The Underground Hip HOP Thread

[nyPistolPete]

 	
1. AoOM Intro
2. Been Gone feat. Strange Fruit Project, Proh Mic, S'ence
3. Neva Gone Change feat. Supastition
4. Club Aquarius feat. Tree and Dow Jones
5. Hush feat. Deloach, Myone (of SFP), Kay (of The Foundation)
6. Right Here feat. Little Brother and Median
7. Blue Notes feat. Free Agents, Oneself, and Myone (of SFP)
8. Hands Off feat. K-Otix and Deloach
9. Night Like This feat. Darien Brockington and Big Pooh (of Little Brother)
10. The Broke Song feat. Strange Fruit Project
11. The Groove feat. Organic Thoughts
12. Milk’em feat. Ghostface, Trife, and Myone
13. Day After Day feat. Moon Cricket and Verbal Seed
14. Onemind feat. El da Sensei and Chip Fu	
15. We Three Kings feat. Myth, Bavu, and Chucky Sly
16. Guilty Pleasures feat. Kenn Starr and Thesis
17. High Powered feat. The Procussions

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2DNI34TE

[nyPistolPete]

1. Where Will You Be?
2. Since When
3. Nothing to Give
4. Caved In -Cee-Lo Green
5. Hourglass
6. Beautiful Girl
7. Inhale (Interlude)
8. Brain Cell 
9. America Loves Gangsters
10. Never Know Why - Immortal Technique
11. Gates - Tonedeff
12. Damnation (Interlude)
13. Hellfire
14. Remember Me (Abstract/Reality)
15. What'll You Do?
16. Light

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FBJYMX3R

[EA$Y]

Apathy & Celph Titled - No Place Like Chrome (2007)
Release Date: February 8, 2007

Tracklist:
1. Naturally Nasty
2. Sound of the Clap
3. 88 Mindstate
4. Fix Your Face
5. S.M.D.
6. Maybe
7. Bad Attitudes (ft. One Two)
8. Donkey Ass (ft. Majik Most)
9. Nut Reception (ft. J-Zone)
10. Save the Day
11. Drink Specials (ft. Tzarizm, Phil the Agony & Rugged)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/h7oros

[Anonimus]

Diverse - One A.M. (2003; Chocolate Industries)

Diverse is a rapper you think you've heard before--not because this Chicago MC sounds similar to others, but because his presence is so powerful it seems impossible that this is only his first album. Intelligent without being arrogant, conscious without being corny, Diverse also boasts two of the greatest assets any MC could ask for: an authoritative baritone and a confident flow. These help him keep up with some of the more seasoned rappers who appear on the album, including Vast Aire (formerly of Cannibal Ox), Lyrics Born, and Jean Grae. Complementing Diverse's superior lyricism is top-notch production courtesy of a holy trinity of underground favorites: Prefuse 73, Madlib, and RJD2. They push the album from raucously energetic to sinisterly moody to laid-back cool. At a mere 11 songs plus one skit, Diverse's debut accomplishes an unlikely feat in these days of overblown hype and rampaging ego: he leaves you wanting more.



1. Certified
2. Uprock
3. Big Game - (featuring Vast Aire)
4. Ain't Right
5. Jus Biz
6. Blindman
7. Explosive - (featuring Lyrics Born)
8. Under The Hammer - (featuring Jean Grae)
9. 747 (Flyin)
10. Interlude (Amberglis) - (RJD2 remix, CD only, bonus track, featuring Mos Def)
11. Leaving
12. In Accordance

http://rapidshare.com/files/3351460/HHB_DIVERSE_ONE_AM.rar

[SAK007]

Much like fellow Westcoast hiphop outfits such as Jurassic 5 or ugly Duckling, 
The Bay Area trio known collectively as Foreign Legion base their style on a back-to-basics, no-nonsense interpretation of old Skool values and aesthetics. From the openning tracks, FL are Quick to express that they're Sick of all the nambie-pambie, introverted, introspective, beard-stroking of many of their contemporaries. Heads may be crying out "I want an emcee to flip, I want a deejay to rip!" but the intro track puts it, "everyone else is sleeping" Well WAKE UP! Because here comes a crew who are soon to obtain form for "Busting out like varacous vains on fat dames." The FL introduce themselves as hiphop's equivalent of "Han Solo and chubacca," pledging to "hack up shit like big axe and little axe" with the solid, Sure-footed back-and-forth rhyme style and exciting beat of "PEOPLE ROUND TOWN" and best believe, they're only getting warmed up with this track....
With the affirmation "we can get down but not too underground," the gravly toned Mark Stretch and the more nasal sounding Prozac are eager to put themselves forward as A pair of hiphop zealots; more concerned with being dope than different Still, obeying the axium "let the hybrid of your heart and soul become deeds of greatness". The group use their "Kidnapper Van" to seize a handful of rap cliches to smack the crap out of them and then take them on a joy-ride. For instance, they take hiphop's bragadotio tradition, and proceed to prove that they come equipped with " more technique than ITF deejays," when the duo flex their battle credentials by giving each other a "REFERENCE CHECK;" serving up a welcomely refreshing twist to one of hiphop's staple rituals. Likewise, Prozac may denounce the way in which many of his contemporaries prtend to be "underground or worse than that, 'experimental," it's clear that they're partial to experimentation themselves. The difference however between the antics of Foreign legion and the creative misadventure of those they hold in contempt is that too many emcees send heads searching for a sleeping-bag and pillow whereas "when I press my pen to pad emcees line up with sandbags!" The most unorthedox track on "Kidnapper van" would have to be the deceptively short "MEANWHILE" where an unusually philosophical Prozac attempts to realise and convey the complexity of the "different situations: same second on the clock" Concept. However, (and if only for the end-of-track shout out to "Stone henge, Rock, rock-on!") my favourite of the album's "experimental" tracks would have to be the Tongue-in-cheak "NOWHERE TO HIDE." As the lyrics alternate between prozac's unapologetically absurd conspiracy fantasies and Mark Stretch's more Acicular social commentary, quotables such as:
"They killed Versace, cancelled Joni loves Chachie, killed Princess Di and framed the Paparazi." 
Or
"when you drink a 40-ounce brew, all you really do is ingest enzymes the government designed to lower your IQ." 
constitute an invigorating deconstruction of the current non-conformmist, nerdish conventions of hiphop. In case any doubt or scepticism remains concerning global conspiracies and subliminal brainwashing, just ask yourself "why else with intelligent people tune in to Jerry Springer?" And who is to save us from such state-sponsored Subterfuge? Well, Foreign Legion try their hand at a bit of role-play during SECRET AGENT." Like Louis Logic or fellow westcoast lyrical duo Styles of beyond, "the future of the free land's in my hands" as the latest dynamic duo on the block do their audition pieces for the role of the next two James Bonds...
The album ultimately returns to more familiar ground when "Kidnapper Van's" 
homestretch is populated by clever, if unenergetic, concepts and beats serving as platforms for expressing how down/real/true they are to the culture and how disgusted they are by wannabes and frauds gaining overnight success after they've put in all the ground work and earned their dues... However, one man's portentous pledge is another man's pompous platitude and so claims of how hiphop comes before everything else in life (including beautiful women) may not hold much appeal for nonfanatical listeners Furthermore, in the absence of some serious over-kill on the mixer's pitch and speed controls, the instrumentals for such tracks feature beats which are Too fast for head nodding but too slow to send you wild on the dancefllor. Still, whether it's the rousing horn blasts of "underground," the shrill violin sting which laces the wicked beat of "FULL TIME B-BOY" or the vive-laced beat of "you'll never be #1" DJ Design appears to know just exactly what is needed to spice these tracks up. 
In the same way that the album's lyrical tone sustains a balance between "closing the gap between experimental rap and failed science projects." And the need to consistently "come the fuck off like Forest Gump's leg braces," the overall shape of the album finds DJ Design fulfilling that old showbiz adage that advises performers to leave the audience wanting more, the way the tracks are sequenced means than the listner is never left to get habituated...Indeed, At first listen, I thought all the tracks were extremely short despite the fact that some were up to 5 minutes long.
Foreign Legion are the sort of group who are here to remind EPMD that they should have retired 10 years ago when they still had some dignity....

1 Everyone's Sleeping 00:52   
2 People Round Town 04:59   
3 Nowhere To Hide 04:05   
4 Underground 04:16   
5 Meanwhile 02:56   
6 Full Time B-Boy 04:42 
7 Let Me Tell You Something 03:43  
8 Secret Agent 03:57   
9 Reference Check 04:31   
10 Overnight Success 04:22 
11 You'll Never Be Number One 03:40   
12 That's Bond 05:00  
13 Chain Reaction 02:08 
14 Never Be the Same 04:25

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n5urw6

[SAK007]

Prozack Turner, head MC of Foreign Legion, returns from the land of shady label politics to drop his official debut, Bangathon. Content with his current label situation, Prozack sounds as good as ever over some top notch production by the likes of Jake One, Paul Nice, and Oh No.

Track Listing 
1. Intro - 
2. Rhymin' Over Breakbeats 
3. Summertime In The Town  
4. Hungry 
5. Something In The Air  
6. Ya'll Ain't Fussin' With Us  
7. 50 Pound Radio 
8. The Ballad Of Adriana Sage  
9. Club Girls  
10. Stand Up  
11. Bangathon! 
12. World's An Uproar  
13. Alicia 
14. I Wanna Go Home

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dczzgm

[dodgerdeezy]

This is as underground as it gets!! I heard this guy freestyle at an open mic session in Honolulu and it was nice. He gave me a copy of his CD and I thought I would post it to give him some props. White guy from the east coast, but now in Honolulu. I heard him freestyle on K.T.U.H too, a college radio station....pretty tight. Check it out and let me know what you think.!


1. Intro
2.Smoke It!! (Feat. Shauny Blaze)
3. The Day After Tomorrow
4. Back On The Scene (K.T.U.H Freestyle)
5.Feel It
6.K.T.U.H Freestyle #1
7. Hip Hop
8. K.T.U.H Freestyle #2
9. Freestyle Over Onyx Beat
10. Freestyle over Mobb Beat
11. KTUH Freestyle #3
12. Tight Whips ( Who got em)
13. A.K.A Drymouth (feat. Shauny Blaze)
14. Shock Freestyle
15. KTUH Freestyle #4
16. Make Sure I Sound Right
17. Dodger D
18. Rock The Mic
19. KTUH Freestyle #5
20. Its Dodger D......2003
21. The Bitches That I Hit
22. Chadstradamus 2004
23. KTUH Freestyle #6
24. Freestyle At U.M.O 2000
25. KTUH Freestyle #7


http://rapidshare.com/files/13126069...t_Is_Over_.rar

[cdoc]

Originally Posted by Anonimus

Props. Man, I've been wanting that "Soon Come" ish forever. I'm gonna hit ya'll with some links in a second but anyone got Yesterday's New Quintet - 'Angels Without Edges'?

Yup...here it is...

Download from FILEHO



1. Prelude
2. Julani
3. Papa
4. Keeper Of My Soul
5. The One Who Knows
6. The Birth Of YNQ
7. Paladium
8. Life's Angels
9. Thinking Of You
10. Uno Esta
11. Rugged Tranquility
12. Daylight
13. Hot Water
14. Mestizo Eyes
15. Sun Goddess
16. Kuhn's Theme
17. Little Girl (Dakota's Song)
18. Broken Dreams
19. Last Day

[Anonimus]

Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition (2004; Definitive Jux)



1. Intro
2. Bad Man!
3. 3:16
4. The Pain
5. Trevor An' Them
6. Freak These Tales
7. H-U-S-T-L-E
8. Walk Like A Man
9. And This is For?
10. The Animal

http://www.sendspace.com/file/da2ew0

[nyPistolPete]

1. Intro
2. Serious 
3. Whut U in It 4
4. Can't Hold On
5. Push 
6. Special
7. Offering Interlude
8. Hold Your Breath
9. Now U Know 
10. Pressure 
11. Never Saw It Coming
12. So Real
13. Never Give U Up
14. Mary J Interlude
15. Get Back
16. Listen 2 This
17. Yeah
18. Nightlife

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X6MDNJKE