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mrjjbobo:
Hey, I love indie music. The grittier, more untamed and more personal it is the more I love it. Maybe I'm not immensely esoteric in my knowlege of indie, but my listening spills out beyond mixes from the OC. That aside, there is also another part of my musical world, and that is the musical world of independent hip hop.

It is like indie music in a different genre, it is personal, but there's more. There's not much snobbery (unless you compare it to 50 cent or things like that) and there's just an overall feeling of community with it.

But this makes me an unwanted child in the music realm. My Hip Hop friends think that my indie stuff is no talent junk, and my indie friends think that my hip-hop is all about guns, women, and the ghetto. I assure you neither are true. I wanted to know if anyone else is in this wierd place, loving two great but different genres of music and because of it being shuned by both. I feel like it's the capulets and the montegues here.

Anyway, here's some examples of the indie hiphop I listen to (if you have good stuff I forget about list it, lets communicate on the subject)

Atmosphere
BluePrint
Brother Ali
Cage
Copywrite
The Crest
Cunninlynguists
Felt
Hangar 18
I self define
Lyrics Born
MF Doom
P.O.S.
Sage Francis
Tonedeff
Aesop Rock

anyways, if I'm not alone, post. Or if you hate it post. Lets just talk.

Storm Rider:

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Hangar 18

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The fact that there is an indie hip-hop group named after a Megadeth song makes me happy in ways I cannot express in words.

heretic:
you forgot
heiroglyphics (sp?)
the streets
jugganaughts (sp?)
Dizzee Rascal
blackalicious/ gift of gab

i went to this RJD2 show in NO last year and diplo and lyrics born were opening, i'd never heard of either of them, and diplo was pretty good, but LB stole the damn show. RJ was excellent but LB and his wife are amazing. (wierd thing was, for RJ's second encore, he played and sang a song on acoustic guitar)
saw LB again later that year, not as good, but his bassist was sick

Kid Modernist:
Hip hop annonymous?

I'd add Deltron 3030.

KharBevNor:
Isn't RJD2 more sort of instrumental trip-hoppy kind of stuff?

Also, seriously, why are all you indie kids so obsessed with The Streets? They're absolutely awful...I suppose it's just because you don't get the whole chav culture and whatnot, but they're a bloody banal, chavalicious crap heap. One of my favourite pieces of art on exhibition at my local art gallery is a Streets CD which has been sawed in half and mounted in a frame with 'Dry your eyes mate' written in board marker between the two halves.

Seriously though, they're like Goldie Lookin' Chain but without the 'being a joke' thing.

That said, you should all listen to more GLC. Even I like me some GLC.

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