Underappreciated:

roaches

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#1
This is for the three-legged one-eyed mongrel puppies of hip-hop:

Brand Nubian - The Foundation
The classic singles of their first two albums aside, this is their best album. Brand Nubian + DITC, enough said.

King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader
A lot of DOOM heads own this but don't listen to it. It got lost in the shuffle of the first Viktor Vaughn and the bootleg version of Madvillainy leaking five years ago and no one's caught up yet. "Fastlane" and "The Fine Print" are monsters of beats and the rest of the production is great, too. "Anti-Matter" is a DOOM song with a chorus (Who the fuck is Mr. Fantastik and why have I only heard him on two songs... ever? See, that just proves this album is just on some vintage dopeness when there's a random cat you've never heard of will never hear of again dropping dope rhymes and dipping out). There's a Scienz of Life cameo, DOOM raps himself on a couple of cuts... it's butter. If you smoke weed and/or like Godzilla movies, this is deep-fried buttery bananas.

Redman - Doc's Da Name: 2000
When people who aren't invested think Redman, they think of Method Man, Christina Aguilera. They know he's a rapper but can't recall anything besides "Da Rockwilder", maybe "Let's Get Dirty"... and "I'll Bee Dat". When heads think Redman, they think of his first three albums, Blackout, How High, his deodorant commercial, his last two wack albums, and... "I'll Bee Dat."

Fuck that. This album's just as good as his first three.

Bink!
Bink (producer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His catalog speaks for itself. He had the best beats on The Blueprint. I'm downloading a Rick Ross album right now just to hear the one song he produced on it. VA!

Add on. I'll be back later, too.
 

Chronic

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#2
Mostly agreed with the DOOM album. I think it's overlooked because it's a producers album and people just listen to the DOOM cuts. This record gets the least spins from me but that's just by default.

"Fazers" is my shit.

Any word on when the next stream of albums will start? I stopped keeping up to date.

I need to peep The Foundation again but I think I'd agree with you. Homophobia is only wrong when it's not delivered on a Diamond D beat.
 

roaches

Well-Known Member
#4
Who knows. Last I heard of him was that DOOMPOSTER stunt he pulled a few times.

Some more:

Diverse. Chicago MC. Five years ago he was on the underground classic "Wylin Out" where he embarrassed Mos Def (and kinda stole both his and Talib Kweli's flows, but... whatever, it's not like they were doing anything dope with them anyway) and dropped a dope album called One A.M. with beats by Madlib, Rjd2, Prefuse 73... then disappeared until, like, last week, when he dropped a new song (where he's kinda on some Lupe.... hrm):
MySpace.com - DIVERSE - THE MOON, Illinois - Lyrical / Hip Hop / Soul - www.myspace.com/diversemovement

Don't sleep this time around, kids.

Green Lantern's remix of Jadakiss's "Time's Up"
zSHARE - the champ is here prod by green lan.mp3
This was hot for like two weeks but now it's forgotten. Why?

Del the Funkee Homosapien albums not involving Automator.

Young Jeezy's verse on the "Superstar" remix. T.I. ripped it, but Jeezy's flow and verse structure was pretty much impeccable and I think is probably the most thought he's ever put it into the musical aspect of a verse, ever. And him telling the nameless girl he wants to fuck to be his lesbian enforcer is hilarious.
zSHARE - superstar remix ft. young jeezy t.mp3
 
#6
Yeah, i love that brand nubian album. "everything and eveytrhing" and "in god we trust" are very good too. i even liked their album they released a few years back. they're an underappreciated group in general. puba's solos were mostly garbage though, haha, especially that one in 00/01 or whatever. Sadat's solo was good too.

thank god this thread is titled underappreciated and not underrated!!!
 

roaches

Well-Known Member
#8
Grand Puba's first solo album was pretty good... from what I remember of it, so maybe not.

The word underrated is so overrated nowadays.
 
#9
man i love that Doc's Da Name album, i can't believe how much it gets slept on. i'll have to check some of these other artists/tracks out, guess i myself have been sleeping lol.

one album i think is majorly slept on, although it kinda falls outside of hip hop is Nate Dogg's G Funk Classics double album. it seems he can make platinum hits for other artists, but no one wants to check his shit. tons of classic material on this album.

also, don't forget the perennially underrated Kool G Rap. just about every joint with his name on it is dope.
 
#10
Living Legends are slept on. I just saw them live and they were off the hook. Grouch 98 album Fuck the Dumb is sick. Sunspot Jonz new album Why We Fight is pretty good. Murs always puts out tight shit, same with Aesop and the rest of the Legends. I havent heard their latest though called The Gathering in its entirety but what they played live was sick.
 

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