The Best of Underground Hip-Hop

My name's Jake Bourey, and I've dedicated a significant portion of my life to music and deciphering the science behind its beauty. As you can guess from my blog's title, I'm especially passionate about hip-hop. I post and review the best songs hip-hop has to offer, old and new. Most are in the “underground” genre, considering that’s where the vast majority of hip-hop's true art resides these days.

The overall goal of this blog is to educate the general public by exposing them to outstanding hip-hop songs and artists that they might have otherwise never known about. Many people don't realize the hip-hop universe is filled with countless beautiful gems that sadly remain completely hidden deep underground, buried by the overwhelmingly fake, watered down, and soulless music of the mainstream radio and music industry. “There's a war going on outside no man is safe from”, so do your part and help real hip-hop fight back against this overly popularized wackness and sellout mentality. Long Live True Audio Art! I also make mashups and I co-run Hip-Hop Revolutions.

Tech N9ne – Blur (ft. Wrekonize)

Tech N9ne - Blur (ft. Wrekonize)

Strange Music seems to be getting better and better at an exponential rate. I’ve been a fan of Tech N9ne and his independent label Strange Music for years, but within the last couple years everything Strange Music has released is fuckin’ phenomenal…and 2012 is by far Strange Music’s best year yet. ¡MAYDAY!’s album Take Me To Your Leader is still my favorite hip-hop album of 2012. ¡MAYDAY! (the hip-hop group Wrekonize is part of) also just released their new EP Thrift Store Halos, which I like even more than Tech N9ne’s latest EP Klusterfuk. This is saying a lot since Klusterfuk is one of Tech N9ne’s overall best works, and it’s also definitively one of the best hip-hop releases of 2012 (in my top 10). Blur is my favorite song off of Klusterfuk.

Strange music, above all other labels at the moment, are the strongest force behind hip-hop fighting back. They bring so much intelligence, creativity, and originality to their music it inevitably makes you realize just how boring and uncreative most mainstream music is.

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My Song Rating: 9.8 out 10

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