Underground hip-hop at Hip-Hop Linguistics. The term underground hip-hop is a sore subject around here. Most websites that rep underground hip-hop don't really cover the underground. Just because you don't hear it on the radio doesn't mean it's underground. To us, underground hip-hop is comprised of emcees without record deals - cats who are on the grind every day trying to get their music heard. Emcees you've never heard of. The list below represents the best of unsigned underground hip-hop artists. We recommend checking them all out.
I’d like to give a big shout out to my homie Kirk – aka “The Captain” – for hollering at me out of nowhere to recommend Celph Titled & Buckwild’s new album “Nineteen Ninety Now.” I almost didn’t download this shit, because I thought I had grown tired of nineties era throwback albums. But in reality, I guess I just grew tired of WACK nineties era throwback albums.
Celph Titled & Buckwild received the most plays in my iPod this week. In fact, this is pretty much all I listened to all week. Click the links below to check out some of their music:
I normally don’t post nostalgic hip-hop songs that talk about some past golden era of hip-hop. I guess I’ve just got tired of them, as it seems like every emcee these days makes a throwback track. But I made an exception for this week’s track of the week. Celph Titled & Buckwild’s Miss Those Days is an ode to hip-hop from the ’90s, and is a good example of the duo’s direction in their new throwback album “Nineteen Ninety Now.”
Something about this track just makes me feel relaxed, and the theme hits well for me this time of year, as everybody starts to reminisce about the end of the decade. Click below to listen to Celph Titled & Buckwild’s Miss Those Days:
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This week’s hip-hop quotable is I Could Write A Rhyme, a track from Celph Titled & Buckwild’s “Nineteen Ninety Now” – which has been bumping on my iPod all week. While there are several songs I could feature from this week’s album, I picked this track because I have a thing for well done autobiographical songs. I Could Write A Rhyme uses three dope verses to tell the story of Celph Titled’s beginnings in hip-hop, as well as his rise to his current position. Click below to listen to Celph Titled & Buckwild’s I Could Write A Rhyme:
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This week’s hip-hop video of the week is Celph Titled & Buckwild’s Mad Ammo, a track from this week’s featured album “Nineteen Ninety Now.” Mad Ammo features FT and R.A. the Rugged Man.
Rating: Review Date: December 13, 2010 Website:Celph Titled Website Label: No Sleep Recordings
Celph Titled & Buckwild “Nineteen Ninety Now” Album Review
Celph Titled & Buckwild’s “Nineteen Ninety Now” is the perfect album for this type of year. Since I spend the majority of the year covering serious hip-hop, I always find myself around December thirsting for some of that fun, battle-ish, masculine braggadocio type of shit I used to listen to back in high school. That type of hip-hop feeds into the nostalgia of the end of the year, and gives me party bumps to play during New Year’s Eve celebrations. Luckily, Celph Titled & Buckwild’s ’90s era throwback album “Nineteen Ninety Now” hit the top of my review stack right in time for this December mode I’m in. (more…)
Living in NYC, I come across so many fair weather Jets fans who have jumped on the bandwagon since the team’s big playoff run last year. And it’s annoying as fuck. Two years ago, I could go to any bar in Brooklyn and catch my slowly up-and-coming Cleveland Browns (who sadly lost an overtime nail biter to the Jets a couple weeks back) on TV. Now every bar I go to is filled with a new wave of Jets fans, and the bartenders refuse to turn to the Browns game.
But being a fan of a struggling team myself, I can appreciate the die hard cats who have always stuck with their team like Strange Famous Records’ artist Prolyphic. This video is for his track NY Jets – a song about the anxiety involved in being a Jets fan in years past. Luckily the team has battled back from years of struggle, and is pretty much a lock for the Wild Card playoff spot this year. Congrats to the Jets, but watch out for my Browns next year!
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Eligh became one of my favorite members of the Living Legends crew a couple years back when they dropped the “Classic” album. That album dropped right after I started HHL, and it was back when I was transcribing all the lyrics from a record before reviewing it.
While I was listening to “Classic,” I wrote down all my favorite verses to feature in the album review. And when I went back to read through them all, I realized that Eligh had some of my favorite verses from that album – which is saying a lot, since “Classic” is definitely a classic album in my mind, receiving a five star rating back in ’05. Ever since, I have been an apt follower of Eligh and the rest of the Living Legends crew.
So it was no surprise to me that the most played hip-hop album on my iPod this week was Eligh’s “Grey Crow.” Click the links below to check out some of Eligh’s music:
It was very difficult picking out just one featured quotable from Eligh’s “Grey Crow” – as the album was filled with dope lyrical and quotable tracks. But I picked this one because it is a song about future intentions, which I found very creative. When I’m A Dad is a song about things Eligh plans to teach his children when he becomes a father. The track touches on things that happened to Eligh as a child, and how they will influence the type of father he will be. Click below to listen to Eligh’s When I’m A Dad:
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This week’s underground hip-hop track of the week is Eligh’s Love Ov My Life, one of my favorite tracks from his new album “Grey Crow.” While it’s a little cliche these days to talk about hip-hop as a woman you’re in love with, this track really hits for me both musically and lyrically – and is one of many relaxing tracks on the new album. Love Ov My Life features verses by fellow Living Legend Luckyiam, and vocals by Paris Hayes. Click below to listen to Eligh’s Love Ov My Life:
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