Real talk: looking back, most of that def jux/anticon/rhymesayers indie nerd rap was fukking garbage

[Art Barr]

Hiphopinfinity

Ask @Art Barr bout that clusterfukk of a site

The alternate underground racist site that pretty much perpetrated why racism is in underground rap.
Plus, why the quality in rap is so distincly low in every facet of every subgenre of rap as well.

Art Barr

 

[Get Right]

Natural elements had nothing to do with that whole movement...that would be like mentioning l da headtoucha, smooth the hustler, b1, half a mil, godfather don etc...completely different styles and far better mcing

This

 

[Unknown Poster]

This thread is a great reminder of how much was really lost in translation in hip hop from 1998 to 2002.

The change from analog to digital
the change from cd to mp3
the change from vhs to dvd
the change from 20th to 21st century

I realize alot of this is new and unfamiliar for the younger heads.

Btw i gotta agree with @SirBiatch that this might of been the death of underground hip hop because of the nerd backpacker elitist associations.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Some of this was so bad it was good in a way...

 

[Unknown Poster]

Like this....

WTF?


From the Warp Records shortlived Lex imprint





Okay...alot of this cornball ass shyt needs to be just left in the past

Edit: i apologize in advance for this post...the last one is sooo terrible...cats was really trying to pass this liberal art school garbage as hip-hop. Smh.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

So many names in this thread I havent seen or thought it in like 10+ years.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Jurassic 5 where fire!
Power In Numbers was my shyt.

I liked Quality Control more than that.

I had the ep they did before that. Cut Chemist's solo work was always entertaining. And i liked the stuff Chali 2na did with Ozomatli.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

 

[Mess World]

From 2000-2003 an epic onslaught of nerdy pretentious elitist white rappers came out of the woodwork and managed to take hip-hop into some of it's worst years ever...

I'm talking about
Sage Francis
Dose One
Anticon
Deep Puddle Dynamics
clouddead
Aesop Rock
MC Paul Barman
Hot Karl

And many others.

I tried listening to their stuff again a couple of weeks ago and just could not do it....

Jel from anticon is up there with DJ premier, diamond d, and daft punk when it comes to chopping samples . My boy knows him and asked him why he was making beats for those chumps, Jel knew the deal but couldn't say anything

You should watch Jel making beats on YouTube

 

[Lurking Class Hero]

Eh I disagree, Hell's Winter was objectively his best work, but he had good tracks off his other releases as well (Escape to 88, Agent Orange, I Never Knew You, Nothing Left to Say), and even if you weren't feeling the experimental vibe of his later work, that Leak Bros tape he did with Tame One was still fire from a pure Hip-Hop perspective. You're entitled to your opinion though.

fair enough

 

[Sugar]

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[mobbinfms]

The Demigodz EP "The Gods Must Be Crazy" still holds up


I went super extra "nerdy indie hip hop" brehs.
I listened to my Deep Puddle Dynamics CD
shyt was absolute trash.
The dude with the weird voice gotta be the worst rapper of all time
I'm still mad I bought that CD
Listening to the first 7L & Eso album now

 

[mobbinfms]

Is J Live nerd rap?
I hope not
He shouldn't be. Breh was dropping vinyl in 96

 

[MN Fats]

press play on this and tell me this beat aint still flaaame

Props on semi.official...that album was nice. And I Self Divines latest album was so underrated too.

 

[MN Fats]

i remember trying to peep this album off the strength of the production....i couldnt get into it like that though



the below track stood out though

The production on this album was fire...Large Pro, Premo, Necro, Beatnuts, Pete Rock...