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- Third Root – Passion Of The Poets. Third Root is a trio that consists of Charles Peters (Easy Lee), Marco Cervantes (Mexican StepGrandfather), and DJ Chicken George (DJCG).
- One Be Lo - Baby (Being A Black Youth) BABY (Being a Black Youth) is One Be Lo’s best project since his magnum opus S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (2005). One Be Lo has always been a fan of acronyms, evident here not just in the album’s title but in the tracklist as well: all song titles are composed of the four letters in BABY too.
- Jamo Gang - Walking With Lions. Jamo Gang consists of LA legend Ras Kass, NYC veteran emcee El Gant, and J57 on production. The album features DJ Premier, Slug from Atmosphere, Sid Wilson from Slipknot, Sick Jacken from Psycho Realm & Slaine from La Coka Nostra.
- Eastern Sunz - Fuel For A Fool’s Errand. Eastern Sunz is a duo from Portland, Oregon consisting of Courage and Travis T. On Fuel For A Fool’s Errand, Eastern Sunz comes with a potent blend of live instrumentation and traditional feeling boom-bap, with funky drums, jazzy basslines, and even some fresh guitar and piano work combined with well-dosed old school turntablism and sampling.
lists. Best Underground Hip-Hop Albums of 2020. A list by Fohrenbach. Categories: 2020, Genre, Underrated, Releases, Best Of. [List873078] | +4. Best Underground Hip-Hop Albums of 2020. Underground defined as less than 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Ordered by listenership. --- Last updated: 10/12/2020. Tweet. ADVERTISEMENT.
- Hus Kingpin - Portishus. Long Island native Hus Kingpin continues his run of quality releases with Portishus – a project inspired by the music of legendary British band Portishead.
- M.A.V. & Hobgoblin - Angelz & Demonz 3. M.A.V. is an emcee from Rochester, New York, and Hobgoblin is a producer from Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Together they are responsible for the excellent Angelz and Demonz series, of which this is the final installment.
- Machacha - The Hundred. The Hundred is the 100th release by indie label Copenhagen Crates, produced for the most part by Machacha (with additional work on the boards from Giallo Point, DJ TMB, DJ Swab, and Brainorchestra), and featuring hard street bars by a host of underground spitters such as Eto, SmooVth, Supreme Cerebral, Ankhlejohn, M.A.V., Jay Nice, Pro Dillinger, $auce Heist, Mooch, Estee Nack, Recognize Ali, Jay Royale, Ty Farris, Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Rigz, Napoleon Da Legend, and others.
- Wiki - Half God. Wiki is an emcee from NYC and Half God is his fourth full-length LP, entirely produced by Navy Blue. Wiki’s previous releases all were strong projects, but Half God is his best work yet, a fully realized work containing 16 full songs and an hour of music.
- MF Doom. 516 votes. A master of intricate rhyme schemes and intricate storytelling, MF Doom is known for his enigmatic persona and often wears a signature metal-mask on stage.
- Big L. 493 votes. The late Big L was a Harlem-based rapper known for his fierce wordplay and intricate lyricism. He gained fame in the early '90s during the golden age of hip-hop through his association with D.I.T.C.
- Immortal Technique. 426 votes. With razor-sharp political commentary, controversial opinions, and thought-provoking lyrics, Peruvian-American rapper Immortal Technique has been challenging the status quo ever since entering the underground hip-hop scene in the early 2000s.
- Jedi Mind Tricks. 239 votes. Jedi Mind Tricks have carved their niche with thought-provoking lyrics and an innovative sound that combines hardcore beats with raw, emotional storytelling.
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- Busdriver – Temporary Forever
- Quasimoto – The Unseen
- Little Brother – The Listening
- Brother Ali – Shadows on The Sun
- Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
- Z- Ro – Let The Truth Be Told
- Edan – Beauty & The Beat
- J – Live – The Best Part
- Murs & 9th Wonder – Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition
- Ka – Grief Pedigree
The Project Blowed member’s debut was full of the most humorous and mind numbing free-associative rhymes one will ever hear. Looking deeper into Busdriver’s mind, themes on gun violence and major labels complications among others give a feeling of something deeper.
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. A bit of jazzy ultra-violence in a squeaky ass voice never felt...
For many, The Listeningcould be considered one of the most groundbreaking underground Hip Hop records of the modern era. Before their more commercially successful sophomore follow-up The Minstrel Show, the North Carolina trio felt like a polished major label act with a level of creativity that could only come from within the underground. Phonte and...
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. Though he’s improved with every release, Shadows Of The Suncould be considered his best.
Blazing Arrowwasn’t appreciated when released in 2002. However, it’s only gotten better with age thanks to Gift of Gab and producer Chief Xcel. There wasn’t a topic the duo wouldn’t touch. For example, how many people did “Chemical Calisthenics” help through high school Chemistry?
Former Gorilla Mob member Z-Ro has a storied history in Houston Hip Hop. Several albums in, he dropped a bonafide classic in Let The Truth Be Told. For the first time in his career, he made an album that felt more than something local. From the intro “Mo City Don” to “Respect My Mind,” Let The Truth Be Toldis an honest Southern tale.
Beauty & The Beat was an unlikely critical smash in 2004, garnering the dark-dust-feather topped Edan Portnoy (not to be confused with Portnoy, the ballsy, corrupt main character of Portnoy’s Complaint by Phillip Roth) an 85% Metacritic score and cementing him as a dim forefather in the realm of middle-class rap. Think American Beauty,but no dads, ...
Like forward, free-thinking Gods-among-men, DX gave this album the 4.5 it deserved in 2001 just months before the towers fell and everything changed forever. Looking at it through a lens of xenophobia, groupthink and recklessness, J-Live’s The Best Part reads like a tome from another world lamenting the lack of intellectual rigor that would inevita...
Murs has been, and been quite well, an everyman with an edge. On Murs 3:16: The 9th Editionhe found his very capable footing on Def Jux by ditching the skateboard and sliding into a kind of existential angst.
One of the hardest (that’s right, hardest) NYC Hip Hop albums ever released, Ka’s forayinto the depths of Brownsville proved a bit too much for the tastes of the Internet intelligentsia, but that doesn’t mean the sheer propensity for verse and meanness on this album should be overlooked.
May 16, 2024 · Rank the rappers based on who should be considered the king of the underground, or at least has a cult audience among rap and music fans. Latest additions: Isaiah Rashad, Flatbush ZOMBiES, Death Grips. Most divisive: 7L & Esoteric.
Mar 22, 2024 · From legends like MF DOOM, Mos Def, and Aesop Rock, to lyrical beasts like Kool Keith, El-P, and Roc Marciano, these cats are changin’ the game, keepin’ hip hop real. So let’s dive into who our fans ranked as the best underground rappers ever. 1. MF DOOM.
