r/triphop • u/celebwithsunglasses • 8d ago

Request/Discussion Trip Hop with rap parts

Hello, I am a TH newbie and don't know many artists except Sneaker Pimps, Portishead and Massive Attack.
I was just listening to "I against I" by Massive Attack and Mos Def and really like the rap parts. Are there recommendable songs and/or albums which have a similar style?

I don't mind, if the whole song/album has rap in it or if only part of it does (like "The Truth" by Handsome Boy Modelling School).
Also it does not have to be pure TH or downtempo, but can also be something that has a similar sound and mood.

Thanks to everyone who takes their time to help me! :)

EDIT: TYSM to everyone who took their time two write an answer!! :)

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u/Automatic_Knee_7531 8d ago

Check out Dan the Automator’s catalogue: Lovage, Dr Octagon, Handsome Boy Modeling School,

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

Thank you! :)

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u/lyricalgorilla 8d ago

THIS!

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u/Sensitive-Lecture-19 8d ago

Oh yeah, let's not forget Deltron 3030

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u/Automatic_Knee_7531 8d ago

I knew I was forgetting something important

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u/schill 8d ago

So upgrade your grey matter, ‘cause one day, it may matter! 😆

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u/Automatic_Knee_7531 8d ago

Brothers be bugging like he's from Oakland / What? I'll whoop you / Insinuating we ain't capable

u/Meister__Petz 8d ago

Archive Londinium has many songs with rap. One of the best trip hop albums ever for me

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u/ArturoBandini22 8d ago

It's been a very slow burner for me...year on year it's been pushing others out to take top spot, it's absolutely stunning

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

Thank you :)

u/Basic_Photo_8052 8d ago

Dj krush albums -meiso , and milight, also UNKLE science phyction

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u/Basic_Photo_8052 8d ago

Deltron 3030 aswell

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u/ArturoBandini22 8d ago

Also his stepping stones lyrical album has some outstanding tracks

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

TY!! :)

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u/NSFAnythingAtAll 6d ago

*Psyence Fiction

u/bugman_850 8d ago

Breath from Another - Esthero

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u/mkk4 8d ago

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

Thanks!! :)

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u/Effective-Sample-261 8d ago

I am pretty sure the original does not have a rap, but there is a remix that does.

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u/dhejjrrjbrbrd 7d ago

Incorrect, it always had them on it. That IS the original version, there’s no remix.

u/Robot_Envy 8d ago

Tricky?

u/epidemicsaints 8d ago

Whale "Crying At Airports"

Bomb the Bass "Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session)"

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u/schill 8d ago

Related, IIRC on that K&D mix track - that's Justin Warfield (lyrics) and his 1993 album "My Field Trip To Planet 9" album is a fascinating downtempo / hip-hop thing, also produced by Prince Paul (part of HBMS) - so you can't go wrong.

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

Thank you!

u/DeFaLT______ 8d ago

Women Lose Weight - Morcheeba ft Slim Rick (the song is hilarious)

u/jazxxl 8d ago

Lots of Tricky is essentially this

But I second any 90s- 2000s Dan the Automators stuff

Oh and not quite the same thing but Rza samples Portishead on the first Bobby Digital album

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u/KaFot 8d ago

Just saw Deltron 3030 and they said they are dropping another album spring of 2027.

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u/jazxxl 8d ago

They said that last year when saw them too... We ll see lol.

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

Thanks!

u/CantFindMyWallet 8d ago

All Things to All Men - The Cinematic Orchestra (feat. Roots Manuva)

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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 8d ago

Seconded!

The very first thing I thought of when I saw this sub.

u/b_lett 8d ago edited 8d ago

Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin' samples a classic trip hop record.

RJD2 is another great hip hop/trip hop producer who works with various rappers. Good example is RJD2, STS - I Excel.

More subtle trip hop with smaller moments of rap:

Pretty Lights - More Important Than Michael Jordan
Sapient - Aged Branches
Ancient Astronauts - Worldwide

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

TYSM!!

u/Sensitive-Lecture-19 8d ago

Blockhead is over lapping in the in trip hop category and has some good tracked with Aesop Rock, and id recommend Aesop anyway but truthfully I don't know where things begin to fall into hip hop

u/If_you_have_Ghost 8d ago

Very Mercenary by The Herbaliser!

Edit - the whole album!

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u/lyricalgorilla 8d ago

Very Necessary.

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u/schill 8d ago

“What What” on the Herbaliser stuff is a great MC. Also see Bahamadia, Wordplay - and by sample association, Guru‘s Jazzmatazz.

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u/ConcentrateOwn8124 7d ago

and the album Something Wicked! it's taken me a while to get into Very Mercenary, but Something Wicked instantly became one of my fav albums when I listened to it.

u/LunaWabohu 8d ago edited 8d ago

Check out Five Seconds by Peeping Tom and then the rest of the album if you fuck with it, Massive Attack are on track 4. For a more traditional hip-hop sound, check out the album Cold Water Music by Aim

u/cleo_da_cat 8d ago

DJ Krush with CL Smooth - Only the Strong Survive.

IMO one of the best beats ever made

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u/schill 8d ago

Actual facts. (/IYKYK. 😉)

u/tomacco_man 8d ago

Tricky is the ultimate trip hop rapper! Check out his songs Tricky Kid and Black Steel

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

TY!

u/ProfessionalCool1925 8d ago

Nice, I’ll check them.

Maybe Digable Planets too.

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u/do_you_smoke_paul 8d ago

Saw them this summer and was an absolute highlight

u/spinners_888 8d ago

El-P's back catalogue

u/Bratwurstconnaisseur 8d ago

As a German European, I’d highly recommend Hooverphonic to you. You aren't tied to any specific genre right now, and I think you’d like their sound.

u/Playful_Ad9949 8d ago

So much rap from the day was pure cinematic trip hop: The Chronic or even Efil4zaggin are worthy. Devin the Dude, too. “Doobie Ashtray.”
Jungle Brothers, especially Remedy, but also Forces of Nature. I already mentioned Stereo M.C.s and Latryrx elsewhere… Ice T’s OG LP, first Cypress LP… when I heard Maxinquaye, everything made sense!

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u/schill 8d ago edited 8d ago

Ah yeah, Cypress’ Temples Of Boom, Illusions etc., also very trip-hop-sounding given the “420” influence. Bonus: “I Love You Mary Jane,” Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth on the Judgment Night soundtrack - an impressive dual-artist concept album.

Edit: gotta add Gravediggaz (Prince Paul IIRC), and Snoop’s “Murder Was The Case”, the soundtrack version that starts with the helicopter and TV reporter. Fantastic minor key dark moody groove.

u/schpamela 8d ago

I recently stumbled on this gem from 1991:

Nightmares on Wax - Mega Donutz

u/Temporary_Buy_7470 8d ago edited 8d ago

First two Earthling albums.

Suntoucher by Groove Armada and Jeru the Damaja

u/BawkBawkBwoom 8d ago

UNKLE - Guns Blazing features Kool G Rap, one of the greatest rappers ever and an all time fav for me.

u/marudays 8d ago

There's a rapper called Nickelus F. who recorded a whole CD using Portishead songs as base. It's a bit annoying to find, but his version of Roads is an all time favorite of mine.
I have the whole CD downloaded, but you can listen to his version of Roads here: https://youtu.be/4m9SiVtnIHQ

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u/schill 8d ago

Just reminded me of “Intuition” who made “I ruined these songs for you.” He raps over numerous tracks. One is on top of Portishead’s “Humming” and it’s a bit dark, but kinda works!

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u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago

is this the Intuition from Kinda Neat?

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u/schill 7d ago

I believe that’s him, yes. https://intuition.bandcamp.com/

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u/TerpsandCaicos 8d ago

Good shit. Ty

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u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago

what do you like about it? i love rap, i rap, i love trip hop and this just sounds bad to me lol

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u/AndThenThereWasQueso 8d ago

Are you familiar with the artist?

u/Gramathon910 8d ago

Big Calm (the song) by Morcheeba

u/gigawhattt 8d ago

The Wiseguys, The Sharpshooters, Peace Bureau, The Hifi Killers

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u/Effective-Sample-261 8d ago

I forgot about Sharp Shooters and Hifi Killers. Good lesser known ones.

u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago

check out Deki Alem, especially the Forget in Mass album

u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago

Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session)

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u/celebwithsunglasses 7d ago

TY!

u/Effective-Sample-261 8d ago

Aim 'Cold Water Music' features at least 3 tracks with guest emcees.

Eyedentity - See and Archive - Londinium albums feature songs with rappers and vocalists.

Roots Manuva guests on Cinematic Orchestra and his own work is trip hop adjacent.

Lewis Parker's album 'Masquerades and Silhouettes' is worth checking out and he guested on some other artists tracks like Alpha and Craig Armstrong.

Red Snapper album album 'Making Bones' features a few tracks with an emcee.

DJ Krush features emcees on his album 'Meiso'.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head without going and digging in my collection.

u/rooooob 8d ago

There is this song by Unkle with A$sap rocky but it was never officially released, just in live performances: https://youtu.be/fBK3aPZsIrk?si=B-7r-8UjU46-NaX0&t=338

u/lyricalgorilla 8d ago

Unkle.

u/cnylkew 8d ago

Breah from another by esthero, obviously

u/JojoNYK 8d ago

Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia

Edan - Beauty And The Beat

...It's maybe more experimental hip hop with trip hop elements

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u/thewrongtim 8d ago

EMCEES SMOKE CRACK

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u/thewrongtim 8d ago

EMCEES SMOKE CRACK

u/GSturges 8d ago

Tricky

u/accomplicated 8d ago

This mix is far from Trip Hop, but track 35 is I Against I by Massive Attack featuring Mos Def. I love that track so much; it straight up slaps:

https://soundcloud.com/accomplice/hot-sparkles-vol-2

The full track list is here: https://accomplicated.ca/hot-sparkles-vol-2/

A track that you would probably love is Hollywood On My Toothpaste by Télépopmusik featuring Mau. It is track 8 in this mix:

https://soundcloud.com/accomplice/juncture-music-podcast-2021-07-09

The full track list is here: https://accomplicated.ca/juncture-music-podcast/

Lots of trip hop in that mix with Boards of Canada, DJ Vadim, and Gorillaz.

u/schill 8d ago edited 8d ago

Sorry, just remembering more that might be a little less-known tracks out of bigger albums.

Earthling, check the tracks “Infinite M” and “I Could Just Die.” Groove Armada’s “Vertigo” album, see “Whatever, Whenever.”

Also “Suntoucher” from Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) which features Jeru Tha Damaja.

Tricky’s “Aftermath” is awesome.

Faithless, “Reverence.”

u/melvereq 8d ago

Earthling - Radar (1995)

u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago edited 8d ago

Aesop Rock - Labor Days (2001) - one of my all time favorite albums, not too dissimilar from triphop and 1000 words per minute lol

his newer stuff is more electronic so worth checking out as well

and a similar artist is Deca
https://youtu.be/FQT9yWPbbew

u/Chronos360 7d ago

Look up Mono

u/SimianCinnamon 7d ago

Dated-Ruthless has a pretty good verse that goes with the dark beat https://youtu.be/tD2gXToyCds?si=kQDiQcLO9JBunR1A

u/Trumbot 8d ago

Massive Attack’s “Blue Lines” is a masterpiece.

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u/ProfessionalCool1925 8d ago

Daydreaming too

u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago edited 8d ago

"I against I" i wouldnt personally even call trip hop. you're looking at electronic hip hop at that point

Honey Claws - Digital Animal - song with a very similar tempo

Shabazz Palaces is a very unique group you might enjoy as well, Lese Majesty is one of my fav albums from them.

Run The Jewels, obviously is one of the leading groups of electro rap

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u/Substantial_Cold2385 8d ago

Massive Attack is most definitely trip hop.

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u/ButterflyExciting497 8d ago

that particular song has very little to do with trip hop however

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u/Substantial_Cold2385 4d ago edited 4d ago

I respectfully disagree...

Massive Attack is a pioneer of things 'trip hop'...this song is no expception!

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u/ButterflyExciting497 4d ago

im happy to disagree 😁

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u/Substantial_Cold2385 4d ago

have fun with that! :D

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u/ButterflyExciting497 4d ago

🥳🥳

u/deep_blue_au 8d ago

The Controls - Shere Khan
Esthero - Breath from Another

u/sadderall-sea 8d ago

As others have said, Londinium by Archive is a good option. The first Massive Attack album Blue Lines also has some great tracks with rap, along with soul and r&b

u/AdjacenToYourMom 8d ago

Au Natural by Sweetback

u/jmort619 8d ago

Wax Tailor

u/schill 8d ago

I recomend Latyrix and Lyrics Born, "AKA" or part of the Quannum / Quannum MCs collective (e.g., 8 point Agenda with The Herbaliser, and "I Changed My Mind" Stereo MCs remix are personal faves), and obviously, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing and many other albums since have hip-hop elements. More rap in later works I suppose.

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u/Playful_Ad9949 8d ago

Yes, Stereo MC’s LP was pre-TH gold and gateway to electronic for many. The whole thing sounds great on headphones. Also Latyrx “Muzappers Remix” 12” is tops. Shadow worked with them a lot, too.

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u/schill 8d ago

Dang! I didn’t think of the Stereo MC’s being that early, but their discography doesn’t lie. I heard “Connected” (92?) on the Hackers soundtrack in 95 like perhaps many others, if nothing else.

I caught a Quannum show in 2018 in SF and it was fantastic. I got to say thanks to the guys after the show and they kindly signed an album for me. I was talking to Lateef and he mentioned Shadow and I was a little embarrassed that I didn’t recall, I should have remembered his voice especially from “Mashin’ On The Motorway.”