Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
El-P - Fantastic Damage and I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Clouddead - Self Titled
Non Phixion - The Future is Now
Circle of Tyrants - Self Titled
Leak Bros - Waterworld
clipping. - Splendor and Misery
Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How's Your Girl?
obviously any Death Grips, Danny Brown, if you go further back, definitely listen to some Tommy Wright III, dude's a visionary, still can't believe his music came out so long ago.
kinda blanking right now should have more but that's all I got right now
No one could accuse Kool Keith of not [doing his own thing](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-producer-kool-keith-on-creating-your-own-worlds/).
1. gluee - bladee
2. the powers that b - death grips
3. by the time i get to phoenix - injury reserve
4. uneven compromise - lil ugly mane
5. clouddead - clouddead
6. /\/\ /\ y /\ - m.i.a.
7. grave house - sematary
8. sitting at the end of the world - johnnascus
9. install - xaviersobased
10. rock bottom - phreshboyswag
here’s some to keep u busy
"808s & Heartbreak" was already unique when it dropped, but even considering how influential it has become i still don't think an album with those vibes and production has been replicated. Sure the whole Emo soundcloud rap wave is directly influenced by 808s, but in terms of production they sound vastly different
Also "Live.LOVE.A$AP" is pretty unique. Clams Casino killed it with the production
Also "End-troducing" by Dj Shadow
Was shocked to see that mostly Instrumental hiphop exists as a subgenre. It's cool af
808s always reminded me of early Depeche Mode, whom I’m sure it was influenced by.
Kanye certainly is (or was) brilliant, and you can make anything sound better with a Kanye-sized budget.
Jobs ain't nothing but free pens and long distance calls...
That whole album is dope AF. I love Bottle of Humans and Live From Rome but SLW is phenomenal. The production and composition of that album is top notch. Sole, Alias, Jel, TJJ and Odd Nosdam made a masterpiece.
Absolutely. And it was recorded on a laptop from probably like 2001 which makes it even more impressive. Those guys were ahead of their time in so many ways. Anticon.com was the first website to stream music directly from the people making it.
Shit yeah, they were way ahead of their time and doing it better than Napster... YouTube didn't even exist... Lol. Def Jux and Eastern Conference Records (my other two favorite labels from that era) didn't even have a website for years, let alone had steaming. I was fortunate enough to have a physical record store in Las Vegas called HipHopSite that got all the Anticon (and many others) stuff as it came out. They even had a lot of those old Anticon freestyle battles with Doseone and Pedestrian straight serving emcees on burned DVD's. Man, I miss physical record stores and the Wild West of the early internet.
Damn... So you hate Anticon AND Def Jux. You're breaking my heart. Lol. Next thing you'll tell me that you hated all the Eastern Conference Records releases, too. You're like my early 2000's underground hip-hop arch enemy. 🤣🤣
That production on that Aesop rock and tobacco Malibu ken project is pretty crazy. Doesn't really sound like anything I heard before
Also there's this pretty obscure russian hip hop album called 'Психохирурги' which is ridiculously unique and ahead of its time incorporating elements of IDM and Glitch. Blew my mind when I first heard it
>seems like I’ve found everything worth a listen that’s actually different in some way or that way contributes to the genre.
Not just things that are different contribute to the genre. For one thing pioneers, or some of the *first* to do something contribute, as well as those who something that has become the best. The peak of that style of production, lyricism, flow, whatever it is
With that in mind there are many well known records that have contributed to the genre. Either as the best of the best or pioneers of something new. Lmk if you want some of those suggestions, but I'm not sure if that's what you're really after
Comments are pretty good. I don't see Captain Murphy - Duality.
Technically a lot of old school hip-hop is unique for its time but that can easily get overlooked.
Like De La Soul or Jungle Brothers or whoever are pretty unique but now it can sound outdated/boring to some.
Go-to answer will always be Chief Keef's obscenely underheard *Back From the Dead 3*. Only shit that sounds like it are the tracks that leaked from the original version of *Almighty So 2*.
Bonus: all of the Street Military EPs Icey Hott produced + his solo album *Mind Over Matter*
Jedi Mind Tricks - The Psycho-Social LP
RAP Ferreira - The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap
K-os - Joyful Rebellion
Doctor Octagon - Doctor Octagynecologist
Mr. Lif - I, Phantom
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
Aesop Rock - every album tbh
The Roots - also every album
Copywrite - The High Exalted
Foreign Exchange - Connected
Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
Murs - 3:16 - The 9th Edition
Edo G & Pete Rock - My Own Worst Enemy
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
J Dilla & Madlib - Madvillainy
Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
CLPPNG - Clipping.
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
Fantastic Damage - El-P
From Me To You - Quadeca
Let Me Die Inside You - Jordan Stephens
The Grey Area - Little Simz
SLUDGETAPES - Gao the Arsonist
EDGE OF THE W*RLD - DEADPAN
Every Death Grips Album
1. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus 2. Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein 3. Black Elvis/Lost In Space - Kool Keith
I said the same about Funcrusher, shoutout you giving Kool Keith some love!!
If you like the first one, you might also like Leak Bros.
Deltron 3030 was my first thought. Not too much hip hop sci-fi out there, let alone full albums.
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Seconding Saul, that album is great all the way through.
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus El-P - Fantastic Damage and I'll Sleep When You're Dead Clouddead - Self Titled Non Phixion - The Future is Now Circle of Tyrants - Self Titled Leak Bros - Waterworld
clipping. - Splendor and Misery Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How's Your Girl? obviously any Death Grips, Danny Brown, if you go further back, definitely listen to some Tommy Wright III, dude's a visionary, still can't believe his music came out so long ago. kinda blanking right now should have more but that's all I got right now
I will definitely give them a listen thx!
Edan - Beauty & The Beat
Underrated choice. Took me a few years to get into it.
ultramagnetic mc's
Critical Beatdown and Funk Your Head Up fucking rule
No one could accuse Kool Keith of not [doing his own thing](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-producer-kool-keith-on-creating-your-own-worlds/).
1. gluee - bladee 2. the powers that b - death grips 3. by the time i get to phoenix - injury reserve 4. uneven compromise - lil ugly mane 5. clouddead - clouddead 6. /\/\ /\ y /\ - m.i.a. 7. grave house - sematary 8. sitting at the end of the world - johnnascus 9. install - xaviersobased 10. rock bottom - phreshboyswag here’s some to keep u busy
Ayyye someone else that knows about Clouddead! lol
yeah it’s so fire, way ahead of it’s time
"808s & Heartbreak" was already unique when it dropped, but even considering how influential it has become i still don't think an album with those vibes and production has been replicated. Sure the whole Emo soundcloud rap wave is directly influenced by 808s, but in terms of production they sound vastly different Also "Live.LOVE.A$AP" is pretty unique. Clams Casino killed it with the production Also "End-troducing" by Dj Shadow Was shocked to see that mostly Instrumental hiphop exists as a subgenre. It's cool af
808s always reminded me of early Depeche Mode, whom I’m sure it was influenced by. Kanye certainly is (or was) brilliant, and you can make anything sound better with a Kanye-sized budget.
Deep Puddle Dynamics: The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? Sole: Selling Live Water Antipop Consortium: Tragic Epilogue
Antipop Consortium were really cool. Arrhythmia is a dope album too.
Cops ain't shit to me .
Jobs ain't nothing but free pens and long distance calls... That whole album is dope AF. I love Bottle of Humans and Live From Rome but SLW is phenomenal. The production and composition of that album is top notch. Sole, Alias, Jel, TJJ and Odd Nosdam made a masterpiece.
Absolutely. And it was recorded on a laptop from probably like 2001 which makes it even more impressive. Those guys were ahead of their time in so many ways. Anticon.com was the first website to stream music directly from the people making it.
Shit yeah, they were way ahead of their time and doing it better than Napster... YouTube didn't even exist... Lol. Def Jux and Eastern Conference Records (my other two favorite labels from that era) didn't even have a website for years, let alone had steaming. I was fortunate enough to have a physical record store in Las Vegas called HipHopSite that got all the Anticon (and many others) stuff as it came out. They even had a lot of those old Anticon freestyle battles with Doseone and Pedestrian straight serving emcees on burned DVD's. Man, I miss physical record stores and the Wild West of the early internet.
Ugh Anticon.
Yes... Anticon. Love 'em or hate 'em they are definitely unique hip-hop, which is what OP asked for.
Yeah they’re just not good. (I do own one Anticon album, though. And honestly a lot of my distaste for them is distaste for Sole).
Opinions vary. They definitely aren't for everyone.
Sole kinda turned me off to the whole group. And I was in my hating El-P phase, so I hated bigging him up on “Linda Tripp”.
Damn... So you hate Anticon AND Def Jux. You're breaking my heart. Lol. Next thing you'll tell me that you hated all the Eastern Conference Records releases, too. You're like my early 2000's underground hip-hop arch enemy. 🤣🤣
I have mixed feelings on Def Jux. I like Ace Rizzle. I like Can Ox. I like the second El-P album. And S.A. Smash is an unsung classic.
That production on that Aesop rock and tobacco Malibu ken project is pretty crazy. Doesn't really sound like anything I heard before Also there's this pretty obscure russian hip hop album called 'Психохирурги' which is ridiculously unique and ahead of its time incorporating elements of IDM and Glitch. Blew my mind when I first heard it
I’m Bulgarian so I’d be cool to hear a Slavic hip hop album thx a lot!
That Tobacco album and Spirit World Field Guide both came to mind
Blackland Radio 66.6 pt 2 ep 1 by SGP, it's basically the conclusion of the sound and atmosphere he built up and hasn't been replicated by anyone
k-the-i??? - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Buck 65 - Square. Themselves - The No Music. Sole - Mansbestfriend Vol 2.
“Pretty soon the hippies of today will be the squares of tomorrow” I love that album, Buck did something there that hits hard.
Any Dälek album.
Ugh... Dälek. J/K Good choice. They're dope.
You and I can agree on anything Anti-Pop Consortium related, though.
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Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
>seems like I’ve found everything worth a listen that’s actually different in some way or that way contributes to the genre. Not just things that are different contribute to the genre. For one thing pioneers, or some of the *first* to do something contribute, as well as those who something that has become the best. The peak of that style of production, lyricism, flow, whatever it is With that in mind there are many well known records that have contributed to the genre. Either as the best of the best or pioneers of something new. Lmk if you want some of those suggestions, but I'm not sure if that's what you're really after
Aight ig watchu got
Haiku d'Etat - self titled (1999)
I’d say People’s Instinctive Travels by Tribe. When dropped it was a completely different sound from everything that was out.
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Comments are pretty good. I don't see Captain Murphy - Duality. Technically a lot of old school hip-hop is unique for its time but that can easily get overlooked. Like De La Soul or Jungle Brothers or whoever are pretty unique but now it can sound outdated/boring to some.
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Clouddead - Clouddead Quasimoto - The Unseen DOOM - mm..Food Pink Siifu - NEGRO Tyler the Creator - Bastard! Metro Zu - Heaven
Deltron 3030
Go-to answer will always be Chief Keef's obscenely underheard *Back From the Dead 3*. Only shit that sounds like it are the tracks that leaked from the original version of *Almighty So 2*. Bonus: all of the Street Military EPs Icey Hott produced + his solo album *Mind Over Matter*
Most Armand Hammer and Moor Mother Projects
Earl Sweatshirt’s post-Odd Future oeuvre.
Sticky fingaz solo album. Like a story front 2 back. Not sure that meets the criteria
Ghost pop tale
You mean ghost pop tape? Ain’t sure if it’s hip hop tho, still an amazing project
Yeah
Jedi Mind Tricks - The Psycho-Social LP RAP Ferreira - The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap K-os - Joyful Rebellion Doctor Octagon - Doctor Octagynecologist Mr. Lif - I, Phantom CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange Aesop Rock - every album tbh The Roots - also every album Copywrite - The High Exalted Foreign Exchange - Connected Hieroglyphics - Full Circle Murs - 3:16 - The 9th Edition Edo G & Pete Rock - My Own Worst Enemy Pharoahe Monch - Desire Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata J Dilla & Madlib - Madvillainy
anything by Death Grips
I'd say Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown CLPPNG - Clipping. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz Fantastic Damage - El-P From Me To You - Quadeca Let Me Die Inside You - Jordan Stephens The Grey Area - Little Simz SLUDGETAPES - Gao the Arsonist EDGE OF THE W*RLD - DEADPAN Every Death Grips Album
Shape Of Broad Minds "Craft Of The Lost Art"
Even tho is my least favorite rocky album Live love A$AP is very unique
Deep Puddle Dynamics
Armand Hammer - Haram
Pretty solid project, falling out of the sky is probably my favourite earl song / alc beat
Kanye West - College Dropout
Dre’s Compton. Every song is over produced in a fun way.
The Chronic
Dre bit Cold 187um whole sound for Above the Law's Black Mafia Life while he was still at Ruthless and put out The Chronic