True hip hop heads ONLY, PLEASE !!...................?

Question

By "true" hip hop head, I mean those of you who know that hip hop is a culture and not a genre of music........

Can anybody give me some good underground artists to check out....I already know and listen to Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Bootcamp Click, Immortal Technique, Mos Def, MF Doom, Black Ice, etc. But I'm looking for some other underground artists who, like the above-mentioned artists, have substance and meaning to their songs and lyrics. None of that "wannabe gangsta" bullsh*t.

Looking forward to your responses, and thanks in advance.

And please, if you don't know any artists other than Jibbs, Mims, Unk, Huey, Lil Wayne, Young Joc, Crime Mob, and all that other garbage, please don't answer, because you're not a true fan of real rap music. lol (I know they're gonna answer my question anyway)

Again, to you true rap fans, bring 'em on!!!

Smooth Jones....I'm from VA...Yeah, I have some Skillz in my playlist. Dude is nice. I'll check out the others you mentioned.

And a lot of the other artists everyone's mentioned, I "did" know of them, just didn't list them. Seems like there's a lot more "true" hip hop heads here at Yahoo Answers than I thought lol. Sweeeeeeeeeet!!

Y'all have given me a bunch of artists that I haven't heard of, too, so many thanks, again. I'll keep the question open and hope to get even more.

Answer 1

Check out Poeticali Distherbd!

Answer 2

I love hip hop. And I guess you can call me a hip hop head. But I believe true hip hop heads do listen to othergenres. Because a lot of hip hop songs combine different genres. Like the classic song by Run Dmc "Walk This Way" beleive it or not that made hip hop artists venture into different genres. But you are right. There are a lot of people out their that wouldn't give other Geres a chance. They just love hip hop and I dontthink there's anything wrong with that.

Answer 3

At least half of these suggestion aint even underground, some of these people r buggin out. Here is a short dope list: Atmosphere, Jedi Mind Tricks, Anything from Living Legends or any of it's members, Self Scientific, and the best uderground joint to this day, Company Flows cd Funcrusher Plus, dated but forever sic.

Answer 4

I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE!! FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO APPRECIATES REAL HIP HOP!!!!!!!! I got hella underground artists. You might have to go their Myspace pages, but some of these artists are flying low on the mainstream.

Check out Thad Reid, he has a song called Top of The Heights that's hot right now in underground hip-hop.

myspace.com/thadreid

Also check out Kidz In The Hall, they came out with an album in October 2006 and in my opinion it's pretty good. If you like Lupe or Kanye, you'll like them.

myspace.com/kidzinthehall

Little Brother is one of the most popular True Hip Hop groups out right now. They've had some of the best beats over their tenure in the rap game (thanks to 9th Wonder) and they have an album coming out sometime this summer.

myspace.com/littlebrother

Answer 5

Dilated People,Mc Lyte,Big Daddy Kane,Sugarhill Gang,Kurtis Blow,LL Cool J,and Digable Planets,Naughty by Nature,NWA,BoneThugsNHarmony

Answer 6

Aceyalone, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, doom, JLive, Medusa, Supernatural, Saafir, Sean Price, Native Guns, Aspect1, Atban Clan (BlackEyePeas before they went pop), Justus League, quasimoto, lootpack, sup the chemist, Ras G, choclair, Slum....the list goes on

Answer 7

You should check out the album INk is my Drink by Panacea. In my opinion, the best hip hop album of last year other than donuts. Also, J-Live, WOrdsworth, Masta Ace, Magnificient city by RJD2 and Aceyalone, Prefuse 73, Kev Brown, Dr. Who dat?, Scienz of Life, Atmosphere, and Apathy

Answer 8

I can tell you now.. I am a fan of Crime Mob(some of the songs), a huge Lil Wayne fan(dude spits with swagger), 50 fan, T.I. fan and all of that.

But I am a HUGE fan of underground artists and some mainstream artists.

Kanye, Common, and Vakill are pretty good artists, but are you missing the greatest underground duo of all time: LITTLE BROTHER!!!!!! Those are some talented dudes. You named most of the good ones, but Canibus is good, Killah Priest, Wu Tang, The 4th Disciple and that's all I have

Answer 9

Gangstarr, Binary star, Pete rock, Blackstarr, Brother ali, Busdriver, Blackalicious, athletic mic league, Damien rice, DangerDoom

Answer 10

Ras Kass/ Saffir/Canibus-get his freestyles/Chino XL/Brotha lynch hung/old school common(sense)/whoridas 1st one/Hieros Del, Pep Love, Casual/Jeru the Damaja/Joe budden made me a believer cop his mood muzik2/3xcrazy/Madd SKillz GroupHome(guru's group)/ Mc Juice/Devin tha Dude/ J-Live/Self Scientific.....i cant go on for days....Best lyricist out of all is Ras Kass hands down.
Most of this is old...cuz aint really no new tight ish except...what was mentioned b4 Phonte and Big Pooh...