Indic Hip Hop beats? Your thoughts?

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Indic Hip Hop beats? Your thoughts?
OP - December 23, 2011, 07:23 AM

What are your thoughts? what about those of you with selective taste arx? naija?

Ive been checking this shit out. What I can say tho that to me it sounds hard. Couldnt have forseen this myself. But theres just something about Indic melody sampled with heavy beats that goes hard.

rather crunked out WSHH type beats

specimen #1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0rVRtXsiEo

the instrumental (I didnt realize how much Yelawolf did for the beat, its quite a hard beat to rap to)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpcrbCvqT4Q

specimen #2

I dont think the language is anything Indic but the tune sounds Indic and it wasnt just me there were people in the comment section that noted this as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPT1oN1kplo

instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRbEghcU20

and look what Ive found! specimen #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1baf0u8KX8w
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Reply #1 - December 23, 2011, 09:09 AM

I don't really listen to much of it but I like what Madlib did with his Bollywood crate-digging adventure:

Beat Konducta - ... In India

Movie Finale

Indian Hump

Another Getaway

Piano Garden

Get It Right

Quote from: passingaround on December 23, 2011, 07:23 AM
specimen #1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0rVRtXsiEo

the instrumental (I didnt realize how much Yelawolf did for the beat, its quite a hard beat to rap to)

I saw him a few months back when he opened for Wu-Tang and he nearly got booed off the stage haha. I liked that he didn't seem to give a shit even with bottles flung at him.

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Reply #2 - December 23, 2011, 09:15 AM

Quote from: arX on December 23, 2011, 09:09 AM
Movie Finale

This was rehashed for Mos Def's Auditorium with the one and only Slick Rick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YziPBpJi1ww

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Reply #3 - December 23, 2011, 09:21 AM

Quote from: passingaround on December 23, 2011, 07:23 AM
What I can say tho that to me it sounds hard. Couldnt have forseen this myself. But theres just something about Indic melody sampled with heavy beats that goes hard.

I haven't thought about it that way but you're right, it seems to be the way it's universally used in hip hop.

Against the ruin of the world, there
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Reply #4 - December 23, 2011, 09:22 AM

Thanks for the stuff you posted. Appreciate it!

Quote from: arX on December 23, 2011, 09:09 AM
I saw him a few months back when he opened for Wu-Tang and he nearly got booed off the stage haha. I liked that he didn't seem to give a shit even with bottles flung at him.

lol of course hes a white trash wigga, hes definitely going to get a hard time. Especially with Wu Tang fans who tend to mainly be East Coast Underground cats.
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Reply #5 - December 23, 2011, 10:00 AM

Quote from: arX on December 23, 2011, 09:09 AM
I don't really listen to much of it but I like what Madlib did with his Bollywood crate-digging adventure:

lol hilarious the way you put it, thats exactly what I fear the most. Having to go through massive catalogues of bollywood songs to pick out something nice. Thats something I dont want to have to undergo. Haha

Ok I'd say way too bolly bolly sounding tunes wont be nice. The one by Digital Underground imo is perfect. Thats type of sound Im going for.

Call me demented but when Im listening to some G-Funk tracks I get the feeling that the tune is rather Indic too. But I think thats because alot of Western music/techniques were combined and used for making Indian pop songs.

fucker A R Rahman stole alot, his only asset is he knew how to combine Western music to produce songs that would sell well in the Indian market

(wholesale theft from Michael Jackson on this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKf_HS9Puc

If this instrumental was altered even slightly and had Indian vocals over it, it would just be any ordinary South Indian song from the early 90s (not kidding)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ht_BQUMP48

And also 'the Next Episode' by Dre uses bhangra as its base
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crdp30kRG3U

Jay Z made a version where he rapped over the club classic 'Mundian Tu Bach Ke'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9Bsjiw3CI

also Snap did a bhangra version of his hit 'The Power'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDWzXM8te1k

not my cup of tea, I dont really like the use of bhangra

On a side note, though possibly useful to the discussion, some japanese music goes well with hip hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQKPvts-kU
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