on the anticon tip - has anyone else checked out Hymie's Basement? it's on lex, a division of warp, and it's one of the guys from clouddead and somebody else (sorry, i'm not really hip to this scene, man). anyway, it's extremely verbose with really strange/cool production featuring lots of queasy piano loops. it was one of those listens where i was more intrigued than anything else. i'm still not quite sure if i really liked it, but it was interesting enough to go back to at least once. i don't know if it even actually qualifies as hip hop. too.......something....avant-garde? (at least for hip hop) yes, i'm white. so are the guys in hymie's basement. does that matter? and the same can be said of MCs. it irritates me that when i tell people that i listen to some hip-hop, it is things like eminem or black-eyed peas they immediately imagine. the possibilities of rythmic word play are only now being charted. i will be very surprised if doseone ( of themselves, cLOUDDEAD etc) does not fast become one of the most important artists of recent times. not to mention other MCs really streatching the medium: Sage Francis, Noah23, and, most recent effort excluded, Aesop Rock.