Through personal narrative, this chapter looks at white engagement of the hip-hop underground for insights into what mysticism from the margins looks like as a research method and practice. A signifier for Black American culture as it is expressed outside the radar of mainstream commercial markets, the hip-hop underground is a spatial metaphor for shared belonging between misfits in a wider cultural milieu that favors social uniformity. As a nod to the Underground Railroad, it gives reference to a legacy of survival in the face of cultural erasure, signaling the covert dissemination of community knowledge through the expressive channels of the African diaspora in song, word, and deed. In this way, the hip-hop underground is as much a concept as it is a practice rooted and routed in Black American ways of being and knowing. It thus offers an epistemological stance, cultural medium, and methodology through which to view the world from the outskirts and conduct ourselves accordingly as scholars. To illustrate, I turn to my own story as a white man engaged with the hip-hop underground as it manifested in the space of a Bay Area Black church.