Hip Hop Anime

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PartiallyMetalAlchemist

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I don't really know a lot of anime fans but i get the feeling that most of the anime audience listen to indie, rock, punk music (I've got nothing wrong with that, I listen to Coldplay)
But after Dragonball Z anime craze went off my mind and I got really into hip-hop/rap and then after a few years I got into anime. I loved stuff like Samurai Champloo and Afro Samurai because it fused two of my favourite hobbies of mine

Started this topic after I saw this video on a rap website where the director of the video chopped up Beserk/Berserk, Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In The Shell to a rap song

http://nahright.com/news/2010/09/08/vid ... -wackness/

(Music contains explicit material + don't be put off by the song name)

So my question is this does anybody share my conjoined love of hip-hop and anime or do you have something else that joins together with anime like bread for example (been watchin alot of Yakitate!! Japan recently)
 
I have a very eclectic taste of music and I do like hip hop/rap but like any genre, hip hop is very broad. Most of the very well known popular acts of today I really don't like: The gangster stuff or any rap that is extremely materialistic/self obsessed. I like some of the good old school stuff, or the hip hop music where the focus is much more on the music or having a fun vibe with the music. Or Hip Hop that works off of Hip Hop beats and timing (Early Gorillaz for example). The hip hop combined with anime that I've seen much more fits into that kind of thing as games like Jet Set Radio did.

I only like the fusion when it's done with that sort of hip hop.

Also it depends on what you class as hip hop. I think a lot of instrumental hip hop (artists such as Blockhead) could work well with the medium if done right.
 
I can't remember a lot of hip hop, but have you seen Mitchiko to Hatchin? It's very music-based, like Champloo or Bebop. Shinichiro Watanabe was involved with it.
 
Yep I love Hip Hop, and I have to say Samurai Champloo did mix it in perfectly, there's not many things out there that are as cool as Hip Hop samurai
 
Although BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad is more of a rock music anime, it did feature a few hip-hop elements like how Chiba Tsunemi was part of a hip-hop group when he wasn't performing with BECK.
 
Paradox295 said:
Churchy99 said:
The gangster stuff or any rap that is extremely materialistic/self obsessed.
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They have that anime-related too

Awwwwwww, bitch ah look like Goku :lol:

Warning: The above video contains bad language and you may lose a few IQ points
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Just, oh dear...

That's all I have to say about that...

Just oh dear...

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I used to love Hip-Hop back in the 90's (especially east coast) when it was still niche and had a harder, less R&B influenced sound and everything felt knew and original.

As far as anime and Hip-Hop, the occasional Yoko Kanno track, AMVs and Samurai Champloo are the only times they have meshed that I can remember. For example:

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50 Cent, Eminem, go home and take your fans with you. LL shows you kids how it's meant to be done.

HELL YEAH!!!!
 
Some people said that they liked 90's Hip-Hop better and I can't really say your wrong but for me I like listening to the newer and much more clever generation of rappers (I wouldn't say there's a lot of them) and i'm not talkin gangsters or or pimps but really lyrical people who can flow on a track

I would say Eminem and new artists like J Cole (aah... let's see how many people on this anime forum know who this is)
are in my opinion better because apart from Tupac, Nas and a few others a lot of them couldn't stand up to Eminem lyrically and flow as easy as him

Oh.. Crap! I haven't said anything about anime
But becuase of this I'll probably watch BECK, Mitchiko to Hatchin and Cowboy Bebop because I like music being a part of the story and Cowboy bebop because of how amazing that show is suspposed to be


And you thought Soulja Boy's Song was bad check this out
 
^hmm I wouldn't really say that the newer geration of Hip Hop artists are necessarily more clever than the older ones, there have always been intelligent thought provoking artists around, KRS-One is an example but ther been many

Oh and that Goku track.... Im utterly speechless
 
PartiallyMetalAlchemist said:
I would say Eminem and new artists like J Cole (aah... let's see how many people on this anime forum know who this is)
are in my opinion better because apart from Tupac, Nas and a few others a lot of them couldn't stand up to Eminem lyrically and flow as easy as him
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As far as 90's rappers go, whether it's lyrics or battling or storytelling, I think Jeru da Damaja, Kool G. Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Big L stand up better than Eminem. They are smarter and much more enjoyable, able to do storytelling and battling.

Production wise, it's all about the 90's with DJ Premier, Buckwild, RZA, Havoc, Large Professor and Pete Rock.

I stopped listening to Hip Hop because it became harder to ignore issues like misogyny and stopped being fun a long time ago so I can't comment on anything after MF Doom.
 
Yeah but not all Hip Hop is Misogynistic, there are still some intelligent and funny emcees around, maybe not mainstream but who cares. Why give up on it completely?
 
I was massively influenced by the underground hip-hop movement in the early 2000's but have since gone back to my musical roots from the 90's. I guess you could say that it was was a fad that lasted a while but I eventually went back to what I knew best.

I still sometimes listen to guys like Immortal Technique, Ill Bill & Chino XL but that's about it.
 
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