Guilty Simpson and similar artists

Black Milk

Like I Need It All

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Guilty Simpson

Fractured (Ft. Fat Ray)

Sounds like: Quakers, Homeboy Sandman, House Shoes

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Guilty is a favorite. The flow is precise, the lyrics are granular, and the delivery booms. Detroit's Son, his collaborative LP with Australian DJ/pro...

Finale

7 Days (Ft. Kenn Starr & Hassaan Mackey)

Sounds like: Homeboy Sandman, Apollo Brown, Guilty Simpson

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Finale is the one of the most intricate rhymers in Detroit. The passionate and soft-spoken MC laces his rhymes with vivid humanity. He army crawled hi...

DJ Soko

Soko Flow (Ft. LAZ, Red Pill, Noveliss)

Sounds like: Finale, Guilty Simpson, SelfSays

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DJ Soko's name only gives a partial glimpse into his abilities. A DJ in the communal sense, someone who organizes people around them through sound, he...

Guilty Simpson

Vanguard Organization

Sounds like: Sean Price, Ka, Rah Digga

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I stand firmly on the claim that Guilty Simpson raps in the top one percentile of MCs today. Though his Stones Throw debut Ode To The Ghetto is a clas...

Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown

The Cook Up

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Sean Price

STFU Pt. 2

Sounds like: Random Axe, Heltah Skeltah, Boot Camp Clik

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Quelle

The S.O.N.

Sounds like: Awesome in Outer Space, Shoes House, Magestik Legend

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Quakers

War Drums

Sounds like: Oh No, Homeboy Sandman, Karriem Riggins

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Karriem Riggins

Matador Posse Cut Ft. KRONDON, Homeboy Sandman, Guilty Simpson & Jon Wayne

Sounds like: Madlib, Alchemist, J Dilla,

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The 25th element of hip-hop is the posse cut. Multiple MCs swarming over a beat, each one taking it to different places, but everyone killing it. The ...

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson

Reputation

Sounds like: Black Milk, Quelle, Sean Price, J Dilla

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Guilty Simpson is one of the most technically proficient and consistent MCs of the last several years. His fantastic debut, Ode To The Ghetto, introdu...

Roc Marciano

76

Sounds like: Quelle, Ka, Action Bronson

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Roc Marciano is an MC who has that core of hip hop excited, the heads who are always unsatisfied and unimpressed, the grouchy old jaded experts. His m...

Eric Lau

The Mission

Sounds like: Gilles Peterson, Floating Points, Waajeed

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Eric Lau is a young, gifted producer and DJ from the UK. Introduced to many by Gilles Peterson in 2006, his first LP New Territories proved him to be ...

Pollyn

Cold Sweat

Sounds like: Flying Lotus, eLan, Nosaj Thing

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We've seen Pollyn on here before, with the first leak for their upcoming album Living In Patterns. Now they have dropped a very interesting b-side in ...

Random Axe

Random Call

Sounds like: Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Sean Price

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Random Axe is the indie rap supergroup made up of Detroit's Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, and Brooklyn's own Sean Price (aka Ruck of Heltah Skeltah). Th...