Now this post isnt to debate the merits of hip hop,cause im a hip hop fan Im just looking for some good stuff I might not have heard. Let me know some joints or groups your listining to now. Not that radio pop 50 cent rap thats played on the radio 24 7 but some of that real underground or local flava.

if hip hop is at all "hot" in maine, i don't know about it. so i couldn't tell you.

8 foot sativa is a pretty popular local band, but they certainly arent rap

i could list a lot of locak bands that were great, but i thought he was only asking for hip-hop.

Now this post isnt to debate the merits of hip hop,cause im a hip hop fan Im just looking for some good stuff I might not have heard. Let me know some joints or groups your listining to now. Not that radio pop 50 cent rap thats played on the radio 24 7 but some of that real underground or local flava.

lookoutmfor Skinnyman...he is a white northern English white rapper wqho is v ery real..nd good. love him

I enjoy this music which few listen to....

http://www.live365.com/stations/hawaiianrainbow

I work in the D.C. area which is extremely cosmopolitan because of all the foreigners who circulate through and/or settle in the area. Bhangra beat is pretty big here, M.I.A. just did a concert that drew a lot of publicity. The Arabic-rock fusion coming out of France and some of the Mideastern countries is also popular.

There's also a huge Latin American community which wasn't here ten years ago, I'm talking about half a million people from El Salvador alone. Colombians like Carlos Vives and Shakira are hot. Chayanne, Marc Antony, and a third headliner whose name escapes me just did a triple-bill concert two weeks ago.

Man, Shakira IS hot. I went to that concert myself, she rocks as hard as Filter or Velvet Revolver. Barely one word of English.

My digital cable brings in sixty sound-only music channels and fifteen of them are in Spanish. One is called "Música de las Américas." It plays a good mix of English, Spanish, and Portuguese-language tunes.

I think that what you and I like is becoming increasingly irrelevant as far as the planet as a whole is concerned.