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.

NPR's Radiolab – The Science Behind Music & Language

NPR - The Science Behind Music & Language

If you are a fan of any kind of music and love intellectually stimulating thought, this is a MUST LISTEN. I’m a huge fan of NPR, and I can proudly say I’ve listened to every Radiolab podcast…there’s definitely well over a 100 hours of content. This is my 2nd favorite hour long special they’ve ever done, and it’s one of the most profound discussions I’ve heard to this day. I edited it down to my favorite 20 minutes so I could upload it to tumblr.

In this Radiolab special, experts explore the complex line between music and language by turning to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes feeling, and how this feeling can become so influential within our lives and how we perceive the world.

If you want to listen to the full pod cast, here is the link.

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