of Wu Tang raps? It is called Enter The 36 Chambers Of Doom. Word on the street is that it is fan-made, not actually a Doom thing, but parts of it are really well done, like it totally mixes up some of the flow of the raps almost so that it is phrased in the wacky way Doom or Vast Aire might be more inclined to deliver the lines.

I didn't look very hard but this might be the only one on utube. Not the best example, IMO:



But is is worth checking out for an interesting angle on the Wu Tang stuff.

ACTUALLY. On that note, Dangermouse's Grey Album is also pretty fucking sweet.

I knew you were gunna post Slug first.

My brother played a show with him.

Immortal? Dudes a badass

Yup.

Up in the NY area, when my brother was touring with Akil the MC.