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Aesop Rock - Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npcGql9Ir6Y
Killer Mike - Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
Lil Dicky - Professional Rapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlU4FuIJT2k
Ecid - Go High Lion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YEu08bZUIw
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBGCOCxLgA
Jonwayne - Passing Fancies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wjBtjWtwms
Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGwI7nGehA
Mos Def - Mathematics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA
Grootality
"I'm trained in vagina whisperin', glistenin', waitin' for the christenin'" is my 2nd favorite Run The Jewels Line
dalewood87
Gucci Mane.
thetameone
Reagan is a fucking amazing song
JustHeretoGiveLikes
Let's not forget Tom Green, the bum bum song...
Vspar
Is this gonna be the new my top 10 animes that you should watch
EyesLikeTheSky
Ist schon
SpecialJeff
Lil Dicky is incredibly talented.
isaidsomethingcool
Most rap is inspiration, deep, and clever; even more so w/ freestyle. sad that the impression most people have is what's on the radio.
Brainwreck
(And count to fuck)
PuppysGotPeopleToBarkAtAndThingsToSniff
RUN THEM JEWELS FAST R-R-RUN THEM JEWELS FAST
acid316
Jon Waynes voice is like MFD met Biggie. Nothing you'd expect from a white dude .. look up black magic I heard that a year or so back
Azairii
If you like AesopRock I'd def recommend listening to Hail Mary Mallon. Rob Sonic is with him and they make a great pair.
SvenWillte
They're MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY .........MONEY on my mofo mind
Tazmo523
Thought the first guy was Jimmy Fallon before I clicked on it
Pygmyshrew
"Huh, I didn't know Jimmy had got a cool new sty- oooooh that's not Jimmy Fallon!"
thisisnotenoughyet
MFW I see the first guy
Silliosophical
Me too!
Sirtopumhat
Nope it's Cera.
nbnt
I see two Fallons, #1 and #5
Thisismy1stposteveriswear
Crazy considering they are both Aesop...
nbnt
LMAO, how did I
Ziggypiggyziggypiggy
Ahahhaha me too!!!!!!!
TheCrawlDadMan
Aesop Rock is an absolute Genius. The reason he isn't more famous is that most people do not even know what the words he uses mean...
TheCrawlDadMan
Others that I would include on this list are: Shad, P.O.S., Astronautalis, Grieves, and pretty much anything Doomtree or Rhymsayers.
lurkymclurkerson
Shad at Massey hall is such a great performance! Feeling the Doomtree and Rhymesayers as well. Definitely going to check out those others!
TheCrawlDadMan
Let me know what you think!
theCanadianmooserider
I'm loving the rapper posts on imgur lately
RudyMaynard
Why do rap fans proselytize their tastes? I love Aaron Copland, Tom Waits and Henry Mancini, but I don't really care if anyone else does.
RubenUrbina
Amen
Bantapants
Who has a "stance" on rap these days?
SvenWillte
Not me.This lil dude got a crazy stance.
OasisInChains
I'm kinda fond of Hopsin too tho, dunno if he couldve made it to this list tho
OasisInChains
Double tho
PhonySoprano
How Logic having not been mentioned yet is crazy! Even Hoodie Allen.
TrumpkinSpicedFuckwad
Hoodie Allen is cool of you're a white girl and you post on instagram alot so I get the appeal I guess
KevShaddai
Yay another awesome rap list consisting of white rappers
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
the US population is ~15% black people. black rappers are actually overrepresented in this post.
DickRogers
Yea I feel like Mos Def would most definitely have a few problems with this nearly all-white list of 'thought provoking' rappers.
KevShaddai
any thought provoking rapper list is incomplete without Lupe and Talib Kweli
curiouser
If it's good music for non-rap fans to dip into, why complain? Some people think Eminem and Macklemore are the only white rappers.
KevShaddai
not complaining, just an observation. Not a rap fan? Here is some white rappers you may like...+1 for any list with RTJ and Mos on it tho.
Krispyyeah
Is this the new anime recommendations post?
CaptainHowdyy
Eyedea & Abilities
lurkymclurkerson
Hoping to see The World Has No Eyedea when it comes to my town
Squintore
R EYE P
cplchuck
Aesop, Rob sonic and abilities played my spring concert my senior year at SUNY Geneseo. Freaking. Awesome.
Galakan
Rap is one of the genres of music I want to get more into. I just hate the repeated messages in most rap songs (just like some country)
truthHurtsSometimes2200
May I ask which music genre is without prevalent themes in lyrics?
enjoylife84
I suggest you listen to these rappers then. Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, Mick Jenkins, Noname, Joeybada$$, ScHoolboy Q, Mac Miller
enjoylife84
Maybe Future if you like turn up songs. Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino and Ab Soul. Just listen to there most recent album since
enjoylife84
Since a lot of their catalogs aren't that big or you can just message me and I'll give you what I think is their best work.
rendezvous18
takeoffurpantsandjacket
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Blinkordeath182
I find it very difficult to get into hip hop or rap, but I LOVE Aesop Rock
Brainsplosion
I'm with you. Was basically a staunch opponent of rap most of my life but I dig that motherfucker.
morboislegend
I don't mind rap. Just hate the bitches and hoes and bling and honeys kinda rap /1
morboislegend
Much prefer Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock and to a lesser extent Macklemore's first album.
DinosaurusRex24
I think you'd like Watsky
shrekisourogrelord
I appreciate watsky in a lyrical sense but I've never been able to really get into it
Sefreyt
Astronautalis, Bliss n Eso, Fort minor, Grieves, Hilltop Hoods, Hopsin, Koriass, Logic, Manu Militari, NF, Promoe, Grimm, Sadistik ...
Sefreyt
Just to add some. I don't enjoy the brag over bullshit neither.
WuTangNinja
Mathematics is a great song!
yoyoyoyoyoyoykykyykykykyyk
I just realized that Mos Def kinda looks like Usain Bolt
jcraig919
The beat is my all time favorite.
myusernameisnotcreative
My favorite Mod Def song is I against I with massive attack
Blud4BludGod
I love me some Mos Def. Guy is a talented actor, too.
bishopbrennansarse
And dare I add, Mos Fuckin' Def!
Shoujo
One of my all time favorites, really love his flow on Danger Close tho
TyrannosaurusMex
I'm on a hard Mos Def relisten. New Danger, so good!
SuburbanMeerkat
True that. +1 for your username bruh
badboybuffet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UffxkyKDAVI
cleverbeans
As a self-described mathematician that fat bass line gets me jumpin' like a step-function.
thedude69
You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add It's mathematics
unappropriate
Mos def it is
dizzle93
Theres one universal law with 2 sides to every story, 3 strikes and your in it for life mandotory.
smolboots
Mos Def is fine as hell.
ThatDudeSway
I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle!
Blud4BludGod
Have been at Broadway and Myrtle at midnight, can confirm, dark as fuck.
UrbanGermanBourbon
the straw that broke the camel's back, what's the secret?
SanchoPanzaWasFat
The million other straws underneath it!
TrillOGThugga
Its all mathematics
rumbleinthebumhole
*disk scratch* mighty mos def!
MattsterTeddy
Made a Spotify Playlist. https://play.spotify.com/user/mattster3/playlist/6ieNZaSJvKE3jRavEPo8UJ
CzarKhazar
Merci Monsieur! YouTube might be your friend sometimes, but I prefer Spotification :)
AcidAssasin
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anonim1133
You are a hero that we have been needed!
loekash
<3
FatBoobsDontCount
Thank you
uhsamalamaadumalamaa
Thanks dude!
dudeinyogapants
This list could be filled with just Aesop
SalmonSailor
No idea why Lil Dicky is on the list with Mos and Aes, his album got stale and corny real quick
ProfessorSandwich
I thought that was jimmy Fallon.
wompwompwomp
The point of the post is really just for everyone to go listen to Aesop Rock. But really, I like everyone I recognize so this may be a good
wompwompwomp
List
theashman69
Any particular album order for Aesop Rock as i'd like to start from the beginning?
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
i found "none shall pass" to be the most accessible.
dudeinyogapants
Music for earthworms (hard to find), Float, labor days bazooka tooth, none shall pass, Skelethon, the impossible kid and a few ep's
theashman69
There's a fair few on Google Play Music so will get listening! Thanks and enjoy your yoga pants
wompwompwomp
I liked The Uncluded a lot too
dudeinyogapants
All of his collaborative stuff is really good too!
dassemultor
What's with all these "reconsider rap" posts? Did everyone say they hate rap to prompt them?
LordOfErebus
When some people think rap, they think of the popular and really egotistical and obscene rappers who talking about bitches and money, etc.
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
i like rap, and i STILL hate rap.
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PhonySoprano
No, definitely a lot of rap hate on this site.
deltajesus
Where? Because I've never seen any.
SwarthyBastard
Seriously, I love hip-hop, and don't know many people who "dislike" it. It's pretty mainstream at this point.
BecauseJapan
I love hip hop too. But the majority of "rappers" these days couldn't rap their way out of a wet paper bag, with scissors in their hands 1/
BecauseJapan
We've all seen the clip from GGN of snoop and 50 roasting today's mumble rappers right? There's tons of similar ones out there. Sway has 2/
BecauseJapan
Taking these chumps to task and challenging them to freestyle on air, always with hilarious, disastrous outcomes. I think there a fast 3/
BecauseJapan
Growing backlash to what amounts to 100 guys that all sound like Future. Hopsin made a great vid about it: https://youtu.be/IiNNBc557OQ 4/4
ino84
It's probably because of the overinflation of gangster rap in mainstream today, which is mostly terrible crap.
UngratefulColonial1776
Right? Some rap culture sucks, but as an overall genre it is great!
dassemultor
Today? Maybe in the 90s and early 00s. Today's biggest mainstream rapper is Drake. He's as gangsta as oatmeal.
ino84
People think of the gangsta image when they hear "rap", Drake or the weeknd are seen as more of a pop thing for some reason.
vonsandwich
Here, you'll like rap music if it's sung by white people!
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
almost as if rappers are more relatable when they're not (posing to be) from a completely different social background.
HotSock
tbh listening to eminem made me start liking rap, but I get your point
TheThingNoNotThatOne
Hey now, he's got Yasiin Bey and 1.5 Killer Mike songs in there.
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takeoffurpantsandjacket
I agree with you, but they say nigga. I think nigger sounds like white trash and is repulsive.
PenguinSlide
Every five minutes? So you mean once every 1.25 songs? That doesn't seem so bad to me.
hasara
You're listening to really shitty rap then. Every genre with any race of musicians has crap artists.
PhonySoprano
I don't really care about the color, but white rappers face a stigma that makes it to where they have to be very, very good to make it.
155DangerClose
honestly white hip hop is a completely different genre than hip hop itself
wutangbarrett
Hate to say it but it's true lol
MostlyJeffGoldblum
Aesop's new Impossible Kid album is a work of art. Shrunk and Supercell are my favorite songs. Check them out! (YouTube is your friend here)
BasicallyJesus
Shrunk is fucking fantastic.
maxwelljmc
1. "Get out the Car" talking about him literally sitting in a car with thoughts of his dead friend swirling around in his his head.
maxwelljmc
2. Jumping right into "Shrunk" and him leaving the car to go see a shrink is amazing. That album is his best imo.
MrBoJandles
Listen to ruby 81. Goosebumps every time
UncleLoopy
1 Up for Lil Dicky
UrbanGermanBourbon
saw him live at camp bisco this year. such an entertainer. I laughed my ass off
ADMIN1337
And the brain gotta poop
TheManFromOklahoma
Aka the original pancake
JCHammer
Do you fuck with the war?
ThatMomentWhenImgurJokesAreOnlyFunnyToImgurians
He's a great freestyler..just not a meaningful rapper.
lurkymclurkerson
Songs like "White Crime" are satirically loaded with social commentary. He subtly says a lot on expectations of race and gender.
Gemall
Actually pretty much the opposite. He's really open about not being able to freestyle well off the top.
MRSPRINKLZZZ
Aka Mr Leftward slopping penis
onef8
Aka stem cells
Wormbo2
Mr. Firm handshake
friendlyneighborhoodsociopath
Aka the time traveler's wife
HaveYouSeenMyLSD
In which dimensions is this guy navigating?
HeironymousLex
Why, he's navigating the dimensional seas alongside this guy http://imgur.com/0t8BAfW
Soulren
All of them.
LemonG34R
/r/thecatdimension for those who don't get the reference
forrealdad
He would be in the 63rd but he hasn't sacrificed enough chromosomes
MartyyMcflyy
Hey Little Lucy, wanna come jump double Dutch?
GivOsEnSocialistiskKalmarUnion
im busy, thank you much!
Crazyname
Apparently the one where lion people inhabit New York.
bambootoes
Heyyyyyy Kirby, whatchya doin' Kirby? Why'd you eat that leaf?
UrbanGermanBourbon
all kinds. I think he is actually aspergers or slightly autistic, but his lyricism is impeccable
HaveYouSeenMyLSD
Ah alright, just looked like he is high as balls. Listening to the song right now, I'm liking it
jackjackahsokatano
Bazooka tooth baaabbbyy
fuckingmagnetshowdotheywork
Some cats live by the laws of the wild some learn slower and lag in the mud...
fuckingmagnetshowdotheywork
...Some stand up in defense of a style some let the big dogs eat them up
CaesarSaladSlut
Yeah buddy!!!!
LurkyMcLurkinsonheimer
He ain't got no wallow talkie
LurkyMcLurkinsonheimer
Damn auto correct * walkie talkie *
CoolCatSuicide
Looooooool
FetchMyBrownPants
Is that Kirby?!
notchoosingone
I don't think so, I'm pretty sure Kirby is a tortoiseshell
RubberDinghyRapidsBro
Heeeeeeey Kirby, what ya doin' Kirby?
TheWorldIsMacaroni
What ya doin' there?
missmurphay
Why'd ya eat that leaf
SalmonSailor
Different cat. Kirby's more grey, black and stripey. She's in the Kirby music video
Dollabills
Nope, they filmed a cat from an orphanage in that video.
SalmonSailor
Really? Looks like the same cat from his Insta
SalmonSailor
Ah, no. I looked, you right.