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.
September 3, 2012 Chart Recap*Last week’s top two, THURZ’ “Another Number” and Nitty Scott, MC‘s “Flower Child” fall to, respectively, ninth and fifth this week, displaced by new features from Macklemore & Ryan …...Read More
#1 - Lecrae ft. Big K.R.I.T & Ashton Jones - Mayday
Ever wondered why aviators shout “Mayday” when they're in trouble? I didn't until just now but, since I took the time to look it up, I'm going to fill you in: according to Wikipedia, it's derived from the French...Read More
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#2 - Talib Kweli ft Jessica Care Moore - Fly Away
Back with his newest creation, Fly Away, is the always dope Brooklyn emcee, Talib Kweli. After releasing the 9th Wonder assisted single, To The Music, earlier this month, this time around Kweli has recruited German producer...Read More
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#3 - Miles Jones - Maybe Tomorrow
While many a rap record has described the grind's incompatibility with romance, Miles Jones isn't giving up on love without a fight. On Maybe Tomorrow, a freshly-released record off his next mixtape, the Canadian emcee...Read More
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#4 - Nitty Scott, MC ft. Kendrick Lamar - Flower Child
If we were living in the 1960s, Nitty Scott, MC might be rocking bell-bottom jeans, beads and headbands. Even in hoodies, sneakers and hoop earrings, however, the Brooklyn spitter is a Flower Child at heart. The latest leak...Read More
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#5 - Ariez Onasis ft. Wiz Khalifa & Planet VI - No Limit
Just shy of a year after stepping into The DJBooth with his last feature, the diabolically playeriffic Victim, Ariez Onasis makes his triumphant return to our pages with the world premiere of his latest single. A combative...Read More
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#6 - Hoodie Allen - Feel the Love
Having broken through to indie stardom with the #1 iTunes debut of All American earlier this year, you can probably guess how Hoodie Allen's feeling right about now. Just in case any of his fans happen to be Martian robots...Read More
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#7 - Mac Miller x Pharrell Williams - Glow
Mac Miller's first Pink Slime release Onaroll might be sitting comfortably at the #14 spot on our Independent Music Chart, but the Freestyle Series alum won't hesitate to drop off yet another record from the project. With...Read More
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#8 - THURZ ft. BJ the Chicago Kid - Another Number
Paradoxical as it may sound, freeloading ain't easy. In fact, when you reach the level of gold-diggerdom attained by the central character in THURZ' latest song release, it's pretty much a full-time job. Coming on the heels...Read More
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#9 - Method Man ft. Freddie Gibbs & StreetLife - Built for This
Whereas most of us are forced to spend decades searching for our true calling—if, indeed, we ever figure it out—there are a lucky few for whom it's obvious from the get-go. For example, if you're The Man With the Iron...Read More
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#10 - Logic - My Chain
Flipping a page in the book of life from "a lazy-a** boy" to "a man that's on his grind", Logic gets materialistic on new song release My Chain, without selling out lyrically. Four days after concluding his nationwide tour...Read More
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#11 - Mac Miller - Someone Like You
Mac Miller is a talented artist and (going by the man's own lyrics) a true ladies' man, but I never thought of the Pittsburgh emcee as the kind of artist whose very voice makes panties drop. As it turned out, though, he just...Read More
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#12 - Rapsody ft. Mac Miller & The Cool Kids - Round Table Discussion
From its inception, hip-hop has been all about edutainment—thus, listeners shouldn't be surprised to see that Rapsody's borrowed the academic format of the Round Table Dicussion for her latest feature, single number two off...Read More
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#13 - THURZ ft. Johnny Polygon - Are You Not?
Fresh off getting the Booth jumping with the in-your-face L.N.S., THURZ dials back the intensity for the follow-up. Propelled by the loping percussion, delicate piano and dreamy synth warbles of DJ Dahi and J. LBS, this...Read More
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#14 - Yo Dot ft. Logic & Terry T - I'm Just Trying to Live
What does success look like? For some—and I'm looking at many, if not most rappers here—that vision includes fly clothes, expensive whips, one or more mansions and enough cash to buy it all over again. Yo Dot, however, is...Read More
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#15 - Tory Lanez - Champagne Wishes & Caviar Dreams
Broadcast from 1984-1995, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous shaped the “Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams” of a generation—and nowhere is its influence clearer than in the visions of opulence described in rap lyrics. The...Read More
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#16 - Rittz ft. Tech N9ne - Bloody Murdah (Remix)
If I can be allowed to drop some insider info, Rittz originally hoped to include Tech N9ne on the original version of Bloody Murdah, but the Strange Music head honcho was too busy, you know, touring more than anyone ever to...Read More
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#17 - Trae Tha Truth ft. Young Jeezy & Yo Gotti - Choppa Talk
It's come to Trae Tha Truth's attention that some individuals out there are unaware that he's the man. To correct this regrettable oversight, the Houston representative has cooked up Choppa Talk, a freshly-minted mixtape leak...Read More
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#18 - Zion I ft. The Grouch & Eligh - We Don't
Thought Zion I were gonna hang it up anytime soon? I have no idea where you got that crazy idea but, in any case, you are as wrong as wrong can be—on their latest single (coming on the heels of lead effort Float), the Cali...Read More
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#19 - Madchild - Monster
First, Miami is lost to face-eating zombies, now there is a threat to all mankind coming from Vancouver. His name is Madchild, and he's an absolute Monster. On the heavy-hitting, brash video single release off Madchild’s...Read More
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