
If you would've asked me what music I listened to back in the early 2000's, I probably would have listed a bunch of artists, but I could have just as easily said "Anything on Def Jux". Aesop Rock, El-P, and Cannibal Ox forever changed my perspective of music. I even had a Def Jux hat. Back in those days I was just scraping the surface of underground hip-hop after an intense love affair with mainstream rap. For me, interest in the underground scene started with Anticon, which was mostly abstract, nerdy underground hip-hop. Besides my introduction to Slug [...]