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Ahh yes! A brilliant concept album set in the year 3030. I got this album about 2 months before it hit the stores cause I'm involved in the underground rap scene and it flipped me out when I first heard it! Produced by one of the greatest producers of all time Dan (The Automator) Nakamura. Everything these guys get into is brilliant. Del has been rapping about comic books and all kinds of wierd things for a long time. Also, he's Ice Cube's cousin.

I suggest the people out there look into Dose 1 & Sole of Anticon and MC Chris (Adult Swim art director voice of many characters). I've also heard Buku One talk about comic books and playstation in his raps... MF Doom had a comic book theme to one of his albums as well (MetalFace a Dr. Doom clone).

W r o n g

Oh, wait, did you mean Eminem? Oh, I'm sorry 'homey'. My bad, 'dogg'.

There's a whole collective/label out there that are 'rap' for people that don't like rap. Yes, I'm talking about anticon.

Of note are Sole (dark beats, often hilarious one-liners, generally one in the eye for gangsta [c]rap), why? (nerdy, white boy art-school hip hop) and Alias (no, not the show; more progressive beats than most of the other stuff on the label).

The Streets is pretty much the mainstream of what's happening in UK rap - check out Roots Manuva. Rapping about drinking pints of bitter and wandering south of the river (that's London, for those of you from across the pond). Special mention must go to Prefuse 73, who specialises in instrumental hip-hop (laugh all you want, it's damn good stuff).

That concludes this public service broadcast.

There's a whole collective/label out there that are 'rap' for people that don't like rap. Yes, I'm talking about anticon.

Of note are Sole (dark beats, often hilarious one-liners, generally one in the eye for gangsta [c]rap), why? (nerdy, white boy art-school hip hop) and Alias (no, not the show; more progressive beats than most of the other stuff on the label).

The Streets is pretty much the mainstream of what's happening in UK rap - check out Roots Manuva. Rapping about drinking pints of bitter and wandering south of the river (that's London, for those of you from across the pond). Special mention must go to Prefuse 73, who specialises in instrumental hip-hop (laugh all you want, it's damn good stuff).

That concludes this public service broadcast.

There's a whole collective/label out there that are 'rap' for people that don't like rap. Yes, I'm talking about anticon.

Of note are Sole (dark beats, often hilarious one-liners, generally one in the eye for gangsta [c]rap), why? (nerdy, white boy art-school hip hop) and Alias (no, not the show; more progressive beats than most of the other stuff on the label).

The Streets is pretty much the mainstream of what's happening in UK rap - check out Roots Manuva. Rapping about drinking pints of bitter and wandering south of the river (that's London, for those of you from across the pond). Special mention must go to Prefuse 73, who specialises in instrumental hip-hop (laugh all you want, it's damn good stuff).

That concludes this public service broadcast.

There's a whole collective/label out there that are 'rap' for people that don't like rap. Yes, I'm talking about anticon.

Of note are Sole (dark beats, often hilarious one-liners, generally one in the eye for gangsta [c]rap), why? (nerdy, white boy art-school hip hop) and Alias (no, not the show; more progressive beats than most of the other stuff on the label).

The Streets is pretty much the mainstream of what's happening in UK rap - check out Roots Manuva. Rapping about drinking pints of bitter and wandering south of the river (that's London, for those of you from across the pond). Special mention must go to Prefuse 73, who specialises in instrumental hip-hop (laugh all you want, it's damn good stuff).

That concludes this public service broadcast.

There are quite a few independent labels on the iTunes music store. One of them, Anticon, just so happens to be my favorite label of the moment. I think that they're getting a much better deal with the iTunes music store, as they have less overhead... like funding the extravagant lifestyles of record company executives. In other words, the artists own the company, sell the music, and make money - iTunes music store or not.

I was amazed when I saw Anticon artists in the store, and I wouldn't have even bothered to look because they're such a small label. However, Apple was so kind as to put a few of their albums into the "just added" scroller, and as such, I downloaded several tracks.

We should be buying new music from small labels and encouraging them to experiment with Open Media/Open Source releases. That way we'll have it both ways, good new music, and we can copy and re-use it however we want without worrying about cracking and hacking some god-awful crappy protection scheme.

We do we have to buy such safe multinational anodyne music??? Come on slashotters EXPERIMENT! There are so many interesting labels out there.

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LOCA

Bearos

Tigerbeat

Anticon

To name just a few....