Underground Hip-Hop

[Ruckus]

Hangar 18

Los Nativos - Their ep Black Flag Red Star is awesomely good

Murs

Felt - Which is Murs + Slug from Atmosphere

Cage

Q-Strange

Paris

T-K.A.S.H.

And ummm, basically if you like El-P, check out his label Def-Jux, there's a bunch of good artists there.

[Riceman 4K]

I wouldn't consider A Tribe Called Quest as underground. However they do rock so check them out.

And for the MF Doom

[BFG]

Woot! This is my kind of topic. A lot of underground/alternative hip-hop is out there. If you'd like to discuss this further I'm more than willing to talk about this on AIM or MSN.

Anyway, here's a pretty brief list of what I'd consider "essentials". Some of these artists I wouldn't necessarily count as underground, but if you don't listen to them you should.

A Tribe Called Quest

Cyne

CunninLynguists

Aesop Rock

Hieroglyphics

The Roots

The Pharcyde

Nujabes

Immortal Technique

Brother Ali

MF DOOM

Madvillain

Busdriver

Take your pick.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Oh, and check out Asheru too. His stuff's kind of hard to get ahold of, but he's the dude that did the theme for the Boondocks on Adult Swim.

I am the stone that the builder refused..

[Psicosis]

Bit surprised that no-one mentioned that Buck 65 has a new album out.

[ROC]

Pharoahe Monch just dropped a new album called "Desire" it's supposed to be pretty good. Also check out NYOil:HoodTREASON The Warmup album also supposed to be good.

[Big Hydro]

El-P ugh

Check out Apathy (Eastern Philosophy, Where's Your Album?, It's the Bootleg Muthafuckas, and No Place Like Chrome w/Celph Titled)

Lupe Fiasco (not really underground but Fahreinheit1/15 Volumes 1-3 and of course Food and Liquor)

Little Brother (The Ministrel Show, I have no idea how they are gonna survive without 9th's production)

DJ Dangermouse (The Grey Album which is that Beetles/Jay Z mash up)

Demigodz (The Gods Must Be Crazy)

Of course anything MF Doom or Madvillian

Edited July 11, 2007 by Big Hydro