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As the stalwart indie MCs now performing under the name Mighty Underdogs, Lateef (from Latyrx and Maroons) and Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious) sling rhymes with effortless wit and style.

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Emerging two years ago with the anthemic "Watch How It Go Down," Massachusetts-bred MC Termanology seemed destined for the spotlight, and on his debut full-length, he enlists a cast of storied producers who defined the classic '90s East Coast sound (from Large Professor to Buckwild to Nottz).

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With his seventh solo album, this veteran Los Angeles MC really sounds like he's campaigning for higher office.

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"This ain't a place for a man of faith," raps RA Scion on his duo's ambitious debut album. The Kentucky-born MC inhabits two roles -- a Christian preacher struggling to manage a Southern farm and a Northwest B-boy navigating the music industry -- while his twisty parables mix radical politics with bleak confrontations between the working man and the system recalling a John Steinbeck novel.

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Alfred "Daedelus" Darlington is a proponent of Edwardian dandyism for the Internet age, and his electronic whimsy has been influenced equally by Coldcut's chopped-up beats and Bernard Herrmann's orchestral Vertigo. But on Love to Make Music To, the L.A.

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Michael "Killer Mike" Render follows a long tradition of fiery street rappers with Black Panther complexes. Best known for raining hardcore rhymes on OutKast's otherwise cheery hit "The Whole World," the bellicose Atlanta MC unveils a violent worldview on I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II.