Word: underground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Cublunk says that the Boston underground may be pushing the musical envelope, but is alienating Boston from widespread recognition...
...culture of hip-hop is a few levels flakier than other types of music,” says Larry Legend, a New York-based hip-hop producer and engineer who has mixed and made beats for mainstream stars like Nas and Jadakiss, as well as underground heroes C-Rayz Walz and DJ Logic...
...problem is, right now, Boston hip-hop is unbalanced,” Cublunk says. “You get all these college kids coming to town, wanting to see what our city is about, and they cram 7L & Esoteric [an underground MC/producer duo] down their throats...
...says the city is a bizarre reversal of traditional regional hip-hop politics: the underground artists are dominating the audiences, at the expense of what he calls “the so-called ‘hood rappers’, the kids from the streets, telling their stories...
...love underground hip-hop,” he says. “But in Boston, the more mainstream, basic, beat-driven hip-hop is being pushed underground by the underground...