Yes, I do mean Brother Ali.

If you like Nujabes you'll like some of Funky DL's shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAajzA3FX9c&eurl=http://etalonhiphop.blogspot.com/2008/10/funky-dl.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=211HheHzRUA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86J5WxPHYMY&feature=related

DJ Kid Cut Up & Common and DJ Format feat. Abdominal are pretty awesome, and so are old-schools like Sugarhill Gang, House Of Pain, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer etc. etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1u43KDiWD0&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siy7wYwZOjM&fmt=18

Those are two of my favorites songs, actually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6HTtpACuA&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4wy7bJ28Bs&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udwTkU1QKPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmqXKbxDoJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHReQQnMVQo&fmt=18

Well I have to say I hate most of the stuff today, except underground, but yeah, the 80's & 90's were the best.
Here's some Grandmaster Flash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3VUAV1HZ8

nobody has mentioned kanye or common

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nobody has mentioned kanye or common

Well Kanye is weak now because he's imitating T-Pain, so IDK what the hell is up with him.
But yeah Common is a legendary emcee.

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Well Kanye is weak now because he's imitating T-Pain, so IDK what the hell is up with him.
But yeah Common is a legendary emcee.

As much as I agree with this, I hate it that whenever an artist uses a vocoder or robotic pitch change in their vocals, everyone writes him off as a T-Pain wannabe. If anything, T-Pain is imitating Zapp or Peter Frampton or anyone else before him that used vocoder synths in their vocals.

t-pain sucks. i honestly prefer the way kanye sounds with autotune compared to his older stuff.

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As much as I agree with this, I hate it that whenever an artist uses a vocoder or robotic pitch change in their vocals, everyone writes him off as a T-Pain wannabe. If anything, T-Pain is imitating Zapp or Peter Frampton or anyone else before him that used vocoder synths in their vocals.

Another thing to consider is that today's R&B isn't even R&B. It's pop music sung by black people. The Motown era was when the genre actually was Rhythm 'n' Blues.

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t-pain sucks. i honestly prefer the way kanye sounds with autotune compared to his older stuff.

True. But I hate it when Kanye sings. I think he should go back to rapping

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Another thing to consider is that today's R&B isn't even R&B. It's pop music sung by black people. The Motown era was when the genre actually was Rhythm 'n' Blues.

Same thing with most modern day hip-hop. I forget who it was who coined this (I think it was one of the guys from Binary Star), but there's hip-hop, and there's hip-pop. Flo Rida is an example of hip-pop.