favourite underground hip-hop revisited!

yayaya, this board has been done before, but I know there are some serious sg heads out there, so lets hear it one more time! what are your favorite underground hip-hop albums and why (by adding the "why" it technically makes this thread different)
heres mine, in no particular order:

1)Digable Planets-"Blowout Comb" cause digable is just jazzy cool like that. and plenty of finger snaps.
2)DJ Shadow "Entroducing" not so underground anyone, but have to mention it.
3)Jedi Mind Tricks "Violent By Design" still love angry hiphop, makes me want to break things, for political reasons of course.
4)The Coup "Steal This Double Album" see above. makes dead prez look like a bunchy of capitalistic money loving pansies.
5)The Pharcyde "Bizzare Ride" "passin me" by and "otha fish" are two of my alltime favs. one of the few hiphop artists who tackle rejection and unrequited love.
6)Dr.Ocatagon- "Dr. Ocatagonocologyst" because Kool Keith's nefarious time travelling surgeon and proprietor of a porno hospital, who pretends to be a gynaecologist so he can molest his patients, potentially extraterrestrial alter ego will always be his best.
7) Lovage- "Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By"- Automator,Kid Koala, Mike Patton from Fantomas, Jennifer Charles. this is weird wonderful stuff.
8)RJD2-"Dead Ringer"- Entroducing lite. just kidding, its good.
9)Science Fiction-"Walls Don't Exist" cannot be described. same sample based instrumental hiphop as rjd2 and shadow, but so very different.
10)Madlib-"Shades Of Blue" everything thats right about hiphop today.
11)PeanutButter Wolf & Charizma- "Big Shots" i'm a sucker for old school breaks.
12)Roots Manuva-"Dub Come Save Me" i'm totally hooked on electro-dub UK hip-hop.
i forgot about del and the heiro crew

theres me, now you


[Edited on Feb 04, 2004 by cupidvalentino]

somebody post on this gdmm it!

oh man lovage is so good.

and as for hip hop, busdriver is amazing.

yes someone finally posted!! sorry, that was a pathetic display, i know.
lovage is a aquired taste. i played it for my ex-girlfriend and she thought i was a total sleazebag. then again, my onetimeplayboy now sleezy old man heard it and he thought it was great. hes also a big fan of serge gainsbourg


[Edited on Feb 04, 2004 by cupidvalentino]

I will always be a Digable fan. I listen to their albums all the time. Too bad all that wack acid jazz scene stuff screwed it up for them......

Pharcyde......YES! I saw them way back in the day.

Jurassic 5 are my new faves carrying the torch.

digable and Tribe Called Quest nearly took hip-hop in an entirely different direction, instead of just being influenced by jazz into actually becomming jazz (like herbie hancocks headhunters eventually being accepted as legit jazz) unfortunantley that fell through. its comming back though!! check out madlib-shades of blue

Blue Flowers... OH, how many good memories do I have of that song being played while smoking a bowl!
Not too many, actually, two, but I know my friends who were more dedicated than I to the ganja played it nearly every time.

i think anyone who considers themselves self-respecting human being should have at least one blue flowers+weed memory. i have mine, it involved the blue bird cafe in amsterdam, and enlgish dude named nick and a conversation about the merits of being a "geezer"

I enjoy the beats and rhymes of:
Aesop Rock, Spearhead, Buck 65 (Ok, he's not indie anymore, but still...), and Deltron

prefuse 73

Lovage is great, but it's not exactly hip-hop in spite of Dan the Automator. I'm classifying that as Mike Patton project.

I can't get enough Awol One!

Company Flow
El-P
Atmosphere
Alias
Sage Francis
Binary Star
Jedi Mind Tricks
MURS

Anti Pop Consortium

woah, hey now, let's not forget automator and kid koala....and you know mike patton's voice is just a little freaky at times.

sheit, gravediggaz? rza and prince paul......good call. 1-800 suicide is one of those classic "kill youself to this" songs

love that lovage baby...good to see the coup in there as well...

[Edited on Feb 05, 2004 by whiterabbit]

Aesop Rock
Atmosphere
Dr. Octagon
Kool Keith
Mr. Lif
Five Deez
El-P
Cannibal Ox
Jurassic 5
Diggable Planets
Jedi Mind Tricks
Zion I
J Rawls
Algorithim
Seth P
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician
Company Flow
Lovage
Latryx
Murs

I'll do the why later, I gotta head to work.


[Edited on Feb 05, 2004 by Novy]

woah, great picks. good call on fat jon and the 5 deez, humnaoid erotica is hot little number.

6 feet deep might be the greatest slept-on hip-hop album ever. it's pure masterpiece.
In addition to Aesop Rock, Murs, etc., I add Cannibal Ox. I think i'll put him on right now.

[Edited on Feb 05, 2004 by brooklyn408]

ahh, i'm listening to el-p fantastic damage right now. its like a def jux block party in here.

atmosphere

anybody remember del tha funky homosapien, or the afros? late 80s/early 90s was a golden age....

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do i! del is a legend of the underground. except for that disgraceful gorillaz project, he is the shit.

any madlib-related project is drooled on by me. he's a genius that truly marches to his own drum...

particularly Quasimoto. the Unseen is one of my favorite records of all time.