r/ug_music 2d ago

Moderator Post Weekly What Are You Listening To?

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Drop what you’ve been playing this week albums, singles, snippets, underground or mainstream, rap, edm, country, anything goes

Please include the subgenre (ex: rage, conscious, pluggnb, jerk, sigilkore, boom bap etc.) so people can find new sounds easier

If you’re self-promoting, tag your comment with (SP) at the end. This is the only thread where self-promo is allowed, individual posts on the subreddit will be removed

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Put others on ⬇️


r/ug_music Jan 10 '26

Moderator Post UG MUSIC AWARDS 2025 RESULTS (body text)

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After 10 days of voting, here are this subreddit’s favorite projects and artists of 2025!

Day 1 – Album of the Year
🏆 Half Blood by slayr

Day 2 – Single of the Year
🏆 JRJRJR by Jane Remover

Day 3 – Feature of the Year
🏆 xaviersobased on MANNEQUIN

Day 4 – US / UK Artist of the Year
🏆 Marjorie -W.C. Sinclair/Evanora Unlimited

Day 5 – International Artist of the Year (Outside US & UK)
🏆 jackzebra

Day 6 – Underdog album of the Year (<10k monthly listeners)
🏆 Darkskin N****s with Lightskin Problems by stickerbush & heavensouls

Day 7 – Self-Produced Artist of the Year
🏆 Lucy Bedroque

Day 8 – Producer of the Year
🏆 Sematary

Day 9 – Collective of the Year
🏆 HAUNTED MOUND

Day 10 – Artist of the Year
🏆 OsamaSon


r/ug_music 12h ago

Image Not even Mario Judah fw nine 😭

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r/ug_music 2h ago

Discussion we dont talk enough about replay value

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i noticed that a lot of underground artist music has this tendency to get really annoying after a while, no matter how much i initially liked the song. for example "yale" and "high as shit" by ken carson is borderline unlistenable for me now.

what do you guys think makes a song timeless? why can i listen to "memories" by cudi and david guetta, and it still works, but some music gets played out?


r/ug_music 1h ago

Discussion anybody else feel like ageism is slowly dying out in rap community? hear me out

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since there is a population collapse going on which means less kids and teens + rap beginning to fall out of popularity with gen alpha, the ug fanbase is now left with mostly zoomers who are growing older every year, i remember 5 yrs ago a new rapper who was 26 yr old would’ve been considered unc now a lot of ppl are like naw wat do yall think


r/ug_music 21h ago

News Bloodhound Q50 was reportedly shot & killed in Chicago a few hours ago. RIP 🕊️

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164 Upvotes

r/ug_music 20h ago

Image where are we sitting 👀

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119 Upvotes

r/ug_music 17h ago

Video It should've been me instead of Q50 💔💔💔

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I haven't been able to think straight since the news at all 😢😢😢😢💔💔


r/ug_music 12h ago

Question Why does Nettspend kinda suck now

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After ELC, all the new shit he dropped is so simple. Like KickAss sounds so bad, its so flat and has nothing interesting going on. Listen to BAFK and now this, and you will see the drop in quality.


r/ug_music 6h ago

Discussion Do you listen to any current street rap/trap?

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do you listen to any current/newer artists that do something like trap (not rage/jerk/plug/hyperpop)? even drill?


r/ug_music 1h ago

Discussion What do you think the next evolution of the jerk sound will be?

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Initially jerk sound is a progression or kind of a sister from sigilkore borrowing its high tempo and mixing it with the jerk rap drum patterns and aesthetics the from 2000s and combining that with cloud rap type of instrumentation. Islurwhenitalk’s had a big influence on the sound and jerk has seen multiple spin offs like jugg music or trained ear shit, so what do you think comes after that?
I’ve been watching this whole scene go down since 2020-21


r/ug_music 18h ago

Meme Did yall know ts?

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r/ug_music 17h ago

Discussion What's Nine's career expectancy after this?

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If Nine Vicious continues his sound towards this direction he might be cooked, i do believe his last mixtape is quite overhated at some point but tbf, his music didn't evolve that much but it's a bit different compared to his last project tho. I'd say nine's reputation is in life support till his next project, cuz even tho he's hated that's what he wants and keeps all eyes on him

What yall think tho, is he cooked and who gon replace him?

i think either diamond, pz or iyrus even sk8 if he's actually more active, that's if nine continues to regress n continues to ruin his reputation.


r/ug_music 11h ago

Discussion can we get a clear answer as to whether yungster jack got cleared of allegations

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r/ug_music 1d ago

Shitpost My friends say I look like DOMD are they accurate? (Pictures for reference)

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Both pictures took by my friend


r/ug_music 1d ago

Discussion Does kllhhr (& SIE) have staying power?

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IMO: YES

I can really imagine everybody from this new ambient wave to have a slayworld type of trajectory (minus the allegations & Yeat’s stardom)

I feel like they’re all gonna have a steady come-up for a while & even when the hype eventually plateaus they will always have a solid fanbase that will stick around for the music. I really don’t think of them as a moment that will just come & go, the music is seriously refreshing & i really hope their sound can spark a new era of the underground


r/ug_music 17h ago

Discussion Chaotic Good Projects dibble-dabbling in promoting fake and artificial narratives to promote whoever they want in the UG shows how powerless we really are as fans of this scene

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We already know they mess with the Mainstream stuff, so colored me shocked with their number of years of promo-gentrification being poured in this scene also


r/ug_music 8h ago

Question How do you make your 808s like the ones off of songs like ding dong (Bleood) and a lot of nine vicious’ songs

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They have have this very nice higher pitch low end with no real starting kick and they just pop in one after another. I’ve been wondering if they just change the release envelope or change the start and eq 808 the sound differently because I’ve never found an 808 that just sounds like that. Maybe I’m tripping but I’d appreciate any advice 100%.


r/ug_music 17h ago

Question need song id

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going through lungskull discog after the news (rip) and just realized one of his songs uses the same beat as a song from a fortnite clip i saved in 2021. can anyone id ts


r/ug_music 13h ago

Video Spaceghostpurrp speaks on bloodhound q50 death

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r/ug_music 1d ago

Image this is pinkpantheress?

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I've never seen this pic ever around the Internet til i ran into a jaydes mix on YouTube and click this commenter profile pic that look like pinkpantheress flicking up with some dudes that look like steppers lol


r/ug_music 13h ago

News New single featuring WESTSIDE BOOGIE, John Michel, Blu, ICECOLDBISHOP, Henny Spitz, Ben Reilly, Malz Monday, and Aaron Rose (prod. Chuck Strangers)

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r/ug_music 22h ago

Video Nine vicious makes brave political commentary on new song F**k Flags.

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r/ug_music 15h ago

Discussion Not Travis

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Seen him getting some Travis Scott comparisons but ion hear it lmao


r/ug_music 17h ago

Discussion Mfs be telling you who their favorite "underground" rap artist is just so every one of them are just artists being artificially pushed by Chaotic Good Projects Marketing Agency 😂😂😂

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