Think it's time
That you try to find some Sugar Hill Gang, or GB Experience, or Grandmaster Flash.

Real rap/hip-hop, before it got commercialised and gangsta-ised.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:36, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have Rapper's Delight, that a b3ta lurker sent me some time ago.
Mostly because it was on that Honda Accord ad years ago.
( Maladicta, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:37, Reply)

Or Mos Def
Or NWA, Public Enemy, KRS-One, De La Soul, Stetsasonic, anything that's not poppy wack commercial crap. Fiddy Cent is possibly the worst rapper there is, terrible flow, cliched rhymes and he just mumbles.

Rakim, now that's a rapper.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:38, Reply)

My flatmate is partial to Jurassic 5
so I know how good it can be.

Then again he also likes MC Hammer, so you can't win 'em all.
( Maladicta, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Funnily enough, I only got into Rakim through the Coldcut remix of Paid In Full
and I only recently learned that Eric B & Rakim didn't like that remix.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 22:00, Reply)

Or try
Key-Matic - Breakin' In Space
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:39, Reply)

Ultramagnetic MCs
Just for Poppa Large.

On a UK tip, 57th Dynasty.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Is nice!

( Maladicta, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:46, Reply)

That's mostly hip-hop, but it does contain a bit of rap.

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 21:48, Reply)

And here's another
ICE T - Body Rock
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 22:08, Reply)

Now you're being silly
Stop it.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 22:16, Reply)