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Gonna give the new MIKE a listen soon. Excited about it.

 

Real into this new 6LACK ep

 

Does 6lack rap now? Not taking the piss, i've just only ever heard him sing.

 

this new megan single is so good

I’m a sucker for re-working classic beats

 

This Wale EP is great. Upbeat, soulful protest music.

 

Random, but ok

 

Girls in the Hood is awesome

 

20 years old wow

 

Ride With Me is eternal

 

The new City Girls record is good.

 

my monthly reminder that care for me is a perfect album

need new Saba and Smino in my life

 

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New classic hip hop thread is up!

 

Any recomendations for current poetic jazzy hip hop?

Background: I started listening to hip hop in the end of the 80s with BDP and Big Daddy Kane and Fat boys and all that good stuff. I liked BDKane cuz I was a teenager and he was the epitomy of cool but what really sold me on hip hop was the politics and the poetry of BDP. I listened to prety much all hip hop from then on and liked them all for different reasons (except Beastie Boys). Then I found the sweet spot with Tribe Called Quest and De la Soul (a little more de la than tribe honestly) But when I discovered Digable Planets, the bar was significantly raised. I loved the acid jazz sound of digable because I listen to a lot of jazz (Coltrane, Gordon, Davis, Baker, Peterson, etc etc) but mostly the poetry of the lyrics and the distancing from all the posturing present in most hip hop was what set them apart. They were nerds! Both literary and political nerds! Over the next decade, I found that I was always going back to digable and even De la had lost its luster.

Unfortunately, digable planets hasn’t grown or made more albums since blowout comb. So, can anyone recommend a group that is doing either music like they did or (my preference) a more mature version...Whenever I ask anyone to recommend a group it may have similar jazzy tracks but the lyrics are terrible and often the samples and tracks used are clichéd and demonstrate that the artists don’t actually have much jazz knowledge. And then when I ask for hip hop artists that write poetic lyrics people recommend artists who, quite honestly, just can’t write, using a weak vocabulary, no lyricism at all, no significantly intelligent construction, no internal rhymes, no novel links between the musicality of the words and tracks and quite frankly, very immature and obviously written by someone who is not well read. What I liked about digable planets was that their lyrics could be taken out of the context of hip hop and stand alone as excellent poetry, but there was also a lot of political, historical and literary references and they tackled larger issues than “girl I think you’re hot” or “look at me I’m a big shot” (delacratic styles). They had humility and perspective.

So can anyone recommend a jazzy hip hop group for a poetry nerd?

 

As far as poetic artists go, Shad comes to mind. Not sure about the jazz aspect of it though. But he’s really great! check out TSOL and The Old Prince.

 

Sounds like you need to check out RAP Ferreira

 

I will second the RAP Ferreira rec and also throw this album out there.

 

Ishmael Butler from Digable Planets is now in Shabazz Palaces, if you want to check them out

 

Speaking of, finally listening to the SP tape and it rules

 

Check out both of Noname’s albums. Might want to also check Mick Jenkins’ Pieces of a Man. I’d also rec Earl for poetic lyrics, but less jazzy prod.