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.
October 4, 2010 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.net …...Read More
#1 - AC ft. Lina Morgana - Angel
Damn, talk about a back story. AC, the Staten Island emcee and infamous DJBooth Freestyle alum we last heard hard rhyming on About No One, strikes a much more melancholy tone on his new single Angel, a record that serves as a...Read More
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#2 - Saheed ft. !MAYDAY! - Empathy
Life ain't easy – and, as those who tuned in for cathartic mixtape cut How Can I Explain already know, Saheed is well acquainted with hardship. Be that as it may, the Panhandle State buzzmaker (and freestyle series...Read More
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#3 - Dre Biggity - On My Meet The Parents Sh*t
In the grand scheme of unexpected samples Inland Empire representer and DJBooth Freestyle alum Dre Biggity’s using Queen’s The Show Must Go On to open his new, oddly titled On My Meet The Parents S**t, making it’s...Read More
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#4 - GhostWridah - Down Goes Frazier
If you’ve been following GhostWridah’s work at the Booth, most notably his highly acclaimed In Love With My Future, you’ll probably already have your gloves up prior to listening. However, if this is your first time...Read More
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#5 - Jon Hope - Pressure
They say that pressure makes diamonds, but it also crushes, pulverizes and demolishes those not strong enough to withstand it. If DJBooth nation’s response to Providence emcee Jon Hope’s last offering, the uber-approved...Read More
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#6 - Mally - Lights Off
Ladies and gentlemen, Mally is back in your speakers and he plans on staying there. Five months after his last offering Better Days comes his latest underground single, Lights Off, a record that finds the Freestyle Series...Read More
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#7 - Hoodie Allen - Party at the Beach House
In hip-hop years, which tends to be an young man’s game, I’m somewhere between Soulja Boy and Jay-Z, so when I heard DJBooth newcomer Hoodie Allen’s mixtape standout cut I was filled with nostalgia for a time when your...Read More
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#8 - The Canz ft. El Prez & Aleon Craft - Ferris Bueller (Personal Day Off)
“When Cameron was in Egypt’s land, let me Cameron go.” You’ll have to excuse me, I just see a title like Ferris Bueller (Personal Day Off) and instinctively start quoting the most rewatchable movie of my childhood...Read More
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#9 - Freeway - Beautiful Music
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder – or, as the case may be, the ear of the listener – but, judging by the Booth reaction to Philly heavyweight (and freestyle series alum) Freeway and behind-the-boards cohort Jake...Read More
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#10 - The Mad Violinist & The Symphony Crack Orchestra - Muzik
On paper, pairing lush, hip-hop-informed grooves with lead violin seems like a strange idea – and, in a way, it is. Of course, it's hard to focus on how out-of-the-ordinary Ashanti “The Mad Violinist” Floyd's modus...Read More
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#11 - Playboy Tre ft. Lil Jon - Ready Go
The crowd cheers while the visiting team leaves the field. The home team stands triumphant while Ready Go plays through the stadium. Imagine it. I can, and so did Playboy Tre. Known in the Booth thanks to an exclusive...Read More
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#12 - Luck-One - More
If Portland, Oregon has heard an emcee representative put in work on the Booth I can’t think of them, so even if newcomer Luck-One, making his Booth debut today with his new single More, isn’t literally the first rapper...Read More
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#13 - Nottz ft. Black Milk - Blast That
Nottz is one of the best producers some of you have never heard of. A veteran in the game since 1998, Nottz has supplied plenty of our favorite artists with beats, including Game, Snoop, and Xzibit, and on his new single,...Read More
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#14 - QuESt - Inner Sense
What if video game characters had to navigate through the REAL world? They'd be disappointed that there were no treasure chests with extra coins or re-up packs for energy. But they would find QuEST, the Miami-emcee and...Read More
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#15 - Mac Miller - Pittsburgh Kidz Get the Biz
The 197th entry in our DJBooth.net Freestyle Series comes courtesy of Mac Miller, the Steel City native who earned reader acclaim for mixtape cut Don't Mind if I Do. On his brand new, exclusive Pittsburgh Kids Get the Biz...Read More
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#16 - Woody ft. Charles Hamilton & XV - Make Believe
When you have a track with two well known emcees backing up someone less known for their vocal work, there’s always concern for the possibility of Diddy Syndrome (one guy without any talent manages to bring down the entire...Read More
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#17 - Starrs & Murph ft. William Millions & JyShoun - Here Now
Where are Rhode Island buzzmakers Starrs & Murph going to be premiering their latest mixtape leak? Here. When is it going down? Now. Am I going to write this entire track review in a question-and-answer format? No. Why not?...Read More
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#18 - John Regan ft. Joell Ortiz & Meylin - Yesterday
Considering Yesterday has literally been covered more times than any song in history, it isn’t surprising that John Regan, the Baltimore emcee who impressed us with his DJBooth debut Paint the World, has chosen to use The...Read More
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#19 - Skyzoo & !llmind ft. Torae - Barrel Brothers
On Barrel Brothers, a cut off 2007's Big Doe Rehab, Wu-Tang heavyweight Ghostface hooked up with Beanie Sigel and Styles P. to craft a hard-hitting street banger for the ages. Three years later, beatsmith !llmind and B.K....Read More
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