Nas, KRS One, and Tribe Called Quest off your list are definitely among my favorites (not to say the others aren't good). Those would definitely be my top 3 rap artist that not enough people listen to. Nas at least has some more recent stuff (not as good, imo) but KRS and Tribe completely pre-date a lot of people's rap/hip hop listening.
Outside of your list I would say The Roots are another group that could use some more spins. As do De La Soul/Mos Def, especially if you like Tribe, since a lot of Jazz influence and weird rhymes are common among them.
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Nas is my favourite rapper too :) He fell off recently, but until God's Son(Including) everything is pure masterpiece. And about recommendations: I know many of them, listening many of them, but you listed few that I don't know about, so I'll give them a try.
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isee you got some old school groups there including 2pac, but you forgot the group 2pac started with... Digital Underground.
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None of these are on your last.fm and all are mandatory:
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Outkast - Aquemini
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Fair dos. Definitely check out that Cannibal Ox album (either The F-Word or Pigeon if you want to sample a couple of songs on YouTube), can't believe nobody else has suggested it yet.
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Some good recommendations here, Lupe Fiasco and Sage Francis are two more good ones.
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Macklemore! But maybe you don't count that as rap.
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"good" "rap" and "art" in one sentence. Very nice joke, had me rolling on the floor laughing.
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Cant we all get along? I listen to some indie and metal, rap is good also, people should try bing more open. I use to hate rap until I actually realized that MTV was making the genre seem like a joke and that good stuff actually existed.
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http://caspianroach.ru/playa/PoS.html
http://goreshit.bandcamp.com/album/semantic-compositions-on-death-and-its-meaning
(okay, the first one is kind of a joke, I don't really 'listen' to it per se, but goreshit is amazing.)
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please do not confuse rap and hip-hop
rap used to be handcrafted with care using samplers such as AKAI S-1000, AKAI MPC, SP1200, etc and took time to be made and then post-production like any other style
anyways... sod it... I also apply "good" "rap" and "art" in one sentence as a joke for whatever was released after 1995 (ok, there are a few exceptions)
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As title says. Please, do not come out with wankers like Kanye west, OFWGKTA, etc. My last.fm profile clicky
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