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Please share intellectual hip-hop albums with me.

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Please share intellectual hip-hop albums with me.
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>>68338339
Yeezus.
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to pimp a butterfly
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Anything by Death grips
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>>68338365
>>68335611
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>>68338339
Immortal Technique. Not a huge fan of his music overall, but the themes he rapes about hit home in a lot of ways.
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>>68338395
>Rapes
Raps lul
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>>68338395
>the themes he rapes about
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>>68338413
>black
>not raping
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>>68338352
>The College Dropout
>Late Registration
>Graduation
>808s & Heartbreak
Yeezus had too much emo shit.
>>68338380
Interesting.
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>>68338568
WSG is superficially a thug rapper - but not really if you get it
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>>68338665
nigga get your damn mixtape off my thread.
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>>68338339
>hip-hop
>intelletual

Pick one
/thread
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>The Sun Rises in The East - Jeru The Damaja
>Wrath of the Math - Jeru The Damaja
>Illmatic - Nas
>good kid, maad city - Kendrick Lamar
> To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
>Madvillainy - Madvillain
>The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
>Step in The Arena - Gang Starr
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>>68338831
Very nice of you to make a list but why no Kanye?
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only intellectuals can appreciate DJ Screw
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>>68338736
Was 2009 so long ago that there's a generation of /mu/ users who aren't aware of the New Boyz or the jerking fad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9VKKXwVxU
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>>68338376

>cherrypicking
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>>68339032
It's a different sound. What's your favorite song?
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>>68339061
get your dusty mixtapes away from me old man.
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>>68338339

why does it need to be "intellectual"

the only "intellectual" hip-hop is just garbage that samples jazz and talks about "muh blackness"

sounds like sophistry to me
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>>68339669
>The only "intellectual" hip-hop is just garbage that samples jazz and talks about "muh blackness"
>discussing blackness is stupid
I am sorry that most of us don't enjoy listening to samples of bullshit mixed with our music supporting white power.
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>>68338984
Because of this >>68338568
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>>68339669
>why does it need to be "intellectual"
A musician that can articulate deep thoughts.
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eyedea and abilities-birth of a fish
oliver hart-the many faces of oliver hart
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>>68338737
>using the word intelectual
>being smart

pick one
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Intellectual hip hop is just shitty poetry about "im black and shit bruh ecxdeeeeee".
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>>68338831
Jeru is just pretentious
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>>68338339
here's a concept album based on a compilation of absurdist russian poetry by daniil kharms
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Canibus - Mic Club The Curriculum
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls
Canibus - C of Tranquility
Canibus - Melatonin Magik
Canibus - Lyrical Law 1, 2 and 3
Juggaknots - Clear Blue Skies
Heiruspecs - Small Steps
Kero One - Windmills of the Soul
Denizen Kane - Brother Min's Journey to the West
Everliven Sound - Everlations
CyMarshall Law - Freedom Express Line
Greenhouse - Bend But Don't Break
Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis
Spooks - S.I.O.S.O.S
Wildcard - Dark Night of the Soul
Qwel - If It Ain't Been In A Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play The Blues
RedaeL - The Survivor's Guide To Reality
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>>68341325
link?
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>>68341466
Nice but what song do you find most intriguing?
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>>68341566
it was in the archive
https://mega.co.nz/#!kIpV0RiJ!ZBQ7_DK8RIrV0oy2_dRq2L8eppxjpbKwCejxHkvhgrE

unless you're asking for a link to the book, which I don't have a pdf of, sorry.
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>>68341466
Such a beautiful list with a variety of styles.
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>>68341621
>https://mega.co.nz/#!kIpV0RiJ!ZBQ7_DK8RIrV0oy2_dRq2L8eppxjpbKwCejxHkvhgrE
About to download the album and listen to it in my car.
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>>68341466
>Heiruspecs - Small Steps
Sounds like deathgrips but less autistic.
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>>68341599
>Canibus - Mic Club The Curriculum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PrnxApprvs
>Canibus - Rip The Jacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXrT03lyGo
>Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhtCRN--xY
>Canibus - C of Tranquility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R1cFn3NUJg
>Canibus - Melatonin Magik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_aSeeBmjQ
>Canibus - Lyrical Law 1, 2 and 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8dq1saAU4
>Juggaknots - Clear Blue Skies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mMfavxyFUI
>Heiruspecs - Small Steps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qch0dLKn314
>Kero One - Windmills of the Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBhypiXqRkI
>Denizen Kane - Brother Min's Journey to the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Fi9zw7EN0
>Everliven Sound - Everlations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M2ayVU_VTI
>CyMarshall Law - Freedom Express Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WpzVs52SFU
>Greenhouse - Bend But Don't Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JlEXDj8RVw
>Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pDen-TM5E
>Spooks - S.I.O.S.O.S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9M4qeKmnU
>Wildcard - Dark Night of the Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMS1WTYBUA
>Qwel - If It Ain't Been In A Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play The Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVeE_ZvTSU
>RedaeL - The Survivor's Guide To Reality
Thesis Statement, it's not on youtube

>>68341868
faggot
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>>68341959
Very kind of you to find each song link anon. You've really put time and effort into find them.
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>>68338339
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SHEEEEEEEEEEE'S CAAAALLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
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>>68339067
even then, most of that are pretty good lyrics. are sexual lyrics inherently bad now? A huge amount of art, in various forms of art, is dealing with sex. always has.
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>>68341959
>Juggaknots - Clear Blue Skies
What an amazing song.
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>>68342204
Very much so
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>>68339852
>what is varg
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>>68338831

pretty decent suggestions, here's some more:
>sonogram - One Be Lo
>the LP - Large Professor
>stakes is high - De La Soul
>black on both sides - Mos Def
>The 20th Letter - Rakim
>I've got next - KRS-One
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>>68341180
> not knowing how to spell intellectual
> beeing intellectual
Pick one
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>>68342204
seconded that's a tight syncopated flow famalam
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