I always run across new or misdirected fans at college frat parties with comments like:
"I don't listen to mainstream, I listen to underground stuff like Atmosphere."
He's like the lazy man's underground hero. The people just recently introduced into underground hip hop usually champion him, as if there aren't other acts.
Atmosphere so-called underground albums get reviewed in Entertainment Weekly
The best album this was year was from Atlanta, Cunninglynguists - A piece of Strange. Then there is GZA - Grandmasters, Cage, Little Brother, Sean Price, Buckshot,