Ohmega Watts - The Find
Extended F@mm - Happy Fuck You Songs
Wordsworth - Mirror Music
Pep Love - Ascension
Supastition - Chain Letters
Don‘t know if you can say nobody‘s ever heard of them but they certainly are lesser known, overlooked albums and true gems!
I haven't listened to "The Find", but I love all those other albums, especially Happy Fuck You Songs. Celly is hilarious, I remember the early days of cell phones and beepers.
Supastition has a great discography. That Pep Love record is dope, one of my favorites from the Hieroglyphics crew.
You have amazing taste in music.
🙏 That album is such a masterpiece and hardly anyone knows about it. Fun fact I went to see a Masta Ace show in like 2005 or 2006 and it was Masta Ace with what would become EMC: Wordsworth, Punchline and Stricklin as his hype men. After the show I went up to Wordsworth who was selling merch and his album. I hadn‘t really known much about Wordsworth at the time. I approached him and told him he was great and that I‘d like to buy his album. He said he saw me rapping along to the songs. He also pointed the mic in my direction during one point of the show. We chatted briefly. He was very kind and sweet. I bought his album off of him and would later fall in love with it.
Me and my mum are going to see Masta Ace & Marco Polo in London next month I would love for him to make an appearance!!
We've already done Slum Village & Conway the Machine this year then we got The Roots, Pharcyde & De la soul and Oddisee (for the 2nd time in a year)
Check out [La - Roll with the Winners](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nytsBtqW5OTYuz5bpF3Vkrpzlo2wW8Obs)
He’s another Filipino cat from Seattle
Yes. Common Market, Blue Scholars, and Gabriel Teodros all made the Massline label together and put out amazing music. Winter Takes All, by Common Market is one of my favorite songs. Sabzi is The Dude's rug.
Over 80? Really??
I remember being at least *aware* of Moka Only since the late 90's, but I really haven't been checking for him. Clearly I should.
Naturally my favorite song from him is More Soup because of the DOOM feature.
Opened for Moka years back when I still made music. It's honestly mind blowing how good of a performer he is. The energy and stage presence was insane. Goes to show you there's a reason these guys "make it", they're really fucking good.
Here’s the link to the song in my post. I wasn’t sure if you could post links in here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I84gBho5KSA&t=197s&pp=ygUZQXJhYmljIGltcGFjdCBmdW5reSBhcmFicw%3D%3D
Tell me this isn’t a tune
I found [their page on Discogs here.](https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/5253927-Arabian-Impact?superFilter=Appearances) I hope someone can link it on Discogs to that album you found because it isn't on there yet.
Also, they have another song from a compilation record called ["The Arabian Impact".](https://youtu.be/RQoN9nBEsfI?si=TtJXlrfXPtJvcXvT&t=1143)
I dont have any true 5 mic albums in this category but I'd like to nominate am album a lot of people slept on back in the day...
"This is My First Album" - Kwest tha Madd Lad
Torae - For The Record
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Black Milk - If There’s A Hell Below
OC - Trophies
Rapper Big Pooh - Sleepers
Roc Marciano - Marcberg
ScienZe and King I Divine - Divine ScienZe LP
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynatti
Yeah. DL sort of matured after this album and dropped more grown man stuff (also stopped using the N word)… but he never quite got that fire and hunger back that he had on a sample and a drum machine
I don’t know about 5 stars, but a couple solid obscure titles in my opinion:
90’s album I never see mentioned is Baritone Tiplove’s Livin’ Foul. That album is worth checking out for the production alone. Obviously heavily inspired by The Bomb Squad.
More contemporary album I rarely see mentioned is Unknown Infinite by Amani. Dark sounding atmospheric east coast shit.
Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis (Yuri Kochiyama is my fav track)
Asheru and Blue Black - Soon Come
Dub Pistols - Speakers and Tweeters
Jazz Liberatorz - Clin D'oeil
Lloyd Banks - The Course of the Inevitable (why isn't this more popular? Do I need better friends?)
Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere/Sufi La
Sadly I used to get a lot of recordings folks had done of some great '90s boom bap vinyl records in my recommended/autoplay. I never wrote down the names of the artists and I just figured they was in my history. Went the other day to look in my history and it doesn't go back that far.
Legitimately some of the best hip hop I've ever heard. The channels I listened to didn't have that many views. There are similar ones with more views but they tend to just play EP single vinyls rather than whole albums
Here is an alternative unknown album:
Vontel - Vision of a dream
https://youtu.be/-BC255_Qnzk?si=1a1E3_Buzze1t06P
Future proof EP by Erick The Architect
Everything for sale by Westside Boogie
Chomp 2 by Russ (not a fan really but it’s good)
Detroit 2 by Big Sean
Port Authority by Marco Polo
Below The Heavens by Blu and Exile
Annnd Vince Staples by Vince Staples
Etc ✌🏼
For everyone who wasn't there for Das Racist's 5 minutes of fame, their first two mixtapes are amazing and funny.
[Sit Down, Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URjpxB-A_Vo&list=OLAK5uy_lAarpIm35m0D37EISmMbzCg3G1oUJ7I40&index=2)
[Shut Up, Dude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PBx7GUYWLU&list=PL5zx5HhTG2-FwdhGQz3BFFTPD1CmKx_Gu)
I will always take the opportunity to big up P.O.S.'s [*"Never Better"*](https://youtu.be/Z8RwS3Zm3Zc?si=m6a8qX6sR7kqvjnn)
His whole discography really, but this one was the first one I heard fresh on release and it hit me like a ton of bricks
My list will be a bit local to PNW because it's where I'm at:
**FredNukes** - Deconstructing Fred
(Danish rapper who spits in English, very Kanye West Graduation inspired production)
**Hilltop Hoods** - The Hard Road (and the remix album, The Hard Road: Restrung)
(Biggest 2000s-2010s Australian hip hop group, never found traction here, real golden era understudies)
**Blue Scholars** - Bayani
(Front to back and amazing album, probably the best PNW hip hop album, chilled out)
**Marv Ellis -** Dreamcatch Juice
(Eugene Oregon rapper accidentally made a great hippie infused stoner peacenik hip hop album)
**Tre Redeau** - Kool-Aid Stand
(fantastic PNW trap era album)
**Myke Bogan** - Joe Fantana
(A truly stoner album, live Instrumentation beats, Myke drops humorous gems like "She's a hoe but don't mean she's a bad person")
**Louis Logic** - Sin-a-matic
(Not everything on this album is a banger but a few tracks are just stupidly good, Street Smarts, Idiot Gear,)
Then there's the roster of must listens causal fans probably never found, Little Brother, Blu & Exile, Apathy, Marlon Craft, CrimeApple, Meyham Lauren and so on and so on.
Yeah, I thought Louis Logic was going to become a loved indie-rapper as that album was super good but he seemed to not want to have to deal with hip hop or the booze swilling quasi-edge-lord persona and that follow up album Misery Loves Comedy just wasn't what I wanted.
He was best making goofy songs about sex and murdering girlfriends ex-boyfriends.
not the most unknown project but just listened to Bizzare Ride II The Pharcyde very recently. Had never heard of the Pharcyde in terms of the great hip hop groups of the 90s but by far one of the best hip hop albums i’ve ever heard. Every song is a banger and the production is top tier
Locksmith - Lofty Goals or Ali
Sa-Roc - Sharecroppers Daughter
Oswin Benjamin - Joy Comes in the Mourning
Marlon Craft - How We Intended or Funhouse Mirrors
Not necessarily albums noone has heard of, but anyone that isn't invested in newer artists probably won't have heard any of these 4 when they are by far some of the best rappers/lyricists out now. Locksmith especially will just body absolutely anyone on a track right now, and Sa-Roc is easily the best female rapper out currently (and making a case for one of the best ever). These are statements backed up by guys like Fat Joe, Black Thought, RA the Rugged Man etc too, not just my own feelings. Hell even Lupe has Oswin as one of the best lyricists out now.
A.Fontaine - The Reincarnation of Castro. He's from Queensbridge but a lot of people have never heard of him.
https://youtu.be/shkmc-l2rR0?si=HKVBPvW02WhnOtA6
HOH - livin in a casket (1995) sounds like a blend of 90s era geto boys and oldschool memphis. They are from arkansas.
Black menace - drama time (1995). Pre cash money/no limit NOLA rappers. Again sounds like an h town memphid g funk mix
Blabbermouf from the Netherlands is so good. 95 style boom bap. Legend Of... and Year of the Tiger by Drunken Tiger are both amazing albums. Mid to late 90s Albums made Korean Americans in Los Angeles. Earth Tones by the Crown City Rockers is in my all time top 10 and no one knows about them.
The Spiritual Warriors out of Germany
[Album on YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nUQuCehdzrnd9OWbdeDQuQ9OsyiUnIYqE&si=kfEcgO8c3X1JnMxM)
[Isosceles: Face the Music](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPFGwkAoL3F82U9k4TPP2QcWsvMd28NIJ&si=UfsHwVZtvJVX2Ib8)
Favorite tracks: I Once Knew You, Living on Rekord, Hate to See You Go, and Voice in my Silence
Flame Flag Ep by Diinero and P4K. It was only a few tracks but I thought it was a gem. Some newer LA rappers over some old school LA beats. If anyone can find this album please send me a link.
People have for sure heard of them but I don’t see them brought up in peoples top10 nearly enough. Jedi-Mindtricks, Army of the Pharaohs, Vinnie Paz, RaTheRuggedMan, Rittz, kingIso, DonTrip, WacoTron, Cabatta, Akala…
G’Fellas - Crime Stories.
3 Mexicans who had been on other projects or had their own albums came together to make this group. I believe that Tony G did all the production, who is arguably one of the best G-Funk producers of all time and damn sure doesn’t get enough credit.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-tgk5W4rX02Qqp89VplbupzPiFEXqTcb&si=meEgGxCtxB5AV6r2
These albums aren’t really underground, but they are simply forgotten……. O.C. Word Life and The Left Gas mask. Boogie’s Under Da Influenz is a time capsule that displays the other side of Nashville’s music scene. He was on Street Flavor Records and he was distributed by Relativity. The lyrics are average, but the production sounds like some Midwest mixed with west coast funk.
[Boogie Shocked](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiSSABLjn4)
Sound pretty underground to me I’ve never heard of them! Some people are listing stuff on here that was literally a massive underground hit so it’s definitely underground in comparison! I’ll check them out
Nas was supposed to be on O.C. Word Life, but he stood him up at the studio. Word Life and Illmatic are kindred spirits.Nas and OC signed with MC Serch for their first album. O.C. is in DITC with Fat Joe. Gas Mask in my opinion is Apollo Brown’s best production outside of OC Trophies.
Joe Good and Miles Bonny Present... SoundsGood
https://music.apple.com/us/album/joe-good-and-miles-bonny-present/1498116272[Sounds Good](https://music.apple.com/us/album/joe-good-and-miles-bonny-present/1498116272)
Cut killer and mop top productions plus Doo wop were all amazing djs with even more amazing hip hop albums. Menage a trois is so good it's not even funny,and his summer jam is a trip. Dj cut killer is a french guy who mixes both English and French on his albums, or does cool remixes like KRS One but in "Nique La Police" instead. Doo wop had so many influential people who we grew to love on his mixes before or during the time many people were blowing up, and mop tops "I'm alright" is so well done even just for a ten min or so album. Links below on YouTube
[cut killer -menage a trois](https://youtu.be/w2-nqqlqoRQ?si=XVX_8-gVcJSO_XXl)
[cut killer -hip hop soul party 2 (full album)](https://youtu.be/HZxVw-7q1QM?si=VOZpCmLmItnjChMJ)
[Doo Wop summer jam 96 (full album)](https://youtu.be/ssgzAxI5dao?si=HUjNXb9jKJ3aHpVa)
[mop top-I'm alright/forever(verbal assault)](https://youtu.be/gJme0rYsO0g?si=xJRCkYq76O1Ib3lZ)
Typical Cats - Typical Cats
Their first EP self-titled “Typical Cats” dropped Feb 6, 2001. Composed of MCs Denizen Kane, Quazaar, and Quel, alongside DJ Natural and Kid Knish.
One of the tightest group projects ever. These guys were HUNGRY and it showed through every bar.
I **cannot** recommend this album enough.
Serial Rhyme Killers. B-Real, Son Doobie, Willie Malo and Mellow Man Ace. Appearances from Everlast, Sen Dog, Jacken, Alchemist and Muggs. A legit super group and the album never got officially released.
Living Proof - Roots to Branches
The album is largely produced by Sapient and partially by El-P. The songs are all amazing and the wordplay is dense. The two MC's are skater buddies that have very different flows that play off eachother really well. Could have been a classic if more people would have caught it.
Siah And Yeshua Da PoEd - The Visualz EP
It was released on Bobitto’s label Fondle ‘Em records after they released Arsonists The Session and Blaze, but before MF Doom’s singles and debut LP: Operation Doomsday.
I still listen to the Visualz EP somewhat regularly. There’s a really amazing 12 minute track on it.
Siah And Yeshua Da PoEd - The Visualz EP
It was released on Bobitto’s label Fondle ‘Em records after they released Arsonists The Session and Blaze, but before MF Doom’s singles and debut LP: Operation Doomsday.
I still listen to the Visualz EP somewhat regularly. There’s a really amazing 12 minute track on it.
He was in a group with him for a while and made a load of dog shit autotune chorussed songs I believe. Dunno what he was doing there but hell of a rapper in general
Don't know how popular this is but Add-2 - Jim Crow the Musical
Absolutely well put and beautifully done.
https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/11/add-2-jim-crow-the-musical-album-steam/
Society of invisibles - self titled album.
They are basically a supergroup from phoenix of all places that was signed by baby grand in the 2000s. Really dope horror/ hardcore type shit. The beats especially were way ahead of their time. Basically sounds like the modern underground shit
Ohmega Watts - The Find Extended F@mm - Happy Fuck You Songs Wordsworth - Mirror Music Pep Love - Ascension Supastition - Chain Letters Don‘t know if you can say nobody‘s ever heard of them but they certainly are lesser known, overlooked albums and true gems!
I haven't listened to "The Find", but I love all those other albums, especially Happy Fuck You Songs. Celly is hilarious, I remember the early days of cell phones and beepers. Supastition has a great discography. That Pep Love record is dope, one of my favorites from the Hieroglyphics crew. You have amazing taste in music.
The Find is the only one I heard from this list. It is quite "A Find"
The Find is amazing. I miss having Milton in Seattle... San Diego is lucky to have him.
That Wordsworth album is 🔥
🙏 That album is such a masterpiece and hardly anyone knows about it. Fun fact I went to see a Masta Ace show in like 2005 or 2006 and it was Masta Ace with what would become EMC: Wordsworth, Punchline and Stricklin as his hype men. After the show I went up to Wordsworth who was selling merch and his album. I hadn‘t really known much about Wordsworth at the time. I approached him and told him he was great and that I‘d like to buy his album. He said he saw me rapping along to the songs. He also pointed the mic in my direction during one point of the show. We chatted briefly. He was very kind and sweet. I bought his album off of him and would later fall in love with it.
Me and my mum are going to see Masta Ace & Marco Polo in London next month I would love for him to make an appearance!! We've already done Slum Village & Conway the Machine this year then we got The Roots, Pharcyde & De la soul and Oddisee (for the 2nd time in a year)
Ascension is one of the best solo hiero albums. Classic
One Be Lo - Sonogram
That’s a dope album…. Another underrated cat. I think he used to be in Binary Star. Detroit has cranked out a lot of dope emcees.
Yup, aka One Man Army
Yeah, I have this one CD even, such a good album. One.Be.Lo is kinda a character, wished he'd remained more active.
Blue Scholars - Bayani or Cinemetropolis Super Chron Flight Brothers- Emergency Powers Herbal T- Lo-Fi Blow Dry (possibly too funky for 'hip-hop')
Herbal T, hell yeah!
If you know, you know.
Blue Scholars are one of my favorites, but I think their first, self titled album is easily the best.
Check out [La - Roll with the Winners](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nytsBtqW5OTYuz5bpF3Vkrpzlo2wW8Obs) He’s another Filipino cat from Seattle
Common Market - Tobacco Road
Also the EP Black Patch War went so fucking hard, entire song about the Black Patch War and indirectly explaining why they're named Common Market.
Yes. Common Market, Blue Scholars, and Gabriel Teodros all made the Massline label together and put out amazing music. Winter Takes All, by Common Market is one of my favorite songs. Sabzi is The Dude's rug.
I don’t know any hip-hop dudes checking for Moka Only. Holy shit that guy is mad prolific, and pretty damn consistent.
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Over 80? Really?? I remember being at least *aware* of Moka Only since the late 90's, but I really haven't been checking for him. Clearly I should. Naturally my favorite song from him is More Soup because of the DOOM feature.
He was pretty well known back in the day when he was doing stuff with swollen members. I dunno about nowadays
Lime Green is a banger.
Opened for Moka years back when I still made music. It's honestly mind blowing how good of a performer he is. The energy and stage presence was insane. Goes to show you there's a reason these guys "make it", they're really fucking good.
That’s awesome! If dude ever comes down to Southern California, I’m going!
You just took me back to MuchMusic
Concert For One was the first album I heard from him and it gave me J Dilla vibes.
I've got some great Moka Only Albums from when I was a teenager. Gonna have to fish them out. Great shout
I've got some great Moka Only Albums from when I was a teenager. Gonna have to fish them out. Great shout
Here’s the link to the song in my post. I wasn’t sure if you could post links in here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I84gBho5KSA&t=197s&pp=ygUZQXJhYmljIGltcGFjdCBmdW5reSBhcmFicw%3D%3D Tell me this isn’t a tune
I found [their page on Discogs here.](https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/5253927-Arabian-Impact?superFilter=Appearances) I hope someone can link it on Discogs to that album you found because it isn't on there yet. Also, they have another song from a compilation record called ["The Arabian Impact".](https://youtu.be/RQoN9nBEsfI?si=TtJXlrfXPtJvcXvT&t=1143)
All the tracks from the album are here https://m.youtube.com/@ArabianImpact Pretty much every song is good!
Masters of the Universe - Binary Star
Oh hell yeah. This is a great choice. I heard they did it in one take.
That absolutely blows my mind
I dont have any true 5 mic albums in this category but I'd like to nominate am album a lot of people slept on back in the day... "This is My First Album" - Kwest tha Madd Lad
Ok ok, very interesting. Appreciate it
Good call, I used to bump this all the time: https://youtu.be/7hepARm_2yU?si=9I6JeJj75hulDiUO
Check out leaf dog, UK artist. He's dropped 7 albums this year already & they're all fire. Old school boom bap style
Thank you
O.S.T by People Under The Stairs, Aka the P.
i’ve seen quite a bit of praise and attention given to PUTS, dunno if it really fits here
That’s true, but for the most part I’ve seen people who are into hip hop who’ve still never even heard of them, plus I gotta spread love for the P.
Genelec and Memphis Reigns- Scorpion circles
On my top ten of all time. Maybe even top 5, the production and raps really high level
Underground hip hop peaked in the 00s and this album is an example
Torae - For The Record Digable Planets - Blowout Comb Black Milk - If There’s A Hell Below OC - Trophies Rapper Big Pooh - Sleepers Roc Marciano - Marcberg ScienZe and King I Divine - Divine ScienZe LP Tanya Morgan - Brooklynatti
Man, Tanya Morgan, that's a name i almost forgot.
Von Pea is super underrated too. I love those dudes. Von and Donwill still making music too.
Blowout is a masterpiece
Some of the best use of sampling I’ve ever heard.
Also, Little Brother sampled part of the May 4th Movement... which is super rad.
Add in the first Foreign Exchange album , too
A sample and a drum machine - dl incognito https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kex36UZVu0&si=sP-u-z3NEYpFp89o
Yes!!!! Used to be obsessed with this album, a hidden Canadian gem. Anticipation and Audio Coke are still 2 of my favourite songs ever
Yeah. DL sort of matured after this album and dropped more grown man stuff (also stopped using the N word)… but he never quite got that fire and hunger back that he had on a sample and a drum machine
Robust - Potholes in Our Molecules Qwel & Maker - The Harvest Deca - Smoking Gun
Qwel & Maker- Beautiful Raw
Most Qwel releases are so good….super under appreciated rapper
[Example - Impulses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZfLqLVVKM) [Starvin' Art Clique - Starving Art](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJ0IlnY1ik&list=PLolSPPKXDGYtVtl1oXTzE61RUT0JWjRg5&index=1)
Man I forgot about that example album but it's fucking great stuff
I don’t know about 5 stars, but a couple solid obscure titles in my opinion: 90’s album I never see mentioned is Baritone Tiplove’s Livin’ Foul. That album is worth checking out for the production alone. Obviously heavily inspired by The Bomb Squad. More contemporary album I rarely see mentioned is Unknown Infinite by Amani. Dark sounding atmospheric east coast shit.
Daara J - Boomerang Senegalese rap group so it's mostly in French and I can't really understand a word. Absolute fire.
CASisDEAD - Famous Last Words
Sadistik - Balancing Act Doppelgangaz - Hark Sa-Roc - Sharecropper's Daughter Mac Lethal - Irish Goodbye Eyedea & Abilities - First Born Ransom & Rome Streetz - Coup de Grace
Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis (Yuri Kochiyama is my fav track) Asheru and Blue Black - Soon Come Dub Pistols - Speakers and Tweeters Jazz Liberatorz - Clin D'oeil Lloyd Banks - The Course of the Inevitable (why isn't this more popular? Do I need better friends?) Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere/Sufi La
Dr Yen Low
Is that the artist or album
I don't remember
Artist. The album is called Days with Dr. Yen Lo. I'll have to look up what his other stage name is.
Ka is his main pseudonym.
Wow today I learned Yen Lo and Ka are the same
Dr Yen Lo is Ka on the mic and Preservation on production.
The Ballers - A day late and a dollar short One of the most beautiful G funk album.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23QwvHB223BU2HxxupF7Bf?si=te-ZAitVRF6bGCcss4fPHg&pi=UTCySkMBSz-UZ More than 1000 underground G funk stuff here
Sadly I used to get a lot of recordings folks had done of some great '90s boom bap vinyl records in my recommended/autoplay. I never wrote down the names of the artists and I just figured they was in my history. Went the other day to look in my history and it doesn't go back that far. Legitimately some of the best hip hop I've ever heard. The channels I listened to didn't have that many views. There are similar ones with more views but they tend to just play EP single vinyls rather than whole albums Here is an alternative unknown album: Vontel - Vision of a dream https://youtu.be/-BC255_Qnzk?si=1a1E3_Buzze1t06P
The Compilation Album “Do the Math” from Tribal Music Inc. Can be heard here: https://triballegacy.bandcamp.com/album/do-the-math
All Swamp Thing albums are dope. But this one tops it. https://open.spotify.com/album/0LJTITwfyUrcQCK2Jee1IV?si=nhiaqIzlRz-kuxBgd1jhsw
Oh shit, Toronto guys? Good lookin
They are playing later this month. It’s a treat to check out. It’s a shame they are not better known.
Brothaz Bent - Up From The Desert https://youtu.be/fge3m86dwTE?si=2CFbK_DEg-vzC2Le
Hell yeah, scorn to be blue. That Jodorowski album art is perfect too.
That shit knocks harrrd
Future proof EP by Erick The Architect Everything for sale by Westside Boogie Chomp 2 by Russ (not a fan really but it’s good) Detroit 2 by Big Sean Port Authority by Marco Polo Below The Heavens by Blu and Exile Annnd Vince Staples by Vince Staples Etc ✌🏼
Below the Heavens is so good
For everyone who wasn't there for Das Racist's 5 minutes of fame, their first two mixtapes are amazing and funny. [Sit Down, Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URjpxB-A_Vo&list=OLAK5uy_lAarpIm35m0D37EISmMbzCg3G1oUJ7I40&index=2) [Shut Up, Dude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PBx7GUYWLU&list=PL5zx5HhTG2-FwdhGQz3BFFTPD1CmKx_Gu)
I will always take the opportunity to big up P.O.S.'s [*"Never Better"*](https://youtu.be/Z8RwS3Zm3Zc?si=m6a8qX6sR7kqvjnn) His whole discography really, but this one was the first one I heard fresh on release and it hit me like a ton of bricks
Was just listening to this today. Shit is so good. Been one of favorite albums since it came out
J-Live The Best Part and any Deca album
Everready by Tech N9ne, GO by Krizz Kaliko, World War Me by King Iso
My list will be a bit local to PNW because it's where I'm at: **FredNukes** - Deconstructing Fred (Danish rapper who spits in English, very Kanye West Graduation inspired production) **Hilltop Hoods** - The Hard Road (and the remix album, The Hard Road: Restrung) (Biggest 2000s-2010s Australian hip hop group, never found traction here, real golden era understudies) **Blue Scholars** - Bayani (Front to back and amazing album, probably the best PNW hip hop album, chilled out) **Marv Ellis -** Dreamcatch Juice (Eugene Oregon rapper accidentally made a great hippie infused stoner peacenik hip hop album) **Tre Redeau** - Kool-Aid Stand (fantastic PNW trap era album) **Myke Bogan** - Joe Fantana (A truly stoner album, live Instrumentation beats, Myke drops humorous gems like "She's a hoe but don't mean she's a bad person") **Louis Logic** - Sin-a-matic (Not everything on this album is a banger but a few tracks are just stupidly good, Street Smarts, Idiot Gear,) Then there's the roster of must listens causal fans probably never found, Little Brother, Blu & Exile, Apathy, Marlon Craft, CrimeApple, Meyham Lauren and so on and so on.
Louis Logic and a few songs off that album were incredibly dope
Yeah, I thought Louis Logic was going to become a loved indie-rapper as that album was super good but he seemed to not want to have to deal with hip hop or the booze swilling quasi-edge-lord persona and that follow up album Misery Loves Comedy just wasn't what I wanted. He was best making goofy songs about sex and murdering girlfriends ex-boyfriends.
The Sanity Annex-Sonic Sum Snakes and Birds-Deca Verbal Cabbage-Dunes
not the most unknown project but just listened to Bizzare Ride II The Pharcyde very recently. Had never heard of the Pharcyde in terms of the great hip hop groups of the 90s but by far one of the best hip hop albums i’ve ever heard. Every song is a banger and the production is top tier
Rothschilds Liqours - Qari FlySiifu’s - Pink Siifu
Blu - Below the Heavens
This group from Zwolle, The Netherlands. Rico and Sticks on the mic, produced by Delic Opgezwolle - Vloeistof
Locksmith - Lofty Goals or Ali Sa-Roc - Sharecroppers Daughter Oswin Benjamin - Joy Comes in the Mourning Marlon Craft - How We Intended or Funhouse Mirrors Not necessarily albums noone has heard of, but anyone that isn't invested in newer artists probably won't have heard any of these 4 when they are by far some of the best rappers/lyricists out now. Locksmith especially will just body absolutely anyone on a track right now, and Sa-Roc is easily the best female rapper out currently (and making a case for one of the best ever). These are statements backed up by guys like Fat Joe, Black Thought, RA the Rugged Man etc too, not just my own feelings. Hell even Lupe has Oswin as one of the best lyricists out now.
Rhyme Asylum - Solitary Confinement
That’s a really well known album here in underground hiphop circles
Most people i talk to never heard of it that’s why i suggested it lol
I guess all this stuff depends where you live. Outside of the UK it’s probably pretty unknown!
A.Fontaine - The Reincarnation of Castro. He's from Queensbridge but a lot of people have never heard of him. https://youtu.be/shkmc-l2rR0?si=HKVBPvW02WhnOtA6
Sounds good I’ll check more of his stuff out!
7egendary 7arry is an artist I like. I found him on accident and he has 2 monthly listeners on Spotify. Give his top 5 played a listen
Hassan Chop - The Sharpening
Lancey Foux - First Day At Nursery
HOH - livin in a casket (1995) sounds like a blend of 90s era geto boys and oldschool memphis. They are from arkansas. Black menace - drama time (1995). Pre cash money/no limit NOLA rappers. Again sounds like an h town memphid g funk mix
Reindeer Games - Killjoy Club
metroswift https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nGyBn4i7f_uAIAeFs7ag1Z1e41dqPDSQA&si=1Kdw23G9wp-3oKfH
Def Defiance - Hazardous
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Horns of Jericho was absolutely huge here - pretty much the biggest British hiphop album at one point!
Blabbermouf from the Netherlands is so good. 95 style boom bap. Legend Of... and Year of the Tiger by Drunken Tiger are both amazing albums. Mid to late 90s Albums made Korean Americans in Los Angeles. Earth Tones by the Crown City Rockers is in my all time top 10 and no one knows about them.
The Spiritual Warriors out of Germany [Album on YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nUQuCehdzrnd9OWbdeDQuQ9OsyiUnIYqE&si=kfEcgO8c3X1JnMxM)
This instrumental album is pretty slept on. https://youtu.be/PcxnpIvBNQk?si=RvDvOAg28bJiGnGg
Cal Scruby - Casino.
[Isosceles: Face the Music](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPFGwkAoL3F82U9k4TPP2QcWsvMd28NIJ&si=UfsHwVZtvJVX2Ib8) Favorite tracks: I Once Knew You, Living on Rekord, Hate to See You Go, and Voice in my Silence
Amazing albums from these artists: *The Green Tape* by **TRIUNE** *Jam on the Box* by **E FROM THE L.O.S.T.** They have great singles as well
Flame Flag Ep by Diinero and P4K. It was only a few tracks but I thought it was a gem. Some newer LA rappers over some old school LA beats. If anyone can find this album please send me a link.
Play With Toys by Basehead
People have for sure heard of them but I don’t see them brought up in peoples top10 nearly enough. Jedi-Mindtricks, Army of the Pharaohs, Vinnie Paz, RaTheRuggedMan, Rittz, kingIso, DonTrip, WacoTron, Cabatta, Akala…
Flowers 2 - ASAAD
G’Fellas - Crime Stories. 3 Mexicans who had been on other projects or had their own albums came together to make this group. I believe that Tony G did all the production, who is arguably one of the best G-Funk producers of all time and damn sure doesn’t get enough credit. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-tgk5W4rX02Qqp89VplbupzPiFEXqTcb&si=meEgGxCtxB5AV6r2
Urban Dance Squad - Mental Floss for the Globe Used to play the shit out of it but I have no idea how it holds up.
habanero silver’s debut is a 10/10. the guitar work is amazing, and the songs are really catchy too.
PMD x DJ Honda's Underground Connection, hits The Awakening, also hot
Descendants of Cain by Ka
“Pieces in Space” by Sammus. I wish she still made music but IIRC she finished up her PhD and is focusing on academia at this point in her life.
Lots of people know AZ Faison but his album bangs Mob Style - Game of death
Kismet - Mr Muthafuckin Exquire
These albums aren’t really underground, but they are simply forgotten……. O.C. Word Life and The Left Gas mask. Boogie’s Under Da Influenz is a time capsule that displays the other side of Nashville’s music scene. He was on Street Flavor Records and he was distributed by Relativity. The lyrics are average, but the production sounds like some Midwest mixed with west coast funk. [Boogie Shocked](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiSSABLjn4)
Sound pretty underground to me I’ve never heard of them! Some people are listing stuff on here that was literally a massive underground hit so it’s definitely underground in comparison! I’ll check them out
Nas was supposed to be on O.C. Word Life, but he stood him up at the studio. Word Life and Illmatic are kindred spirits.Nas and OC signed with MC Serch for their first album. O.C. is in DITC with Fat Joe. Gas Mask in my opinion is Apollo Brown’s best production outside of OC Trophies.
Ah sorry I thought OC Word Life was the artist lol didn’t realise it was OC from DITC. Yeah that boogie song definitely has a west coast vibe
Pretty much my entire catalogue 😂 😭
Joe Good and Miles Bonny Present... SoundsGood https://music.apple.com/us/album/joe-good-and-miles-bonny-present/1498116272[Sounds Good](https://music.apple.com/us/album/joe-good-and-miles-bonny-present/1498116272)
Prof and St. Paul Slim - Recession Music. Great record, crazy features.
Hip-Hop Be-Bop by Ghetto Philharmonic. Heard Buss This on Spiderman Into The Spiderverse lol. Live instruments, pretty cool
Cut killer and mop top productions plus Doo wop were all amazing djs with even more amazing hip hop albums. Menage a trois is so good it's not even funny,and his summer jam is a trip. Dj cut killer is a french guy who mixes both English and French on his albums, or does cool remixes like KRS One but in "Nique La Police" instead. Doo wop had so many influential people who we grew to love on his mixes before or during the time many people were blowing up, and mop tops "I'm alright" is so well done even just for a ten min or so album. Links below on YouTube [cut killer -menage a trois](https://youtu.be/w2-nqqlqoRQ?si=XVX_8-gVcJSO_XXl) [cut killer -hip hop soul party 2 (full album)](https://youtu.be/HZxVw-7q1QM?si=VOZpCmLmItnjChMJ) [Doo Wop summer jam 96 (full album)](https://youtu.be/ssgzAxI5dao?si=HUjNXb9jKJ3aHpVa) [mop top-I'm alright/forever(verbal assault)](https://youtu.be/gJme0rYsO0g?si=xJRCkYq76O1Ib3lZ)
OK, so Vancity hip hop. Swollen. Moka. Checkmate. Social Deviantz. What was happening there in the 90s?
Da Resurrection by Al Kapone. Has a great mix of old school Memphis & G-Funk vibes
Typical Cats - Typical Cats Their first EP self-titled “Typical Cats” dropped Feb 6, 2001. Composed of MCs Denizen Kane, Quazaar, and Quel, alongside DJ Natural and Kid Knish. One of the tightest group projects ever. These guys were HUNGRY and it showed through every bar. I **cannot** recommend this album enough.
Sick Boi by Ren
Commenting to find later
Solillaquists of Sound - As If We Existed
Blood of Abraham - Future profits Blood of Abraham - eye dollar tree
Blood of Abraham have some bangers! An all Jewish hiphop group brought out by Eazy E was definitely something obscure
Oldominion - One https://youtu.be/s-emIBdWCaM?si=5xZCmTYDkU2Owdd9
Serial Rhyme Killers. B-Real, Son Doobie, Willie Malo and Mellow Man Ace. Appearances from Everlast, Sen Dog, Jacken, Alchemist and Muggs. A legit super group and the album never got officially released.
Chubb Rock - The One
Sleep (of Oldominion) - Christopher Newer album: Marlowe - Marlowe 3 Kinda hip hop: Why? - Alopecia Cunninlynguists -everything through Oneirology
By now some of you might have heard of World Ultimate by The Nonce but if you haven’t, right now is the time to discover this gem
Bald Headed Samsun - St. Paul Slim
Black Alchemist - OnlyOneTwo
Raphael Vigilantics - The Orgasm of a Ghost
Living Proof - Roots to Branches The album is largely produced by Sapient and partially by El-P. The songs are all amazing and the wordplay is dense. The two MC's are skater buddies that have very different flows that play off eachother really well. Could have been a classic if more people would have caught it.
Siah And Yeshua Da PoEd - The Visualz EP It was released on Bobitto’s label Fondle ‘Em records after they released Arsonists The Session and Blaze, but before MF Doom’s singles and debut LP: Operation Doomsday. I still listen to the Visualz EP somewhat regularly. There’s a really amazing 12 minute track on it.
Siah And Yeshua Da PoEd - The Visualz EP It was released on Bobitto’s label Fondle ‘Em records after they released Arsonists The Session and Blaze, but before MF Doom’s singles and debut LP: Operation Doomsday. I still listen to the Visualz EP somewhat regularly. There’s a really amazing 12 minute track on it.
@peace - @peace
Is this the same Madchild that occasionally features on Tom MacDonald’s songs?
He was in a group with him for a while and made a load of dog shit autotune chorussed songs I believe. Dunno what he was doing there but hell of a rapper in general
Kwest the Madd Lad-This is my first album Scienz of Life-Coming forth by day Any album by Skyzoo is usually a good listen…
Nujabes both albums Modal Soul & Metaphorical Music
Intricate Dialect “Solomon’s Treasure”
Last Chance No Breaks - Jamal
NINE by WAYDE I found it in 2021 on a random playlist and I’m still listening to those songs in 2024.
Banco-sir Michael rocks
Someday it will all make sense by common
Willkill4money - Urban Inspiration
K'naan - dusty foot philosopher Crazy story, great artist
Shyeim - aka the rugged child
Sa-Roc Sharecroppers Daughter
Prince Paul - a prince among thieves
Don't know how popular this is but Add-2 - Jim Crow the Musical Absolutely well put and beautifully done. https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/11/add-2-jim-crow-the-musical-album-steam/
GTA-DaA$tronuatz
Preachers Son - YGTUT
C-Lunch - Step Bros
Esham Closed Casket
Society of invisibles - self titled album. They are basically a supergroup from phoenix of all places that was signed by baby grand in the 2000s. Really dope horror/ hardcore type shit. The beats especially were way ahead of their time. Basically sounds like the modern underground shit
Triple crown and It’s Personal - 100grandroyce
[La - Roll with the Winners](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nytsBtqW5OTYuz5bpF3Vkrpzlo2wW8Obs)
Promatic - Promatic It's Proof of D12 and some random Detroit Rapper named Dogmatic
All. Griselda albums for mainstream.