What are some "CLASSIC" underground hip hop songs?
 

I'm burning someone a mixtape of the illest underground hip hop songs of the late 90s/early 2000s.

Here are a few I've got, let me know what I'm missing...

Aceyalone - The Guidelines
Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
Brother Ali - Room With A View
C-Rayz Walz - Who The Fuck Are You?
CunninLynguists ft. Masta Ace - Seasons
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Felt (Murs & Slug) - Hot Bars
Freestyle Fellowship - Six Tray
Haiku D'Etat - Non Compos Mentis
Heiruspecs - 5ves
Hieroglyphics - You Never Know
Immortal Technique - Peruvian Cocaine
J-Live - Like This Anna
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
PackFM - Stomp
People Under The Stairs - Acid Raindrops
Pharoahe Monch - The Light
Q-Tip - Let's Ride
Rawkus Records - Protective Custody
The High & Mighty ft. Mos Def - B-Boy Document '99
Zion I - Boom Bip


What are some classic underground shits that shaped your early teenage years?

Dope list. Would you happen to have a youtube playlist consisting of these tracks u could link me to? Otherwise i will make my own..

Not sure if you mentioned it but i always liked..

Jedi mind trixks - I Who Have Nothing
Xzibit -what you see is what you get
I really dig a lot of Vakill tracks also.
Been digging into masta ace a lot lately also. Hes running with a crew of dope ass emcees nowadays. Just listened to a cypher they did all standing on a rooftop. A few of thsm killes it. Only one was really garbo and totally off beat in a painful way. Ace killed it tho.

Link me if you have that. Wouls really appreciate it!

Yoooo I used to fuck with EF@mm - Line Drop pretty heavy, Athletic Mic League stuff from the Sweats and Kicks album but I couldn't tell you song names because it was a CD-R my boy burned me. Tame One - When Rappers Attack is pretty dope to me, I still fuck with that to this day. Copywrite too but I couldn't really tell you song titles tbh. Brother Ali on that track "The first time mama ripped the womb open early,/ and exposed me to the coldness of the world prematurely/Where Gods love used to live now housed denial/and when that decayed it made me bitter and spiteful..." I love the Shadows on the Sun album. This is my "era" of underground hiphop I fuck with the hardest tbh.

Copywrite dope. My brother hung with him a few times whennhe moved to silver spring marylandm has a track posted on yoytube he did with him. Legit shit

His first solo album was dope. The high exhaulted.

His shit after that i wasnt diggin cause of his style change. Love the old school raw as fuck sound of copy. When he sped the flow up and his contsnt drastically changed i couldnt stand it. Smh

lmao I couldnt tell you the tracks name because they're all similar sounding to me if im real, punchliney type shit but the one line goes:

"Cause the NFL I follow stands for No Fucking Law" then some other guy, prob Camu Tao or Cage or some shit goes "Spit game, melt your team, catch me with a bunch of ugly bitches with low self esteem" LOL that shit has me laughing out loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_EeDNfsxTg

tower of babel

"tryna sound like pete nelson, but you cant even copywrite"

"i dont even rock the mic nowadays, i avalanche"

sooooooooo much to quote

7l and esoteric - stalker


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhOskkQxuDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laTFssf3Fxk

loveeeeeeeee this shit, the whole album pretty much

louis logic - the idiot gear

again, i fuck with a lot of this album tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gti6m2qVuSM

needs some non phixion in there too imho but if were going JMT it needs Uncommon Valor on there, surely?

Ya towwr of babble dope as fuck.

Thia my fav track off that album. Shit is hilarious dope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M801NPDS9ro

Im actually really pleased u mentuoned copy and i went and found this track. Just realized he has like 6 or 7 albums i DIDBT know about. Even predating the high exaultes. Hoky fuck. Back in my copywrite binge til im up to date lmao

Heres that track my brother kevin and my man jake did with copywrite. Shits dope. My brother raps first. Then copywrite. Then my man jake. Who alsi made the beat as well as tons of other dope beata. Hes making beats for diabloic nowadays. But ya. He only does it once in a while and its hard as fuck to get ahold of him so ive got one track over his beats. The high school dropout. Making that my ONLY 100% owned by me track. And probably my best lyrical feat over a beat. Not my best spitting but it aint to shabby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdijOUapC4Q

Mhz - Rocket Science
MF Doom - Beef Rapp
Masai Bey - Paper Mache
The Micranots - Glorious
Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy
Aesop Rock - Daylight
OC - Times Up
Big L - No Endz No Skinz
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty
Little Brother - Whatever You Say

There's so many. Lots that flew under the radar which I consider classic.

Mystik Journeymen - Black Sands
Souls of Mischief - Unseen Hand
Abstract Rude / Abstract Tribe Unique - Sumthin' Bout This Music
Non Phixion - Black Helicopters
7L & Esoteric - Be Alert
L Tha Head Toucha - Too Complex
Mountain Brothers - Galaxies / Paper Chase
Natural Elements - 2 Tons
MF Doom / Apani B - Let Me Watch
RA The Rugged Man / 8-Off - 'Til My Heart Stops
World Renown - How Nice I Am
Jemini The Gifted One - Brooklyn Kids
F.T (aka Fuc That) - Problemz
Street Smarts (ft. O.C & Pharoahe Monch) - Metal Thangz

It's 8am and my brain is working the greatest, but start from there.

Anything M.O.P.

lmao i was hoping you would see this thread

it was you who put me on to 7L and Esoteric's album originally, i remember you uploaded and linked to it at prowlers and thats def where i got it originally

Eso's voice annoys some people but if you can make it past that he's pretty dope

"Everyone I know thinks I've got like 5 brothers
cause everything i buy, yo i buy in five colours" something like that haha

lmao I own the MF Doom album with his mask on the front and can safely say ive only listened to it once, not my kinda thing tbh

i even own some MF fan tape about some Gingerbread Man or some shit lol the cover art is cool though, its like a concept album? the rappers name is MF something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftWxnB6BHE

this was it, MF Grimm - Hunt for the Gingerbread Man