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UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP SONGS
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Sounds like:
Madlib,
Roc Marciano,
Guilty Simpson
By
sweeney kovar
on
Aug 14, 2012
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House Shoes is dirty. His sound, his hometown, and his music is often mired with grime. His Let It Go LP that dropped earlier this summer was an exemplary demonstration of neck-breaking drums and raw rhymes. In "Dirt," Shoes takes a popular break and...
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2

Sounds like:
Quelle,
Jeremiah Jae,
Azizi Gibson,
Scoop DeVille,
Jon Wayne
By
sweeney kovar
on
Aug 2, 2012
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Some of the purest moments in hip hop are spur of the moment. A few nights ago, unexpected and out of the blue, Jon Wayne dropped "Night School" on his SoundCloud page. The six-minute-plus banger is produced by Wayne, whose quirky but funky style is ...
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3

Sounds like:
Roc Marciano,
Blu,
House Shoes,
Scoop DeVille
By
sweeney kovar
on
Jul 30, 2012
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Strong Arm Steady have kind of been the Destiny's Child of hardcore hip hop in the past several years. The West Coast crew started as a well-populated collaborative headed by Xzibit and has included artists like Planet Asia, DJ Khalil, and have even ...
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4

By
sweeney kovar
on
Jul 29, 2012
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Usually when rap songs are about colors they're fairly predictable or shallow, referencing a gang affiliation or the particular shade of a luxury auto. When Homeboy Sandman got a beat from Jonti to make a song for Radiolab's colors episode, he took a...
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5

Sounds like:
Quelle,
Roc Marciano,
Knxwledge
By
sweeney kovar
on
Jul 25, 2012
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Much to the delight of new-age backpackers worldwide, Blu & Exile, the heralded duo from L.A., return to the spotlight.Half a decade after their debut collaboration gave a flashback to the Rawkus era with a weeded West Coast twist, the duo offici...
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6

By
sweeney kovar
on
Jul 11, 2012
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J. Rocc of the legendary Beat Junkies is one of the best DJs on this planet. The Cali-representative is one of the very few turntablists that can seamlessly and naturally segue from hip-hop to break-beats to funk to jazz to Brasillian music and back ...
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7

Sounds like:
Ab-Soul,
Kendrick Lamar,
MF Doom
By
danbrightcliffe
on
Jul 5, 2012
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17-year-old Brooklyn emcee Joey Bada$$ has been blowing up since his first music video for "Survival Tactics" hit the Internet, due to his dense lyricism and return to 90s style boom bap beats.Now, the emcee has dropped a music video for "Waves," a...
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8
By
sweeney kovar
on
Jun 23, 2012
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Exile has spent the last half a decade becoming an elite producer. Able to maneuver comfortably between serious mainstream artists (Bow Wow, Big Sean, Mobb Deep), serious underground artists (Fashawn, Blu) and his own experimentally goofy projects, E...
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