It is a mystery
Tory Lanez Stan
The only rapper of that lot that I've even heard of before is Aesop Rock
Who are these people?
Who are these people?
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Real talk: looking back, most of that def jux/anticon/rhymesayers indie nerd rap was fukking garbage
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
One of the biggest problems with that era was the paper thin production and wack/weak drums. Really don't see how dudes could grow up listening to Pete Rock and then make shyt like that...
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Never heard of any of them
Tropical Fantasy
Superstar
Anticon was str8 
Cuckkleberry Finn
All Star
i just listened to a few tracks...how did this cornball get a kanye beat and get to work with 9th wonder....what a waste of good beats
Adam3000
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Its garbage now because it was garbage back then too
Cold Vein and Deadringer were classics and there was some scattered stuff that was alright, but overall it was trash
There was underground Hip Hop like Doom, then there was this shyt which was backpack trash
Cold Vein and Deadringer were classics and there was some scattered stuff that was alright, but overall it was trash
There was underground Hip Hop like Doom, then there was this shyt which was backpack trash
and they would ALWAYS make those struggle claims to validate their wack ass non-hip hop. "Yo I grew up on BDP and DJ Premier. That's why I make shyt tracks with garbage voices and nonexistant drums for exclusively white nerds."
I've said this before, but 2000s was the death of hip hop in multiple ways, not just the mainstream. The underground became unlistenable after a certain point.
I'd say the vast majority stopped listening to rap. And it's expected. They were never hip hop fans like that. They sure loved to pretend though.
Cold Vein was and still is trash to me.
This is the only Can Ox track I've ever played repeatedly:
I've never heard Deadringer though I know about rjd2. worth checking out?
pointproven214
i speak facts not emotions
all them niggs wack so i approve of this thread.
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Yeah, it's an instrumental album (I think there's a couple tracks with Copyrwrite I think). Haven't listened to it in a long time. I'm a EL-P fan (Can Ox too) so we might differ in taste, even though RJD2 is closer to "classic" HH than EL-P.
@1984 would you put the High & Mighty and the whole ECR crew in the same bag? Prob closer to early Rawkus and "traditionnal" HH than Def Jux and them though, they had some good records.
street heat
merchant of death
I still listen to some of it. I've got some buck 65, sage francis, atmosphere, etc on my phone and the USB drive for my car.
I still listen to some of Canadian artists from peanuts and corn like John smith, pip skid, and gruf the druid also.
don't give a shyt if yall like it or not.
I still listen to some of Canadian artists from peanuts and corn like John smith, pip skid, and gruf the druid also.
don't give a shyt if yall like it or not.
DJ Mart-Kos
All Star
I would have to agree with a lot of these artists being boring like Anti-Pop Consortium or something i remember... but Rhymesayers has 1 of the greatest rappers to me: Brother Ali
H. Selassie
Black Royalty
This is why the high nature of attrition in Music is good. Whether your stuff is ignorant/cliche and trend-pandering or pretentiously backpack, if it's corny people will eventually figure it out and hit you with the 
Whether it's snap music or fratboy college rap, lame shyt usually doesn't last.
Whether it's snap music or fratboy college rap, lame shyt usually doesn't last.
Lurking Class Hero
Medicine for loneliness
Anticon was str8
Hands down the WOAT label/crew. Dudes really claimed stuff like this was dope
Cheese McNair
Bought it this morning, drive it like I stole it
I remember he had a cut on NBA Live 03 or one of those early 2000 years. White boy kinda went in but it almost paved the way for raps that are provided to us by Riff Raff now
