it's kinda lame that most people here aren't familiar with 90s to 00s underground hip-hop because its such an original genre and stuf, and there was a lot of dope music that came out of it.

aesop rock, vast aire, mr lif, el-p, blockhead, etc.

one of the goat labels and i like that era el-p way better than this rtj era

Pitchfork's Def Jux Presents III review is one of the funniest reviews ive ever read

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1873-definitive-jux-presents-iii

oh s*** they edited the part where el-p calls camu the nword lmao

I like def jux but at this point you just gotta admit there was a reason they were practically invisible in the grand scheme of things

at least the entire thing gave us billy woods and el-p tho

practically invisible

nah def jux was mad influential to underground hip-hop wdym

same. rtj releases have always been kinda mediocre to me, esp rtj 4

for underground of course but there was literally zero crossover even off of influence alone. they were a well-kept secret and attracted some notorious crowds because of it. that was also the point with their anti-industry anti-establishment thing

zero crossover

well, el-p went on to kick off rawkus as one of the best hip-hop labels in the 90s n 00s.

but that was before def jux; def jux happened exactly because he was beefing with rawkus

if I could name artists that helped launch rawkus type of underground rap into the mainstream it would be black star and pharoahe monch before anyone else

I’m not a def jux connoisseur by any means but Cold Vein is one of my favorite rap albums of all time and I f*** with some of El-Ps solo stuff