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UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP SONGS
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1

Sounds like:
House Shoes,
Roc Marciano,
Jon Wayne
By
sweeney kovar
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Jan 19, 2013
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Just because one is a rapper or one likes to rap, it does not necessarily make one a good rapper. These types of individuals are classified by a small circle of professional rap experts as "rappin' ass rappers."In his debut 7" for Mello Music Group, ...
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2

By
sweeney kovar
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Jan 12, 2013
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The 25th element of hip-hop is the posse cut. Multiple MCs swarming over a beat, each one taking it to different places, but everyone killing it. The further you move through the posse cut, the tougher the bars should get, to the point where the end ...
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3

Sounds like:
Jeremiah Jae,
Zeroh,
Kutmah,
Madlib
By
sweeney kovar
on
Jan 9, 2013
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Kutmah specializes in the ethereal and other-worldy. Whether through his mixes, edits, live performances or original compositions, Kootz always manages to pull you into a world that is a bit uncomfortable, definitely new, and always interesting.When ...
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4

Sounds like:
Jay Electronica,
deadprez,
Nas,
Mos Def
By
sweeney kovar
on
Dec 27, 2012
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For those who take rap music as an extension of black culture, iterations of which have previously been called funk, soul and jazz, there is a definite purpose and goal to hip-hop. No bar should be incidental, no verse meaningless. That is exactly ho...
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5

Sounds like:
Madlib,
J Dilla,
Ghostface Killah
By
sweeney kovar
on
Dec 24, 2012
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This is the best DOOM track I've heard in a while. His most recent project, JJ DOOM (with Janero Jarel), was cool, but it didn't quite reach the heights of wonderful weirdness that previous efforts had. After dominating the early 2000s with a bizarre...
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6

Sounds like:
Kendrick Lamar,
Schoolboy Q,
Black Hippy
By
Devin Duckworth
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Dec 15, 2012
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Ab-Soul has been hitting the charts on many "Best Of" lists, and I'm surprised that he hasn't surfaced on Indie Shuffle yet. That being said, you guys are certainly in for a treat. Ab-Soul is a member of the Black Hippy supergroup, and is intellectua...
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7

By
sweeney kovar
on
Dec 5, 2012
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House Shoes lineage is proven and unlike that of any other Motor City DJ. He helped introduce the world to J Dilla and played dot-connecter for numerous other artists from the D and other cities. His move to L.A. several years ago has raised his prof...
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8

Sounds like:
Jay Electronica,
Kanye West,
Mos Def
By
sweeney kovar
on
Nov 30, 2012
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Folks love to hate Mos Def.Now known as Yasiin Bey, the Brooklyn MC has never been able to live up to the standard he set with his 1999 debut, Black on Both Sides. Since his 2004 sophomore album The New Danger, the same people that lifted Mos (I'm go...
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