I'm sure there's some underground shit which has some heat now, but I have stopped listening to the radio long ago and mainly comb through underground records/ boom bap from the 1990s. Doesn't have to be new to be new to me. I like conscious rap, gangsta, hardcore, horror core, and sometimes just plain strange. Rap from the east, south, west, and bay area. I can't be the only one either. I'm real light skinned as in in no matter how much sun I get I don't really tan. I remember watching MTV in the 90s and seeing the Eminem videos and secretly liking it. I changed school districts and the school I started going to had a larger population of Mexican and black students. My new best friend was black and got me listening to more rap. I didn't have to hide my liking of it anymore so over the next 11 years I embraced my liking and listened to countless hip hop records. I started out on that commercial radio shit and fake gangster stuff, but progressed over time. I'm going to post a bunch of tracks I enjoy. I have forgotten many of them because my iPod crashed with 30 gigs of music in the same week that my computer and external hard drive did. I had rare bay area compilations and cds I collected from bayontop before they got shut down, but they're gone. Other ones I just largely forgot about. I'm going to start with this list I made for another site and edit more in, especially if there are people who like what they're hearing and comment.
Random side note I had one mushroom trip when I was 17 that started out as an anxiety filled bad trip. All the sudden I heard this higher pitched voice in my head rapping fast complex rhymes battling the inner depression and darkness in my heart which had prevented me from loving others and making real connections. It was so amazing. I like writing poetry but I have largely neglected honing that skill. With daily bud blazing I felt too numb or content to really be inspired to write. This was like a rebirth of the times when I was sober and would make poetry in my head while I walked around in my day to day except amplified to a large degree in speed.
On a side note how nice would it be if google and youtube put together some money to create a youtube video format which maintains reasonable space but syncs all the audios to be of the same quality. Its so annoying to me when you cant hear shit on some videos and then some are like full blast after.
Conscious rap:
Cyne-Adrift
Pharaoh Monch-The truth
Hieroglyphics-At the helm
Cunninlynguists- Alright
Blackstar- Respirations
Equilibrium- Critical Conditions
Blue Scholars- Self Portrait
Cunninlynguists- Close your eyes
One be lo- Axis
Hieroglyphics- Battle of the shadow
Cyne- Catharsis
Cyne/ Sunstantial- Jacobs Ladder
Masta Ace- Revelations
Rappin 4 Tay- I'll be around
Binary Star- Honest Expression
Apathy- Chemical
Cunninlynguists- Missing Children
Cyne- Feather
Viro The Virus-Starlight
Grieves-bloody poetry
Shad- Wild
Common- Used to love H.E.R
Common- Ressurection
Deltron 3030- Masterminds
r.a the rugged man feat Vinnie Paz- Uncommon Valor
Hopsin- Ill Mind 5
Common- Resurrection
]Talib Kweli- Get By
Cyne-The River
Cyne-400 Years
Nuabes- Feather
Immortal Technique- Peruvian Cocaine
Cunninlynguists- Dont leave
Cyne- Papermate
Cunninlynguists- Love Aint remix
Holloman- My Lost Love and Bruce
Cyne- The Raven
Cunninlynguists- Dying Nation
Hardcore:
Reef the lost cauze-humble beginnings
Immortal Technique- No mercy
Army of the Pharoahs- swords drawn
GZA- investigative reports
Viro the Virus-rear naked choke
Demigodz- Heat Speakers
Apathy,Celph titled, and Esoteric- Devestating MCs
Army of the Pharaohs- Seven
Snowgoons-Avalanche warning
Snowgoons- Never
Raekwon-Guillotine Swordz
Big L feat Jay Z-Seven minute freestyle
Masta Ace- Unfriendly game
Del the funky homosapian- Press Rewind
Non Phixion- Existence
KRS-One- If you only Knew
Diabolic- Role model
Hieroglyphics- Soundscience
Tech N9ne feat D12- She Devil
2-Pac- Pain
Killah Priest, Rasul Allah, and Richard Raw- Serve Justice
Brotha Lynch- Bleeding House Mystery
Immortal Technique- Point of No Return
Immortal Technique Dance With The Devil
Swollen Members- Pressure
Swollen Members-Grind
Immortal Technique- Internally bleeding
Cunninlynguists feat Tonedeff, Sankofa, Kashal- Tee, and Celph Titled- 616 Rewind
Alfu Ra- It's Yours
M-Dot feat Jaysaun- The Real and The Raw
Smoking songs/ tracks to blaze to:
11/5- Garcia Vega
Bone Thugs N Harmony- Weed Song
RBL- Bammer weed
The Alkaholiks- Mary Jane
Quasimoto- Astro travelin
PSD- Every damn day
B-Legit- Hemp museum
The Luniz- 5 on it
Quasimoto- Greenery
Brotha Lynch Hung- One mo pound
JT the Bigga Figga-Did you get the dank
Dubee- My Thang
Mac Dre- I need an eighth
Devin The Dude-I cant quit
Devin The Dude-Lacville 79
Hieroglyphics-Heatish
Quasimoto-Green Power
Murs-8 Bit Baby(not about blazing but crazy to blaze to)
Andre Nickatine-Smoke Dope and Rap
Vurtuoso- Statue
Method Man and Redman- How high original
Quasimoto feat Madvillain- Closer
Quasimoto- Axe Puzzles
Quasimoto- Bluffin
Apayhy- Smoke weed every day
Drinking songs: Apathy, Celph Titled, and the Alkaholiks - Drink specials
Lootpack feat Alkaholiks- Likwit fusion
Xzibit- I'm An Alkaholik
Gangsta: UGK- Live Wires Connect
Above the Law- Black Superman
2pac- Letter to the president
Spice 1- 187 Proof
C-Bo- Birds in the Kitchen
IMP- Frisco
King Tee-Lets Go Dippin
Criminalz-Puttin in work
ESG-G-ride
Spice 1 feat 2pac-Jealous Got Me Strapped
Young Lay feat 2pac, Mac Mall, and Ray Luv-Gotta Survive
San Quinn- Young Gs perspective
Mac Mall-Illegal Business
E-40-dusted and disgusted
Ray Luv-Stormy weather
Spice 1 feat T-Nutty/Killa Tay- Critical Criminals
IMP- The Last Breath
Young Hootie- Game Neva Ends
C-Bo- Groovin on a Sunday
Mac mall- Young N Da Game
ESG- My Real Niggas
ESG- Birdies That Dont Chirp
Xzibit- Positively Negative
Bay area etc:
Khayree Elevate your game
Andre Nickatina- Fly Guy
Andre Nickatina- Fly like a bird
Mac Dre-Doin what I do
Lil Bruce-Mobbin in my old school
Brotha Lynch Hung- Went way
Celly Cel- It's goin down tonight
Rappin 4 Tay-Playas Club
Hollow Tip- Knee deep
Mac Dre- Lifes a bitch
Ant Banks- Big Thangs
Mac Dre- Back to my mission
E-40- Da Bumble
JT the Bigga Figga- Bay Area Playaz
Young Lay- All About My Fetti
Brotha Lynch Hung- went From
East Coast etc:
Large Professor- Queens Lounge
The Last Emperor- Man of the Year
Apathy and Celph Titled- Save the Day
Masta Ace- Dear Diary
Eminem- Hellbound
Bone Thugs- Mo Murda
Large Professor feat Nas- One Plus One
Method Man- Mr Sandman
Esoteric- Shays Rebellion(instrumental only)
Ill Bill- Doomsday Was Written In An Alien Bible-
Ill Bill- Babylon
Madvillain- All Caps
Southern etc: Al D- Why You hatin Me
Dj Screw- You Can't Stop the Rain
Dj Screw- My Life
Dj Screw- Break Em Off
ESG- Swangin and Bangin
Micronauts- Heat
Micronauts- One Eye Tilted
Cyne- Octagon \ Cyne- Dazed and Confused
Equilibrium-Hold Something( celph was young as hell in this one it takes a second to realize its him)
Celph Titled Feat. Louis Logic, Lexicon, J-Zone and Ryu- Rock remix
Edited by utk (02/26/13 10:39 PM)
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