Conscious Hip Hop - No hoes, no tricks, just real picks

[Dick Justice]

Hip hop and especially mainstream rap's got an unfortunate but depending on who you ask deserved reputation as being nothing but niggas chest beating and flexing nuts and it's a damn shame that so many take that rep at face value and miss out on pure street poetry. ITT post real joints with a message or a story beyond dick waving.
I'll start with a few of the most obvious cuts.
Hard mode: no Pac

 

[some Sketchy dude]

Do you know what commas are? You're not helping the stereotype you just described

 

[Big Bad Wart]

This one hits you right in the heart.Biggest tear jerker.

 

[HeyYou]

The only good conscious hip hop song is The Message.

 

[Sen02]

underachievers are kiiinda conscious, they talk about escaping depression, finding spirituality and opening their third eye via psychedelics (if youre into that), but they're still pretty good.

 

[Big Bad Wart]

Since you Brend's got a baby how bout Brenda by Maxo? it more a story than unconscious so i'm not sure if it would count.(love his new album)

 

[MrTroll]

really makes u think

 

[Phony Negro]

Would you call this conscious?

 

[oldTireWater]

I think this is what you're looking for:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/curtis-adams-unkle-adams.39401/

 

[Orion Balls]

Does Eve's Love is Blind count as conscious?

 

[Dick Justice]

Does Eve's Love is Blind count as conscious?

If it has bars and you think it counts, it counts.

 

[A Logging Company]

When your consciousness and raw real knowledge has you (a white Swede) screaming the word nigger repeatedly

I'm amazed this song is not more famous.

 

[Allegory]

J Cole

 

[Allegory]

Vinnie Paz

 

[Allegory]

Hopsin

 

[Allegory]

NF

 

[Allegory]

Immortal Technique

 

[Allegory]

 

[StreetGangsta]

 

[Jones McCann]