Hip Hop Bass Help

sounds like an acoustic upright bass with a bit of a lowpass filter on it to take the edge off.
 
There's alot of Bass Vsts Out there, Spectrasonics Trillian is the best IMO, like previously said it sounds like it has a low pass filter on it, replicating this bass should not be difficult at all
 
Definitely a upright bass..it's just an old recording so whatever samples you use you'll want to roll of the highs and ruff em up with some saturation type effects. There's some free one's about on the net that will do the job.
 
You could use a lot of free virtual instr. to get this sound if you do not have any commercial vst. I believe with a free bass vst (or aax whatever daw you use) or a moog based vst (that is a little more difficult for the exact sound but if you could make it it would be perfect) playing boosting the bass eq and cut some mids, play with a transient shaper simultaneously with a limiter or just use a low pass filter and a limiter will work. If you own Trillian or U-he Diva then the job will be very very easy ;)
 
You can easily get this bass effect if you layer, as the others have said, an upright bass with some saturation and highs rolled off, and another synth doing more of the low end work, like a simple sine sub. Just make sure that they don't clash with each other by separating them properly. The upright bass doesn't need anything below 100 - 120 Hz, and your sub most like shouldn't need anything much above that.Check out this article for more details: Mystic Alankar | Music Production

All the best! :)
 
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In addition to what others have said (saturation etc.) you might want to lower the bitrate of the sample, using a bitcrusher to give it that old school MPC style sound
 
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