Your suggestions for beautiful hip hop
 

This might belong in TQZ. Mods, please move it if this is the case. I'm looking for song suggestions for a mix I'm making of hip hop songs with beats that really stand out, specifically in that they are more "beautiful" than the norm. Lyrics are of minor importance compared to the beat. Here are a few examples of what I'm getting at:

Never Change - Jay Z
I Got A Story to Tell - Biggie
Respiration - Blackstar

I have plenty of my own ideas but I'm interested in outside input. Suggestions?

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I'm not a huge fan of their other songs because Sage Francis is a big old geek, but I really like "The Cure" by Non-Prophets.

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Respiration - Blackstar

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I have actually used the beautiful to describe this song in the past.

Some suggestions:

All That I Got is You - Ghostface Killah
You Never Know - Immortal Technique
Runaways - Sage Francis
Theives in the Night - Blackstar

That's off the top of my head, I'll try and come up with some more.

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'50 Years' by All Natural fits your description perfectly. It's really a beautiful song.

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Masta Ace - Good Ol' Love

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LL Cool J - Ten Million Stars
The Game - Dreams

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i opened this just to post 'all that i got is you' by ghostface (featuring mary j) but someone beat me to it, so here's some others:

dizzee rascal :: brand new day
dizzee rascal :: imagine
ghostface ft. musiq :: love
ghostface ft. raekwon, slick rick & rza :: the sun
sharkey :: i luv u
the streets :: dry your eyes
the streets :: all goes out the window

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That Ghostface track is a good one.

"You Got Me" by the Roots (?uestlove's beat at the end of this is so cold it kills me)


NT

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Masta Ace - Good Ol' Love

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I was thinking Masta Ace - Beautiful.

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Big L's "Flamboyant" has a really nice flute loop.

I feel like I should be able to come up with something else, but it's not hitting right now.

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I have no idea wtf beautiful is supposed to mean. This song rules. clicky

Mods, this song is up for download on the person's Myspace, there are no copyright issues with it. Please don't delete.

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i had one come to mind but i can't put an artist or song title to it. main part of the beat is strings, like the kind from that big chinese string instrument, and the chorus goes something along the line of "i'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six." used frequently in rap battles.

anyone know the tune?

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I have no idea wtf beautiful is supposed to mean.

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Agreed, the OP's examples don't give me a very clear idea either.

Another one I was thinking of was "Quiet Storm"

NT

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i had one come to mind but i can't put an artist or song title to it. main part of the beat is strings, like the kind from that big chinese string instrument, and the chorus goes something along the line of "i'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six." used frequently in rap battles.

anyone know the tune?

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East Flatbush Projects - Tried By 12

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i had one come to mind but i can't put an artist or song title to it. main part of the beat is strings, like the kind from that big chinese string instrument, and the chorus goes something along the line of "i'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six." used frequently in rap battles.

anyone know the tune?

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East Flatbush Projects - Tried By 12

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cheers.
great beat.

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The version of this I downloaded (I think from another OOTiot) lists the artist as Trinity Garden Cartel.

NT

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cheers.
great beat.

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It was before it became a beat at every single battle ever. I think it's overrated.

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Cyne - First Person
Heiroglyphics - Soweto
Acid Reign & Olmeca - Special People (aka Some Say This)
Cunninlynguists - Nothing to Give
Cunninlynguists - Beautiful Girl
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
Genelec and Memphis Reigns - Chicken Soup
Immortal Technique - Caught in a Hustle
Jedi Mind Tricks - Saviorself
Non Phixion - Say Goodbye to Yesterday

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I have no idea wtf beautiful is supposed to mean. This song rules. clicky

Mods, this song is up for download on the person's Myspace, there are no copyright issues with it. Please don't delete.

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I highly doubt they have the sample clearance on the "Renegade" beat

not that I care

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It's not a sample, it's the actual beat, the people who made the original beat, Eminem, needed to clear the sample they used. I'm fairly sure that mixtapes don't need to clear anything.

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Can we recommend beautiful rap or are you only looking for hip hop?

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Can we recommend beautiful rap or are you only looking for hip hop?

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IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL.

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Skeme,

You're right, that sorta disqualifies rap.

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Not exactly sure what you mean by beautiful, but here's what I came up with scrolling through my itunes:

Black Girl Pain - Talib Kweli
Over and Over - Last Emperor
Reign - Bahamadia
Daylight Aesop Rock
Mind Sex - dead prez
Woman Tonight - Felt

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Black Girl Pain - Talib Kweli


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...and it's not even close

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Gangstarr - Moment of Truth

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WTF @ THREAD.

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searchin through itunes, some of these stand out i guess
the roots- guns are drawn
nas- the message
gang starr- mass appeal
imortal technique- harlem streets

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Roots Manuva - Movements
Blackalicious - Make you Feel That Way
Blackalicious - Brain Washers
Blackalicious - Aural Pleasure

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some good ones in here, keep them coming

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young jeezy - trap star

always makes me feel good

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Cormega - They Forced My Hand
Beatnuts - Watch Out Now & Look Around
Big Pun - Off Wit His Head
Canibus - Niggonometry
Dead Prez - Hip Hop

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anything Digable Planets

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Immortal Technique - You Never Know

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a lot of illmatic..
jay-z - can i live, cant knock the hustle, regrets,

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cheers.
great beat.

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It was before it became a beat at every single battle ever. I think it's overrated.

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It's so percussive, and it has the little spare piano in the background, so it's easy for people to get into the rhythm and also to focus on the lyrics. That's why I like to rhyme to it, though admittedly not as much as some other beats.

It's not my favorite beat or anything, but it DOES still always make me want to rhyme. Part of that might be that I heard an Eminem/Biggie radio appearance where they rhymed over it before I knew the name of the beat, so I already had something good with which to associate it.

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gravediggaz, the night the earth cried
kanye west feat. paul wall, drive slow
masta ace, block episode, a lot of other masta ace songs actually, his last 2 albums have both had great production
cormega, the testament
the firm, phone tap
proof feat T3 & mudd, slum elementz
all natural, queens get the money (irritating lyrics but you said you don't care)
xzibit feat. defari & king t, loud & clear
fugees, family business