The 'Young MCs' thread

Orizio

Basically a thread to post MCs and artists to look out for in the future. They don't have to be Nas-like prodigies or even that young, but new MC's who make good music and who are starting their careers...

Mac Millar - Wiz Khalifa's new weed carrying white boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rqu-hjobc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxW5vJvWX9w

Orizio

Wiz Khalifa - been around a while now, but his newest album/mixtape is a signifcant step up in quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWe26D0nDMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMH7L1_lPVs

Orizio

Curren$y - a cheat here, because this dude has been around for the best part of a decade and is nearly 30, but he left YM a while back, re-invented himself and is now my favourite indie MC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnn-Lz3VbrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAnHCbOj5I

Shapey Fiend

Those first two lads have some delicious production. Videos are slick as well.

Only young fella I've heard of recently is Earl. He's pretty class. About 16 years of age. Amusing shock-rap video for this track as well.

http://vimeo.com/12056212

Orizio

Freddie Gibbs - absolutely crazy flow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQjRksNxzdI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztt5Phhizc

Shapey Fiend

Gibbs rules. Womb 2 Tha Tomb was one of my favorite tracks last year.

Vado is pretty class. He's in Dipset now I think. Can't wait for their new album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLiqZSp303Q

"Coke like Tiger Woods, fcuk with too much white"

Orizio

Not sure about Vado, nice flow, nice beat choice but he doesn't really stand out vocally. I'll check out his album anyway.

Jimmy Iovine

Lil' Ken aka Famous. To be honest I'm not sure which name he goes by but he's decent enough. He's signed to Chamillionaire's label and has been on a few songs and in some videos. He had his own mixtape sometime there the other year. Didn't get it but there's a few handy tracks off it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDSg9EJ53kM

The next one is from Chamillionaire's own mixtape series but Famous takes the song himself and does fairly well on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kPJVVRRfg

horsebox09

Big K.R.I.T

New Southern rapper that dropped a free album earlier this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpdX14zmQtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npBSNUEzk-g

Glottal Mots

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Those first two lads have some delicious production. Videos are slick as well.

Only young fella I've heard of recently is Earl. He's pretty class. About 16 years of age. Amusing shock-rap video for this track as well.

http://vimeo.com/12056212

I've been listening to Earl for the past week, his mixtape is ****in amazing, same with his crew's mixtape, both free to download here

http://oddfuture.tumblr.com/

Noz made a point about him that i agree with, that he's the first thing to come along and get me excited about hip hop again in a while

Glottal Mots

Also Cory Gunz is pretty great, he's been making tapes and appearances for a while but no sign of a deal yet

Boom_Bap

Orizio wrote: »

Wiz Khalifa - been around a while now, but his newest album/mixtape is a signifcant step up in quality.

In an MTV poll of over 200,000 voters, Pittsburgh emcee Wiz Khalifa was named MTV News’ Hottest Breakthrough MC Of 2010. In winning the poll, Wiz beat other finalists including Nicki Minaj,J.Cole,Travis Porter and Diggy Simmons.According to MTV, the voting was strictly limited to up-and-coming talent: artists could not have released a major-label album by June 21, 2010, disqualifying emcees such as B.O.B. and Drake from the voting. The announcement was made Sunday (July 25) on MTV2’s “Sucker Free Summit.”

Good stuff from Wiz K. They mentioned Diggy Simmons in there too. I think that he is going to be super large, he has a sick delivery and clever lyrics.

Boom_Bap

Wax/Herbal T/EOM

Gonna tie all 3 of these guys together, they are all connected. Wax and EOM have released an album called Liquid Courage recently, it's quite a good album. The 2 never met and didnt until after the album was released. Wax until then produced for himself along with asists from Herbal T.
EOM is also a well know beatboxer as well as beatmaker. here is a track from that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iaHS-skmM4

Wax and Herbal T are twin brothers, Herbal T lives in Brazil which has an impact on them working together, both are super nice on the mic and hanle production together, they are both also accomplished musicians and play a variety of instruments. They are releasing a lot of vids on youtube now, some of which are dope as f*ck. Here's a few.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxlKtIMQm3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfCLHno9OoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNMUuGTAOs

And this is the video that kinda got Wax noticed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TPcGksW5M

you'll have bom-bom-bomp-bom-bomma-ma-bom-bom repeating in your head after this

Boom_Bap

Trek Life, he's one to look out for. Although not exactly new on the scene, he had an album a few years back but is about to drop another.

I've been spending alot of time today listening to his stuff, really fresh and has production from Oddisse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBiD40YGmN8

Raekwon

Nesby Phips - Has a mixtape called "The Phipstape - Vol 1" doing the rounds for a good while now and had his profile raised with a few guest spots on a couple of Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y joints. Good to see that New Orleans hip-hop does not revolve solely around Cash Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVdwichEdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpnGoG0uJ18