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Feb 16, 2023 · Here’s our list of the best underground rappers you should keep an eye on because they are bound to have a big year. We were right about the best underground artists in 2020, and we'll be right about them again in 2023. 1. Kota The Friend.
Mar 22, 2022 · Underground Hip Hop is often characterized by socially conscious, positive, or anti-commercial lyrics.] In this piece, you will find 100 underground Hip Hop albums – no compilations, no mixtapes, no instrumental albums, no EPs – we consider to be essential, not ranked but presented in release year order. No major label albums on this list ...
- Madvillain – Madvillainy (2004) Sprawling, ambitious, dense, funny, and consistently refreshing, MF Doom and Madlib’s 2004 collaboration Madvillainy represented the crescendo of an amorphous movement, capturing the inventive spirit of the American underground through a set of uncompromisingly weird and adventurous sounds.
- Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein (2001) Though released in months prior to 9/11, Cannibal Ox’s seminal Cold Vein may as well have sonically predicted the disastrous days ahead.
- Aesop Rock – Labor Days (2001) Shouldering high expectations after his touted signing to Def Jux, Long Island wordsmith Aesop Rock delivered a career defining statement in Labor Days, an album that expanded on his trademark abstraction while dipping further into his favorite themes (modern labor, the effects of city living on the psyche, artistic creation) and a kind of lucidity nonexistent on previous releases.
- Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus (1997) Before El-P took the reins of Def Jux and assaulted listeners as a solo artist, he and cohorts Bigg Jus and Mr. Len crafted one of independent Hip-Hop’s most aggressive and indelible statements, an anti-mainstream screed that expressed its dissatisfaction in every ounce of its being.
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- MF DOOM. Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik) MF DOOM is a name you should know in the hip hop world, and it’s a bit of a shame he remained an underground artist for his entire career.
- El-P. El-P - "The Full Retard" (Official Video) El-P is one of the most important figures in all of alternative hip hop, being the biggest influence on other artists on this list like Aesop Rock.
- Kool Keith. Kool Keith - Black Elvis 2 Intro | Official Audio. In the hip hop world, there are plenty of odd and eccentric artists out there. So, you know it’s saying something when someone is generally considered the most out-there personality.
- Mos Def. Mos Def - Umi Says. Mos Def is another prolific recording artist, working with several groups like Urban Thermo Dynamics and alongside Talibn Kweli in Blackstar.
- Busdriver – Temporary Forever. The Project Blowed member’s debut was full of the most humorous and mind numbing free-associative rhymes one will ever hear.
- Quasimoto – The Unseen. Madness is the pleasure of the unseen, and Madlib’s pig-nosed hippo with the brick is everyone’s unseen. The lost thoughts of a rambling stairwell dweller, or the undine styled under-thoughts of a producer living in a basement studio, Lord Quas was our one and only pleasure of pure id.
- Little Brother – The Listening. For many, The Listening could be considered one of the most groundbreaking underground Hip Hop records of the modern era.
- Brother Ali – Shadows On The Sun. Mr. Ali Newman really hit his stride on his sophomore album Shadows On The Sun. Besides Brother Ali’s way better than average beat selection, the album proved how lyrically far the Rhymesayers Entertainment emcee.
May 15, 2024 · Over 3K music fans have voted on the 30+ Best Underground Hip Hop Groups. Current Top 3: MF Doom, Big L, Jedi Mind Tricks
Nov 13, 2020 · Underground Rap Classics Of The Late '90s: Stream Our Playlist. Ultimate Playlist November 13, 2020 1:30 PM By Nate Patrin. The catch about Golden Eras is that we don’t always know when we’re...
