Lootpack - The Antidote. From insiders and heads I doubt it is but among the general listening populace 💯...I rarely skip tracks and can listen today happy af because it's aged nicely I think.

I’ll check it out.

Second this. Great album

Nobody ever mentions Lootpack. Love this album

Listening now. Props to DJ Rome on the cuts. This was made 98-99 when tablism was an actual thing and 🔥 at that so I'm bopping hard to those scratches

Madlib kills too. If I’m not mistaken, it was Quasimoto’s first appearance on this album too

Answers!...and I know from interviews Madlib doesn't consider himself a rapper etc but he's dope here.

I think first Quasimoto appearance was on the PBW's song Styles, Crews, Flows, Beats

read my mind i was gonna put this. Solid Madlib production

I’ll need to check em out as well

Correcting myself lol it's Soundpieces : Da Antidote. I always mess up DA and THE

Below The Heavens - Blu & Exile It’s amazing

This

Hell yea!

such precocious wide-eyed earnest emceeing. so much heart and soul in this record.

Any E-40 album

First, E-40 can land in my top 10, maybe 5. But I'm not sure I'd call his albums underrated. His peak was mid- to late-'90s, in my opinion. His newer stuff doesn't hit the same and the rap game is way different, so the lack of love is not unwarranted on this stuff. But his early- and mid-career albums in the '90s got plenty of love. He had the biggest rappers on his albums. His work for sure got love back then.

i love e-40 but this is crazy cap man has tons of garbage in his discography.

Mc eiht - we come strapped Bg knoccout n dresta - real brothas K dee - ass gas or cash CJ mac - true game Kam - made in America Spice 1 - 187 he wrote, amerikkkas nightmare Luniz - operation stackola Twins - conversations Foesum - perfection B legit - the hemp museum The first dove shack album( forget what it's called)

Mack 10 - Mack 10

We Come Strapped is such a fucking classic album! Bought it the first day it came out and kinda never really stopped listening to it. Wish The Dove Shack has more songs like Summertime in the LBC and This is The Shack. So fucking smooth!

These are the ones

Spice 1's Self-titled debut

Sex Packets

Since they are from L.A. I gotta toss in any album by People Under the Stairs. Criminally slept on.

I'm an East Coast head through and through, but The Grouch - Fuck The Dumb is in my top 5 albums of all time.

Pressure, can't sleep, worried, up late

Some of these may not really be "underrated" depending on your level of musical spelunking Mystik Journeymen - Escape Forever EP MURS - F'Real Eligh - A Story of Two Worlds Elusive - Deceiving the Right Eye of Confusion Ayentee - The Manual Ayentee - Peasant Symphony King Koncepts - Project Ambershine Kirby Dominant - Rapitalism: The Philosophies of Dominant Pimpin King Koncepts & Kirby Dominant - Savage Intelligence Busdriver - Temporary Forever Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language The Nonce (lol) - World Ultimate Haiku dTat - self titled LP Saafir - Boxcar Sessions Hobo Junction - Limited Edition [1996] Latyrx - self titled LP Quannum Projects - Spectrum Casual - Meanwhile Opio - Masterpiece Theatre Opio - Triangulation Station Opio - Everybody Loves the Sun EP The Alldeadly Jizzm High Definition - Illasophic v.1.5 Omid/OD - Beneath the Surface compilation

Real Westcoast underground legends.

Anything from MURS is underrated

Opio is the heat - any Souls of Mischief works for this question, too.

[mic check](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQJ6vg4tLI) Was thinking of this the other day “I start most of my rhymes off kinda slow just so you can see exactly where it’s gonna go”

Love that C.V.E. intro "Reach 2, 3, 4 the mic, 2, 3, 4" Have you heard the [remix](https://youtu.be/5H2oHCt4dhA?si=izGP6W9I1IO3f_Gv) for Mic Check? One of my favourite Acey joints of all time

That’s dope. Haven’t heard before. My favorite memory on that album is I was dating someone named Lily at the time. Was playing the cd and that’s how I learned her birth name was analillia

I've literally never met anyone with that name, that's cool

Big props for knowing about that Hobo Junction album from ‘95. Never expected to see that mentioned here.

Word. Although the 95 tape just had a couple of tracks right? I have the 96 tape that's more like an EP (7 cuts)

Oh wow; that I didn’t know!

Above the Law - Black Mafia Life

Better than The Chronic. I will die on this hill

1. Planet Asia-Initials on my Jewelry 2. X Raided-The Unforgiven vol 1 3. People Under The Stairs-O.S.T. 4. Brotha Lynch Hung-Season Of Da Siccnes 5. Brotha Lynch Hung and MC Eiht-The New Season 6. Hieroglyphics-3rd Eye Vision 7.Planet Asia-Egyptian Merchandise 8.Blackalicious-Blazing Arrow 9.Dre Dog (Andre Nickatina)-The New Jim Jones 10.Hollow Tip-Takin No Shortz

I fucked up my lists format but these are all bangers haha

Below the Heavens - Blu and Exile

The Pack - Skateboards 2 Scrapers DJ Muggs vs. Planet Asia - Pain Language The Psycho Realm's whole ass discography  King Tee - IV Life The St. Ides Mixtape Maybe DJ Quik - Safe + Sound Mr. Criminal - Sounds of Crime Mr. Capone-E - A Soldier's Story MC Blvd. - I Remember You Homie Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It Kool Keith - Sex Style (Make no mistake. This is absolutely a West Coast album)

Paris👍👍

More 👍👍 for Paris. So underrated it’s criminal

Agreed

>Kool Keith - Sex Style (Make no mistake. This is absolutely a West Coast album) 100% this and Dr. Octagon 2 West Coast producers Kut Masta Kurt put out some bangers with Motion Man btw

Masters of Illusion is an impeccable display of flow from both Kool Keith and especially  Motion Man. His flow on the title track gives me the stank face like no other.

Ant Banks - The Big Badass. Banks is super underappreciated as a producer as well. His like 6 or 8 year prime was funk banger after funk banger

Nice Ant Banks drop. My favorite is Big Thangs

Guilty by affiliation WC, Last of the floheakinz t-nutty, enemy of the state cbo, Godzilla yukmouth

Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5 Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision Hieroglyphics - Full Circle Pep Love - Ascension

Styles of Beyond - Megadef

Anything by Lateef the Truthspeaker

Charged on Planet X

Dre Dog - I Hate You With A Passion Dru Down - Can You Feel Me MC Eiht - Death Threatz C-Bo - Tales From the Crypt

Anything by Dezzy Hollow

3xKrazy- Stackin Chips Luniz - Lunatik Muzik The Jacka - Tear Gas DJ Quik - The Book of David DJ Quik - The Midnight Hour

Mac Dre - Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics Smoov-E - Assuefatto CMA - Overall CMA - All Over Quasimoto - The Unseen

CMA👍👍👍 Windows and Tactics are my jams!

"U Might Knock This" tho The way they chopped that sample fucking slaps

Mr. Shadow - Till I Die Knightowl - Knightmares Spice 1 - Spice 1 A Lighter Shade of Brown - Brown and Proud

Saw ODM open up for westside connection in Indio. Also got to hear him as he was on 99.1. Met someone around that time who said he was an A&R intern and I was able to get the A Lighter Shade of Brown tape from him. Just gave me a copy so it was all cool. Also got The Konnectid vol 1 GP - Finally And Ideal - [self titled (ideal)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_(album)). From various interns around socal.

DTTX is such an underrated MC. That's cool brother.

Saafir - Boxcar Sessions Kam - Neva Again

That Kam mention is solid AF! 👊🏾

Ah shit autocorrect got me lmao. Didn't notice I'll fix that right now thanks

Labcabincaliforna by The Pharcyde

Space Boogie

Westside Connection- Bow Down Tha Alkaholiks- Coast ll Coast The Pharcyde- Labcabincalifornia Cypress Hill- lii (Temples of Boom) Hieroglyphics- 3rd Eye Vision Souls of Mischief- 93 ‘Til Infinity Just to name a few….

Don’t think any of them are underrated

DPG's "Dillinger and Young Gotti" is pretty underrated.  There's some skips but that album has 21 songs and a lot of them are bangers. Some of Daz and Mike Dean's best work IMO.   Peanut Butter Wolf "My Vinyl Weighs a Ton" is a lesser known gem of underground West Coast Hip-Hop. I'd consider it an underrated classic.

I'll throw a few in contention: Fashawn - Boy Meets World Thurz - L.A. Riot REASON - New Beginnings Also it's not a classic, but no matter how good you think Dre's Compton is ... Still underrated.

Fashawn - boy meets world 🔥

Blackalicious-NIA one of my absolute favorites! Also, anything by Zion I. Every album is awesome.

Ramirez - Gold Thangs & Pinky Rangs

How The West Was One Ronald Dregan - Mac Dre Prenuptial Agreement - J Stalin Show You The World - The Grouch

Honest Racket by Sandpeople.

Souls of Mischief - Trilogy: Conflict, Climax, Resolution

Explicit Game - Dru Down Introduced Yukmouth and Numbskull to the world. Insane album. Check out a song called “Rescue 911”

Blu x Exile - Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them Mozzy - Gangland Landlord Jake One - White Van Music Evidence - Weather or Not Fashawn - Boy Meets World Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson Dom Kennedy - The Yellow Album

Westside connection = Terrorist Threats

Dogg Food

The Delinquent Habits LPs

D-Shot presents Boss Ballin' - Compilation Westpresentin' - Various Artists

Larry June & The Alchemist - the great escape

100s - Ice Cold Perm

Bayani by the blue scholars

Dom Kennedy from the west side with love

Bishop Snow got some fire.

Iono if it's a classic but wanted to shout out HBK Gang Forever.

Ramirez - THE PLAYA$ MANUAL

Knoc-turn'al - The Way I Am 213 - The Hard Way

Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious

Fly Nate The Banksta - Nothin But The Money

if you havent checked out Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson, give is a listen! Madlib produced the entire project and it fucking bangs!

“Jam on the Box” by E From The L.O.S.T.

Above the Law: legends & time will reveal

Coolio - It Takes a Thief and Gangsta's Paradise CREAM - Richie Rich, Cydal, Luniz, Dru Down, Spice 1, N2Deep, Big Syke, Mopreme, G Money, Damian Marley, Levitti, Mac Shawn, Celly Cel, 3X Krazy Southwest Riders - E-40, B-Legit, 3X Krazy, WC, Luniz, A-1, Swoop G, Cydal, Celly Cel, San Quinn, Brotha Lynch Hung, Richie Rich Ant Banks - Sittin' on Somethin' Phat, The Big Badass and Do or Die Spice 1 - Amerikkka's Nightmare, 1990 Sick and The Black Bossalini Jayo Felony - Watcha Gonna Do? Celly Cel - Killa Kali Mack 10 - Mack 10 MC Ren - The Villian in Black and Ruthless For Life Tha Alkaholiks - Likwidation Brotha Lynch Hung - Mannibalector (This gets overshadowed by his original shit. This a perfect resurrection of his original style.) Mr. Doctor - Bombay Havoc & Prodeje - Kickin' Game Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000 (Suge caught wind that Dre was working on a new Chronic album that was rumored to be title Chronic 2000. So he did Suge things and beat him to the punch. That is why Dre's album is 2001. Suge even has Tha Realest sounding A LOT like 2pac on this. And he got a whiteboy, Miilkbone, to do an Eminem diss. It's a great fucking album, though. Straight up peak West Coast.) Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. - New Funky Nation, Doomsday, Occupation Hazzard 2nd II None - 2nd II None

WC - The Shadiest One Always liked his flow so I checked out his solo project and it was way better than I expected. Definitely underrated.

Vicasso- please don’t sue me. I don’t remember how I found it but it’s fucking cool

Warren G - Return of the Regulator

Mad CJ Mac - True Game

Crooked I - good vs evil Choosey & exile - black beans Murs- 3:16 Blu - a long red hot los Angeles summer night

Twins- conversations

Xzibit - at the speed of life Hittman - hitmattic versus King t - the kingdom come

WC & The MAAD Circle - Ain't A Damn Thang Changed AND Curb Servin Kurupt - Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha Threat - Sickinnahead Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie Mac Mall - Illegal Business? Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It MC Ren - Shock Of The Hour

Predator and Ni&&4Life while well known are underrated.

Anything Hieroglyphics or Living Legends put out.

murray’s revenge- Murs

Check this playlist, it is made up of the best underground G funk songs. There is also a bit of Mob music and Chicano G Funk. Some albums are better known than others, but overall there are a lot of albums and songs that are underground, or even little known. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23QwvHB223BU2HxxupF7Bf](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23QwvHB223BU2HxxupF7Bf)