underground

underground
1. (Underground) (765↑, 78↓)
Un•der•ground (un’der ground’), n., adj. 1) A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular [mainstream] media.

The mainstream media has a tendency to steal new ideas from the underground.

2. (Underground) (349↑, 47↓)
Art, opinion or organization that exists outside of mainstream society or culture. Also known as "independent" or sometimes "counter-culture".

Giff preferred the underground music scene in her area to the bland stuff that played on most radio stations.

3. (underground) (185↑, 103↓)
underground is like deeper beats, lyrics and soul to a song - commercial is like what get's played on the radio and is marketed to the masses - Britney's mainstream, Eminem is mainstream - even though anyone can make underground music they don't coz it doesn't sell like commercial stuff - underground IS deeper, more hardcore, more controversial, or whatever...

sup the chenist - dust c.d is underground.. you'll know the difference if you know your music... NB: It isn't underground because it hasn't hit mainstream yet - it's whole design is different to mass appeal.

4. (underground) (146↑, 81↓)
Does NOT have to be unknown, it can also be a rapper that was underground yet kept the style and became extremely popular and well-selling commercial material

Pharoahe Monch and Wu-tang clan have music that is not bombarded with commercial material yet sell heaps

5. (Underground) (117↑, 56↓)
in simple terms, the opposite of [mainstream]

underground rapper Canibus got some beef wit Eminem, who is mainstream.

Author: Marshall Mirzada http://underground.urbanup.com/379107
6. (underground) (78↑, 37↓)
Underground is about passion. of course the word is missused and abused . a true underground artist will create music/art from the heart as apposed to something tailored to a commercial market.an underground event organiser will still put on the event for the love of it even if its going to lose money... underground artists can have a long career out of the often distructive gaze of mainsteam media and earn money which is closer to someone with a good job than the millions of there commercial counterparts. where as a commercial artist will probably have a short shelf life

"I have been buying his records for 15 years, a true underground artist" "whatever happened to him , last year he was on every tv show , radio station and all the teenage girls had his tee shirt"

7. (Underground) (48↑, 17↓)
The London railway system. Also called the Metro or Tube.

We took the Underground from King's Cross to Covent Gardens.

8. (Underground) (16↑, 4↓)
The Space of matter beneath the ground. Mostly thought to be considered only the earth's crust layer.

When someone dies, they are sometimes buried 6 feet underground.

9. (underground) (6↑, 7↓)
those fucking annoying pimples that are like a solid mound protruding from your head, hurt like hell, yet don't have a head so you can't deal with them

you: [fml] this new pimple is giving me a headache friend: ouch, an underground?

10. (underground) (68↑, 78↓)
A twenty-first century marketing buzz word used to convince teens that the over-hyped, over-produced, corporate-friendly crap they listen to on the radio station everday is actually "unique, hip, different" or that they somehow aren't part of a target market in which they all obediently buy the same crap.

Yeah, that hot new underground rapper made his debut on TRL today.

11. (Underground) (11↑, 26↓)
underground is a term for a scene that has unknown artists to the mainstream world but very known to those who keep up with going to many places showing this sort of stuff. NOTE: unknown and underground are extremely different\!\!\!underground is a sound of it's own unknown is a band that has a mainstream sound but is *obviously* unknown

bonsai kitty is underground but shanghi sneeze is unknown because the sound mainstream...ish

12. (Underground) (35↑, 53↓)
Something I greatly overvalue in order to escape from my low self-esteem in order to be able to tell myself I am superiour to every form of life.

Someone1: Hi, have you met my friend Amar? Me(to self): He calls me his friend? How can that be? How can he possibly like me.. Oh wait it's in your head Amar.. it's in your head. Me: I listen to artists that are so underground they have 600 hits back on google, that's why I own you. I own, I own. Muahahah\! I own\! Bow before me\!\! Puny mortal\! Bow before me\! Someone2: Is he crazy? Someone1: Yes.

Author: Amar van Leeuwaarde http://underground.urbanup.com/1664385
13. (Underground) (5↑, 25↓)
If you ever get the chance to listen to an Underground CD called "The people of the stands" (very hard to find) it has a very good song called "Providence" and it cannot be found on Kazaa no matter what you're user level is.

Providence Just another day in the Life One way Road Track 4 on the CD named above Track 10 " " Great songs just waiting to be found.

14. (Underground) (6↑, 28↓)
A really cool Ben Folds song discussing how if you don't fit in, you just need to slap on some combat boots, heavy eyeliner, and a nose ring and now you're apart of the underground where you are accepted.

Hand me my nose ring... Show me the mosh pit\!

15. (Underground) (4↑, 26↓)
underground are like sub-cultures.the word underground was used because not many people knew about it not nobody its not many..
Author: ruicosta_dilivio http://underground.urbanup.com/302712
16. (Underground) (45↑, 69↓)
Opposite of aboveground, kthanks.

"The corpse is buried underground."

17. (Underground) (21↑, 49↓)
A place that exists in order to train up a resistance against today's youth culture. It is a place, full of truth, where you can find safety from the world and passion for God. The ministry statement of the Underground is: we are compelled to expose our generation to Christ, connect with them, exalt God together, and sharpen each other to impact all generations. www.safyouth.org

Brent: Hey, are you going to the Underground on Wednesday? Joey: Of course\!

18. (Underground) (9↑, 39↓)
something that no one knows...

god is underground\!

19. (Underground) (24↑, 69↓)
a mainstream group of people who all think they listen to superior music groups because noone else has heard them, mainly because they all suck. most-all musicians were once underground at one time or another. a group of people who dont understand tha society is a circle. you can only go so far away from the "mainstream" before you all look alike. for example, every riced out import, every "goth" every "slc punk wannabe" every "gangsta" and every single person who clains to be an individual, ends up looking and acting EXACTLY like everyone else like them

"yo check out my crx man\! it is totally pimped out and original\!" "whats oringinal about it? the fact that you havent put in glowing windshield sprayers YET?"

20. (Underground) (11↑, 72↓)
rappers who think they are not sell outs because they are "underground". Unable to sign with a major record studio. These people will usually eventually sell out, go bankrupt, or waste their meaningless lives complaining about how other rappers just talk about bling bling, [ho]s, and [cars].

Look at that underground rapper right there; I think he is a beggar or something

Author: arrogant atheist http://underground.urbanup.com/230841
Related: rap, music, hip hop, indie, punk, mainstream, tube, hardcore, hip-hop, rapper, rock, rave, london, techno, emo, metal, metro, alternative, hipster, scene, train, band, club, cool, dj, hip, hiphop, subway, death, juggalo, radio, dance, goth, mc, party, awesome, bass, secret, trance, urban
Last updated: 2012.03.01

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