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.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (ft. Wanz)

This will be the first of a few songs I’ll be posting from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s new outstanding album The Heist. It’s one of the best albums I’ve heard in a really, really long time. I’m still not 100% sure yet if The Heist is my favorite album of the year…but even if it isn’t, it’ll be damn close. To put it in retrospect, this is Macklemore’s best release ever, by a huge margin. There are a couple songs on it that aren’t too impressive, but other than that it’s packed with a plethora of unique and amazing songs such as Thrift Shop that represent the epitome of hip-hop originality. Macklemore doesn’t give a shit what other “cool things” rappers are talking about, because he only raps about his life and what personally concerns him. He doesn’t purposely go against the grain, but inherently does, since he’s only being himself and nothing else…aka real hip-hop. The MUSIC VIDEO is also pretty damn phenomenal.

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My Song Rating: 9.6 out of 10

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