Hip Hop vs Drum and Bass, Which is better!!

[dj fu]

I choose hip hop, because it is my first love and you can actualy understand what the mc's are saying, Although the last 3 years hasn't realy put out that much good hip hop, accept for the uk stuff.

[Pink Niki]

Only just started properly getting into Hip Hop in the last 6

months or so, but have been listening to DnB for about nearly 4

years now so gotta go with the drums and the bass!

[Stumasta]

Drum and bass.

On the whole there's alot more integrity about it IMO.

[dj fu]

dnb has nicked a lot from hip hop!! especialy the drum breaks

[rogue]

it's a toughie, but i'd say hiphop :cool:

[Gem]

Drum and bass, I can't dance to hip hop. Who can stomp to hip hop?

Sorry but it just doesn't get the blood flowing for me. Perhaps I am being shallow because I haven't listened to enough of it, but that's why I'm here, on a drum and bass forum. Not a hip hop orientated one.

I'm quite surprised that this board has been started. :penguin:

[Roscoe]

The loops, breaks, beats, drums etc are very similiar but pretty much everything else - scene, people, emcee's, attitudes, etc are totaly different. They can't be compared and you can't say one is better its just what ur into personally...

From a technical point of view I'd go for DnB being harder to produce. Hip Hop emcee's I wouldn't say are better its just a diffenent style. DnB emcees are hyping up the crowd, freestlying, lookin to link words in certain ways, etc, etc - Hip Hop emcees are talkin about there lives and shit like that.

Hip Hops got huge background and influences much of the music being made today. Its so varied and there is so much different stuff about. Hip Hops got a bad rep these days cos of all the RnB urban shit thats going on stoppin the good stuff coming through.

There very similar but very different at the same time.

For me DnB for raving, Hip Hop for chillin and summit to watch live.

[Mantmast]

hip hop fo shizzle

[Pink Niki]

Originally posted by Gem
I'm quite surprised that this board has been started. :penguin:
pff!!!.............


why ??

[grande]

Originally posted by StumastaJay
Drum and bass.

On the whole there's alot more integrity about it IMO.

Why use the word "integrity"? In what way?

Hip hop by a long shot for me. I find that unless I'm in exactly the right mood for a drum n bass night it ends up doing my head in and I have to leave. Saying that I was at Source last Friday for the first time in years and quite enjoyed that.

Also, what about home listening? Certain stuff like 4 Hero is cool for that but you don't really want pounding tech step on your home stereo do you?

[Max]

hip hop!!!

i dont really like dnb, i've tried to get into it, but i find its possibly the most unaccessable form of dance music (apart from things like 4hero that are totally mellow). I could never go to a place where it was played all night.

[Mantmast]

^^^Wind-up right??^^^

[Jibba]

Drum n Bass.

Hip Hop has gone seriously downhill since its heyday of 1992-1998 (apart from UK hip hop like Fu said).

Hip Hop DJ's ask yourselves how many of the best tracks in your sets are from a few years back? Most right!

Drum n Bass DJ's know full well that their most upfront tunes get the best reactions and appreciation from the real heads...coz DnB is evolving whereas IMO hip hop (mainly US stuff) isn't moving forward really and is at a dry point in terms of production and new clever lyrics (without being gimmicky).

Saying that i've loved hip hop since around 93 over and over again like some clever hip hop.

Drum n Bass - for dancing to and mixing

Hip Hop - for listening to

[Roscoe]

There is still quality hip hop being made its just it doesn't reach the charts so most people don't hear it. Back in the era ur talking about all the good stuff was pretty mainstream as well so it was easy to find and pick up.

Its all about looking past the cheese as with any music genre!

However you could be like me and at that time in ur life you just generally were feelin hip hop more and now have moved into other stuff as well.

Agreed commerical hip hop has reached an all time low but that hopefully will make producers / emcees strive to put better more unique and originial stuff out.

All these old cats in the game have feel off - they haven't got the hunger anymore. Hip hop for me is all about making it against the struggle - that was always the appeal. Now they made it they got nothing to talk about apart from bitches, cash and cars.

Thats were UKHH takes over. Its still in its younger years like it was in the US when it was emerging from the bronx. So much more love is being put into Hip Hop over here IMO.

[Jibba]

There is still quality hip hop being made its just it doesn't reach the charts so most people don't hear it. Back in the era ur talking about all the good stuff was pretty mainstream as well so it was easy to find and pick up.

Its all about looking past the cheese as with any music genre!

However you could be like me and at that time in ur life you just generally were feelin hip hop more and now have moved into other stuff as well.

Agreed commerical hip hop has reached an all time low but that hopefully will make producers / emcees strive to put better more unique and originial stuff out.

All these old cats in the game have feel off - they haven't got the hunger anymore. Hip hop for me is all about making it against the struggle - that was always the appeal. Now they made it they got nothing to talk about apart from bitches, cash and cars.

Thats were UKHH takes over. Its still in its younger years like it was in the US when it was emerging from the bronx. So much more love is being put into Hip Hop over here IMO.



Profound words Mr Roscoe. You should write for HHC. Big ups.

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

Hip HOp has more depth and soul to it but generally I like to jump about like an idiot to bouncy drum loops

[Mikee Merge n C]

Controversial! :funk:

I chose Jungle but I do love Hip Hop!

[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by Mikee Hussla
generally I like to jump about like an idiot to bouncy drum loops


:funk:

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

What it's all about when you just wann have a laugh

[Max]

i agree that the best hip hop probably is out of the nineties. i dont think any hip hop head would argue otherwise.

Though I wouldnt say its all just about uk hip hop now. I still maintain that there is plenty more decent American hip hop released every month than british, it being a much bigger place being one reason. British hip hop isnt really that inventive in most cases. People like jehst and lewis parker make some dope beats, but they are very similar to what was being made in new york a decade earlier.

Only a few uk heads, like TY and roots manuva, are the ones pushing forward.

But theres plenty of nice american hip hop available for whatever suits your needs.

[rogue]

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[Roscoe]

Is Life making beats? I'm always feeling a bit of Nappa production, dopeness. Not listened to an PLC for yonks tho.

[rogue]

picked em up in Avid over the weekend. one was called Blair vs Bush, but it was all about the tune on the flip!

[Geemac]

uk hip hop is gonna blow up big time in the next couple years i reckon.

all about Taz, Marga Man and Dizzie Ras' !! :funk:

[dj raw]

that's a tough one.

to be honest, i'm finding drum and bass a uninspiring at the minute. it's either too fast, too dark, or house music based disco pap. it's just not pushing the right buttons for me.

some of the tracks are good, but i'm not getting the buzz that i used to out of it anymore!

hip-hop is a constant. it's where the whole dance music scene emerged from. so for that reason i'd say that i'm gonna go for hip-hop over drum and bass.

[rogue]

shit Raw, wouldve picked you as a dnb stalwart!
i think most peeps are of the opinion:

Dnb - to go raving to
Hihop - to listen/chill to

[vyper]

I've picked D&B, as i've been into D&B for 9 years now, and I love it! :) Whether im just listening to it at home or in a club, there's always a style of D&B for me.

I've got into Hip Hop more & more over the years, but I havn't really been into the UK stuff, they Lyrics are alwasy good, but not always the beats, but the stuff from the US, has wicked beats, but the lyrics are quite often not to the same standard as the beats..:(

[Mantmast]

Then you've been sleeping for too long mate. Time to check Madlib and co. Can't believe no-one else is really feelin that shit!!

[Roscoe]

Word to madlib

[Mantmast]

Indeed. IMO the best producer of our time