LABEL OF THE DECADE - RHYMESAYERS
While your favorite individual acts and albums might have come from renegades within the major label machine, the labels that mattered most to you are staunchly in the independent stable. And none more indie than these hip-hop holdouts from the northern climes of Minneapolis. Slug and his crew sell more than just music. They sell a mentality that keeping-it-real means real-life for their listeners as well as their artists.
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Runner Up 1 – DEF JUX
Right next to Rhymesayers in your music collection, El-P’s own posse made the smartest hip-hop during the dumbest period of the music’s mainstream popularity.
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Runner Up 2 – ED BANGER
No doubt fueled by the love of all things Daft Punk, the label run by their former manager Pedro Winters proved that the French had more than one breed of robot to rock dance floors.
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[...] announced that he will putting his classic indie hip-hop label (voted the #2 label of the decade by you) on hiatus, following the release of the late Camu Tao’s King of Hearts LP. El-P explains [...]
Twin Cities takin over!!! Dead in theCenter of the earth! Where the heart is!
Twin Cities takin over!!! Dead in theCenter of the earth! Where the heart isJ
Why the fuck is Stones Throw not the number one label?
duuude daft punk runner up song of the yr? wtf is wrong with people
this shit is a damn joke.
too bad slug is still a bitch