Independent Music Chart
Independent Chart - Allergic to the mainstream? Check out our top 20 indie tracks. Created by combining how many times the song has been played with your ratings, DJBooth's charts help turn today's brand new music into tomorrow's hit tracks.
March 19, 2012 Chart RecapWelcome to the Booth’s Top Independent Hip Hop Chart! As always, your feedback has determined which songs made the cut. Each chart’s lineup is calculated using a special DJBooth …...Read More
#1 - Tayyib Ali - Dear Lord
As Kanye West so famously pointed on Jesus Walks, while songs about massive drug use, unapologetic crime, illicit sex and domineering abuse are considered just another day in hip-hop, a rapper who mentions his faith will find...Read More
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#2 - Chris Webby - Bowser
Like a true '80s baby, Chris Webby spent his share of hours in front of the tube, playing Super Mario Bros.. Whereas most of us were on the side of the famous Italian plumber, however, the Connecticut emcee (and freestyle...Read More
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#3 - OnCue - New Religion
If Kanye’s No Church in the Wild had a little brother, it’d sound a whole lot like OnCue's latest. Rising to be slated as one of Brooklyn's finest, the emcee keeps it funky like the "sweat from ya upper lip" with the...Read More
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#4 - Rittz - Bloody Murdah
A few days ago, Kobe Bryant made the bold statement that he hasn't had any “rivals” throughout his career in the NBA. To put it in layman’s terms, Kobe basically said “y’all other dudes ain’t sh*t and can’t...Read More
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#5 - Soul Khan ft. Akie Bermiss - Not Like That
To quote the late, great Tupac Shakur, “Since we all came from a woman / Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman... I think it's time to kill for our women / Time to heal our women, be real to our women.” Soul...Read More
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#6 - The Dean's List ft. Dani Ummel - Hollywood
Hollywood may not be quite as central in the music game as it is in the film industry, but there's something about the image of an aspiring actor or (usually) actress waiting tables and hoping for their big break that keeps...Read More
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#7 - Capital STEEZ - Capital STEEZ
Self-titled songs aren't for the faint of heart. You've got to compress everything that makes you you into a few short minutes, all while providing an experience that leaves listeners craving more. On his first feature (a...Read More
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#8 - Chris Faust ft. Mike Maven - Inception
If you think about it, every rap record is a kind of Inception, in which ear-pleasing beats and smooth flows provide the distraction a rhymesayer needs in order to implant his or her ideas directly in the depths of the...Read More
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#9 - Dangerflow - Win Lose or Die
In the game of romance, there are no small wagers; Win Lose or Die, those who play are always indelibly marked by the experience. No strangers to the world of high-stakes gambling (I mean, “danger” is their middle first...Read More
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#10 - REKS - Chasin
As its title indicates, REKS' next full-length is a musical draught that comes Straight, No Chaser--unless you count the hustlers depicted in hot pursuit of paper on the project's inaugural leak. On Chasin', project...Read More
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#11 - Lazurus - So to Myself I Say
Last heard dropping some serious lyrical wisdom on last fall's reader-acclaimed Hey Baby, Lazarus returns to earn another round of reader plaudits with So to Myself I Say, a brand new single/video off his AlieNation LP. Here,...Read More
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#12 - Polyester The Saint ft. Freddie Gibbs & Bad Lucc - 7th Letter
A, B, C, D, E, F—oh, now I get it. If you, like yours truly, had to mentally recite the alphabet up to the 7th Letter before you understood the title of Polyester the Saint's latest feature, smart money says you're not a G,...Read More
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#13 - JR Mint - Magnificent
Recently glimpsed driving his whip like it was Stolen on leak number one off his next mixtape, JR Mint returns with another Magnificent jam off his forthcoming full-length. Here, UK super-producer Star Slinger's hazy yet...Read More
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#14 - Denzil Porter - Bring It On
Introduced to The DJBooth via October 2011's Kanye West, Denzil Porter returns to our pages with another freshly-released single off his forthcoming street album. Recently released along with the non-Booth featured Ray Bans,...Read More
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#15 - Uno Hype - Champion in Disguise
Judging by the feedback Uno Hype has received for his past Booth features, our readers already know the Maryland emcee is a born winner. For the few who still haven't figured it out, though, he takes off his mask to reveal a...Read More
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#16 - Tito Lopez - Mama Proud
The majority of rappers like to put on a tough persona. Confidence, style, and the ability to intimidate and fill others with fear are the qualities some of the best emcees of all-time lean on. However, no matter how tough,...Read More
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#17 - Knowledge Medina - Family Matters
First things first: Knowledge Medina's latest single doesn't sample the eponymous sitcom's theme music (Though I kinda want to hear someone try that, now that I think of it), nor does it feature any of Jaleel White's...Read More
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#18 - Julian Stephen - Blind Date
If you're a female hoping to get with Julian Stephen, consider his latest feature a list of things not to do. Making its world premiere as a music video, this mixtape standout finds the Queens representative describing a...Read More
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#19 - ¡MAYDAY! ft. dead prez - T-N-T
The city of Miami has its fair share of fantastic duos. There's LeBron and Dwyane Wade, Dan LeBatard and his father, Horatio Caine and Eric Delko, Eva Mendes (she counts as two people) and of course ¡MAYDAY! emcees,...Read More
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