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

[mobbinfms]

Took me like 15 minutes to get through Necro's "Gory Days".
All those wasted beats. Subject matter was literally disgusting
Those beats though

 

[mobbinfms]

Aesop rock is some of the worst bullshyt I've ever heard..dude embodied the shyt I hated about the underground in the 2000s

Somebody tried to put me on to him back when. Never made it through a song.

 

[mobbinfms]

The arsonists album waas dope too

Halloween is my joint

That was what 99? I downloaded it but didn't give it much burn.

 

[Ohene]

About half of Cage's "Movies For The Blind" holds up.
Escape from 88
Among the Sleep
Agent Orange (This song might be the very birth of nerdy indie rap)
Unlike Tower 1
A Crowd Killer

p*ssy Money and War

That's actually nowhere near half

i always liked this song:


the beat was amazing

 

[patscorpio]

Somebody tried to put me on to him back when. Never made it through a song.

same with me...one of my boys in college was a def jux head but he listened to good shyt so i fukked with his music opinions..he gave me an aesop rock cd to listen to

ill never understand how anyone can rock to that bullshyt




... nah!!!

 

[ZEB WALTON]

That was what 99? I downloaded it but didn't give it much burn.

I thought it was cAlled as the world burns. Great album.

And low key; aesop rock got like 1-2 bangers per album.

 

[Ohene]

This whole album was chronic...seriously.

BTW, I never knew Madlib's 90s work was so deep cause I found this shyt today...


And that was from 1996.

that album is my phone wallpaper right now for the last week or so

Soundpieces
Violent by Design
Funcrusher Plus (goat album cover)
Cold Vein
Fantastic Damage
Dr. Octogoneocologist
Murs 3:16 9th edition
ant I'll stretch it out to say ...I-Phantom...really stretching here

are the only albums from the nerd rap era that I will still listen to today. fukk the rest

edit: i'm sure im forgetting some like PUTS...but its sometimes hard to distinguish between straight nerd rap (ie. Dr Octagon and CanOx vs simply underground shyt...like Blackstar)

 

[Ohene]

this beat was fire

the scratches

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Cages verse on here is crazy. Necro does his thing as well

People shyt on necro for subject matter but dude built hisnown fanbase and lane wit those lyrics. He got all then heavy metal/punk kids witvthat shyt and he atill wating and he been doing it since 93. U gotta reapect his histle

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

What!?

 

[Ohene]

Cages verse on here is crazy. Necro does his thing as well

People shyt on necro for subject matter but dude built hisnown fanbase and lane wit those lyrics. He got all then heavy metal/punk kids witvthat shyt and he atill wating and he been doing it since 93. U gotta reapect his histle

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

 

[Ohene]

more heat ...for the simple fact this is bringing me back to my highschool days ...man i was so introverted


^...the nostalgia behind this song is depressing




some of this shyt was fire fukk it

 

[Ohene]

Mr. Lif's Emergency Rations EP still holds up

..is that the jawn with the black cover lol

 

[EndDomination]

I don't know if i'd class Copywrite with those guys. He was more of a traditional punchline rapper. Aesop really grew on me over time but yeah, I can easily see why some hate him. I agree with the TS on the rest of those cats being absolute trash though. Indie heads would really argue with you that Sage Francis is better than Jay-Z with a straight face. The struggle voicesThe struggle flows . As much as we complain about Future/Drate stans etc, those guys are nowhere near as insufferable as the element of underground rap fans who hyped these wack nerd rappers up at that time. Same annoying fans who used to whine about any freestyle not being of the top of the head and hated any gun bars in battles (while themselves hyping the most cliche "you look like" rhymes). I don't know if that sort is still around on other boards, or if they stopped listening to rap altogether, but i'm glad I don't encounter them here.

They're in Youtube comments and on KTT dikkriding Kanye

 

[EndDomination]

at least no one posts about that garbage

but u got nikkas on here stanning g unit and fabolous and shyt in the year 2016

Fab is still dropping good shyt, the Soul Tape projects and the Young OG Project were good listens honestly