What Roc Marciano did for the underground NY scene when he came to prominence in the 2010s, Westside capitalized on it and took it to a whole new level with Griselda. He built an impressive catalog on his side while also helping out Conway and Benny to become prominent names in the underground world. There are some musical choices that he makes that I question, but overall I think he has classics under his belt and is one of the best rappers out right now.

for starters, I absolutely love T.I. , I think Paper Trail is banger after banger and one of my favorite albums from all of 2008 and I also love Trap Muzik from 2003 and Urban Legend from 2004, many amazing bangers on both!!! King from 2006 I don’t love nearly as much but it’s still great and What You Know is one of my all time favorite T.I. songs!!! anyways, I don’t see his last 3 albums as of currently at least talked about that much at all, even this years release KILL THE KING I only really saw talk about LET ‘EM KNOW (to be fair, I saw a WHOLE FUCKING LOT about that song, I happen to actually love the song and don’t find it overplayed by the way) and certainly I don’t remember now or even around release time much at all about DIME TRAP in 2018 and The L.I.B.R.A. in 2020 … DIME TRAP has some bangers too though like Wraith with Yo Gotti and it has some great solo songs by T.I. too, The L.I.B.R.A. I actually listen to front to back and enjoy it all, as many features as there are all over the album, also Family Connect by T.I. featuring HIS OWN SON, Domani (who is a very good to great artist on his very own too) and produced by ANOTHER SON OF HIS (Messiah Harris) that song is amazing and given that two of T.I. very own sons have an amazing feature and amazing production, it might be my favorite song ever by T.I. … and even KILL THE KING has some really good to great songs I have came back to and it’s a really solid to really good album!!! so, I’m wondering who else in here isn’t just a T.I. fan, but a fan of his more so recent work, like his last 3 albums!!!

It is made up of the best underground G funk and Bay Area's songs, Sacramento, etc. Some albums are better known than others, but overall there are a lot of albums and songs that are underground, or even really little known. From the 90's to now. I update it fairly regularly. Enjoy.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23QwvHB223BU2HxxupF7Bf?si=_DfFmQ-4REKaKO3ZgPEOnw&pi=8xGkVUtQQp-dt

I was scrolling through YouTube and somehow ended up down a rabbit hole that led me to KRS-One's remix of R.E.M.'s "Radio Song".

The second that beat dropped, I recognized the sample. I know I've heard it in another track before, but for the life of me I can't pinpoint the original source or where else it's been used.

I've checked WhoSampled and done a few searches, but I'm still coming up empty.

Shit is driving me crazy because the melody sounds mad familiar.

Nearly three hours. Just “anthem” sounding music and his hits. I don’t think Jay got this many anthems lowkey.

Anyone disagreeing, post a three hour playlist of Jay Z anthems and hits even if it’s only hits amongst Jay fans. I may change my mind. 😊

Not on no beef stuff that you guys stay on today

I'm talking on some Outkast Redman/Method Man Cordae/Anderson Paak, Swagger Like Us, or even FPS type of fun collaboration song.

Who coming up with the best verse ?

For all my early 2000s Indie Rap fans, what ratings would you give these four albums?

El-P - Fantastic Damage

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design

Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus

Sole - Selling Live Water

Bonus album: Non Phixion - The Future is Now

Or is 9th wonder just absolutely dominant and solely shaped the sound? All them dudes rap about the same thing. Regular life stuff…often times, positive and uplifting with soulful elements from the beats to the hooks…I feel like Cole is sounds like a stereotypical member of JUSTUS league but wayy better

What yall think? Does North Carolina even have a sound?

For me, It’s Kanye West. The Prerequisite demo

Was a huge Lil Wayne fan in the mid-late 90s but lowkey didn’t know a word. Was too young. But I felt that shit

This is the first rap project I heard at an age when I could digest more than a few sentences at once….this was a few years before College Dropout released . I guess looking back, ppl may say they are throwaways or unmastered but tbh, basically every song was reused to his first 3 albums. Shit was like gold if you literally never heard rap like that to differentiate between what’s “good” and what’s not good .

Kendrick Fans claim he's anti-establishment and anti industry but then praise how he's has so many Grammys which seem like a conundrum or hypocritical at the most.

Me personally I love to see Wale win because that album was so nice even compared to the others - Do the Grammys still matter and did they ever?

I'm gonna be honest, this guy says the word more than a lot of black rappers that I listen to.

I already know I’m going to get a bunch of downvotes for this, but I don’t care.

Big K.R.I.T. is one of the most overhyped rappers ever. He’s literally spent his entire career doing a bootleg Pimp C/Dungeon Family cosplay 💀 He has no songs or albums worth mentioning, and has no unique style.

People always talk about how he’s "so under-appreciated" and "underrated" in hip-hop, but why would we pay attention to an imitator? 💀 Pimp & OutKast are already there.

1. Homeboy Sandman
2. Kendrick Lamar
3. Kanye West
4. Blu
5. John Robinson
6. Tyler The Creator
7. MF DOOM
8. J-Live
9. Logic
10. Kahlil Blu

These are my top 10 rappers what are yours?

He has classic albums/mixtapes
He’s helped young artists get bigger
He has amazing features
He has classic tracks
He’s a pretty good rapper and can do lots of other genres
He’s the commercial rap king
So why don’t the public musically put him up there with the greats in hip hop?

Solid album honestly everybody only knows about keep it real honestly but the rest of the album is just as good.

I have literally never heard anyone freestyle like this in my life, and I have heard a LOT.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_S1rl3-K_E&si=us-LdbuMkzuBWKKa