> Some other recent finds I like are Strange Fruit Project, Murs, Codename: Scorpion, > Himalayan Project, and Classified just to name a few. Oh and I forgot People Under > The Stairs, love this one of theirs too.
Thank you for these recommendations, I needed that, I've fallen ridiculously behind on Hip hop since moving to Brazil. Among the last stuff I discovered that I liked was The Last Emperor..I really like the lyrics on this, it's so full of references that you could spend days tracking all of them:
And there's Jean Grae, bought a compilation on Vinyl by Questlove that had this one on it:
Great ghetto story..the piano hook is sampled from that fantastic Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway album..forgot its name..