The Q-Tips were the blue-eyed soul music group that effectively launched the career of ‘80s balladeer Paul Adolescent. Better known in Britain for his or her live shows and thorough touring plan than for his or her scant few recordings, the Q-Tips’ breads and butter contains ‘60s soul addresses (specifically …

The longtime MC with pioneering alternative hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest, rapper Q-Tip was created Jonathan Davis in NEW YORK on November 20, 1970. While students on the Murray Bergtraum SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for Business Professions, he co-founded A Tribe Known as Mission in 1988 with fellow college students …

The one-time president for the brand new York Town branch from the radical black nationalist Country wide People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, M-1 caused some controversy in the underground rap scene as part of the critically acclaimed and ostensibly socialist Deceased Prez twosome. While he and Stic.guy were among brands, each …

Common (originally GOOD SENSE) was an extremely important figure in rap’s underground through the ’90s, keeping the advanced lyrical technique and moving syncopations of jazz-rap alive within an era when industrial gangsta rap was intimidating to obliterate everything in its path. His literate, smart, nimbly performed rhymes and politics awareness …

Getting the respect from the East Coast’s seminal numbers, DJ/producer Statik Selektah used his turntabling skills and ingenuity in PR and promotions to break a number of the region’s most encouraging artists, bearing his have influence around the national mixtape circuit. Given birth to January 23, 1982, in Lawrence, MA, …

The older brother of bassist Norman Watt-Roy, guitarist/singer Garth Watt-Roy was created in Bombay, India, in 1947. The family members moved to Britain just as rock and roll & move was taking main for the Sceptered Isle. From 1955 on, the old Watt-Roy sibling was raised in Highbury, North London, …

The stage name of singer/songwriter/producer Santi White, Santigold fuses punk, reggae, grime, and indie rock with electro. Originally dubbing herself Santogold — a nickname directed at her by close friends — her varied musical background is usually shown in acclaimed albums and singles including 2008’s Santogold and “L.E.S. Artistes.” Given …

From Big Daddy Kane, Whodini, the Fat Young boys, Biz Markie, and U.T.F.O. to Lil’ Kim, Jay-Z, the Junior M.A.F.We.A., Hurricane G, as well as the later Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.We.G. or Biggie Smalls, more information on rappers has symbolized Brooklyn over time — and in the 2000s, …

Michael F. Di Bella, term vendor for hire, musicologist, aspiring alchemist and co-founder from the C.A.W.L.M. Task(Collaborative Performers With Like Thoughts), has adopted many musical pathways. Michael got his begin in music journalism using the Detroit-based music publication, “Underground Soundz,” interviewing performers like the Fugees as well as the Pharcyde. …

Well known UK record label/shop run in Tooting, southern London by Johnny F, quite a while collector and fan of hip-hop music, which opened up in-may 1992. Liberty Grooves started by liberating breakbeat albums and materials from UK performers like the Gutter Snypes and Sniper, and in addition authorized a …