Good stuff peeps,
Celph Titled did the beats on some of Braille's songs
Dan the Automator is cool-out
Gotta love Del, had his first joint back in '91 with Ice Cube on it
If you like Del you probably like Sup Tha Chemist, on a similar tip
Blackalicious is hot, got the creative flows
KMD! Yes, had their first tape (yeah I said tape) back in the day. That's what started MF Doom
Organized Konfusion, X-klan from way back. (I don't know if I'd say they were the first in the consciousness movement but certainly in good company. Consciousness in Hip hop has always been there)
There's so many styles and aspects that you can get into in the ughh scene.
I like instrumental stuff too, like Dan the automator, DJ-Shadow, RJ-D2, a new cat named DJ-DNA did a nice creative instrumental album worth checking out.
Oh yeah, there's a conglomerate group of emcees called Deepspace5 that came out with "Unique Just Like Everyone Else" and I think it's hot.
LA Symphony just dropped "Dissapear Here", I'll be picking that up shortly.
Lots of good stuff out there.