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.

Slaughterhouse – Goodbye

Slaughterhouse - Goodbye

Goodbye is my favorite song off of Slaughterhouse’s newly released album Welcome to: Our House. This song also serves as a great template for the general feel of the entire album. Slaughterhouse goes really fuckin hard, but you’ll hear that infamous “rap industry” type sound for many of their songs on the album. By this I mean a lot of money and effort was invested into the production, so their are moments throughout the album that the songs feel over produced, glossy, and fake (some what like Goodbye’s over manipulated chorus); however, the inherent realness of Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, and Royce da 5’9” easily out-ways this mainstream aura of fakeness. Very few chart topping artists are real enough to be able to pull this off as well as Slaughterhouse.

“So I’m deprived of my chance to be a better dad. Staring at my twins that I never had. I shed a tear, looking up in the sky, even though y’all just got here…goodbye!”

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My Song Rating: 9.5 out 10

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