when you think of how rap songs should sound...what songs do you think of

[Don Jacob]

the quintessential or typical....


eastcoast tracks in my mind should sound like : mob deep , shook ones and wu tang clan, method man (grimey and flowfalactic lyrics [thank you bigg jeffree for inventing the word flowfalactic])


westcoast tracks in my mind  should sound like: NWA, Real Niggaz don't die  and  dre's , deeeez nuts( layered production,not really good rhymes ...but entertaining ones)


Down South: Outkast, Rosa Parks and Goodie Mob, black ice (pimped out lyrics , twangy accents, and country ass[black folk country] beats)


Midwest:  not really any tracks really stand out but when i think of midwest music i think of phsycho people talking about crazy shit like fucking dead people and popping pills and sawing off someone's fingers and eating them like nachos.

[Don Breezio]

the quintessential or typical....


eastcoast tracks in my mind should sound like : mob deep , shook ones and wu tang clan, method man (grimey and flowfalactic lyrics [thank you bigg jeffree for inventing the word flowfalactic])


westcoast tracks in my mind  should sound like: NWA, Real Niggaz don't die  and  dre's , deeeez nuts( layered production,not really good rhymes ...but entertaining ones)


Down South: Outkast, Rosa Parks and Goodie Mob, black ice (pimped out lyrics , twangy accents, and country ass[black folk country] beats)


Midwest:  not really any tracks really stand out but when i think of midwest music i think of phsycho people talking about crazy shit like fucking dead people and popping pills and sawing off someone's fingers and eating them like nachos.

i would say:

eastcoast - should be somewhere in between nas - the message and method man - bring the pain

westcoast - should be somewhere in between dr. dre - nuthin but a g thang and yukmouths still ballin...with some warren g regulators right in the middle

south - should be something like outkasts players ball and skew it on the bar b or like nappy roots - awnaw and po' folks

midwest...im not really sure about that one...

[Lord Funk]

when i think of midwest music i think of phsycho people talking about crazy shit like fucking dead people and popping pills and sawing off someone's fingers and eating them like nachos.

ROFL... Pretty typical I suppose. When I think of ideal music Midnight Marauders always pops in my head. That would be a blueprint for me.

[mauzip]

Midwest:  not really any tracks really stand out but when i think of midwest music i think of phsycho people talking about crazy shit like fucking dead people and popping pills and sawing off someone's fingers and eating them like nachos.

Never heard of Bone Thugs?

[Don Jacob]

Midwest:  not really any tracks really stand out but when i think of midwest music i think of phsycho people talking about crazy shit like fucking dead people and popping pills and sawing off someone's fingers and eating them like nachos.

Never heard of Bone Thugs?

you'd have a point if Bone Thugs weren't copying off the west coast and if other acts outside of the bone family in the mid west sounded like them

[mauzip]

they don't copy from the west. they have their own sound, influenced by someone from the west coast. and i guess you never heard music by for example the emmortal thugs or lareece or else you wouldn't have made this comment

check http://www.midwestinvasion.com for more midwest rap.

[smartass]

lmao @ not really any stand out tracks. never heard of i used to love her or a rapper named common?

[Don Breezio]

lmao @ not really any stand out tracks. never heard of i used to love her or a rapper named common?

very very good point

[Jome]

Royce 5'9 is the current king of the midwest..  

IMO:

East:
Scratched beats.. ill samples from old classics..
Grimey dark beats.. examplified by the likes of DJ Premier, Havoc, RZA & Alchemist

(I don't like the Nu-sound though, with poppy radio-beats from the likes of Irv Gotti, DJ Clue and whoever produces for Fabolous & Joe Budden.)

West:
Bumping clean catchy beats with hard bass, examplified and copyrighted by Dr.Dre.
Scott Storch, Fred Wreck, Eminem, MelMan got almost the same Westcoast-sound, even if they're not all from the Westcoast.
Then there's diff. types of producers who's playing the background to the Dre-sound, like Battlecat, Evidence, E-Swift, DJ Quik and more.. with a little more undefined style than the Dre-style.

South:
The scream and get crunk is easy to think off, as well as the bumpy beats of Manny Fresh.
This "crunk"-sound is easy to notice, cuz it's so loud in many cases.
But the South is so much more.. but I'd say the club-crunk hits is kinda typical for the South.

Midwest:
Hard to define, imo..
It seems to be in the middle of the West and South.. and some times even flirting with the East.
The least defined sound of these 4.

[bow_down]

I think east coast music is the grimey type of shit. The shit you listen with your headphones on. West coast rap is for the stereo because of the usualy westcoast beat and lyrics are simple most of the time. If i had to pick a song that defines east coast rap it would be CREAM and west coast it will be Whats My name

[willie_d]

As for the east, I'm thinking of a track laced by Premier  for Jaz-O, "Love Is Gone." That track is just crazy!
Other tracks: "Raw" by Big Daddy Kane, "Welcome tot the Terrordome" by PE, and PMD's "Straight from the Heart."

In the west, I'd say "California Love" is maybe a corny choice, but really an anthem for west coast hip hop.
Other standout tracks: "100 Miles and Runnin'" by NWA, "Black Mob" by Above the Law, and " West up!" by W.C.