If you are looking for bass beats to play under original rapping you could try the one where you take some classic rock or pop song hook you already know that is cool and use that
Puff Daddy was excellent at this
David Bowie
The Police
Led Zeppelin
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I’ve had the idea of covering Eric B. and Rakim floating around in my head for a while now. Juice(Know the Ledge) has a killer repetitive bassline.
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There’s always what is possibly the best rap collab of all time:
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Do you listen to BADBADNOTGOOD?
Dilla was great, I love his album “Donuts”, “Don’t Cry” is a great song.
I use the website whosampled a lot to find original songs to play 
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You’re listening to the wrong hiphop, a lot of the pop rap is garbage.
You need to try someone like Aesop rock:
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one of my favorite’s was showing someone ABC(Jackson 5) and them correcting me that’s O.P.P. by naughty by nature 
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@faydout - Outcast sounds like soft porn elevator music in my ears
@fennario - very much like “Tool and Die” by Consolidated (one of my all time favourite tracks, also cause of the lyrics) and early Meat Beat Manifesto.
I’d rather hear the original:
Urban Dance Squad … Dutch … 2 years earlier!
When I google that I just get some license free jazzy muzak that must have been made for the terrible TV series “Bosch”
Will have a listen!
So, in Germany, the Hiphop/Rap sound is like this:
Not my kind of sound, BUT - he also made this “remix”:
Ah, same song with a band - and very funny near the end!
So, now remove the guitar player and the drummer (and replace it with synth and drum machine, leaving the bass guitar, of course) … and we’re getting somewhere
But this will NEVER be my genre, I’m pretty sure after several days of hardcore listening to US, UK and German rap.
Mexican rap can be funny (as heared on “Breaking Bad”), French rap too (if it’s not too whiny, like most rap)…
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Hahaha - that happened a lot when playing “my” 80s songs to my (younger) girlfriend. She was like: “Oh, that was done by [insert rapper or other stupid act using samples] here”.
And I was like, nono … that’s the original … “Are friends electric?” by Gary Numan (for example). There is much fun to be had with younger girl friends. By now (20 years later) she knows and loves (most) of my music….
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Yeah no. I mean UDS was actually cool but come on, just… no.
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It’s Dutch … so (the default answer is:) “YES!”
They were the pioneers everybody was following.
Dude this is one where I can’t tell if you’re trolling, being yourself, or both. UDS were okay but come on.
We’re talking Chuck D and Flav in a collab with Anthrax here.
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Same same, but different!
May I quote Wikipedia: <<(…) biographer Heather Phares wrote, “Urban Dance Squad’s mix of rock, rap, funk, ska, folk, hip-hop, and soul signaled the trend toward genre-bending that prevailed in '90s music.”
In the site’s review of their album Artantica, writer Rick Anderson wrote, “For those who think of rap metal fusion as something invented by bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit, Urban Dance Squad is back to remind you that they’ve been doing it for ten years now”.>>
I love (early) Public Enemy. They are the real thing, in my opinion.
And isn’t Ahthrax one of those Spandex-wearing bands that started as a Golden Earring cover band?
Anthrax:
Golden Earring (many years before):
Looks like the same band to me. Anthrax even needs a t-shirt to tell the difference
What I am saying is: the Dutch were first. Again. We might not be the greatest (supposedly) … but we’ve “been there, done that!”
lol no that is not an accurate description of Anthrax
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Dude, Outkast were so insanely good.
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Hey, I have fond memories of that very sexy girl doing here dance performance to “Hey Ya!” in a Swiss fitness club, every time I went there to pump.
No objections from my side!
EDIT I notice that most rap videos are done shirtless or otherwise almost nude. Is there no money in rap and they can’t afford clothing … or is the weather very hot, due to climate change?
I don’t know about you, but I spent as much of my 20s with as little clothing on as I was able to get away with.
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The correct sentence is: “I spent much of my 20s with girls that had as little clothing on as they were able to get away with.”
But I understand it from a marketing perspective!
DAf 44 (one of the fastest cars EVER built, in backwards drive mode. Dutch, of course):
How it’s been sold:
This is the essence of those hiphop videos
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Nope, I meant what I said. 
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Pics or it didn’t happen!!!