http://www.rhymesayers.com/
Can't find a single artist on this label that I dislike, and I'm not really a big hip-hop fan.
Most acts seem to write about internal revelation and real-life experience, spoken and sung in creative ways lain over well-thought out producing. It seems that some people in the hip-hop ACTUALLY understand music theory!
(No recycle beats and rapping about how much you love your giant piles of money or that strippers t!ts or shooting someone)
This is the stuff I listen to when I paint and I find a lot of creative inspiration in it.
Start with Grieves or Atmosphere for something more mellow or jump over to former Rhymesayer, Sage Francis for something a little more lyrically deep.
