Easy to Drum Along Rap Hip Hop Songs
List any FAMOUS rap songs with REAL drums on them
Been thinking about this for a while. Do you guys know any famous rap songs or at least songs on a famous rap album that has REAL ACOUSTIC Drums on the backing track???
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Do bongos count?
Yes. Just as long as it was played live with the rap song
Interestingly, I can't think of any! All though The Roots comes to mind, but I can't think of any of their tunes.
F*ck it up Yella....
the song that made me an MC
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N.E.R.D maybe?
I can't remember the song title.
those tunes dont seem famous to me.
There might be some stuff by the Beastie Boys, but even that might not be rap it might be like Groove Holmes. But Sabotage comes to mind. And that's a pretty annoying tune, but it was a "hit"(?), or at least the video was.
"you got me" by the roots won a grammy! hows that for famous?
the stet song i posted is an undisputed hip hop classic (famous to real hip hop heads...its before yo MTV raps!)
By "real acoustic drums" do just mean not electrinic drum machines? Lots of beats were acouatic drums samples off records...
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Originally Posted by ctothej123 ➡️
By "real acoustic drums" do just mean not electrinic drum machines? Lots of beats were acouatic drums samples off records...
No samples. It has to be a live recording
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Originally Posted by musaee ➡️
"you got me" by the roots won a grammy! hows that for famous?
the stet song i posted is an undisputed hip hop classic (famous to real hip hop heads...its before yo MTV raps!)
Imma check that out now. Thanks!
When I say "famous" I mean well known in the hip hop community. Doesn't have to be mainstream or anything. And it doesn't have to just be a famous song. It can be a song that came from a famous album.
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Originally Posted by musaee ➡️
"you got me" by the roots won a grammy! hows that for famous?
the stet song i posted is an undisputed hip hop classic (famous to real hip hop heads...its before yo MTV raps!)
Im checking out In Full Gear by Stet. Was that entire album acoustic drums? It sounds like a lot of live instrumentation. Never really dug too deep into their catalog though (I'm a young head)
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Anthrax/Public Enemy - Bring tha Noize
Cypress Hill - What's Your Number
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Originally Posted by thedelakore ➡️
No samples. It has to be a live recording
Interesting, but how would you know without some studio-footage from the sessions? And even then, chopping, looping, cutting and overdubbing... Lots of tracks sound like "real drums" but it's just guessing. Samplers, Sample-libraries, sampling from sources with live recordings, live drums triggering samples, e-drums, drum replacing with vsti's, overprocessed stuff that sound nothing likke live at all, good processed stuff that sounds like coming from a drum machine...
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Originally Posted by thedelakore ➡️
Im checking out In Full Gear by Stet. Was that entire album acoustic drums? It sounds like a lot of live instrumentation. Never really dug too deep into their catalog though (I'm a young head)
nah...by that 2nd album i think the live drumming was mostly non-existant
almost the entire sugar hill catalog and a lot of other hip hop records from 1979 to around 1982 before drum machines got popular. rapper's delight being the most famous i'd say...
the entire wild style soundtrack has live drums as well.
a couple examples from a bit later on...
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Originally Posted by Deleted 49e1b71 ➡️
nah...by that 2nd album i think the live drumming was mostly non-existant
in full gear has live drums... at least on these songs.
even their third album has live drums, no raps on this song though...
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the whole "do you want more" album by the roots.
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I'm pretty sure dre was messing with live drums around the busta signed to aftermath days.
That RUNDMC tune "Perfection" somebody linked to up above is a good example. But mostly I see a ton of references to tracks a lot of people wouldn't know of. I guess the drum machine has a solid footprint in hip-hop history. And I'm not ashamed of that. I love drum machines.
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I would not call these songs "famous", but The Brand New Heavies-
Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1contains all live instrumentation (including drums), keys, bass etc. etc. with some famous M.C.'s getting loose with a REAL band.
Grand Puba Maxwell a.k.a. Attribute Haji
Main Source
Ed OG
Pharcyde
Gangstarr
Masta Ace
Kool G. Rap
Black Sheep
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BlackRoc album feat Mos Def, Jim Jones, and others.
Edit: sorry not much in the way of famous
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Yeah first band that comes to mind is The Roots. But it's weird, most of the time ?uestlove is trying to emulate a beat maker like Dilla so it ends up sounding sampled anyway. Do You Want More would be the last album where his drums sounded like live drums for the entire album. I wouldn't consider it to be really popular though. Things Fall Apart won them a grammy and barely made platinum so i guess that album counts.
I would second the Rappers Delight thing. Most people think they used the break but back then they used a house band to redo the loops on all the recordings.
Seems like anytime you see a rapper LIVE now he has a big backup band.
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Originally Posted by natonative ➡️
I'm pretty sure dre was messing with live drums around the busta signed to aftermath days.
earlier even...
You realize that rap / hip hop started with real drums right?
see everything early Sugar Hill Records...
they were using full bands to copy famous dance beats to rap over before rappers owned drum machines.
the crossover gained momentum with people like Davy DMX etc who mixed sampling and beats into live instruments...
on the east coast at least.
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Originally Posted by NewAllianceEast! ➡️
You realize that rap / hip hop started with real drums right?
drum breaks came first, but i'm sure you mean hip hop records. 
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