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Underground Hip Hop Archive
Okwerdz and Illmaculate
The Home Grown Tour featuring Okwerdz and Grayspace popped off last night in Oregon City, OR. It was a dope show with more than a few surprises. First and foremost was the unexpected appearance of battle rap super star Illmaculate. He jumped up on stage for a large part of Okwerdz set and did some dope freestyles over the live band performance of Greyspace. We’ll cover that more later but first, the second big surprise.
T-Webb and Winkz
T-Webb and Winkz are two young up and coming Hip-Hop/R&B artists straight outta Estacada, OR. T-Webb and Winkz had a dope performance and brought out a huge crowd. I would have liked to see more of their fans sticking around and filling up the dance floor, but it is what it is. Props to T-Webb and Winkz, look to see them smashing it on a lot more shows in the future.
Greyspace
What is better than a dope live band with an ill emcee and a phenomenal guitar player who happens to also be a doctor? Not a whole lot in this cruel world, but Greyspace has that and more. Their performance was awesome, switching up their style on more than a few tracks to accommodate every musical preference in the building. Their Myspace categorization of Hip-Hop/Funk/Indie is a good indicator of their style and sound. Mad props to Greyspace, they killed it last night.
Okwerdz and Illmaculate
Okwerdz opened up his set with a song featuring Greyspace and then did a couple tracks with DJ Cuttah as accompaniment. All of those early tracks were sick but couldn’t really compare to what came next. Unannounced to anyone, Illmaculate was set to perform with Okwerdz. So Ok called him up mid set and spit some verses with Ill. They got the Greyspace band behind them and busted some sick 4 bar freestyles. It was a stellar performance. Props to Okwerdz for coming out and killing it less than 24 hours after doing a show in Reno, Nevada. Good luck to the rest of the Home Grown Tour, keep it crackin’. Big ups to Portland rap battle legend Illmaculate for coming out and showing the real heads some love.
More Shout Outs
Props to ourselves for killing it. Dru, Flawless, Damian Grey and DJ Cuttah (Bad Habitat) rocked the show with one of the dopest performances of the night. Props to Sawb 1 for collaborating with us on the planning and coordinating of the event. Big ups to all the fans and real hip hop heads that came out to Oregon City on a Saturday Night.
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Grind Time – Illmaculate Battles
Grind Time Now
From the best of Grind Time Now featuring Illmaculate, world famous battle emcee. Props to Illmac, dude deserves the props he gets. He is a mad ill battle emcee. Props to Grind Time Now for snagging him up and keeping dude.
Grind Time Now Presents
Another dope Illmaculate battle from Grind Time Now on Youtube. No question Illmaculate is a premier battle rapper. Watch the video and check out the Grind Time Now website at www.grindtimenow.com
Grind Time Northwest
Grind Time Northwest is super ill with dudes like Illmaculate killin it in the ring. Grind Time Now has been hittin it hard for a long time now and is currently growing even bigger. Grind Time Now is by far the biggest rap battle league on the planet. Featuring some of the worlds top battle emcees like Illmaculate, Grind Time Now has attracted high caliber battles emcees from all over the United States.
Underground Hip Hop videos brought to you by Bad Habitat of Surreal Music. Bad Habitat are Northwest Hip Hop. Also check out the latest on WSHH and Grind Time Battles. We got the latest and hottest videos from World Star Hip Hop aka WSHH.
Thanks for coming through and visiting the site, I (Mindskillz) hope you enjoyed this post about Grind Time Now and the dope emcee battles going down in the Northwest hip hop scene. Grind Time Now is big in the Northwest and with Illmaculate heading up the show it has got a lot of recognition from the jump. Grind Time Now Northwest is dope for sure and I hope you come back for more Grind Time Now videos. Bookmark the site using one of the bookmark links below. Peace
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Okwerdz – Portland Hip Hop
Surreal Music and Underrated Favorites Present
Okwerdz & Greyspace
The “Home Grown Tour” Tour
At Rodders Pub
19195 S Molalla Ave
Oregon City, OR 97045
July 31st 2010
Featuring Performances By: Jon The Baptist, Bad Habitat, Diction One, V!RTU, Northorn Lights and more.
$6 Cover – 21+
Doors Open @ 8PM – Show Starts @ 9PM
This show is going to be crazy. I have been working on using Facebook ads to promote the show. And while it has been somewhat expensive I believe that I am able to reach more people who would like to go to the show than with more traditional methods like putting flyers on cars or putting up posters around town.
Check out all the different versions of the flyer I did recently.
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge
Okwerdz
Okwerdz is a fresh coast battle emcee who has been grinding hard on the rap battle scene for a long time now. Okwerdz is regarded as one of the top 10 battle emcees in the world. Okwerdz has been killin emcees in the Grind Time Now rap battle league since it started back in the day. His most notorious battles have been vs T-Rex and Hollow Da Don, two of the dopest battle emcees in Grind Time Now league. The Okwerdz vs T-Rex battle can be seen in a previous post on Bad Habitat Music. Also the Okwerdz vs Hollow Da Don battle has been previously posted on our site.
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Warped Tour 2010 Lineup
The Vans Warped Tour 2010 featuring performances by winners of Battle of the Bands 14
There are a lot of bands in the lineup for the 2010 Vans Warped Tour. Some of them are a little better known than others but all of them are worthy of performing on this stage. The Battle of the Bands competition awards local bands the opportunity to perform on the Warped Tour along side some of the newest up and coming bands in the United States. From Florida to Southern California, Montreal, Canada to Portland, Oregon the Warped Tour has a stacked lineup of quality acts.
Click Here to see the full 2010 Vans Warped Tour Lineup
- 3OH!3
- 5606
- After Midnight Project
- Agent Orange
- Alamance
- Alesana
- Alkaline Trio
- AM Taxi
- American Sixgun
- Anarbor
- Andrew W.K.
- Angry Samoans
- Anti-Flag
- April Chase
- Artist Vs Poet
- Assorted Jelly Beans
- Attack Attack
- Automatic Loveletter
- Beacher’s Madhouse
- Big D and the Kids Table
- Brass Tackz
- Breathe Carolina
- Breathe Electric
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Burning Empires
- Call The Cops
- Callback California
- Chase Long Beach
- Closure in Moscow
- Cobra Skulls
- Columbyne
- Conditions
- Confide
- Crookedhook
- Deals Gone Bad
- Deas Vail
- Death Punch
- Dickies
- Dinner And A Suit
- Dirty Little Rabbits
- Disco Curtis
- DIVE
- Dropkick Murphys
- Drowning Scarlett
- Dustin Jones and The Rising Tide
- Echo Movement
- Eddie Rap Life
- Emarosa
- Emmure
- Enter Shikari
- Ever Since
- Everclear
- Every Time I Die
- Eyes Set To Kill
- Face To Face
- Fake Problems
- Far From Finished
- FEAR
- Fight Fair
- Fit For Rivals
- Flatfoot 56
- Four Year Strong
- FunkyJahPunkys
- Gardening Not Architecture
- GBH
- Go Action Team
- GOGO13
- Green Jelly
- HaSkaLA
- Haste The Day
- Hey Monday
- His Name Was Iron
- Hollywood Heartthrob
- Hope For AM
- Hot Chelle Rae
- Hounds and Harlots
- I Can Make A Mess Like Nobodys Business
- I See Stars
- Ice Nine Kills
- In Fear and Faith
- Ionia
- ivy league
- iwrestledabearonce
- Jack Grisham and the West Coast Dukes
- Kaile Goh
- Kallahan
- Kelsey And The Chaos
- Knock-Out
- Last Call Chernobyl
- Left Alone
- Letters Burning
- Longway
- Lovers Drugs
- Manic Hispanic
- Maxwell Smart
- Mayday Parade
- Me Talk Pretty
- Medium Troy
- Middle Finger Salute
- Mike Posner
- Monkey
- Motion City Soundtrack
- Motionless In White
- Mr Fork In The Eye
- Natural High
- Neo Geo
- NeverShoutNever
- New Years Day
- Of Mice and Men
- Our Last Night
- OUTERNATIONAL
- Parkway Drive
- Passafire
- Pennywise
- Pierce The Veil
- Polar Bear Club
- Reel Big Fish
- Riverboat Gamblers
- Set Phasers To Stun
- Set Your Goals
- ShiraGirl
- Shorelines End
- SKRILMO
- Sparks The Rescue
- Speakeasy Tiger
- Spider Rockets
- Spinlight City
- Street Sweeper Social Club
- Streetlight Manifesto
- Suicide Silence
- Sum 41
- Swingin Utters
- Terrible Things
- Tess Dunn
- Testing For Echo
- The Adolescents
- The All-American Rejects
- The B Foundation
- The Banana Convention
- The Bots
- The Bouncing Souls
- The Cab
- The Casualties
- The Chase
- The Darlings
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- The Downtown Fiction
- The Early Strike
- The Fabulous Rudies
- The Flatliners
- The Frantic
- The Goodbye Soundscape
- The Impalers
- The Jukebox Romantics
- The Mighty Regis
- The Mission District
- The New Cities
- The Pretty Reckless
- The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
- The Rocket Summer
- The Scary Mondelos
- The Skank Agents
- The Snips
- The Sparring
- The Summer Set
- The Swellers
- The Untouchables
- The Uptones
- The Upwelling
- The Voodoo Glow Skulls
- The Word Alive
- The Yellow Team
- This Time Next Year!
- Tip The Van
- Tomorrows Bad Seeds
- Trial By Combat
- TUGBOAT
- vanna
- VersaEmerge
- Victory In Numbers
- Volcanoless In Canada
- Walk Off The Earth
- We Are The In Crowd
- We The Kings
- Whitechapel
- You Me At Six
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Battle of the Bands Warped Tour
Battle of the Bands 14
Bad Habitat is in the running for the contest to decide who will perform at the Vans Warped Tour 2010 in Hillsboro on the Battle of the Bands Showcase. We need your help so visit the Battle of the Bands website and vote for us. Its gonna be a great show so make sure you vote and we will see you there.
Vans Warped Tour 2010
The Warped Tour has been touring for years, bringing music and extreme sports to people nationwide. The tour is held in venues such as parking lots, outdoor venues, fairgrounds, parks or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected. The BMX/skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans, among others, has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, and it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour. The tour started out as a showcase for punk rock music, but its more recent line-ups have featured a diversity of genres. Click here for a full list of the Vans Warped Tour Lineup.
Battle of the Bands 14
Below is a little bit of background information about the Battle of the Bands Competition from wikipedia. Also included below is an excerpt about the contest directly from their website which has information about signing up for the Battle of the Bands 14 and how the contest works.
Battle of bands is a contest in which many bands, usually rock/guitar bands but often from a range of different styles, compete for the title of “best band”. The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or a combination. The winning band usually receives a prize in addition to bragging rights. Prizes usually include cash, free recording time in a local recording studio, support or main slot at a local or large gig, a piece of new equipment, or a gift certificate.
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Grind Time Now Presents: Rheteric vs Knowshun
Grind Time Now Presents
Rheteric vs Knowshun
A battle from the debut of GTMW sub-division in Minneapolis, MN featuring Rheteric and Knowshun, two dope battle rappers. Rheteric is a little more well known on the battle rap scene and he has earned his rep as a dope battle emcee. Knowshun, while having a less powerful following is deserving of all the respect he has gotten and some. Dudes are both sick. Rheteric hit Knowhun with dope punchlines and vice versa. You gotta see this one, another dope emcee battle out of Grind Time Midwest. Props to the Minnieapolis sub-division. Props to Grind Time Now and props to Rheteric and Knowshun for putting on a dope show.
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WSHH – ACE HOOD FEAT. PLIES – STRESSIN’
ACE HOOD FEAT. PLIES – STRESSIN’
Ace hood stressin’ featuring Plies (he not in the vid tho) directed by Walk-d
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Best Underground Rap Artists
Best Underground Rappers
The Following list is featured in the video above. By no means is this an official list of the best underground rappers. And it is not a Best Underground Rappers of All Time list. Some of the cats in the list are less known but most definitely deserve to be on this list of top underground hip hop artists. Some artists have multiple songs on this list also. I hope you find some new underground hip hop artists by reading this and watching the video. Expand your repertoire and mind frame by absorbing some new conscious hip hop.
Aesop Rock – Daylight
Ariano – R.I.P To The Radio
Atmosphere – Smart Went Crazy
Brother Ali – Self Taught
Cormega – Distributing It
Cunning Linguists – Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts
East Coast Avengers – East Coast Avenge
Del The Funkee Homosapien – Clint Eastwood
King Syze – Nonbelievers
Louis Logic – Rock(Remix)
MC Chris – Hijack
Murs – Everything
Swollen Members – Pressure
Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: Army of the Pharaohs – Dump The Clip
Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: Army of the Pharaohs – Seven
Zion I – Trigger
Zion I – Takeover
Best Underground Hip Hop of 2008
Check out these underground hits from 2008. There are some real dope tracks up in there. Its worth it to check em all out.
Top 20 Underground Rap Songs
Below is a list of Top 20 Underground Rap Songs from the video above. There are some real good cuts in there. I for one don’t agree with the ICP track. I don’t like ICP and don’t think they deserve to be ranked among some of the other top 20 underground rap songs on this list. It is by no means an official list. It is just a list that someone decided to post on Youtube that I thought you all might find interesting. Post your top 20 below in the comment section.
ICP – Hokus Pokus
The Literates – Graff Life
Demigodz – Empire Strikes Back
Psychopathic Rydaz – Time 2 Ride
Jedi Mind Tricks – Untitled
Immortal Technique – Leaving The Past
Fort Minor and Celph Titled – S.C.O.M.
Necro – Who’s Your Daddy?
Jedi Mind Tricks – Raw is War
Jedi Mind Tricks Presents: Army of The Pharaohs – All Shall Perish
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Jake One and FREEWAY New Album”The Stimulus Package”
FREEWAY speaks about album w/ JAKE ONE
“The Stimulus Package”
Freeway & Jake One
“Know What I Mean” Music Video
First official video from Freeway & Jake One’s album “The Stimulus Package”
Featuring: Freeway, Jakk Frost, Statik Selektah, Hollewood Playboi & Clemmye
Director: Rik Cordero
Producer: Mike Fox
Cinematograper: Ryo Murakami
Prod Co: Three/21 Films
“Hands On” from The Stimulus Package album
Freeway & Jake One
Freeway & Jake One went all out with this package: 4 Freeway Bills, 4 Jake One Bills, with lyrics and liner notes on the backsides, a wallet to stuff them into, plus a download card with the Instrumentals. This unique package was put together by Hip-hop’s Iconic Designer, Brent Rollins.
Jake One
Seattle super producer and self proclaimed “great beat writer” Jake One steps from behind the boards to present his own debut full-length album, White Van Music. Polishing his production chops over the last decade, Jake One has crafted the musical soundscapes for everyone from De La Soul(“Rock Co.Kane Flow” feat. MF DOOM) to 50 Cent (“All Of Me” feat. Mary J. Blige). With an impressive and diverse discography Jake One has managed to bring his sound from the underground to the Billboard Top 10 charts.
Featuring an engaging cast of emerging underground artists as well as some of Hip Hop’s most respected mainstream acts, Jake One’s White Van Music will blur the so called lines between underground and mainstream Hip Hop… just as his stellar production career has.
About Jake One
Jacob Dutton, better known as Jake One, is an American hip hop record producer from Seattle, Washington.
Dutton grew up in Capitol Hill and moved to the North End of Seattle when he was 15. He started making music on a Casio keyboard in 1992. He attended the University of Washington and gave a tape of his music to a friend who worked in a local record store. One of the store’s other employees, the DJ Mr. Supreme heard the tape, and when he set up his Conception Records label, he used Dutton to create backing tracks.[2] The first record he produced was Eclipse’s “World Premier”. His early influences included Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Marley Marl.
He was a part of the G-Unit production team, The Money Management Group. He is now under Dr. Dre’s production team as of late 2008.
His first album credited to Jake One, White Van Music, was release on October 7, 2008 on Rhymesayers Entertainment, which features contributions from Brother Ali, Young Buck, De La Soul, M.O.P., Freeway, MF DOOM, Slug, and Keak Da Sneak.
He has had tracks included on the soundtracks to films such as Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (50 Cent’s “I Don’t Know Officer”), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (“Jake Alert”), and Gone Baby Gone.
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More 2MEX Music Videos
Abstract Rude, Slug, Eyedea, Busdriver, LMNO, 2Mex, Xololanxinxo & DJ Rettmattic – Frisbee
This is a dope underground hiphop track from a grip of dudes. LMNO and Abstract Rude are tight as hell. 2Mex is the man of course, holding down the west coast.
2mex “Dreaming Under Pressure”
I’m not sure if this is the official 2mex music video or if it is a fan video but its ill either way. The song is spliced with scenes from Bruce Lee films and other old school movies. Either way this is another dope 2mex music video
Nobody feat. 2 Mex – Shades of Orange
Shades of Orange EP
Catskills Records
2001
First heard this off an URB sampler CD. Nice bit of downtempo SoCal hiphop. 2mex is a real cool emcee.
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Mixtape Project V4
Mixtape News
Massive hiphop mixtape project including the following contributors.
Olskool4Real, Tapemasta, Brandan, DJ Books, Gildog, Roree, Mike, DJ Pos2, DJ StepOne, Andyman187, Hevehitta, DJ Unexpected, Dynamic Hamza, DJ Manifest, DJ Marioka, Bzrwon, Vas, Jamo, The Supreme Unknown, DJ Broxy B, DJ King Flow, Swot Team (Mista Sweet & DJ Knowledge), Pipomixes, Sugichefz, 238Beats, Mixtapes Do Exist Project, Gilbert, DJ ReMike, Sparkle Motion, DJ Ideal, Jamo, Jayrocc, DJ Irie, Deams & everybody i forgot.
DJ BOOKS – BIG L RIP – Yo check out this mixtape. It comes highly recommended from OriginalHipHop.Blogspot.com contributor. By the way that website is great for finding new underground mixtapes…
HipHop Album Art
What’s going on everybody, this is Shod Harris with Mic Fiend Promotions. I didn’t think after the first column that I would get another chance to write another column, but since people are still giving me the chance to continue this …
The Grouch
“Simple Man”
Another dope track from Underground HipHop artist The Grouch. This one is titled “Simple Man” and its your typical fresh Grouch track with ill lyrics and unique beat.
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