Hip-Hop/Rap: Underground Rap and Mood: Intellectual
ELEMENT: Great Expectations
This CD is Exactly what the hip hop community has been missing in the past decade. Its the combination of Out-Of-This-World Production and Intense Thought-Provoking Lyrics that will send you through a unexplainable Drug-Like High.
CD price: $10.00
MELISSA CZARNIK: Strawberry Cadillac
An emcee out of Milwaukee, with a flow too cold, not to take notice.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MAIN OFFENDERS: Depth Perception
Heavily East-Coast influenced, raw, soulful, introspective hiphop music from 3 incredibly talented young rappers. Album features Wordsworth and Skratch Bastid.
CD price: $10.00
THE RISING SUN QUEST: Journey Towards The Sun
Hip Hop Music for people who love lyrics. The songs on this album each deliver a perfect blend of hard hitting beats and powerful wordplay. RAW Hip Hop that is sure to connect with any listener who appreciates Music.
CD price: $12.00
SONICBLOOM: Paradigm Lift
A diverse and dynamic representation of hip-hop. Live instrumentation paired with bangin' beat production creating the foundation for the styles of 3 seasoned emcees and a soulful vocalist.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SEVR1: Russian Roulette
Real hip hop, real topics, real emotions. This is some of the most real hip hop to come out in quite a while. Just listen, the music will speak for itself.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
GOODWORD: Coulda Been That
Goodword is becoming one of the major names in the ever potent San Francisco underground Hip Hop Scene.
CD price: $12.97
SPEAKFREE: Fresh Perspective
Hip Hop at its truest form. SpeakFree (1/4 of the Bay Area's Kreative Resource Crew)and dj deedot (Public Radio, Nate Krooks, Wreckelekt)present to you the Fresh Perspective. Intuitive lyrics over a fluid landscape of classic jazzy/boom bap beats.
Recommended if you like Hieroglyphics, Living Legends.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
REBELS OF ART: Feel No Evil
They have been rebelling against the music they hear on the radio, rejecting the glorification of the violence and drug dealing they grew up around, and chose instead to make music that was entertaining to everyone who hears it.
CD price: $10.00
ELEMENTAL ZAZEN: The Glass Should Be Full
Recorded during his recovery from brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor, this is boom-bap hip-hop layered with live instrumentation from a revolutionary MC with an aggressive athletic flow, with political and personal lyrics.
CD price: $12.97
FORMULATIN' FATHERS: Sleepless Knights
Refreshing hip hop music with a classic vibe, consisting of vivid storytelling in a dramatic musical setting — production backed by Akai MPC60, S950 + E-mu SP1200 beats.
CD price: $8.00
CHORUS BABBLEBONES: Insatiable Potential
The debut album from Chorus Babblebones. Conscious lyrics and head-nodding beats made by Rawhead make this freshman release something you shouldn't miss.
Recommended if you like Kool Keith, J Dilla.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BORN TALENT: The Essence
Witty, metaphor filled lyrics which contain battle rhymes, combined with deep concepts. Along with his on point flow, The Avid Record Collector provides head knockin, sample laced, chopped up beats, as well as scratches.
Recommended if you like Masta Ace, DJ Premier.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
SELF TAUGHT: Arrival
Rhymesayers, Def Jux, and Anticon all want this group on their label. They're the next best thing since tits and ass. If you love life then you should be lovin this.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
PARALLAX: Ape
A raw combination of Hip Hop and Heavy Urban Rock with funky bass-lines and pure lyricism.
Recommended if you like Rage Against the Machine, Jay-Z with Linkin Park.CD price: $10.00
TAYBOT: The Taybot/Phil&Numberman Mixtape
An MC dedicated to pushing the limits of hip hop, reaching a mass audience and instilling something in his music that’s deeper than pure pop appeal.
CD price: $8.00
WIZDOM & EPIDEMMIK: Music: Soul of the Man
This sophomore release provides a new detailed and opinionated focus and the smooth funky beats compliment the brutally honest flow.
Recommended if you like The Physics, OneBeLo.CD price: $10.00
SAINT: About Time
A few years after his debut solo album "Grown Folk Music" and a couple of releases with his group The Good People, Saint returned to the drawing board and emerged with "About Time" on Pro Se / Domination Recordings.
CD price: $12.97
EL GUANTE: El Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment
"El Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment.is a megaton bomb on local indie rap, bound to be the heaviest breath of fresh air hip hop heads will suck in all year. " - Jordan Selbo (City Pages)
CD price: $12.97
SPACE AND JONATHAN TOTH FROM HOTH: Circumsizing the Industry
Space and J-Toth have kind of a partners in crime thing going on with hip hop. They come from very different backgrounds, have an age difference of ten years and are very different individuals, but they both were raised by rap and became emcees.
Recommended if you like Beastie Boys, Cam'ron.CD price: $12.97
MOODSWING: Word Problems
Anti-establishment, anti-industry, back to basics hip hop with an innovative edge.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DEZERT EEZ: Realness VSOP
Golden Age of Hip Hop.
Recommended if you like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas.MP3 price: $5.00
LUMPZ ONE: Phungi Muzack
A climb into the mind to see where it leads us.
Recommended if you like The Phunkey Strangla, Lumpas Uno.CD price: $12.97
BIRTHRIGHT X: The Re-Birth of X CD
Thank you for choosing to come check out my brand of music, I am offering FREE promotional DVD of my full video's 'Puppet Master and The Gifted' or CD-Rom Interface with interactive features of Brutha War BeBe, World Famous O.G ONE, and RoDeezy.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KREATIVE RESOURCE: The Difference is US
Bay Area Hip Hop crew Kreative Resource brings you their sophomore LP entitled "The Difference is US". Fresh new lyrical offerings courtesy of Ster CraZY and SpeakFree acccompanied by the classic golden age production work of KAY6 and deedot.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
CARNAGE: Sense Of Sound
Having appeared on over 30 releases, Carnage delivers his debut solo album. This Mpls, MN veteran MC weaves intricate, multi-syllabic patterns of rough, edgy and controversial lyrics with speed and accuracy into high-quality, densely-layered production.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GIGIO: Something Wicked This Way Comes
20 year old Latino emcee who hails from Northern Cali.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
CAS METAH: Providence Road
Pure underground hip hop. Not east, not west, just solid solid hip hop. Dope beats and classic rhymes, thats all.
CD price: $8.98 / MP3 price: $4.49
LEARNING CURVE: Left@Bumps
Left@Bumps is the 3rd album from LA's Learning Curve Crew and contains 15 fully-mastered songs.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
SANKOFA: The Tortoise Hustle
"as long as the underground is producing work as funky, innovative, and intelligent as "The Tortoise Hustle," I have no problem with both Curtis AND Kanye retiring." -Patrick Taylor, RapReviews
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CITIZEN SADE: Pick Your Poison
Arsenic and SPAN PHLY are Citizen Sade. This Psychodelic, Underground Hip Hop album is what Arizona hip hop should sound like. Featuring production from the artists themselves as well as Ecid and Arkatek.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
DA KREEK: Still Ill
Loosely themed after KILL BILL, Da Kreek forges the perfect mix of top notch lyricism and innovative production. This album features the smash hits "It's Nothin'" and "Live". STILL ILL is a must have for the hip hop enthusiast.
CD price: $12.00
AUDIBLE THOUGHTS: Sintripetal Force
A unique blend of rap and hip hop with influences from all musical genres.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RESA-P: food for thought
ill indie hip hop from the north. w/ El Da Sensai, Finale, and 2 Mex from OMD guest. the recipe for true hip hop.
Recommended if you like Atmosphere, Sage Francis.CD price: $13.99
JUPITER 7: The 2nd Story Experiment
Real underground hip-hop with a dab of jazz, soul, and that boom-bap influence.
Recommended if you like The Roots, Black Star.CD price: $6.00
NEPHILIM MUSE AND PERTIS PLUS: Origins
Origins is a blend of Conscience Hip Hop with a Metal edge. Nephilim Muse and Pertis Plus are guaranteed to entice the listener with language, ambiance and attitude.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
HERMES THE MESSENGER: The Jawn Broadsides
Thought-provoking lyricism. Story-telling. Music. Reveals the inside looking out, taking a journey through the "broadsides" of a Generation Y mind.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $5.00
THE SEVENTH SUN: The Awakening
Hip Hop, seventh sun, underground Hip Hop
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
OMEGA THA MAJESTIK: The Beginning of The End
Ill post-apocalyptic hip hop from the belly of the beast. Michigan's mic spitta drops tremendous flows on his 16 cut debut album.
CD price: $13.97
VERBAL TAKTIKS: The Verbal Taktiks Mixtape Vol. 1
Verbal Taktiks would be classified as Hip-hop, underground hip-hop,or rap,or real Lyricism.
CD price: $5.00
PBRAIN: Nothing Comes Easy
Aggressive down-tempo hip hop - like the last words of a captain on a sinking ship.
Recommended if you like MF DOOM, Aesop Rock.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
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ANIMAL NATION: TimeZone [EP]
Travel through space and time to a period when lyrics actually meant something. 'TimeZone' visits hip-hop before 'bangers' became 'hot', before sampling was frowned upon, and way before 'ice' became something other than a tool used to cool your lemon-aid.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
J. WHIZ: Tha Game Needz Me
J. Whiz is one of the premiere hip hop artists coming out of Arkansas. He has a southern boy style with a nationwide edge which will appeal to every coast.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
THE IMMORTALS: Exiled in Babylon
Building a new foundation and approach to the future of black hip hop.
CD price: $9.99
SITEZENS: Sitezens
Sitezens is a fusion of hip hop and melodic, sometimes orchestral, synth set amongst thought provoking lyrical content.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SEMPER FIDELIS: Semper Fidelis
Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful) is without question one Los Angeles most clear-cut EP's in underground history.
Recommended if you like Apathy, Lupe Fiasco.CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
BLACK O.C.: Ch.1-LEGACY
Nostalgic and eclectic fusion of beats, rhymes, and life. "Ch.1-Legacy" is a musical and lyrical expression based on the Black O.C's greatest influences: 'Soul' and 'Hip-Hop'
Recommended if you like Slum Village.MP3 price: $6.00
VERBALONYX: Quadrants
Conscious lyrics and original independent hip hop beats layered with four minds' worth of creativity.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
TONY VINYL: Freaky Circles
14 original freestyle flows by Chicago's Living Urban Legend. Album Contains hot street bangers and real talk with Productions by Tony Vinyl,QB-8,Nebula-1 and Dj Iglu with Dave Rosales.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
MATT MANENT: Palestra Di Vita
Surprising and talented rapper from Italy, a true Hip-Hop activist in his Country and the first in the World to rap in 5 languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French and German).
CD price: $12.99
THE NAYSAYERS: Headphone Food
A Throw back to the boom bap roots of hip-hop, Headphone Food blends powerful production and soulful song writing, creating an innovative new sound that expands and fortifies the future of hip-hop music.
CD price: $7.99
KOMPLEX KAI: What's Done Is Done
A Savage Surrounded By Symphony, Surrendering To Lyrical Warfare.
CD price: $10.00
BIZZ-EE: Memory Lane
Emotional CD with a lot of personal pain. On this album Bizzy talks about losing two of his friends in a car wreck that he was in too and was the only one to survive.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
COMATOSE IN2 ADDICTION: Purple Atmosphere
Positive vibed street influenced songs, combining both harmonic mellow and club sounds.
MP3 price: $5.00
DOMINANT INTELLIGENCE: Balance Of Power
Intellectual lyrics over well composed beats, thinking mans hip hop for the anti-mainstreamist.
CD price: $10.00
ELEMENT: Divine Intervention
Progressive Hip Hop, sounds like Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco mixed into one.
Recommended if you like Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco.CD price: $10.00
SPHERE720: EnginE
Engine is an excursion of the mind filled with free flows, freestyles, spoken word, live beats and very deep subject matter. It is deeply bass oriented and filled with creative expression that you probably wouldn't find on your local beebop radio station.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RAWKLIPZ: Belly of the Beast: Food 4 Thought
A true hip hop collaboration
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
J-KID: Time Space Elements
If you've heard any of J-KIDs old music, you'll be blown away by the new stuff. Combining old school with his own original flavor, Time Space Elements is the future of hip hop.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
QUAD ALMIGHTY: The Quad Almighty E.p.
Revolutionary Hip-Hop for the Consciously Aware and Truth Seekers.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
M.C. MARS: Letz Cabalaborate
Underground hip-hop marrying a full palette of beats to poetic lyrics. Plus, the additional feature of cab stories that are dramatized and set to music.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
AHD CHILD: Reverse Psychology
Creative, emotional, musical, and disturbing, Reverse Psychology is a combination of intelligent hip-hop lyricism and convention-defying music that explores many of the contradictions of human experience - heroism and hatred, cowardice and compassion.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
DB AND RAH-RAH: The Talk of The Streetz
This here a different kinda rap, its more like reality music. So anybody who has faced some real situations in they life should be able to relate to it.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
NEED MONEY BOYS: Working Class
We make music for the working class, real music for real people.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DJ ENESS FEATURING ALI: Deciphering of the Unknown Scrolls
Abstract Hip Hop, Neo Soul stylings from DJ E Ness and Andra Ali. Our style paints visual pictures using lyrics. DJ based music. Released in April 2008.
CD price: $12.97
DLUX:THE LIGHT: The Eclipse...
Thought provoking lyrics over soulful hip hop beats.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
VISUAL: FIGURED IT OUT
"Figured It Out" is the point in your life where you said "This is it , this is what i'm about" . This is rap music about real life without the guns , crack and B.S.
CD price: $12.99
LUCKY LUCIANNI: On This I Stand
Lucky Lucianni is a Mic Boss on the rise, gifted with gab and the ability to ink songs with blood directly from the heart. In an industry full of questionable credibility, this MC puts his soul on the line.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
BRAVO: Homegrown; The Album
Undeniably the King of Atlanta's underground rap scene. "Jermaine Dupri" The best lyricist in the Ive heard out of the South. "Dallas Austin"
REGAL: Rapstar
West Coast, underground, dope, new, hip hop, rap, tight and fresh.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $5.00
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