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You all are right. I also saw an anti-Jew cartoon before this. That probably had nothing to do with Nazism though.

This is my number one favorite hip hop track of all time.

this is pretty much the phattest beat of all time

he had some of the most powerful, urgently relevant shit to say and he got caught up in this beefing bullshit. what a shame. what a shame.

Pac didn't mean no disrespect to Rakim or KRS or nobody. He was far from the first person in hip-hop to say "I'm the greatest, I'll take down anybody, etc etc." Hyping yourself and playing the dozens is part of the game. And Pac was neither an emcee nor a rapper. An emcee is somebody like Grandma...

@JSPACEandALFAH Also Eric B started the trend of using jazz overtones in his beats that was huge all the way to the early 90s.

@futoncat actually that's kind of exactly how it sounds on the record

@MrKittenzzz NO ONE is anywhere close to this level.

There really needs to be a film that focuses primarily on his work in the liberation struggle. People always get so caught up in his involvement and divergence with the Nation that they gloss over his ideas and actions. Hardly anyone I encounter knows about half the things collected in "Malcolm X...

What in God's name does a man's sex life have to do with his struggle for human equality? This is a deliberately broad-based question.

Probably Big's most powerful track ever

@11mac11s That you define a knowledge of our past freedom fighters and the extension of their wisdom as ignorance and arrogance, but fail to see those qualities in your own irrational and vengeful words, makes everything you say work against you. With that I'm leaving this discussion.

"Free Press and Curl"

Eminem needs to stop using his powers for evil

I'm actually astounded that such a relative few didn't get into this. It's shockingly original art. Ish is years ahead of his time. When Picasso first exhibited Les Demoiselles d'Avignon people laughed their asses off. It will never be accepted into the mainstream of hip-hop but this is the truly...

Well, I think it's amply emotive; not sure why she cut out so many of the lyrics, and she's not the singer Jeff Buckley was but then nobody is. All in all I'd say she proved there's more to her life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking.

Listening to Digable Planets now is like hearing Coltrane back in '55 when he was still with Miles. Ish is hip-hop's greatest visionary.

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Who had the idea of getting some old housewife from Brooklyn to interview Butterfly? Whoever you are, you're a genius.

@geeksunite99 Every era has its great music. The vast majority of the time, it hasn't been played on the radio. People who talk this way don't think to go out and find it.

well done, i can actually hear the guitars and piano. how novel

I think the only argument anybody needs is that "Eleanor Rigby," "Hey Jude," "Let It Be," etc were all written after 1966. Not only do you want us to believe you found a man who looks and sounds and talks and plays exactly like Paul McCartney, but he's also as much of a genius as Paul McCartney? ...

@OxideSlain I agree that they're pioneering a new genre, but don't call it think-hop. The original hip-hop is think-hop, the art form invented by Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets and evolved by Afrika Bambaataa Tribe Called Quest Digable Planets Run DMC NWA and kept alive by Mos Def Heiroglyphi...

Butterfly is changing the whole fucking game

@69killlluminati69 Blu follows a clear tradition in hip-hop and for all his talent, he hasn't quite reached the level of the greats in that style: Butterfly, Kweli, Black Thought, Del tha Funky, Common, etc. Eminem is a highly skilled freestyler but he's not a complete artist like the above names...

PS Is his girlfriend's name Juno? Like... that movie with Michael Sera?