Dj Soops NeoSoul: THE ESSENTIAL 20 UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP ALBUMS YOU NEED IN YA LIFE!!

Monday, 28 November 2011

THE ESSENTIAL 20 UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP ALBUMS YOU NEED IN YA LIFE!!

Ok, so I've done an essential Top 20 Neo-Soul Album list already, so it was inevitable that Hip-Hop had its turn. So I thought what better place to start for inspiration at DJ Maintain's spot. We both appreciate good Hip-Hop music and we both came up on the Grandmasters: Technics 1210/1200s.
Big up DJ Maintain for that amazing set. I need to study them cuts Son!!!
In no particular order here is my 'Essential 20 Underground Hip-Hop Albums':

1. Black milk - Popular Demand
2. Median - The Sender
3. Slum Village - Detroit deli
4. Blu & Exile - Heavens below
5. Fashawn - Boy meets World
6. Phonte - Charity starts at Home
7. kendrick lemaar - Overly Dedicated
8. Skyzoo - The Salvation
9. Little Brother - The Listening
10. Black Milk - Black & Brown (E.P)
11. J Dilla - Welcome to Detroit
12. Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
13. Dela Soul - The Grind Date
14. Elzhi - Elmatic
15. Buckshot & 9th Wonder - Chemistry
16. E.M.C - The Show
17. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
18. Pete Rock - Soul Survivor
19. Common - Like Water for Chocolate
20. Q Tip - Amplified

....of course there's so many I left out but these are my personal favourites.

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Sereneb129 November 2011 10:03
nice list!! there are a couple of albums i am gonna need to grab...happy to see Detroit being represented on the list...SUPER NICE!!
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What is Neo-Soul?

Neo soul (also known as nu soul) is a musical genre of the late 1990s and early 2000s that fuses contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul, classical music, jazz, and elements of alternative-hip hop. It is the third major sub-genre of contemporary R&B, after the new jack swing of the late 1980s to early/mid 1990s and the hip hop soul of the mid to late 1990s. The "neo soul" term, originated by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Records in the late-1990s, is sometimes looked upon with disdain as nothing more than a marketing specialization of contemporary R&B instead of an honest revival of soul music. This is because most of the people who record in the genre and listen to it tend to be anti-mainstream preferring that the music favor underground credibility and soulfulness over mainstream popularity.

Early works

The genre is considered to have originated with the work of Raphael Saadiq's band Tony! Toni! Toné! in the mid-1990s, but the term began to surface after the release of singer Joi's debut album Pendulum Vibe which contained elements of early 70s style arrangements along with Rock style elements. it resurfaced with D'Angelo's 1995 LP Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar featured elements of classic soul, inspired by artists such as Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway (both keyboardists, as is D'Angelo), that had not been regularly seen in modern African-American mainstream music since the mid-1980s. Also, in 1995 came the work of a duo called Groove Theory, which included the members Amel Larrieux, the singer and Bryce Wilson, the rapper/singer/producer/actor. In 1997, Motown artist Erykah Badu released her debut LP, Baduizm, the success of which paved the way for new Motown chief Kedar Massenburg to shift the direction of much of the company's output towards Badu's style, which he dubbed neo-soul. The first soul revival artist to make a major impact on the mainstream was Lauryn Hill, whose 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill LP was a critical and commercial smash and garnered five Grammy Awards.

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http://www.paxstereo.tv/neosoul.htm

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THE ESSENTIAL 20 UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP ALBUMS YOU NEED IN YA LIFE!!

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