Clean Rap

Scarub – Just Like the Sun

Posted: July 10, 2018 in Alternative Hip-hop, Featured Music, Underground/Independent

LMNO – I Do

Posted: July 7, 2018 in Adult Contemporary, Featured Music, Positive Vibes, Underground/Independent
Tags: Clean Hip-hop, Clean Rap, Cleanhiphop, Cleanrap, Hip-hop, Leave My Name Out, LMNO, West Coast, West Coast Hip-hop, Work Ethic

It’s been a WHILE… But all is well.

Here’s a little hint at where the kid has been. Peace.

Decompoze – Good Vibe feat. 14KT

Posted: May 23, 2018 in Boom Bap, Featured Music, Underground/Independent
Tags: 14KT, Clean Hip-hop, Clean Rap, Cleanhiphop, Cleanrap, Decompoze, Hip-hop, Subterraneous Records, Trackezoids, Underground

I’m honestly surprised that I hadn’t posted this one yet. Enjoy.

Mos Def Reads Malcolm X

Posted: May 19, 2018 in Conscious, Uncategorized
Tags: Black History, Black Star, Clean Hip-hop, Clean Rap, Cleanhiphop, Cleanrap, Conscious, Malcolm X, Mos Def

Happy Birthday Malcolm X!

Whodini – One Love

Posted: April 25, 2018 in Adult Contemporary, Boom Bap, Featured Music, Golden Age
Tags: Clean Hip-hop, Clean Rap, Cleanhiphop, Cleanrap, Golden Age, Hip-hop, Whodini

This is the first Whodini track so far on the blog. Don’t judge!

I had always heard much but never really took the time to listen. It’s almost as though I was keeping their music as a treat to start listening to “one day”. I knew it would be good, and that it wasn’t going anywhere. I guess that’s why they call it the golden age.

And the musicality of this one is really off the hook imo. There were so many (pop-influenced) tropes from the hip-hop production styles of the 80s. In some ways I feel that Hip-hop had to navigate its way around these for a while before getting back to its roots. The new beat boxes, the synthesizers, the spot-on drum programming. But this is really something different. There’s a lot of soul here. This, is something special. Do enjoy.