Anticon why

Believing that rap needs a healthy alternative underground to counter mainstream hip-hop, Anticon is a collective loosely modeled after the American indie rock movement. Their origins started with the Live Poets, a crew based in Maine in the early '90s that was led by Sole. After releasing their own records and trying to create a buzz in the industry, he became disenchanted with the East Coast scene and began seeking other areas of the country with a similar offbeat attitude.

Although the four MCs had only briefly known one another, they shared a common vision, so they began to look for others who might be interested in starting a label with them. The core group of eight came together over the next year, and by the end of they had started Anticon, with Sole and Doseone acting as the unofficial "leaders.

Sole worked out a deal with Caroline Records, and soon they were distributing Anticon's first singles and compilations in limited release. A number of New York underground MCs, including El-P and members of Company Flow , criticized their records and had a brief press war with Sole , but they were otherwise winning over new listeners with their offbeat approach.

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