New and engaging rap and hip hop artists


In my last thread before it was shut down I was introduced to a few artist new to me in the genre that I've really dove into. For those of you who are into this style and genre of music, what are some new relatively new artists you can recommend?


They could also be established or old school, especially if you have a certain album or a track you want to point to.


As of late I've been kicking it to Pharoahe Monch and Erykah Badu and have been trying to get into Lil Uzi Vert.


As always, if you have nothing constructive to add, please stay out. We're all audiophiles here, so at least respect the community from that perspective
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@simao  I salute your tenacity.  I too learned of new (to me) and interesting artists on the prior threads.
Although he wasn’t a rap artist per se, the late, excellent guitarist Ronny Jordan incorporated rap into some of his music. Check out his album The Antidote.
Gerry - it’s not so much tenacity as it is a simple interest in what’s out there! There’s so much good new music with groove and depth and complexity out there today. And those past three threads have shown how resistant and scared and judgmental and bigoted an older generation is with something they don’t identify with or understand. And that’s pretty much human history in a nutshell.


But I’m going to continue appreciating new music - and acknowledging that a lot of it’s also complete crap, too - as long as I can still listen to it.