Playlist: Nominate 10 tracks for The Greatest Underground Hip Hop Tracks of All Time

[Lou Cypher]

Mmmmmmmm..

Zion I - Birds Eye View

Tonedeff - Porcelain

Blackstar - RE: Definition

Decompoze - Indy 500

Atmosphere - Little Man.

If you ask me this question in 5 minutes it will probably be a completely different list lol. top 5 is impossible i need a top 100 or something.

 

[RuffDraft]

Mmmmmmmm..

Zion I - Birds Eye View

Tonedeff - Porcelain

Blackstar - RE: Definition

Decompoze - Indy 500

Atmosphere - Little Man.

If you ask me this question in 5 minutes it will probably be a completely different list lol. top 5 is impossible i need a top 100 or something.

I'll increase it to 10 :tu

Great choices, Porcelain is amazing and I don't think Tone has really touched that level of genius since… I can't wait for Chico & The Man (even though it's nigh on Detox status in terms of coming). Birds Eye View is fuckin' genius, the undergrounds answer to Common's I Used to Love H.E.R. That Indy 500 track is Binary Star Feat. Decompoze right?? It's from MOTU… interesting pick, it's not my favourite from that album :tu Blackstar should feature quite well in this thread… Atmosphere's track is dope :tu I was thinking of dropping Yesterday in my top 5, 'cos I can relate to it, but I don't know yet if that'll be in my top 10!!

 

[bankrupt baller]

good place to drop this video

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[RuffDraft]

good place to drop this video

Name 9 other independent/underground hip hop tracks that you love if you can :tu No YouTube's necessary…

 

[Lou Cypher]

Ok my other 5. (at this second)

Blu and Exile - Dancing In The Rain

Mf Doom - Doomsday! (Love the sample)

Aesop Rock - Daylight

Slum Village - You Know what Love is

Chino XL - It's All Bad

 

[bankrupt baller]

Name 9 other independent/underground hip hop tracks that you love if you can :tu No YouTube's necessary…

ok i will try but tell me that song and video aint crazy....joe is a beast

 

[Lou Cypher]

Great Budden Song!

 

[stupot0607]

1. Atmosphere - Between the Lines

2. Blueprint - 1988

3. Planet Asia - Boil Makers

4. Freeway & Jake One - Escalators

5. Blu & Exile - Dancing in the Rain

6. Cunninlynguists - The Gates

7. Canibus - Poet Laureate II

8. Atmosphere - Scalp

9. Madvillian - Strange Way

10. Fashawn - The Ecology

 

[RuffDraft]

Ok my other 5. (at this second)

Blu and Exile - Dancing In The Rain

Mf Doom - Doomsday! (Love the sample)

Aesop Rock - Daylight

Slum Village - You Know what Love is

Chino XL - It's All Bad

Daylight, epic choice!! :tu Props on your choices.

ok i will try but tell me that song and video aint crazy....joe is a beast

Props, stay on topic though… if you want to just discuss one Budden song make a thread in The Reason, he's signed to a Major.

 

[Lou Cypher]

Im doing 15. Promise ill stop after that.

Madvillain - Fancy Clown

Fashawn - Life as A Shorty

Ras Kass - Evil That Men Do (off Soul On Ice, im not sure if it was a major album or not)

Rakim - When I Be On The Mic

Edgar Allen Floe - Righteous Way To Go (one of the dopest 9th Beats EVER)

 

[RuffDraft]

1. Atmosphere - Between the Lines
2. Blueprint - 1988
3. Planet Asia - Boil Makers
4. Freeway & Jake One - Escalators
5. Blu & Exile - Dancing in the Rain
6. Cunninlynguists - The Gates
7. Canibus - Poet Laureate II
8. Atmosphere - Scalp
9. Madvillian - Strange Way
10. Fashawn - The Ecology

@ Bolded. Nice picks Stupot :tu

Im doing 15. Promise ill stop after that.

Madvillain - Fancy Clown

Fashawn - Life as A Shorty

Ras Kass - Evil That Men Do (off Soul On Ice, im not sure if it was a major album or not)

Rakim - When I Be On The Mic

Edgar Allen Floe - Righteous Way To Go (one of the dopest 9th Beats EVER)

Great additions, When I Be On The Mic is easily the best track on The Master.

 

[stupot0607]

WoW WoW WoW

Rakim - The Master was a independant release???? i thought that was on a major??

 

[RuffDraft]

WoW WoW WoW

Rakim - The Master was a independant release???? i thought that was on a major??

You're right, I'll need to research all the drops before I drop the list of officially nominated tracks lol. It was on Universal Records, I own it and bought it in a store, that should have been the sign that it was on a Major lol.

 

[stupot0607]

You're right, I'll need to research all the drops before I drop the list of officially nominated tracks lol. It was on Universal Records, I own it and bought it in a store, that should have been the sign that it was on a Major lol.

Haha im still technically lending it off my oldest brother who doesnt really like hip hop. but the master is his favorite rap album ever.....

He still trys to tell me even though he lacks alot of basic hip hop knowledge...

 

[RuffDraft]

Haha im still technically lending it off my oldest brother who doesnt really like hip hop. but the master is his favorite rap album ever.....

He still trys to tell me even though he lacks alot of basic hip hop knowledge...

Haha at least he's on something… I can't say it rates that highly in my list, but he's definitely dope!! Saw him live as well and loved the show… he's gifted for sure. But I listened to The Master and When I be on the Mic was just a lot better than the other tracks, I did buy it a long time ago though and haven't played it in years…. what you think of it?

 

[Lou Cypher]

Well i think you can still be on a major label and be underground. but i see what you guys mean, it wasnt an indie release for sure. The album is really Monotone to me and i dont like the production, but the flow and beat for when i be on the mic just blew me away. cant name another song on that album that i loved. few likes but no LOVES

 

[RuffDraft]

Well i think you can still be on a major label and be underground. but i see what you guys mean, it wasnt an indie release for sure. The album is really Monotone to me and i dont like the production, but the flow and beat for when i be on the mic just blew me away. cant name another song on that album that i loved. few likes but no LOVES

Yeah, I definitely agree, which is why the likes of The Roots and Rakim still have their place… it's arguable.

Same, When I Be on the Mic's production was just stupid good… it was 'old school fresh'. You pretty much summed that album up for me too.

 

[renagade410.]

hmmmm im gonna list underground essentials as opposed to my favorite underground songs so this post will continuosly be edited as i have to think this out

-binary star-indy 500(may later change this pick to another song from that cd but i believe a track from masters of the universe has to be present)

-the grouch-breath

jedi mind tricks-extertions remix(not my fav song from off that cd but for some reason its the one i would choose this....my fav is blood runs cold i may switch the two out lol but violent by design is a certified underground classic)

jazz liberators ft asheru- i am hip hop

o.c-word....life(the song)

eyedea-paridise

 

[RuffDraft]

hmmmm im gonna list underground essentials as opposed to my favorite underground songs so this post will continuosly be edited as i have to think this out

-binary star-indy 500(may later change this pick to another song from that cd but i believe a track from masters of the universe has to be present)

-the grouch-breath

jedi mind tricks-extertions remix(not my fav song from off that cd but for some reason its the one i would choose this....my fav is blood runs cold i may switch the two out lol but violent by design is a certified underground classic)

jazz liberators ft asheru- i am hip hop

o.c-word....life(the song)

Hope I didn't quote it too soon lol.

Man, Indy 500 is everybody's favourite from MoTU? Breath is definitely one of those refreshing independent hip hop tracks, it's so tough to pick them… I'm going to drop mine tomorrow, great to see the Jazz Lib'z on there though!! :tu

 

[renagade410.]

Hope I didn't quote it too soon lol.

Man, Indy 500 is everybody's favourite from MoTU? Breath is definitely one of those refreshing independent hip hop tracks, it's so tough to pick them… I'm going to drop mine tomorrow, great to see the Jazz Lib'z on there though!! :tu

lol im updating it as soon as i hear a song thats worthy im cleaning the house so i got the mp3 player on shuffle. Indy 500's subject takes it for me but honest expression might be my favorite on that cd. Thats really a toss up