HTOTM: FUSION
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Underground rap thread.
Post your favorite underground rap groups and solo rappers, producers and DJs too, and debate on how hip hop is getting adulterated and dumbed down by the mainstream commercial values.
Feel free to post some nice videos too.

Some of my personal favorites:

Abstract Rude
Akir
Alien Nation
Army of the Pharaohs
Atma
Atom Tha Immortal
Azad
Bahamadia
Baseheadz
Blaq Poet
Blitz the Ambassador
Bloodline
Busdriver
C.L. Smooth
Canibus
Cannibal Ox
Chief Kamachi
Cinematic Orchestra
Clever Jeff
Company Flow
Concrete Click
Cunninlynguists
CYNE
Daedelus
DAM
De La Soul
Dead Prez
Dealema
DJ Honda
DJ Krush
DJ Mark Farina
DJ Premier
DJ Shadow
Earatik Statik
El-P
EPMD
Euphrates
Foreign Beggars
Fuse
Garion
Grandmaster Flash
Group Home
Guru
Gutta
Hasan Salaam
Heiruspecs
IDE
Ikonoklasta
Ill Bill
Immortal Technique
InI
Jazz Liberatorz
Jean Grae
Jedi Mind Tricks
Jeru The Damaja
Jise One
Jonny Alpha
K Sarrah
KC Da Rookee
Kev Brown
Killah Priest
KRS-One
La Coka Nostra
Large Professor
Little Brother
Lodeck
Madlib
Madvillain
Maspyke
MC Solaar
Melange Lávonne
MF DOOM
Mr. Lif
Necro
Nephlim Modulation Systems
No ID
Non Phixion
Nujabes
O.G.C.
Okai
Onyx
Orko Eloheim
Oxmo Puccino
People Under The Stairs
Percee P
Pete Philly & Perquisite
Pete Rock
Phoenix Orion
Pigeon John
Psych Ward
Psycho Realm
Q-Unique
R.A. the Rugged Man
Rabi Lampi
Sage Francis
Sav Killz
Sean Price
Shabaam Sahdeeq
Shad
Shortie No Mas
Soundproviders
Square One
Supernatural
Sutter Kain
The Ambassor
The Arsonists
The Devil'z Rejects
The Flatlinerz
The Lost Children of Babylon
The Narcicyst
The Reavers
The Roots
The Strange Fruit Project
Tonedeff
Tram 11
Triple Darkness
Underclassmen
Vakill
Valete
Verbal Threat
Walkin' Large
Wisemen
Zion I
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Jan 17, 2009 at 11:10 PM.
"There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed." - Mohandas Gandhi
I do not believe you listen to all of those artists, let alone listen to them all enough to call them personal favourites.
Tre!
Originally Posted by DrTre View Post
I do not believe you listen to all of those artists, let alone listen to them all enough to call them personal favourites.

I know its hard to believe, but they are my some of my favorites. They all have good stuff.
"There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed." - Mohandas Gandhi
Originally Posted by Swooya View Post
Valete is from my country Portugal

LOL também sou Português. Haha. Ya o valete é dos melhorzitos por esta zona na cauda de europa.


Heheh he is nice.
"There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed." - Mohandas Gandhi
YOU FORGOT ABOUT TUPAC YOU DUMBO....xD jk....although Tupac has really good music...listen to it sometime...
I HAVE THOUGHT OF A NUMBER OF THINGS TO PUT HERE, BUT SINCE I DON'T FEEL LIKE WRITING THOSE THINGS, I WILL KEEP THIS BLANK FOR NOW.
Originally Posted by izzy162 View Post
YOU FORGOT ABOUT TUPAC YOU DUMBO....xD jk....although Tupac has really good music...listen to it sometime...

Lol, 2pac is totally the opposite of an underground rapper.
Do you know what underground means?
"There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed." - Mohandas Gandhi
how about Kinsman County Records
my dad was in prison with them
and in Cleveland they are the bomb

P.S. Tupac was not underground.
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC
YAY :D