Top Underground Hip-Hop Albums of 2007
PEACE. Every year, Hip-Hop Linguistics creates two lists. One list contains the top hip-hop albums from major mainstream, underground and independent record labels. The other list contains the top hip-hop albums from minor independent labels and unsigned hip-hop artists. The first list contains artists you’ve likely heard of, while the second list contains artists you’ve probably not heard of.
This is that second list – our favorite hip-hop albums from cats you’ve probably never heard of. The list below represents the best albums underground hip-hop had to offer in the year 2007 from what we consider minor independent record labels and unsigned artists. We highly recommend checking them all out!
The Best Underground Hip-Hop Albums of 2007:
- ScholarMan – Candy Medicine
- Ohene – Inner City Soul
- Bisc 1 – The Stay Up Project Mixtape
- Danny! – Danny Is Dead
- Andromeda – Blue Collar Music
- Y Society – Travel At Your Own Pace
- Panacea – The Scenic Route
- TrueBless – Mission IsPossible
- Domer – Work With Me
- C.O.N.C.E.P.T. – In the Moment
- Random – Mega Ran
- Core Rhythm – Nat Turner Reloaded
- Sirah – Clean Windows Dirty Floors
- Symmetry – Dusty Pickup
- Super Chron Flight Brothers – Emergency Powers: The World Tour
- Amsuno – Animated Stagnation
- Propaganda Anonymous – Todo Corazon
- Creature – Hustle To Be Free
- brokeMC – Make It Better
- Beyond Reality – A Souls Journey
If you haven’t done so already, pick up each album on this list. They are all examples of dope conscious underground hip-hop! Click here to view our list of the top 10 albums from artists you probably have heard of. Happy new year and PEACE!
slappy white wrote:
terrible list
sorry but it is
Posted on 26-Dec-07 at 10:43 am | Permalink
slappy white wrote:
and the Ohene is from mid 2006 so shouldn’t be on the list
Posted on 26-Dec-07 at 10:54 am | Permalink
Jay-Izzle wrote:
that Ohene is off the hook! i don’t care what year it dropped. even if HHL is behind on it, at least they mentioned it, right?
i agree that some of the albums on this list are wack – but some are dope. and they’re all indie cats, so what do you expect? either way, i trust that there is a reason each of these albums was listed on HHL. good shit on representing the deep underground!
Posted on 26-Dec-07 at 11:45 am | Permalink
ELSMORE wrote:
im talkin real undaground shyt like alot yall mite never herd a like cuzzo,Disfunkxion,Atllas,Termanology,red room ent. n hannibal,polkaface strait up undaground then of course me
Posted on 30-Dec-07 at 10:26 pm | Permalink
Rob wrote:
Dope list. Panacea, Y Society and Danny! definitley deserve to make this list. Nice stuff.
Posted on 02-Jan-08 at 7:36 am | Permalink
Theophilius E. wrote:
Maybe HHL should compile a third list consisting of the other two lists combined. Ohene would be at the top with Brother Ali. 2007 was the year of the lesser known artists for me.
Posted on 07-Jan-08 at 1:59 am | Permalink
john wrote:
what about kayne west?
Posted on 17-Aug-08 at 1:10 am | Permalink
Fisch wrote:
“Kanye West” and “underground” don’t even belong in the same sentence.
Posted on 19-Aug-08 at 6:05 pm | Permalink
Evan wrote:
where is the real underground like AOTP or JMT where is the Non Phixion and Outerspace
Posted on 31-Aug-08 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
DeFazed wrote:
Any of u cats listened to AOTP family? Damn, that’s real underground hardcore hip hop. it will be number 1 on the list.
Posted on 25-Nov-08 at 1:55 pm | Permalink
Daniel wrote:
AOTP is nice
Doap Nixon!
Posted on 29-Jan-09 at 5:16 pm | Permalink
Tre' wrote:
ELSMORE is right on the money. I heard DisfunkXion and that’s some real raw underground talent. Straight up lyrical and vibin with a crazy unique style I dig! I stumbled onto him on myspace. I put up the link in case u don’t know how to browse
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 1:50 am | Permalink
yasmo wrote:
where is virtuoso, big virt deserves this list.
Posted on 21-Dec-09 at 2:35 pm | Permalink