some great rap songs:

Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck

Dr. Dre - Bang Bang

Shyne - The Life

Eminem - Lose Yourself (this one is "easy listening")

Snoop Lion - Remedy

Yep... the 90s stuff was my good stuff. My friend's brother (who soon became a better friend than the guy introducing) and I used to sit down with Timesplitters and listen to the mellow rap from Snoop, Eminem, Dre...

If I played any of the music from those days I'd probably get a bit sad. Nostalgia's a c*&t.
Sorry, it's off-topic a bit.

A couple of those make me feel old. xD

We already have a thread for that - see above!

I don't consider rap and hip hop to be the same thing, and, I was still just posting some songs for people, nothing wrong with that.

and eminem is not terrible, why do you think he is? he's an incredible lyricist

Neither do I, but the Grammys do.

Of course those are the same people that once gave "Best Metal Album" to Jethro Tull.

I didn't say they were, nor did I say there was anything wrong with it - just pointing you to the thread that you might just fucking like. Why so defensive?! - It's CALLED "the Hip-Hop Thread" - but all forms of rap (and various sub genres) are welcome. You might have noted, had you looked.

I only gave you my opinion and a far more talented alternative to the (self proclaimed only) "greatest white rapper of all time". But if you really want to know...

Because he's not actually an incredible lyricist, his technique is whack, he has to use a dozen effects to gte his voice to sound the way it does on an album - even more so live and hes an awful human being.
He's also notibly stolen a lot of his ideas from his detroit contemporaries and peers.
8 Mile was not a true story, Suge and Puffy shot 2Pac and Biggie! Offtrack yet? Good!

Immortal Technique
RZA
Nas
Wu-Tang Clan
Tupac

Just some of favorite tracks..... one more Tupac track

died? His records were like the ones [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrQTh_Cq7U]Johnny Otis recorded with his band that included his son Suggie Otis under the name Snatch and the Poontangs. We've lost so many great Blues, Soul & R&B musicians that contributed so much to the foundations of modern popular music.

A perfect documentary about the shit that was yet to come.

You mean She Watch Channel Zero?! and Angel of Death, the cover of Bring the Noise or There Goes the Neighborhood.

I totally understand that sentiment, there's a lot of things about rap for which I don't really care. What interests me the most [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqntQIt3RbU]the [url=https://youtu.be/ZOvM9LWRmOA?t=12s]songs [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2AGAlce73s]artists [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WOCIieHv00]were , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_o9tal8v1M]artists that are still performing [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS3Aowzl5Oc]source music (such as [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA9kYkVeazs]Breakestra) or new music in a similar fashion ( [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5qln3j2otY]the ) and the [url=https://youtu.be/wibBUf7ZWnk?t=5m20s]instrumental [url=https://youtu.be/JqnoAyMTtZM?t=28s]performance () [url=https://youtu.be/wibBUf7ZWnk?t=5m20s]aspects of it.

Random hip-hop tracks?

okee.

Weerd Science x Cage - Holes
Cage - Lamb of Nothing
Kid Cudi x Cage - Maniac
Sadistik x Eyedea x Lotte Kestner - Chemical Burns
$UICIDEBOY$ x Pouya - South Side $uicide
Esham - The Wicketshit Will Never Die
Twiztid x Caskey x Dominic - The Deep End

Delicious.

Metal and Rap? One early track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNej0Nonlw0

You have a very wide view on what rap is...

I don't know specifically you mean by German folk music, but the German speaking people have a great musical heritage that have greatly affected the Western World. Here's a very short and woefully incomplete list off the top of my head; Oswald von Wolkenstein, Walther von der Vogelweide, Reinmar von Hagenau, Dieterich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schütz[, Johann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Georg Philipp Telemann, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Franz Joseph Haydn, Christoph Straus, Johann Baptist Strauss Sr., Johann Baptist Strauss Jr., Richard Strauss, Josef Strauss, et cetera...

If you mean more modern music; from the late '60s to early '70s there's Amon Düül, , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrsy2kiYJs]Nektar, , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXOouJbe3ck]Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Tangerine Dream, , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLdpWLrzuM]Kraftwerk, Cluster, and so on.

In more mainstream rock there's the , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxk_YnfrS8]Accept, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, , [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31YhCU6GAME]Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, , [url=https://youtu.be/OkCpJt6KloI?t=36s]Edguy, Running Wild, Iron Savior, Angel Dust, , [url=https://youtu.be/JeK1xCaMqqA?t=38s]Freedom Call.

I realize that I've mainly focused on classical music, progressive rock, mainstream heavy/power/progressive/symphonic metal; but that's because that is to what I primarily listen along with blues and classic rock.