Originally Posted by FilthyFletch

Im not from either coast and I can listen to underground freestyles and freestyle sessions all day..wait I do lol.You can judge an emcee within the first few bars they spit.If they come with a car rim reference,bitches,bling,money,or Im so hard then I stop them right in the middle of the first 4 bars.What makes underground underground is that its too deep for the average little weezy or TI listener.It has thought into it and shows the skill of knowing how to twist the english (or other) language using similies and metophoric comparison. Its not a bragging part but a personal story via the eyes of an emcee who then uses his words to paint a perfect cerebral picture for the listener.Im a little older now at just turning 32 so I grew up in hip hops hay days of creation in the early 80s and late 70s as a youngster.I ve watched it grow and get rapped by the major labels and have seen the 2 mainstream radio stations which are evergreen and clear channel force music into a pay for play situation. The majors now whine about how the internet has killed off sales of music which is a big bag of crap . The issue was they forced a single media format on people then dropped all the other forms that were maing a difference.You had cassettes, vinyl,cd,and mp3 digital music. They killed casettes,most vinyl and forced people to only digital or cd music so they cut they own profit and now if you look they dont even use any advertising dollars like they did.they think pop up ads on the net is all they need. I remember Tuesday new releases.Posters,tv ads, radio ads, cut outs, promo shows..They stopped all that but in the underground you get all that good stuff without the bloat.Hell we just had Master Ace and boot camp out here for a show and at $15 a ticket sold out a 2000 person set in less then 3 days...I like the purity and the skills and production thats more then a simple 808 or casio keyboard loop.Show me some breaks and switch ups a good sample chop and some jazzy horns.