Hot Rap Groups flying under the radar during the mid 90's:

A lighter shade of Brown
Da Bush Babees
Diamond D
Mc Smooth
Masta Ace
Shyheim
Quo
Fu Schnickens
Lords of the Underground
Juru the Damaja
Gangstarr

jaimestarr79 said:

a lighter shade of brown was not that hot.
but all the rest get thumbs up...

la schmoove...yo we aint got nothin to prove

Well you have to add:

Organized Konfusion
Black Sheep
Freestyle Fellowship
Souls of Mischief

there are many more...

p.s. gangstarr really didn't go under anyone's radar (well not if you listened to hiphop more than on the weekend)
[Edited 7/13/07 12:59pm]

I really liked and still like the Digable Planets

Rhondab said:

I have their first album on my wall....i remember when they performed rebirth of slick for the first time on in living color....

Is there any classic 90's compilation CD's with other artists besides the usual naughty by nature and the like.

Everytime you see won of these classic rap compilation CD's they always have 6 minutes, the message, planet rock, and some bullshit buy MC Shan on them ( I know these are 80's artists). Its a greatest rap hit compilation! Look at all the jams you could put on one CD. Instead they always put the same shit in different order amongst the different compilation discs.

There were a lot of underground rap artists around the early to mid 1990's that everybody has forgotten about.

If anybody sees a good compilation CD out there, let me know.

MrVortex said:

Those are some other good ones. I've never heard of Freestyle Fellowship? What songs do they have?

jaimestarr79 said:

Beats & Rhymes: Hip-Hop Of The '90s


Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

vashti1999 said:

Highly recommended ^^

some of those ppl are not groups or were popular. May I add

Alkaholiks
Boogie Monsters

lilgish said:

u got me singing...make room. " I hang mc's wit my noose/watch me get loose..."
and I love the boogiemonsters first album...

Quo

Pharcyde
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

Jaythestar7 said:

or "Honeydips in goooootham"

PurpleCharm said:

neither of these are groups that were under the radar...pretty mainstream actually...

PurpleCharm said:

LMAO, they were on MJ'S record label right?

Jaythestar7 said:

They were no more mainstream than Gangstarr or Lords of the Underground.

Abdul said:

PurpleCharm said:

Relatively speaking, they were all pretty mainstream.

AlexdeParis said:

That's what I get for basing my answers off of what the OP posted.

PurpleCharm said:

No big deal. It's really a fine line. Despite the huge crossover success of MC Hammer, rap hadn't yet become as mainstream as it is now. Since we had to seek it out and it wasn't really played on the radio, you could either argue that most rap was "mainstream" or most of it was "underground" -- it just depends on how you define the words.

You forgot KDM. The good thing about their breakup is that it created that amazing dj known as Madlib. Talk about fucking Amazing.

Don't forget Black Sheep. MePhiMe

What about the Insane Clown Pussies. haha.

2freaky4church1 said:

I wouldnt count blacksheep as under the radar. "This or That" huge single! plus they were part of the native tongues.

JB's, Tribe called quest, de la soul....

Black Sheep's sophomore jinx was legendary in the 90's.