Music Your top 5 hiphop beats?

[VorZakone]

The French have blessed us with great beats too, so I think it's fair I give my top 5 beats from French-language hiphop:

• Jazzy Bazz - Trompes de Fallope
• Myth Syzer ft Ichon, Muddy Bonk, Bonnie Banane - Le Code
• Supreme NTM - Tout n'est pas si facile
• Supreme NTM - That's My People
• 113 - Tonton Du Bled

 

[Dan_F]

Found everything I can on Spotify from the thread so far up to post 152.


Feel free to follow the playlist.

Followed. Immediate basketball/workout go to playlist.

 

[Snowjoe]

I’m guessing a lot of what I’d pick has been said already so gonna drop in some other favourites

Ty - Ha Ha

Akala - Shakespeare

A$AP Rocky - Fashion Killa

Kano - Nite Nite

Skepta - I Spy

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Bone Thugs doesn’t make it on anyone’s list?

I had notorious thugz which features them.

 

[RedTiger]

5 more!

Jay-z /Memphis - marcy to hollywood
Funkdoobiest - Superhoes
Ice cube - back into it
Snoop/nate - never leave me alone
Charlie Baltimore - Money

 

[BootsyCollins]

5 more!

Jay-z /Memphis - marcy to hollywood
Funkdoobiest - Superhoes
Ice cube - back into it
Snoop/nate - never leave me alone
Charlie Baltimore - Money

that ”where is the love” sample

 

[RedTiger]

that ”where is the love” sample

I'll give you an even better sample that I know you'll love Bootsy...

 

[BootsyCollins]

I'll give you an even better sample that I know you'll love Bootsy...

Love that one.
Damn i miss the days of westcoast g-funk

 

[shabz]

Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
Drake - Pound Cake
Dr Dre - Dre Day
Nas - The Message
Eazy E - Real Mother******* G'z

 

[Salt Bailly]

@Stobzilla is the man.

 

[pocco]

1) ATLiens
2) All of The Lights (Inc Interlude)
3) Bridging the Gap
4) Shook Ones pt 2
5) Stan

Probably wouldn't be my top 5 if I sat and thought, but they're 5 that come to mind straight away when thinking about beats that hit me in a certain way....uplifting, sombre, hyped up etc.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Special mentions:

 

[pocco]

Also, everything Exile did on Below The Heavens but that album is a Top 5 category on its own.

Throwback to Hectics old thread there. It was his recommendation that got me listening to Blu & Exile at the time. Whatever happened to Exile? Going to look him up.

There were loads of amazing mixtapes etc being released around then. I remember an album from Blue Scholars which was nice too.

 

[M15 Red.]

Stoupe from JMT had some interesting beats. Blood in Blood Out. Uncommon Valour. When all light dies.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

If @RedTiger is submitting multiple lists I am, too. Here are some more fun beats.

Naughty by Nature - OPP
Juice (Know the Ledge) - Eric B and Rakim
I Go to Work - Kool Moe Dee
Deeez Nuuuts - Dr. Dre
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See - Busta Rhymes

 

[Cheimoon]

If @RedTiger is submitting multiple lists I am, too. Here are some more fun beats.

Naughty by Nature - OPP
Juice (Know the Ledge) - Eric B and Rakim
I Go to Work - Kool Moe Dee
Deeez Nuuuts - Dr. Dre
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See - Busta Rhymes

OPP is great. So simple yet it doesn't get boring. I have no idea what my top 5 would be and I don't know enough rap to come up with anything representative), but thinking about it now, A Tribe Called Quest's Excursions comes to mind, and half of Ice Cube's The Predator album (Wicked, Tear This ___ Up, It Was A Good Day, Check Yo Self, and more - guess I really like his style in that period ). Also Regendans and Park from Opgezwolle's Eigen Wereld album.

Special mention also to Gunshot's Day Of The Jackal and its inclusion of a sound that I can only describe as rubbing bricks against each other.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

OPP is great. So simple yet it doesn't get boring. I have no idea what my top 5 would be +and I don't know enough rap to come up with anything representative), but thinking about it now, A Tribe Called Quest's Excursions comes to mind, and half of Ice Cube's The Predator album (Wicked, Tear This ___ Up, It Was A Good Day, Check Yo Self, and more - guess I really like his style in that period ). Also Regendans and Park from Opgezwolle's Eigen Wereld album.

Special mention also to Gunshot's Day Of The Jackal and its inclusion of a sound that I can only describe as rubbing bricks against each other.

It's an impossible task. You just keep remembering great beats.

 

[RooneyLegend]

Hot Nigga - Bobby Schmurda
Hypnotize - Biggie Smalls
In da Club - 50 cent
Still Dre - Dre
Put you on the game - The Game

 

[Cheimoon]

It's an impossible task. You just keep remembering great beats.

In the end, I think it's often a specific beats maker I find great, and then I can possible list half the songs from what I consider their top period. RZA is another one. (For American hiphop, I always return to the late 80s and the 90s.)

I'm also a bit conflicted as that what counts as a beat exactly. Tribe's Excursions is fairly bare for the most part, and pretty great as such - but it's even better around the chorus with the added horn parts. In those Opgezwolle songs, too, part of what makes the beat great is how things are added and removed from segment to segment.

 

[Brocky]

Way too difficult to pick only 5. Many have already been mentioned and so I left off this list but these are some of my lesser mentioned favourites...

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Woah! - Black Rob
Ni**as In Paris - Jay-Z & Kanye
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z
Jesus Walks - Kanye
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z (Timbaland)
Give It To Me - Timbaland
Get Ya Freak On - Missy Elliott (Timbaland)
Dopeman - NWA
Pretty much anything from Efil4zaggin - NWA
Heavenly Divine - Jedi Mind Tricks
Follow The Leader - Eric B & Rakim
Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It - Cube
You Know How We Do It - Cube
Family Affair - Mary J
TROY - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
It's All About The Benjamins - Diddy
Regulate - Warren G & Nate Dogg
Know How - Young MC
Hits From The Bong - Cypress Hill
Illusions - Cypress Hill
Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill
Pretty much anything from Temples of Boom - Cypress Hill (Muggs is a god!)
Teenage Sensation - Credit to the Nation
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer (Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet!)
No Diggity - Blackstreet (Dre)

 

[Desert Eagle]

Don't think anyone has mentioned it but a tune that is always hype is MOP- Ante up

 

[Rado_N]

Is there an easy way of importing a Spotify playlist into Apple Music?

 

[GueRed]

Off the top of my head,

90's hip-hop heavy my favourite era.

2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted - 2Pac & Snoop
Going Back to Cali - Notorious BIG
Hit Em Up - 2Pac
99 Problems - Jay Z
Notorious Thugs - Bone Thugs Harmony, feat. Notorious BIG

 

[Stobzilla]

Updated to post 183.

 

[Spoony]

Excellent stuff Stobz. And Juice is such a great track.

 

[Spoony]

I'm doing another 5...try not listing anything that's already been mentioned.

Mic Checka - Das EFX
Naughty by Nature - Uptown Anthem
Redman - Blow Your Mind
New Jack Hustler - Ice T
Jingling Baby - LL Cool J(Mama Said Knock You Out album)

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Just went for a run and forgot how much I loved Kendrick Lamar - i

 

[Spoony]

5 easy listening tracks...

Now That We Found Love - Heavy D
Summer time - Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Ring Ring Ring - De La Soul
Six Minutes of Pleasure(album version) - LL Cool J
One More Chance - Biggie

 

[Rado_N]

A few more for a new day.

Gang Starr - Above The Clouds
Danny Brown - Smokin & Drinkin
Brand Nubian - Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
The Roots - Don’t Say Nuthin
Arrested Development - Mr Wendal

 

[Spoony]

A few more for a new day.

Gang Starr - Above The Clouds
Danny Brown - Smokin & Drinkin
Brand Nubian - Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
The Roots - Don’t Say Nuthin
Arrested Development - Mr Wendal

People Everyday was great too. Also Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down by Brand Nubian - I recall liking them.

 

[Spoony]

Gang Starr - Ex Girl To The Next.

 

[Spoony]

Warren G - Regulate (the version with the chorus.

 

[Spoony]

 

[Salt Bailly]

Warren G - Regulate (the version with the chorus.

I was sure I'd heard the version with the Michael McDonald chorus decades ago, but I searched for it relatively recently and couldn't find it, so convinced myself I'd mashed together his original and Regulate in my head. YouTube has some excellent remixes of the two but there doesn't appear to be anything official on the streaming sites. Which sucks.

edit: yeah, that. so good.

 

[Spoony]

I was sure I'd heard the version with the Michael McDonald chorus decades ago, but I searched for it relatively recently and couldn't find it, so convinced myself I'd mashed together his original and Regulate in my head. YouTube has some excellent remixes of the two but there doesn't appear to be anything official on the streaming sites. Which sucks.

edit: yeah, that. so good.

I had the single and it contained the chorus but the only thing I can find online is a remix/ mash up with the original chorus by MM.

 

[BootsyCollins]

5 new ones as this thread really lacks some Quik

Suga Free - Why U Bullshittin?
Dj Quik - Tonite
Kurupt - Cant Go Wrong
Talib Kweli - Put It In The Air
Truth Hurts - Addictive

Man, Dj Quik gots to be one of the most underrated producers of all time

 

[Salt Bailly]

I had the single and it contained the chorus but the only thing I can find online is a remix/ mash up with the original chorus by MM.

It's the Jamming remix, just had a look through the CD single credits on Discogs. (@Stobzilla)

 

[Spoony]

It's the Jamming remix, just had a look through the CD single credits on Discogs. (@Stobzilla)

I see. Any love for Fantastic Voyage by Coolio?

 

[FootyGirl88]

Sorry but we have to have Lauryn Hill on these lists too "Lost Ones" is top tier stuff.

 

[Moby]

Is there an easy way of importing a Spotify playlist into Apple Music?

I did just that as soon as Stobz posted the link. I used soundiiz.com and have used that to import 100s of playlists in the past.