>>126839068
It might even be harder to make it as an underground hip-hop collective or artist now.
What you can do from absolute ground-zero has been nerfed pretty wild from places like Soundcloud and Bandcamp and a lot of indeh-rap fags that seemed to blow up and disappear without a trace had some very eerie connections if you just do a smidge of research, it's wild bro.

I used to be huge hip-hop dork but aside from trvebeard shit like dalek, scratch, illbient, and DJ Krush-esque instrumental beats I haven't really cared to revisit it in a while.
I think the oldest music-related book I have in my collection is:
"How To Rap" by Paul Edwards
I still remember the adorable exchange of my Sherman-lookin ahh buying the book in person from some black guy many years ago.