angels with dirty faces Hip Hop, Underground Hip Hop Forget about the
fact that their name is taken from a Tricky album.
Angels With Dirty Faces may be abstract, out there and
slightly under the influence, but they stay true to hip hop.
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ClokWorx Underground Hip Hop These
timely heads rock ridiculous over tight beats and have
performed with Lyricist Lounge. This is hot.
Zoid & Krom Underground Hip-Hop These
beats are hot! The rhymes are old-school, but who cares?
Some seriously fresh, funky tracks out of the UK.
Divine Styler Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop The legendary
abstract conscious emcee who brought you "Ain't Sayin'
Nothing" back in '89 returns with an Islamic outer-space
robot style.
Hip Hop, or rap
music began as a largely black, inner-city phenomenon of the
late 70s and early '80s. Hip-Hop was originally a strictly
live idiom, performed at clubs and parties (often illegally
thrown in NYC parks). Hip Hop today encompasses a number of
different styles and sub-genres
