top 10 underground albums ever.

Give me yours. I'll be back with mine later but i know these will make it in somewhere:

Blu & Exile "Below The Heavens"
Deltron 3030-not really underground but not really mainstream either.
Blue Scholars "Long march ep'
Company Flow 'Fancrusher Plus"

Have to think about the rest.

what qualifies for underground?

Can say a Shad - The Old Prince qualify being canadian?

Or a Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez?

What about Cormega? Screwball? Count Bass D?

Not in any particular order.....

One Be Lo- SONOGRAM
Deltron 3030
Binary Star- Masters Of The Universe
EMC- The Show
Tanya Morgan- Brooklynati
Blu & Exile- Below The Heavens
Vakill- Worst Fears Confirmed
Madvillian- Madvillany
Akrobatik- Absolute Value
People Under The Stairs- O.S.T.

SRP, i actually think all of them would classify as underground. That 3-6 was before they blew up. Kind of the same way i would almost consider Master P's first album underground.

Man, this will be very hard then...gotta balance all these underground albums...what bout Jedi Mind Tricks?

Hell yes JMT are underground.

Dope list KJ. That Vakill would be a darkhorse for me as well.

I'm having trouble finding time to do mine. 3 kids running around screaming and wife gone to work. Can't wait til school starts. My days off are more stressful than being at work lol.

No order...

Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Madvillain - Madvillainy

1. Section 8 Mob- Controlled Dangerous Substance
2. Blu & Exile- Below The Heavens
3. Willie D- Controversy
4. K-Rino- Stories From The Blackbook
5. Point Blank- N-Tha-Do'
6. Terrorists- Detonate The Landmines
7. Reks- Grey Hairs
8. 5th Ward Boyz- Ghetto Dope
9. Hi-C- Hi Life Hustle
10. Brother Ali- The Undisputed Truth

Their are multiple albums for some of the same artists but I only listed one a piece to save room for others. I know there are some missing but the above are some of my fav's.

nice list K Rob. That Reks will probably make mine too just beating out Wise Intelligent. Still sleeping on K Rino. I have "Blood Doctrine", "Triple Darkness Vol. 1", and "Stories from The Black Book" on my Amazon wish list but they all cost a little too much. Triple Darkness is down under $9.00 now so i may go ahead and get it.

Section 8 Mob? Were they kind of like Trinity Garden Cartel, i think i had that album back in the day.

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nice list K Rob. That Reks will probably make mine too just beating out Wise Intelligent. Still sleeping on K Rino. I have "Blood Doctrine", "Triple Darkness Vol. 1", and "Stories from The Black Book" on my Amazon wish list but they all cost a little too much. Triple Darkness is down under $9.00 now so i may go ahead and get it.

Section 8 Mob? Were they kind of like Trinity Garden Cartel, i think i had that album back in the day.

thanks man. Glad to see you showing Reks some luv and why don't you just download some of those Rino albums until later?

Section 8 Mob are outta Washington D.C. and they had a southern/east coast gangsta/hardcore sound. Real dope album. It was 4 rappers in the grp and one was female.

It would take days for me to come up with just 10...

This wasn't very easy.

In no order:

1) Slaine - White Man Is THe Devil, Vol 2: Citizen Caine
2) Def 3 & Moka Only - Dog River
3) Immortal Technique - Revolutionary, Vol 2
4) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (The culmination and perfection of what began with Company Flow)
5) Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
6) Vakill - Worst Fears Confirmed (just lately gaining favor over Darkest Cloud)
7) RA Rugged Man - Die, Rugged Man, Die!
CunninLynguists - Southernunderground
9) Rodan - Theophany: The Book Of Elevation
10) Blu & Mainframe - Johnson & Jonson (I know I'm solo on this pick, but in my listening, it belongs top 10)


A list of the albums that made this so difficult:

JMT - Legacy Of Blood
AOTP - Torture Papers
Sunz Of Man - The Last Shall Be First
Invincible - Shapeshifters
Sonic Sum - Sanity Annex
LCOB - Equividium
Megalon - Penny For Your Thoughts
Binary Star - Waterworld
Apathy - Eastern Philosophy
J Live - All Of THe Above
Vakill - Darkest Cloud
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Nine - Cloud 9
Oktober - Art Of Raw
Q Unique - Vengeance Is Mine
Somobe - Great Communication
Demigodz - The Godz Must Be Crazy EP
Ill Bill - What's Wrong With Bill?
Shabazz The Disciple - Book Of Shabazz
Shad - The Old Prince
Smut Peddlers - Porn Again

I would also like to note that, while K Rino is easily one of my top 10 emcees, I don't hear an album to class with these (personally). I just dl'd Stories From The Black Book, though, and it seriously sounds like a contender on the first couple spins.

I don't know why the smiley dropped instead of the number eight. I'll try again: 8

Madvillain-Madvillainy
Cunninlynguists-A Piece of Strange
Little Brother-The Listening
Cannibal Ox-The Cold Vein
Sean Price-Monkey Barz
Blu & Exile-Below the Heavens
Souls of Mischief-93 Til Infinity
Black Moon-Enta Da Stage (if that counts)
Non-Phixion-The Future is Now
Chino XL-Here to Save You All (if that counts)
Ras Kass-Soul on Ice
GZA-Grandmasters
La the Darkman-Heist of the Century

Shit it looks like I need to get that Vakill huh

ive only been telling everyone for fifteen years

Lol man I buy most of my shit I'm low on dough right now. But I checked out some tracks on youtube and they were very good, especially Serpent and the Rainbow and Sickplicity

Both of those are my jam.

Triple J-MLK BLVD
Triple J-My Addictions
Grandaddy Souf-Da Drought
Trick Daddy-Based On a True Story

....a few slept on Florida underground classics

Let me add:
Showbiz & AG-Goodfellas