Some of my favorite albums:

Imaginarium by L'Roneous - sick sick sick. I can listen to this straight through w/o pressing fast forward once.

The Listening by Little Brother - see above, with the exception of the 2nd track in which Ceasar Commanche gets on my nerves screaming.

Common Market by Common Market - different feel than the aforementioned 2, but very nice rhymes and beats. Again, solid album from start to finish but based on OP's list of favorites I think he might like this a little less than the other 2.

Entroducing by DJ Shadow - All instrumentals but really nice. Dude is a ridiculous mixer / producer / DJ.


Some free mixtapes I'd recommend -
Clinton Sparkx & Clipse - We Got it 4 Cheap
Wale - 100 Miles and Running
Mark Ronson & Rhymefest - Man in the Mirror

All those are free to download online and I like them more than a lot of stuff I've paid money for.


"Also like a bit of French Hip-Hop"
Might want to check out Guru's Jazzmatazz volume 1, he has a couple of tracks featuring French rappers.

Just going to throw out The Cataracs from Berkley to help mix up the thread. You can see their new songs here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=180852051

And their old but good stuff here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=229045872

The sample for "Rich Girl" on the link above ^^^ is super sick. Also the song "I'm A Star" is pretty popular in dummy sessions.

I'd best drescribe them as a mix between The Pack and Chromeo. Don't listen for lyrics that make you think like Lupe, it's more just for the beats and flow. Oh well enjoy it fwiw

I've been listening to a Big Pun and Big L mix tape called NY Giants a lot lately and this track from it is sick
Deadly Combination - Biggie, Big L & Tupac

TIs verse in the superstar remix is horrible

No.

How about The Pharcyde? Doom by Mood has some good **** on there. The Perceptionists (Mr. Lif and Akrobatik DJ Fakts One) good too but haven't heard from them for a while, I think they only got together for Black Dialogue.

This CD is in my top 10 of all time CD's, no joke.

Yes, I can't even listen to his verse, it's gotten so that I just go to the next song when his verse starts.

T.I. only got 12 months, lolol.

New weezy mixtape is about to drop but the tracklist looks kind of disappointing... AZ just came out with a new album that i've downloaded but not yet listened to, got mixed reviews.

His verse is nice.

People are sayin he is jacking Andre 3000's flow on that song which to me is kinda a compliment. Are you saying Andre is wack?

LOL I dont know why but I love Lollipop

I'm saying his voice and the way he delivered went really bad with the flow of the whole song.

agree to disagree

agreed

Could we just make this the official hip-hop thread? I'd like to prove the Cam'ron haters wrong, not sure if anybody is gonna back me up but hes got some sick music out there. I'll make a playlist of what to DL if anybody is interested.

Cam is the one of the sickest flowers out there IMO

That freestyle on BET where he counts out the money while freestylin is epic imo

And I don't give a **** where you hang at, bang at, slang crack, if you can't rap ***** you straight WACK.

not sure if it's been said but prahlad friedman

Is that where he spits over Scarface - My Block beat? I have that on mp3, there is also a SICK verse he spit on bet that is from "Its Nothing" but its even better over the Dreams beat.

yeah the one over scarface is the one i was referring to -- was looking for a youtube but I was too drunk last nite

lol Cam is terrible and so was that verse of his.

i heard the new rick ross is good but I have yet to listen?

btw speaking of Andre, check out Storytellin off the DJ Drama album