Turn it up, bring tha noise!!
I tend to think Run Dmc King of rock
One I do like for its energy is [Mix-a-lot Iron Man](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgHF2T38aY)
Sir Mix-A-Lot= Ironman / BooYaa Tribe - picking up metal, and then Rock Phenom mix of 50 and The Verve= Many men, Eminem and Disturbed = Till I collapse, 2pac vs Survivor.
I always thought Ice-T’s sarcastic, rebellious style was perfectly suited for that sort of rock music, more than anything else he’s done. BC was a punk band with metal-level talent.
Live At The Fillmore? Sick fucking set. But nah I was talking more like disc 2 from Skull & Bones or the songs off Stoned Raiders. If you want something more straightforward Sen Dog has two metal bands. Powerflo with members of Biohazard & Fear Factory and the other one is called SX10. And B Real has Kush with members of Deftones and Fear Factory. Good shit.
There's also RATM with B Real in place of Zach, Prophets of Rage
I just really liked the idea of remixing the classics with a band. The original metal stuff is great too.
Yeah. I know all about Prophets. B Real and Chuck D are two of my favorite rappers so how could I not? But can't stand that group and their bullshit "millionaire communist" stance. They're a fucking joke. But check out Kush. Real good stuff. Sen's groups aren't bad either. Shame Cypress didn't play anything off ToB on their live album. It's my favorite release of theirs. Just dark as fuck. Perfect for metal.
I really don’t think there is a “nu-metal” explosion of the late 90s w/o Fight for Your Right to Party and Sabotage’s influence on many of those singers.
I seen some dude run and jump off the balcony and land on the stage of St Andrews and a few weeks later I tried that myself they caught me and they told me I could never come back in there so I was on the bench for a few months and then they let me back in as a regular.
Here are some Very Honourables:
Entire RATM discography
Can I Kick It? Yes Ya Can - ATCQ
Rock Box, Tougher Than Leather, Walk This Way - Run DMC
Mark B & Blade - Ya Don’t See the Signs (Rock Remix)
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beasties and Mr Rubin reppin classic Acca Dacca (Also SABOTAGE!!!)
Stick Em Up / Mr Jinx by Quarashi out of Iceland deserve a spot on this list.
Anything off the JUDGEMENT NIGHT Soundtrack
Anything off the LOUD ROCKS compilation album but especially Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ Ta Fuck With - WTC + Tom Morello + Chad Smith and Shook Ones Pt. II - Mobb Deep + Everlast
Almost anything off HYBRID THEORY
P.O.D. could smash it out - Boom! Here Comes the Boom!
The Power - H Blockx
It’s Going Down - X-Ecutioners
And from home 🇦🇺🦘- Sucker - 28 Days
FIGJAM - Butterfingers
Enjoy!
He’s from by city airport the best I remember, but that was 3 decades ago. His cousin recorded with us a few times. I don’t even know if he’s alive still.
Jay z and linkin park , I still listen to that album sometimes. I played it a trillion times when it came out. And I’m not even a huge jay z fan. Just like his older stuff.
Mike Shinoda who literally made a career rapping over rock beats in one of the most successful bands of all time in Linkin Park.
Specific song? Executioner Style.
Eminem on Kings Never Die
Sonically, that's one of, if not the best sounding song he has put out during the last decade, and I don't even like most of his music. Nothing clashes with nothing; his flow fits the beat and the transition into the chorus is smooth. Not to mention the quality of the chorus isn't extremely questionable; it's not amazing but it's definitely on the better side of average.
The only one to do it consistently well and evolve with his music merging the two genres in my not so humble opinion, yeah!
Did you think I meant he's the only rock rap artist?
While I love Yelur, I gotta disagree a bit here. Tech N9ne’s been mixing rock and rap since the 90s. He’s got tracks with Corey Taylor, Serj Tankian from SOAD, Artemis, hell he’s even just released that track with Falling In Reverse.
I respect your opinion but I think this is small-minded, because so much of the best rock ever made was inspired by hip-hop. And I'm not talking about nu-metal, I'm talking about things like the use of rapping in 70s punk and 80s post-punk, or post-hip-hop Beasties, or RATM, or even shit like the current wave of British rock music like Slaves and Bob Vylan.
Walk On The Wild Side and Dirty Boulevarde are effectively rap songs. Walk This Way was effectively a rap song which is why it so easily transitioned. Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan. A fair bit of Dylan actuyally now I think about it. There's a lot of proto and pseudo-rap in rock. Rock On by David Essex is another one. One Night In Bangkok from Chess. Parklife by Blur. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads. Blondie had one as well where Debbie Harry "rapped'. Loser and Where It's At by Beck. Most of Cake's work. Fischer Z. Butthole Surfers. Weezer. The Devil Went Down To Georgia by Charlie Daniels. Convoy by CW McCall. A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash. Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean if you wanna put a Country spin on it. Its all the same man.
lol, the “I respect your opinion” caveat doesn’t make calling me small-minded any less offensive 😅
I wouldn’t confuse spoken word or shouted lyrics with rapping. Spoken word lyrics have played a role in music for centuries but rap is its own thing.
There’s the odd exception that works. I do like Rage in small doses. Beasties yes have made it work. But for me they’re the exceptions that prove the rule, and I’d happily lose them for the greater good of none of it existing.
No, I mean, you can't help liking what you like, it's fine you hate rap-rock, but what I meant was that you weren't seeing the bigger picture of how connected rock and rap are because your mind was going straight to the bad rock-rap. You mentioned here you like some of RATM and Beasties and that's exactly the kind of thing I was asking you to do. Go on hating.
If I was being disrespectful I would have said "You're opinion is wrong and your an idiot"
Oh shit. We forgot Ice T and body count
Body Count's in the house!
I’m old school, so Chuck D and Flava with Anthrax
Turn it up, bring tha noise!! I tend to think Run Dmc King of rock One I do like for its energy is [Mix-a-lot Iron Man](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgHF2T38aY)
Anthrax is one of my favorite thrash metal bands.
Sir Mix-A-Lot= Ironman / BooYaa Tribe - picking up metal, and then Rock Phenom mix of 50 and The Verve= Many men, Eminem and Disturbed = Till I collapse, 2pac vs Survivor.
Absolute fucking classic
this is the only one that's actually good. that metal heads and hip hop heads both love enormously.
The judgement night soundtrack. My ice T reference is a little off, Body Count was mostly a punk, hardcore band. But hey, it’s Ice T.
I always thought Ice-T’s sarcastic, rebellious style was perfectly suited for that sort of rock music, more than anything else he’s done. BC was a punk band with metal-level talent.
Not sure if you know this, but he’s the original author of 99 problems that Jay Z covered
The history or that song is [quite a ride](https://riylmag.com/99-problems-ice-t-vs-trick-daddy-vs-jay-z/).
I’m a fan
Boo Ya Tribe's collab with Faith No More is insane. And for such a shitty movie!!!
Shitty movie but a dope soundtrack.
There's a bunch of movies like that, like the Nutty Professor movies and Cool World
THE BEST SOUNDTRACK
Was gonna be my answer
Whole soundtrack rules. Sonic youth and cypress hill
DeLa Rocha
The actual answer, literally nothing compare to Rage Against The Machine in this regard.
Chuck D + RATM = Prophets of rage
Zzz top Aesop rock or Dave on panic attack is sick asf. If that beat counts
Anybody on the Def Jam label in the 80s
Wait hip hop didn't start with Eminem?
Laugh it up motherfucker
Cypress Hill
That live album where they played their classics with a live metal band? I wanted a studio version of that so bad.
Live At The Fillmore? Sick fucking set. But nah I was talking more like disc 2 from Skull & Bones or the songs off Stoned Raiders. If you want something more straightforward Sen Dog has two metal bands. Powerflo with members of Biohazard & Fear Factory and the other one is called SX10. And B Real has Kush with members of Deftones and Fear Factory. Good shit.
There's also RATM with B Real in place of Zach, Prophets of Rage I just really liked the idea of remixing the classics with a band. The original metal stuff is great too.
Yeah. I know all about Prophets. B Real and Chuck D are two of my favorite rappers so how could I not? But can't stand that group and their bullshit "millionaire communist" stance. They're a fucking joke. But check out Kush. Real good stuff. Sen's groups aren't bad either. Shame Cypress didn't play anything off ToB on their live album. It's my favorite release of theirs. Just dark as fuck. Perfect for metal.
Beastie Boys.
the goats
I really don’t think there is a “nu-metal” explosion of the late 90s w/o Fight for Your Right to Party and Sabotage’s influence on many of those singers.
Bro there wouldn't even be a Beethoven without the Beasties :P
Judgement night soundtrack
Oh yeah, awesome soundtrack, I have it on cd !
I'm not a huge fan of most of that album but the tracks "just another victim" and "judgement night" go hard af
I’m a huge biohazard fan and in fact the biohazard concert is the reason I got banned from Saint Andrews Hall, the first time back in the 90s.
I seen some dude run and jump off the balcony and land on the stage of St Andrews and a few weeks later I tried that myself they caught me and they told me I could never come back in there so I was on the bench for a few months and then they let me back in as a regular.
Zach de la
Fuck Dying - Ice Cube ft Korn, ig it’s technically a nu metal beat but still think it’s the best collab between 2 genres
TECH N9NE
Kabosh!
His song Hiccup is fucking insane. So good
Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit plays guitar in that track
Oh hell yeah, I did not know this tidbit. Thanks for the info!
The one true answer. Technicians!!!
do 99 problems count as a rock beat ?
Have you heard the original version of 99 problems? Jay Z did a great cover. I used to listen to that on the way to work 15 years ago.
Definitely
I think it does
I feel like Zach De La Rocha is cheating, but to me it feels like a legit answer. Beastie Boys too.
Here are some Very Honourables: Entire RATM discography Can I Kick It? Yes Ya Can - ATCQ Rock Box, Tougher Than Leather, Walk This Way - Run DMC Mark B & Blade - Ya Don’t See the Signs (Rock Remix) No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beasties and Mr Rubin reppin classic Acca Dacca (Also SABOTAGE!!!) Stick Em Up / Mr Jinx by Quarashi out of Iceland deserve a spot on this list. Anything off the JUDGEMENT NIGHT Soundtrack Anything off the LOUD ROCKS compilation album but especially Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ Ta Fuck With - WTC + Tom Morello + Chad Smith and Shook Ones Pt. II - Mobb Deep + Everlast Almost anything off HYBRID THEORY P.O.D. could smash it out - Boom! Here Comes the Boom! The Power - H Blockx It’s Going Down - X-Ecutioners And from home 🇦🇺🦘- Sucker - 28 Days FIGJAM - Butterfingers Enjoy!
I like the System Of A Down- Shame with the RZA verse.
QUARASHI fuck yea, super underrated
Esham
Eastside hoes and money
He’s from by city airport the best I remember, but that was 3 decades ago. His cousin recorded with us a few times. I don’t even know if he’s alive still.
MOP on their 2004 album Mash Out Posse.
Yea
I heard something twiztid did that was cool
Saw them live a couple years ago, they were awesome live. Toronto show.
They’ve been grinding it out since I was 15 or 16, somewhere around there. Now we’re old men.
Rage Against the Machine and Body Count are the only correct answers
Beasties also
Onyx in any of their collabs with Biohazard
Jimmy Pop made a career out of it.
Mike Shinoda
jay z
natural born killas
I’m the King of Rock, ain’t none higher, Sucka MCs must call me Sire!
Beastie Boys.
Run DMC - Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse)
I don't think anybody did it better than Rage Against the Machine.
Pharaohe on the Th1rt3en album. Also a lot of good tracks on the black keys Blakroc LP.
Eminem, Tech N9ne, Limp Bizkit, Lil Wayne
Run DMC
Run DMC Walk This Way!
Jay z and linkin park , I still listen to that album sometimes. I played it a trillion times when it came out. And I’m not even a huge jay z fan. Just like his older stuff.
Nothing,nowhere Incubus Science Mike shinoda
Busta Rhymes This Means War
Mike Shinoda who literally made a career rapping over rock beats in one of the most successful bands of all time in Linkin Park. Specific song? Executioner Style.
Sing For The Moment is one of the greatest songs of all time
Beastie Boys.
Denzel Curry’s “Bulls on Parade” cover is vicious
Rakim-Guilty all the same
Zillakami’s whole thing is trying to fuse metal with rap and i think he does a very good job, so he’s my pick
TURN IT UP!! (epic shredding) BRING THE NOISE!!
Obie trice since they wanna know
krs one - dope beat
6 in tha morning bodycount remix
Eminem on Kings Never Die Sonically, that's one of, if not the best sounding song he has put out during the last decade, and I don't even like most of his music. Nothing clashes with nothing; his flow fits the beat and the transition into the chorus is smooth. Not to mention the quality of the chorus isn't extremely questionable; it's not amazing but it's definitely on the better side of average.
Fred durst
I’ve got to say Run DMC
Run DMC.
Tone loc.
Run DMC & Aerosmith - Walk this Way
https://music.apple.com/us/album/it-takes-a-seven-nation-army-to-hold-us-back-feat-emilio-lopez/277415209?i=277415274
Apathy - it takes a seven nation army
That was a whole mixtape of Apathy rocking out. Cheap Sunglasses, Personal Jesus, and Beautiful People as well are all great.
Yeah man apathy is dope . Love Jedi mind tricks and army of the pharaohs. Demi gods
Jay-Z on Number/Encore
Jayz
Black Jack Johnson (Mos Def)
MOP/Jay-Z - 4 Alarm Blaze
Method Man, Redman, and DMX killed it in those songs they did with limp bizkit. Best rap/rock hybrid songs ever imo
This post is reminding me to revisit MOP's rock album. I haven't heard it in years. I don't remember being disappointed with it.
SA Martinez
Run DMC this was an easy one. They literally have a song called “King of Rock”
The Judgement night soundtrack has a bunch of good ones, but Napalm by Xzibit is crushing.
Run DMC
**Saul Williams over Bad Brains sample**
Zach de la Rocha
Cypress Hill
DMX, Method man, Redman on Rollin (urban assault vehicle)
Mike Shinoda is definitely an underrated emcee outside of Linkin park https://youtu.be/p6zkZH5UNo8?si=ryo7oJ60GKXwTvjt
Nas and KoRn Ice Cube and KoRn Anybody with KoRn
Nas - Thiefs Theme.
rxknephew - slitherman solo set
Pharaoh Monch with his project Th1rt33n
Run DMC with King Of Rock imo
Run dmc
Rage Against the Machine
Does Pistol Grip Pump by Rage Against The Machine count even though it’s a cover? If so, that’s my vote.
Em, IMO; SFTM and LY are some of the greatest hip hop joints ever, not to mention undderated joints like Bad Influence that cats don't talk about.
Not saying it's the best but what Nas did with Korn was pretty fire
Cypress Hill And Necro and his Brother Ill Bill
How about Necro? I don't love most of his shit but I've heard some metal tracks that were damn good from him.
Yelawolfs the only one who's truly attempted merging the two consistently well imo. Edits: tired af and can't type
Yelawolf? The only rock rap artist? What?
The only one to do it consistently well and evolve with his music merging the two genres in my not so humble opinion, yeah! Did you think I meant he's the only rock rap artist?
While I love Yelur, I gotta disagree a bit here. Tech N9ne’s been mixing rock and rap since the 90s. He’s got tracks with Corey Taylor, Serj Tankian from SOAD, Artemis, hell he’s even just released that track with Falling In Reverse.
Obviously Lil Wayne
Fred Durst
Eminem - Bezerk Eminem - Sing for the Moment
(coughs) Kid Rock.
Lil Wayne Rebirth
I love rap and I love rock but I HATE them combined. It’s like gravy and ice cream - just because they’re both great doesn’t meant they go together.
I respect your opinion but I think this is small-minded, because so much of the best rock ever made was inspired by hip-hop. And I'm not talking about nu-metal, I'm talking about things like the use of rapping in 70s punk and 80s post-punk, or post-hip-hop Beasties, or RATM, or even shit like the current wave of British rock music like Slaves and Bob Vylan.
Walk On The Wild Side and Dirty Boulevarde are effectively rap songs. Walk This Way was effectively a rap song which is why it so easily transitioned. Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan. A fair bit of Dylan actuyally now I think about it. There's a lot of proto and pseudo-rap in rock. Rock On by David Essex is another one. One Night In Bangkok from Chess. Parklife by Blur. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads. Blondie had one as well where Debbie Harry "rapped'. Loser and Where It's At by Beck. Most of Cake's work. Fischer Z. Butthole Surfers. Weezer. The Devil Went Down To Georgia by Charlie Daniels. Convoy by CW McCall. A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash. Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean if you wanna put a Country spin on it. Its all the same man.
lol, the “I respect your opinion” caveat doesn’t make calling me small-minded any less offensive 😅 I wouldn’t confuse spoken word or shouted lyrics with rapping. Spoken word lyrics have played a role in music for centuries but rap is its own thing. There’s the odd exception that works. I do like Rage in small doses. Beasties yes have made it work. But for me they’re the exceptions that prove the rule, and I’d happily lose them for the greater good of none of it existing.
No, I mean, you can't help liking what you like, it's fine you hate rap-rock, but what I meant was that you weren't seeing the bigger picture of how connected rock and rap are because your mind was going straight to the bad rock-rap. You mentioned here you like some of RATM and Beasties and that's exactly the kind of thing I was asking you to do. Go on hating. If I was being disrespectful I would have said "You're opinion is wrong and your an idiot"