Hip Hop Yo

Originally posted by hh?
koolruningz i like the avatar.

Blackalicious are incredible 👆

Thanks man, ive got you to thank for introducing me to them and many others. 😄

thank MF D00m. he got me into listening to Blackalicious. 👆

Thanks all round then.

Blackalicious 👆

if u can, get

Latyrx- Album

incredible also 👆

its Lateef and Lyrics Born, they are on the same label with Blackalicious

The bigger the mianstream is, the bigger the underground is. Hip hop's success on the charts is good for everyone because underground and mainstream hip hop are interdependent. With a big mainstream, the scene all together gets bigger.

It inspires more poeple to become rappers, and it helps recruit new hip hop heads. What hip hop head can honestly say the first hip hop they liked was underground? Most of us can't. The underground is getting so big because of 1) the internet 2) more and more hip hop heads becomes fed up with pop rap. I started out listening to Master P and Coolio and shit. My first hip hop album was Jay-Z's Vol 2. I didn't get into any underground shit until about 3-4 years after I started liking hip hop.

i got into underground during 7th/8th grade, but not much. i started listening to Coolio and Tupac...i heard Tupac diss a guy called Chino XL...and immediatly i got hooked. then came Big L, Ras Kass, and so on...also got great recommendations from here. 👆

Damn in 7th/8th grade I was all about gangsta rap. Middle schooler who likes underground rap is pretty impressive to me.

i LOVED tupac^ but i always wondered who Chino XL was

my friends told me Chino XL was a japanese gangster

😐

i was sooo confused 😆

Jeez im showing my age here, the first hip hop albums i bought were Ice T - Rhyme Pays, BDP - By all means necessary and PE - Yo! bumrush the show, all on vinyl. 😆
I agree with you Afro Cheese (do you have an afro? I've always been curious) the mainstream does help the underground but it can also paint a false picture and get people trying to be emcees for the wrong reasons. Sure everyone wants to get paid but people like 50cent have made millions from everything BUT being a good emcee.

12 year olds are the key target the mainstream tries to appeal to. cuz they got the most $$$$

😂

Originally posted by hh?
i LOVED tupac^ but i always wondered who Chino XL was

my friends told me Chino XL was a japanese gangster

😐

i was sooo confused 😆

That reminds me..

http://www.vaxtvshow.com/video/yougotbeef.wmv

yea i've seen that 😆

HILARIOUS

Originally posted by koolruningz
(do you have an afro? I've always been curious)

😆 genius!^

😂 The main reason i asked is because i've got a mean Ben Harper type afro myself (which in New Zealand makes you stick out like a spot on a domino).
Anyway back on topic, have any of you heard Lyrics Born's album? I am thinking of buying it based on reviews that ive read but i thought you guys would be better judges.

Call me out of the loop but I've never even heard of em.

He's an asian dude. I first heard him on Blackalicious's Nia album (do this my way). I think he is signed to Quannum with Blackalicious and DJ Shadow.

Originally posted by Afro Cheese
What hip hop head can honestly say the first hip hop they liked was underground?

Me 😄

Really.. what was your first hip hop album? Guessing you found it on the internet?