Dope But Relatively Unknown Rappers From the 90's

[AnonymityX1000]

album was decent and I liked his flow and rhymes. I always wondered how much did he write for Biz. I remember a couple of years ago, someone on an interview was trashing him. not sure if it was Charlemagne or who...but they were like "remember Biz brother Diamond Shell, he was horrible. some people shouldnt be making records just because they know people..." and I was like person probably never listened to Diamond Shell, just knew he didnt sell and assumed he was wack.

How many times do you hear Hip Hop TV, radio personalities speaking on Hip Hop like they are experts and getting mad shyt wrong and leaving mad shyt out? It pisses me off more than it should. lol
It's weird, I got a career that has nothing to do with entertainment and I'm doing fine and all but I do feel some type of way that I stored all this Hip Hop knowledge and did 0 with it.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

actually, F.T., Problemz and Al Tariq (Beatnuts) were a group. Black Attack.



and speaking of Al Tariq....his album was pretty good. he left Beatnuts thinking he was going to blow.

Yeah I remember them. Did they ever do an entire album?
God Connections is great. That song in particular is my fav off of that.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

heard this on stretch and bobbito .. long before they signed to badboy

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Fesu is virtually unheard of in the city, the epitome of the alternative Houston sound in 93/94. Maybe @shopthatwrecks could shed a light on this duo from Greenspoint, because they were different than anything that was coming out of Houston.

i knoe yusef is from greenspoint..i ask my uncle about em..he got a gang of ol shyt...

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

album was decent and I liked his flow and rhymes. I always wondered how much did he write for Biz. I remember a couple of years ago, someone on an interview was trashing him. not sure if it was Charlemagne or who...but they were like "remember Biz brother Diamond Shell, he was horrible. some people shouldnt be making records just because they know people..." and I was like person probably never listened to Diamond Shell, just knew he didnt sell and assumed he was wack.

his album was tight.. i have it in mp3...

and he actually didnt blow because he was biz's brother .. he didnt want to get famous off of that.. so he did mention it a few times but he downplayed it too.

but i also wondered how much he wrote for biz especially after Kane blew and had his own career

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Says it was released in 2000 but I remember hearing this before.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

 

[ShaDynasty]

One of the funniest rap albums ever.

 

[surv2syn]

speaking of Al Tariq, that year he was on Correct Records, they were putting out some nice rap albums. Here is a gem. I just thought of this, and I actually pulled it up and listened to the entire on a quick drive. dope album even now still. Correct was just too small of a label. the crazy thing about this album is the production was top notch because some of the tracks were produced by the legendary No ID and Dug Infinite and its better than a lot of shyt out today.....but the bulk of the production (8 songs) was an introduction to a young cat who simply went by "Kanye" at the time.

 

[SCJoe]

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

the outsidaz ep and album was tight..

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Artifacts .... one of the guys .. forgot is name is Redmans cousin

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Somebody already posted him but here's the fist song i heard from Kurios

 

[b. woods]

Erule

Thought for sure this guy had next. This was a underground hit but he never advanced despite incredible skills.

 

[surv2syn]

Somebody already posted him but here's the fist song i heard from Kurios

he was dope. never blew, but he did put out some solo albums and also was part of the LuvNY collective (AG, OC, Kool Keith, Roc Marciano) dope album if you havent checked it out