2678239, these weren't standard underground hip hop
Posted by k_orr, Mon Mar-26-12 08:26 PM
> Back then Def Jux was huge and Atmosphere was
>huge and everyman rap existed in a totally different universe
>than Mainstream rap.
Both of these groups had huge skate/emo followings and more importantly indy rock/emo/alt influences.
Atmos - I remembered interviewing them boys during the 1st record, before Eyedea won that truck on HBO - they wasn't on that same Hiero, Tribe, Gangstarr, Tried by 12, :Lace Da Booms, Shabaam Sadeeq. I got a miniDV of their first Austin show somewhere in the stacks.
El P - wasn't on his rock star shit back then, but the other artists on rawkus were just about flipping nouns and verbs as opposed to ki's and birds.
That underground was about battle rapping over primo-esque chops and breaks that Diamond D or Pete Rock might have used. You found more introspection on a Tupac record.
For every Murs, there were a lots of Mike Zoots and J-Treds.
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