Originally Posted by Unijorn

I have to agree on the fact that the title "gangster vs underground" is pretty ignorant, but i still get the idea and i have to say the gangster rap is truly a menace to what we've called music throughout the last.. say.. thousand of years. the more underground hip-hop is simply not so based on image as it is on the actual spits and beats.

what exactly constitutes something to be considered "underground" and not mainstream. some would even call talib kweli underground still, while i consider him to be rather main stream at this point.