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Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, [1] that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating the former while expanding the horizons of the ...
Jun 25, 2021 · A look at the The Best Jazz Rap LPs of 2021 by User Score. Rate your favorite albums to have your say in this list of the top user rated albums. ... Jazz Rap. 2020s ...
“Hip hop’s love affair with jazz goes back more than 30 years,” Lewis writes. The music was everywhere in the 90s, in the foreground on the records of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and Digable Planets and in more cut-and-paste ways in albums like Nas’ instant classic Illmatic, produced by Pete Rock, who crafted tracks like “N.Y. State of Mind” from ...
Apr 30, 2021 · A look at the The Best Jazz Rap EPs of 2021 by User Score. Rate your favorite albums to have your say in this list of the top user rated albums.
- Honourable Mentions
- Black Reign, Queen Latifah
- Modal Soul, Nujabes
- Breakin’ Combs, Dred Scott
- Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note, Madlib
- Blowout Comb, Digable Planets
- The Main Ingredient, Pete Rock and Cl Smooth
- Uptown Saturday Night, Camp Lo
- To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
- Stress: The Extinction Agenda, Organized Konfusion
Jazzmatazz Volume 1, Guru Enlisting some of the premier jazz musicians of the day, the Gang Starr MC brought us rap music withjazz (in what was a very ambitious combination for the time). Both the smooth and the swaggering of the two genres are brilliantly integrated in this smoky jazz rap cornerstone. Dwight Spitz, Count D Bass Before Madvillainy ...
Queen Latifah is one of the 90s’ most charismatic M.C.s and simultaneously one of the most underrated. Lead single “U.N.I.T.Y” may have won a Grammy back in 1995, but this dark jazzy project doesn’t get half the recognition it deserves today.
In the introduction the branching of lo-fi hip hop beats from jazz rap was alluded to. Japanese producer Nujabes sits comfortably in that tree fork gently swinging his legs and making sweet, sweet music. Often cited as the father of lo-fi hip hop, it is difficult to quantify the exact extent of his influence – but listening to Modal Soul it is pret...
1994, LA. Released on the wrong coast and 3 years too late, this album and some of its best tracks should sit comfortably within the cannon of classic boom-bap jazz rap – if only more people knew about it. It has the gorgeous beats, the bars, the bangers and a little star quality; the subtly Caribbean tinged rhythms of Scott’s delivery and his dark...
LA record label Blue Note is a monolith of jazz, with most of the genre’s biggest names from the late 50s and 60s putting at least a recording or two to wax there; this project sees Madlib given license to remix their entire catalogue. There is a definite ‘kid-in-a-sweet-shop’ vibe to the way it is all put together (a very talented one obviously) –...
Either of Digable Planet’s two brilliant albums could take this spot on the list. Their debut contained the bigger hits (“Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” included) but this gorgeous rap adventure takes the mustard with its atmospherically lit alley-bistro vibes. The live instrumentation is subtle but beautiful, and for the delicious progression o...
Lots of people like jazz rap for its vibe. Lounging in a smoke-filled room or chilling in the hot sun with a cool flannel on your forehead kind of music (idk?). This album epitomizes that like no other. CL Smooth is, as you would expect, smooth. He isn’t the most exceptional rapper you have heard, but he is very good, and the perfectfoil for Pete R...
One of the laziest ways to review an album is to say that it sounds like the cover looks. The reason such a temptation exists is that there is so often something to it – that is particularly true here. A vivid dream of a night out (as all the best ones are in the current clubbing climate), why enter the Wu’s 36 chambers when you could enter the Upt...
Essays could be (and have been) written on this album. I won’t even attempt to cover the breadth and depth of its content in a little review like this. What is relevant here is that it is a great hip hop album – one of the most significant in the genre’s history (despite its relative newness) – and that it integrates rich jazz into the deepest leve...
By no means popular upon its release, Pharoahe Monch and Prince Po’s second record had gained much deserved underground cult status by the end of the 90s. But unbelievably, it has now fallen back into relative obscurity. This is in no small part due to its absence from major streaming services, unlike other 90s hip hop classics – this decline has b...
Oct 11, 2024 · March 8, 2021. Jazz Re-Generations: Five artists explore the intersections of jazz and hip-hop. by Neil Tesser. Back around the turn of the 21st century, commentators trying to situate the hip-hop movement within American music — and particularly as part of the African-American timeline — came up with the phrase “from bebop to hip-hop.”.
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Jul 10, 2018 · The Shabazz Palaces album Black Up ends with an interpolation of The Last Poets’ lyrics, “Black is you, black is me, black is us, black is free.” Jazz-rap hit the mainstream with Nas’ 1994 ...
