Thursday, July 30, 2009

Go to the Underground

I was looking at old clips of The Lyricist Lounge Show(It was a show that aired on MTV which lasted for only one season) and it got me thinking about all of the great underground rappers that will unfortunately not get any love by the mainstream because they refuse to play by the rules. Wordsworth, MF Doom, Aesop Rock, Little Brother, Foreign Exchange, and the list goes on and on all have put out hot material and it is a shame that people who are not heavy into the underground hip hop scene doesn't know about them. Back in the 80's/90's you had acts that appealed to that type of crowd but they would be on one of the smaller indie labels and not a major but the change came when once the major labels saw rap music as a cash cow and decided to drain out the realness and make it more suitable for mass consumption. Enough of my ranting but in short go out and support your underground acts because they represent real and true hip hop.

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