What are your favorite Underground Albums of all time??

[BluPHI!!!]

Hey illmuzik fam,

What are your favorite underground albums of all time??

Here are mines:

1) Black Moon: Enta Da stage
2) Artifacts: Wrond side of the tracks
3) Little Brother: Chitlin Circuit
4) Cappadonna: The Pillage
5) Caltriot: Mixtape
6) Oc: jewels
7) Erick Sermon: E Double

 

[DJ Redrum]

This is an hard one as there is quite a few that i like, for here are my main ones that i can think of at the moment.

1. Battlecat - Gumbo Roots
2. Crazy - Please Don't Kill Me (of Murder Inc)
3. L.The Black Robbin Hood - True 2 Life (of Murder Inc)
4. Legend Man - Pressure & Pain (of Murder Inc)
5. Murder Inc - Let's Die Together (the OG Murder Inc not Ja related)
6. Y-D - Give It Up To The G'z
7. Face Forever - World Of Crime

Quite a few from the Murder Inc crew from seeing the list, they put out some classic's from New Orleans in the mid 90's. The release from Legend Man is by far the best, he is one of my favoruite artists of all time, shame he was killed just after it dropped.

Battlecats album is another good one which never got released, and the Y-D is by far one of the tightest albums i've ever heard from out of the bay yet another artist that is no longer alive.

I forgot to mention another rap group from out of N.O called Face Forever which was like a extended family with Murder Inc that not to many people know about that put out some good tracks, check this video out which features Legend Man on the 2nd verse if you have a minute.

 

[Sonorous]

Black Moon- Enter the stage
Evidence- The Weatherman
O.C.-Jewels
Little Brother-The Minstrel show
Any Cormega Album

 

[manguino]

black moon's record was underground? remember it getting alot of play, and pretty sure it almost hit gold

 

[Relic]

StepChild --- Child Abuse

 

[Schizo-Manic]

Main Source- Breaking Atoms
DJ Honda- DJ Honda
Group Home- Living Proof
Artifacts- That's Them
Ill Biskits- Chronicle Of Two Losers
Defari- Focused Daily
Lords Of The Underground- Here Come The Lords
J-live- The Best Part
O.C.-Word....Life

 

[dj360_iNfInItE1]

1. Beantnuts - Street Level
2. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
3. Diamnond D & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop
4. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
5. Lords of the Underground - Here Come the Lords
6. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
7. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient

I would include A Tribe Called Quest but I am not sure if they are considered mainstream or not....if not, all of 'em. Tribe is my favorite group in Hip-Hop.

 

[Relic]

Illcomp II

 

[StressWon]

black moon's record was underground? remember it getting alot of play, and pretty sure it almost hit gold

i think it did. alot of these we're mainstream at one time. There was a time where the Beatnuts, O.C., Black Moon, etc were on the radio and MTV. It was a good time.

Illcomp II

no joke,,that shit is dope!

 

[ManDAmyth]

I thought this was an "underground" hip hop thread.

Everyone's but Redrum listed some pretty major releases. Enta Da Stage was major enough to have 2 heavily rotated singles on BET and MTV. Who Got The Props and How Many MC's.

My list:

Aesop Rock: Float
Cannibal Ox: Cold Vein
Society of Invisibles: (self-titled)
Atmosphere: Lucy Ford EP
Deca: The Hedonist

 

[Relic]

Thanks for saying I had a major release!
Your my buddy!

 

[Agent Smith]

Aes Rock: Labor Days
Murs: Murray's Revenge
Felt 2
I don't know if you could consider Pharoahe Monch's last record underground but Desire was amazing.
illcomp 2 was eexxtra sick.

 

[DJ Excellence]

"Do You Know the Way?" by 10bass T,

which was an obscur act from the bay in the 90's. love the beats and rhymes.

 

[manguino]

I would include A Tribe Called Quest but I am not sure if they are considered mainstream or not....if not, all of 'em. Tribe is my favorite group in Hip-Hop.

DEFINITELY mainstream, forget how big they were in '93-94?

 

[Fury]

jedi mind tricks- violent by design
j zone- pimps dont pay taxes
ghostface-fishscale
danger doom and many many many more

 

[dacalion]

No particular order...

Jozeemo - CRY NOW L.A.F. Later *this cat is from Durham NC, check'em out if you get a chance.*
Rashid Hardee - Dedication
Chapter 13 - Nevermores Asylum
Fear & Loathing - Riding with DJ Resident
Abstract Mindstate - Chicagos Hardest Working Vol 2
Mercury Waters/Wings - Halodim
Agent Smith/Wings - Paragon Black
Taay/Dacalion - The Proof
Laif - "Yes Y'all (The IT Factor)" here's the vid -

MOF

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Thank you very much Great 'Ol Brother! You're the TRUTH Dac. ONE LOVE!

Deepest Blessings,
Wings of an Angel

 

[Agent Smith]

respect dawgy

 

[dj360_iNfInItE1]

DEFINITELY mainstream, forget how big they were in '93-94?

Of course I didn't but I just love em so much. LOL! Their second album "Low End Theory" is a classic.

 

[DJ Redrum]

I thought this was an "underground" hip hop thread.

Everyone's but Redrum listed some pretty major releases.

I was thinking that also on a few of the artists listed, i guess some people's underground is deeper than others.