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.

Binary Star – Indy 500

Binary Star - Indy 500

In an age where it’s harder than ever to make a living in the hip-hop industry, many artists feel obligated to sell out. The music they create is simply what the record labels tell them to make. The industry execs favor dumbed down music, simply because it sells a hell of a lot better than profound and poetic hip-hop. The average consumer nowadays doesn’t want to spend any extra effort interpreting philosophical lyrics, so they tend to just listen to music that proclaims simplistic concepts, such as “And I don’t love them hoes / But don’t fuck up with Wayne cause when it “Waynes” it pours / No really, I’m on my “fuck that bitch” shit / You used to be the shit, but now you ain’t shit, bitch”. One Be Lo and Senim Silla champion and live by an anti-sellout mentality. This is off of their classic album Masters of the Universe.

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My Song Rating: 9.4 out of 10

Played 1561 times.

“If you go platinum, its got nothing to do with luck, it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck.” - Immortal Technique

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B.o.B – The Biz

B.o.B - The Biz

This is B.o.B’s version of Mobb Deep’s classic Shook Ones Part II. Unfortunately, a lot of people hate on B.o.B when it comes to his music. I’m not going to lie, his debut album was a sell out/dumbed down version of his true talent, but he’s still one of my favorite artists of all time.

I got just one thing to say to all the haters, “listen to his fucking mixtapes!” That’s where his true skill shines. If you dislike B.o.B, that’s like disliking Lupe. He might have sold out for one album, but he still has classic songs that surpass a majority of all other artists’ works. Keep things in perspective!

Regardless this is my second favorite song of 2010.

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My Song rating: 10 out of 10

Played 662 times.