#80’s-core

[secretly-a-catamount]

Is 80’s-core Rowaysa clicking for anyone else or is just me?

[eternvlsound]

ig: one_spec

[laurrrelise]

now who the hell did this bro.

[womenofwonder]

[aeztheticzfortmuzes]

[randomvarious]

Hardnoise - "Untitled" The Best Rap Album of All Time Song released in 1989. Compilation released in 1999. Hip Hop / Britcore

Good morning 🌅

[rainbarath]

𝐜atching 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 1975

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[xariarte]

tagged by @nikolajoker !! thanks for tagging me 🥺💖

my nine favourite albums :)

emotion - carly rae jepsen

emotion side b - carly rae jepsen

reputation - taylor swift

when my heart felt volcanic - the aces

future nostalgia - dua lipa

what's your pleasure? - jessie ware

life support - madison beer

the minute - duett ft. yatte

the lost years - the strike

tagging: @maxipowell, @tyhaliburton, @kdsburneraccount (only if you want to though 😌)

[fluffypinkpie]

Something happened in the hotel room's bathroom

[darlingdawnvintage]

SOLD *Vintage 80’s Pink Party Dress with lace petticoat 💕New in the shop see my Etsy link in bio to shop

[eightiesfan]

Nice collection

[eternvlsound]

ig: da_schlechti

[n3on-graveston3s-calling]

I made playlists for

Kidd, Killer, Wire, & Heat

All based around the genre that suits their aesthetic the best

( Kidd = 80s-90s punk rock, Killer = Glam Rock, Heat = 90s-00s Gothic Rock / Metal, Wire = 90s-00s Mall Goth )

I'll start posting them tomorrow it's 2 am & I'm tired.

And Wire's is

Literally all the music I used to listen to in the mid-late 00s it's fuckin wild

[aeztheticzfortmuzes]

[trej0]

[randomvarious]

London Hip Hop Playlist

Something that Brits really seem to go absolutely fucking nuts over are breakbeats. They singlehandedly invented jungle and drum n bass with them, as well as the genres of breakbeat and breakbeat hardcore as well, and out of breakbeat also came big beat, which was that fun party stuff that was huge in the late 90s and early 2000s that was made popular by people like Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, and The Prodigy.

But another thing that Brits naturally applied breakbeats to was hip hop, which, after it had managed to make its way from New York, led to the formation of a UK-specific genre in the late 80s called Britcore. And Britcore featured people (almost strictly blokes) spitting furiously over slammin' breakbeats. Basically, if you love old school rap records like I do, you are *really* missing out if you never messed with any of this stuff at all, because while the US continuously led the way, the UK was cooking up some seriously overlooked unique fire on the back-burner that never really managed to make it into the American hip hop diet.

So, here's a bunch of dope rap tunes from London that span from the late 80s to mid-90s, a lot of which are Britcore tracks. And my #1 favorite among all of these is, hands-down, "Doomsday of Rap," by Hijack, which isn't just the greatest Britcore song that I've ever heard, but is also, to me, just one of the best pieces of old school hip hop that's ever been made, period. In fact, this tune, which lays ferociously raw lyrics over a sample of the Incredible Bongo Band's iconic "Apache," actually helped Hijack to catch the ear of none other than Ice-T, who then signed them to his own Rhyme Syndicate label. And "Doomsday of Rap" is probably one of the least obscure songs among this set here, but considering just how irresistibly good it is, a Spotify play count of around 75,200 still feels a bit low.

Another banger on here, though, which does have an obscenely low play count is Kobalt 60's "Kaos From Order," which seems to sample its breakbeat from Tom Jones' "Looking Out My Window," and also adds these forceful "ba-ba-ba-ba" male vocals in the second verse too. And I have no idea where those specific vocals come from, but they really enhance this whole track, overall, which is only sitting at a little under 1,900 total plays.

I also included a couple cuts from a slick-tongued ragga hip hop star originally from Jamaica named Daddy Freddy, too, who moved to London and then made some choice tracks, like "Go Freddy Go" and "Haul & Pull." The version of "Go Freddy Go" that I've added has about 16,700 plays, and a remix of "Haul & Pull" that was done by Bobby Konders has about 32,900.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Lady Sugar Sweet - "Sugar Sweet" Thrashpack - "Trigger Happy" Hijack - "Doomsday of Rap" MC Duke - "I'm Riffin" MC Duke - "Gotta Get Your Own" Hardnoise - "Untitled" SL Troopers - "Movement" Standing Ovation - "Onslaught" Daddy Freddy - "Go Freddy Go" The 3 Knights - "Burial Proceedings" Militant Posture - "Dawn of Terror" Brothers on Organised Missions - "B.O.O.M." Brothers on Organised Missions - "Delivering the Answer" Kobalt 60 - "Kaos From Order" Daddy Freddy - "Haul & Pull" Killa Instinct - "Un-United Kingdom"

And, of course, there's a YouTube version of this playlist too, which includes a couple more gems that aren't on Spotify, like a tune that's actually not Britcore, but takes a page out of Pete Rock's relaxational jazz-rap stylebook instead: 499's "Don't Categorise Me," which has around 11,600 plays across a bunch of different uploads on YouTube.

Demon Boyz - "Rougher Than an Animal" 499 - "Don't Categorise Me"

And this playlist is on YouTube Music as well.

So, with the unveiling of this playlist, we start with 68 minutes worth of tunes on Spotify, and 78 minutes over on YouTube. And because the YouTube version has that 499 track, I definitely recommend you check out that version rather than the Spotify one 😊.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

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