How can a rockfag get into hip-hop? My only exposure to it has

>>68679621
pick an era then pick a style

Don't bother. Rap is a meme.

>>68679621
this was my gateway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NroRvYrJ2lQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ChkExqv2E

God damn is Donuts awful. It goes from obnoxious to boring to obnoxious over and over. Sounds entirely made up of intros that lead nowhere.

>>68679887
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcmR8DxuHBA

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Into Beastie Boys first with Paul's Boutique and then Wu Tang Clan, then A Tribe Called Quest, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye, really wherever you want to go

>>68679944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnwXYJcSZc

>>68680008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwi71HQuKI

>>68680032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gl46hh3sQ

>>68680069
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b34U3-CutuU

You now love rap.

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>>68679621
Start with the classics then move one to what you like more, this is a decent chart.

>>68679621
For some reason I always feel the need to defend myself upon seeing the word "rockfag" even though when I think about it I realize that I actually kind of hate rock and there are few actual 'rock bands' I like.

At any rate Donuts is easily the most boring album I've ever heard. It's not even bad, just incredibly boring.

>>68680213
Why do regions matter so much with hip hop?

>>68679621
This might actually make you hate hip hop, but listen to "DJs Z-Trip and Radar Live At The Future Primitive Soundsession Volume Two" I think it's a great technical DJ mix of classic hip hop and classic rock.

>>68680310
not so much but used to be essentially
east coast = edgy
west coast = party
south = druggy

>>68680732
*not so much anymore

>>68679919

It's literally one of the best albums ever made. git gud boi

>>68679621
Deltron 3030 maybe

East Coast - Illmatic, 36 Chambers, Liquid Swords, The Low End Theory, Paul's Boutique

West Coast - good kid maad city, Deltron 3030, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, Doggystyle, The Chronic

Southern Hip Hop - Aquemini, Ridin' Dirty, The Diary, Soul Food, Hell Hath No Fury

Other essential shit - Madvillainy, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, XXX, The Marshall Mathers LP, From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

Then go from there.

>>68679621
Beastie Boys use a lot of rock instrumentation.

>>68680850
I've had it on my computer for years. Gave it 40+ tries. It really is fucking awful. Good for a laugh though. I was watching Berserk when a friend asked me which episode it was and I yelled "IT'S DA NEW".

>>68681213
i'm sorry to hear that for real. i attempt to make hip hop and i think it gave me a new appreciation for this album. the use of samples and production value in general is out of this world

>>68681213
As expected of someone who bothers watching berserk

>>68681213
You do realize that it is an instrumental hip hop album?

Like the "intros that go nowhere" are supposed to be looped and cut depending on how long the rapper goes and where the hook is placed.

If you don't like Donuts you will never get hip-hop. There's so much personality and wit put into the way he samples and makes beats. It is really unironically one of the greatest albums ever created.