nope

0/10, too obvious

corey in the house

Parappa the Rapper.

>>21996630

San Andreas

Jet Grind Radio is the obvious answer.

no because sadly it wouldn't sell. That makes me sad and rage at the same time...

Does Jet Grind Radio count?

jet set/grind radio

SAINTS ROW 2: BRO FIST: THE GAME

>>21996630

>>21996647
/thread

Jet Set Radio, Parappa the Rapper, Marc Ecko's Getting Up, 3rd Strike...

>>21996647

funny you mention that game. I was playing JSRF with my friend today.

>>21996719
Not even close.

Nice try, though.

>>21996714
I wish I lived in the early 90's so I could wear my pants backwards and still be considered normal.

>>21996750
>3rd Strike
What, how?

Has there ever.....been respectable hip hop culture?

Seriously. It can't be done. Hip hop is all about being gangsta and row row fight tha powah. There is no such thing as respectable hip hop.

>>21996812
LETS GET IT ON NOW
CMON AND MAKE YOUR FIRST PICK
LETS GET IT ON NOW
TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX

>>21996592
Halo 3.

>>21996831
>Hip hop is all about being gangsta
Wrong.

>>21996812
in 3rd strike lots of things are so 90s hip hop like sean the sf3 selection screen rap, dudleys theme song is like a hip hop techno thing. The other scores are very jazzy but not sure it counts as hip hop.

>>21996812
ALRIGHT! THATS COOL!

MAKE YOUR FIRST PICK

SO WHATS IT GON BE

YOURE TRAPPED IN THE NEW WORLD OF SF3!

FIGHT FOR DA FUTURE!

Persona 3

>>21996815
>>21996831
For fuck’s sake, Hip hop is not gangsta style. That’s just a new retarded genre about drugs, money and misogyny. It isn’t the same fucking thing as hip hop.

>>21996868
O RLY?

I sure as hell never saw a hip hop artist that could be a good role model for any kid I'd raise.

There are some leftist hiphoppers here in Sweden and they seem pretty smart. They don't rap about how much money they have or how many whores they fuck. They don't even rap about killing people. But they look like hippies and do drugs so there goes the respectable bit.

>>21996831
>Hip hop is all about being gangsta

Watch this video, then kill yourself for being such a faggot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4

>respectable

>hip hop culture

laughingelfman.jpg

>>21996630
/thread.

>>21997023
Oh, I stand corrected. Hip hop is about using a putting random samples together in a sequencer and rant maniacally to the beat.

>>21997022
looptroop?

>>21997022
You are putting hip hop and gangsta rap in the same boat and that is the ignorant mistake people do.

Yes, hip hop was about freedom, revolution and maybe even anarchy to an extent. It wasn’t the nicest and happiest thing in the world but it wasn’t evil, violent or as disrespectful as gangsta rap. Gangsta rap turned out to be the hateful, retarded offspring of it, though.

Compare Del with Fat Joe. MF Doom with 50 Cent. Common with Rick Ross. Not the same fucking thing.

>>21996868
ok ok, its all about being a complete jackass while appealing to white teenagers.

breakdancan
graffitan
scratchan
rappan

Yeah, hip hop is indeed a very respectable subculture. Srsly, who the hell would weep if hip hop just vanished over the night?

>>21997298
Blacks, Wiggers, Miscellaneous dumbasses.

>>21997298
the RIAA. of course that would be two great things in one!

Anyone who thinks that hip hop and gangster rap are the same culture are noncomformist faggots who should kill themselves.

Del tha funky homosapien
Sir Mixalot
MC Hammer
Aesop Rock
Evil Nine

Just because Hip Hop is urban, doesn't mean it has to be "pow pow wid tha bitches" or anything.

OP got /mu/ in my /v/.

>>21997405
This is the first time I've ever seen someone trying to use the word nonconformist as an insult. I'm amazed. Then again, perhaps you're like 100 years old or something.

>>21996831
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWwLX4j970

Common fucking sucks.

Just because he's an earnest 'intelligent nice guy' rapper doesn't mean he's any good.

Ghostface and Nas on the other hand...

Marc Ecko's Gettin' Up: Contents Under Pressure

>>21997502
Bullshit, Common is great. There's nothing majorly wrong about him.

Offcourse he's not the best. But he's good.

>>21997298
You spin it as if breakdancing were a ruthless killing art, graffiti were blatant, vulgar, rude and obscene vandalism (which it sometimes is, nothing is ever perfect), DJing were a mindless drone sequence and rappping were always insulting, pointless and meaningless.

>>21997563
I actually met Common once.

He plays Disgaea.

>>21997563
true, but I just get sick to death of talking to white college kids and asking what music they like
Collegedouche: "I like all kinds of stuff man, like rock and hip-hop and stuff"
Me: "oh you like hip-hop? Who do you listen to?"
Collegedouche: "You know, the good old school type stuff, the stuff that talks about like, real issues and shit before it was all about money and guns. Stuff like Common, Kanye West and Run DMC and shit."
Me: RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

the best rappers are the ones who talk about money, guns, sex as well as politics and social issues. It's the contrast that makes it compelling.

In short: Money/Guns rappers = stupid
Politics/niceguy rappers = boring
both combined = awesome

>>21997742
Kanye West isn't good.

And Common DOES rap about gangs, guns, money and prostitution. I’s just that he PROTESTS it rather than boast about it.

so that narrow's it down to MC Chris, Frontalot, and...

>>21997742
>old school stuff
>Kanye West

Kanye West is one of many tumors contributing to the cancer killing hip-hop, the other major ones being Soulja Boy and Lil' Wayne

>>21996831
What the fuck?

>>21997742 both combined = awesome

No. Fuck you. You make me "FFFFFFFFFFF" you piece of shit.

>>21997821
listen to "I gave you power" by Nas

definitely one of the most chilling hip-hop songs ever written, and it's actually really fucking good.

>>21997742
>DMC

Devil May Cry? Tell me that wouldn't be an awesome crossover.

No one in this thread has said Immortal Technique was good.
Thank fucking goodness.

>Has there ever been a video game about respectable hip hop culture?

Dunno...but there has been respectable hip hop about game culture.

Del the Funky Homosapien - Proto culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_owLgOBTng

bonus points if you recognize the sample without looking at the description.

>>21997896
why? If you look back at all the best rappers, nearly all of them fit that description.
2Pac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas and Wu-Tang Clan all rapped about the usual money/guns/sex bullshit, but were also strongly aware of the socio-political issues of their time and wove them into their storytelling.

>>21997286
0/10

>>21996592

>Has there ever been a video game about respectable

Ooh, I like where this sentence is going, go on...

>hip hop culture?

...

wat

>>21997948
Immortal Technique is good but he's really fucking overrated.

>>21997145
So you're just a troll. In that case, definitely kill yourself.

Hip hop isn’t gangsta rap.

Hip hop is about train of thought, consciousness and expression.

Gangsta rap is about boasting money, abusing women and utter materialism.

And it opens up and expands into other countries. Japanese Hip Hop is fucking awesome and they rap about everyday mundane things.

>>21997856
words cannot possibly express how much I hate that talentless hack Kanye West

>>21997896
Really?
A mix of the both makes it a lot more interesting
and I'm pretty sure he's not talking about guns and bitches like most mainstream artists do.
Also, getting back to the video game aspect,
the Tony Hawk series always had some great Hip-hop soundtracks
The other day I remember listening to Imaginary Places in THUG2 if I remember correctly.
Kids, if you want to piss off your parents..

>>21997023
Fuck, that beat is awesome.

why is it that Hip-Hop is automatically condemned as trash if it isn't about politics?

The Beatles spent most of their time sitting around, getting high and writing bullshit about eggmen and yellow submarines and yet they're considered one of the greatest bands of all time. Johnny Cash wrote tons of songs about murder and drug use, and he is (rightly) considered one of the best musicians ever, yet when the same shit is said in Hip-Hop it's suddenly a disgrace.

fucking double standard bullshit. Most music is about irrelevant things, deal with it.

>>21997985
True, they were socially aware about those things (except Jay Z), but it was all overshadowed by their gangsta rap style. I mean, I honestly did not like Tupac, but everyone who I ask if they like rap will say Tupac just because he is that fucking famous.

And don’t even bring Jay Z into the equation. He is gangsta rap, plain and simple. He’s just less obvious about it.

oh lawrds..

how has this not been mentioned?

I really don't give two shits what a guy raps about in his songs, as long as it's clever and tells a good story.

In other words, fuck Souljah Boy and all the down syndrome niggers who buy his album

>>21998312
WU-TANG FUCK YEAR!!!!

>>21998188
this is actually a well-thought out post.

I want an anticon video game.

De La Soul up in this thread.

Anyone who thinks Hip Hop is all one-track minded needs to get some:

De La Soul
Black Star
The Roots

...and then you can voice your opinion without ignorance.

>>21997984

I love that beat.

Common is bubblegum hop. Fuck off with his bullshit.

SAINTS ROW BRO

>>21997984
"Niggas know 'bout that Dreamcast?" when I first heard this song years ago.

>>21997896
socially concious rappers are often pretty talented but the problem is that ultimately they're all saying the exact same thing after a while
"they keep puttin' us in jail'
'single mothers raising kids on their own'
'crackheads die in the streets'
'young black men kill each other over money'
'the government doesn't care about us'

these are all important things that need to be adressed, but when they're just being repeated album after album by the same few artists it just gets dull, just like hearing about dealing drugs and killing people was kind of exciting the first time, but now it's fucking boring and inane.

You need a duality within the mind of the artist to tell a compelling story. No one likes hearing stories about moralfags and no one likes hearing stories about immoral dicks, why is music any different?

>why is it that Hip-Hop is automatically condemned as trash if it isn't about politics?

Because this is /v/, and expecting any semblance of an intelligent reaction from either a) trolls, b) basementbound neckbeards or c) downright idiots would be a mistake on your part.

Wtf? No one else liked this game? I thought it was really fun, one of my favorite fightan games.

>>21998188
yeah, The Beatles sure sucked alright.

>>21998557
at least it isn't /v/, where the reply would simply be "LOL GTFO NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER "

>>21998661
meant to say /b/

>>21998583
I fucking loved that game!

Don't mind me, just being the best rapper alive.

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>>21998583
hell yeah man, great game!

>>21998701
I lol'd

just keep telling yourself that, Wayne. I'm sure all those 8 year old kids will back you up.

>>21998736
DAT ASS

I really fucking hate concious rap. Only artist I can stomach is Sage Francis and he's probably ironically the worst of them.

I swear I can only listen to Acid Rap, for some reason. That and specific artists and albums. Most notably Nas, The Black Album (only thing from Jay-Z that I liked), Clipse, and the classic/underground shit that should be obvious at this point.

whose definition of 'respectable' are we using anyway?