Underground Hip Hop
Underground Hip Hop
If you’re sick of the hip hop artists that talk about gunshot wounds, cars and a life of luxury over and over again, maybe it’s time for you to start listening to underground hip hop.
Compared to mainstream hip hop where the artists have been ordered to portray the life of a Don, underground hip hop pretty much antagonises all that. At the underbelly of society, what you get from artists from the underground is realer than real. If you want to hear the pains of the youth, the cries for freedom and the will to survive in this world in a raw manner, uncoerced by studio execs, then underground Hip hop is what you need. Although sadly, these artists from the underground who prefer to stay underground start out poor also die poor.
One good example of this is producer J Dilla. He produced countless notable hip hop tracks for artists but because of his debt to the government, the loved ones he left behind still can’t get no royalties from his music.
But on a brighter note, emcees the like of Mos Def (whose also broke into acting) and the mighty hip hop band The Roots (who can be seen on Jimmy Fallon’s show every night) have done the underground proud for not selling out.
Underground is where the REAL HIP HOP is.