The Political Underground

3 Comments Published by Brandon Ruiz on Monday, January 29 at 10:09 PM.

Today I was listening to music while reading for class and a song came up that made me lose concentration for its entire 3 minutes and 55 second duration and for the next twenty minutes while I looked up the artist. This is going to sound like a cheezy plug, but I think Immortal Technique is definitely a bright spot in America's increasingly mainstreamed hip hop subculture. There's something refreshing about hearing hip hop go back to its political and socially critical roots. It's full of profanity and big words meshed together in such a way that can just hear the frustration of a guy who's had it hard and is largely self-educated expressing his view of the world around him. So this was my brief plug for a favorite underground political artist, anyone in Urbanagoraland have any other personal favorites?

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3 Responses to “The Political Underground”

  1. # Blogger Brian 1/30/2007 9:15 AM

    I would highly recommend Atmosphere, who is wrong Minnesota and is wonderful.  

  2. # Blogger Brian 1/30/2007 2:31 PM

    I have no idea why I wrote "wrong" there. Clearly I meant "from."  

  3. # Blogger Colin 7/28/2007 11:46 PM

    A few more for you:
    Mischief Brew
    Youngblood brass Band
    and some of Master P's most recent work  

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