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What are the bands that didn't get international recognition but still are absolute legends where you're from? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by tomjuggler to c/music

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I'll start - Tananas. It's basically the soundtrack to my early adulthood. They were the Dave Matthews band of South Africa.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Blue Scholars and Common Market were such a huge presence in Seattle if you were in your 20s in the around 2005-2010. Both bands had DJ/producer Sabzi and he was just straight fire, with talented intelligent MCs flowing over the beats, MC Geologic in Blue Scholars and MC RA Scion in Common Market. Both sounds were diametrically opposed to the shallow vapid hip hop that was popular at the time, and I had thought it was inevitable that they were going to break out big and put Seattle on the map for something other than grunge.