All of Eyedea's songs, particularly Weird Side, Step by Step, Smile, Times Flies When You Have a Gun, Burn Fetish, and Even Shadows Have Shadows. I'm kind of sad because there's no other artist quite like Eyedea, and I want more! But alas... I found some cool hip hop instrumentals online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1Va5vqcPE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzPux-kE6Y. Listening to some Mos Def a tad, Blue Black Jack, Mathematics, War, to name a few of the songs I've listened to. Oh, and Blackalicious, but that's nothing new, I said that last week. After I heard Eyedea's music, I feel like I want to make hip hop too, but I don't...really..know...how. Any ideas? All the instructions online discuss putting down other rappers and stuff like that, which I'm just not interested in. I want to know about rhythm and rhyming and cadence and "flow" and inflection and emphasis on syllables.
There's no one like Eyedea, it's true. Always and forever will be the greatest thing to come out of the Minnesota underground. But I like to listen to a lot of those guys in lieu of more Eyedea. No Bird Sing, for one. Hip hop ... hip hop is hard. I guess you could approach it from the rap angle, teaching yourself to spit with flow, or you could approach it from the self-made beats angle, with Ableton and whatnot. I don't know.