Blog: Pigeons and Planes

By  Confusion  &  Jon Tanners Underground hip-hop doesn't exist anymore, at least not like it used to. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what happened, but some time right around when indie rock became a genre instead of an indication of label affiliation, underground hip-hop ceased to exist in the way that we had always known it. Maybe it was when Def Jux died. Maybe it was when "underground" was replaced with internet buzz acts on the fast track to major label deals. There are still some scenes, still independent hip-hop labels doing [...]