Artfull Dodgers

Flint, MI, indie rappers B-Gozza (Brady Gasser) and Jackpot (Rex Demski) founded the Artfull Dodgers (the name deriving from a personality in Oliver Twist) in 1996 to be able to continue building music, since their previous, bigger staff, collectively called the Juggernaut, had dissolved. The duo’s initial work, the Dusted Globe EP, appeared quickly the next season on Midwestern Union Information, and their debut full-length, Lazy Eye, premiered in 1999. Compliment from regional press and their underground one, “One Mic After that Pass,” provided Gozza, who doubles being a manufacturer, and Jackpot momentum to tour through the entire Midwest, executing alongside big brands like the Wu-Tang Clan, As well Brief, and Eminem. By adding DJ Sir True (Jake Greba), ex-compatriot of Detroit’s Howling Diablos, because the third public member in 2001, the Artfull Dodgers came back the next season with Second Blowing wind. Boasting productions from His-Panik (of Chicago’s reliable Molemen) as well as the Ann Arbor, MI-based Laboratory Teknicians plus visitor performances from J.U.We.C.E. and Killah Priest, the record elevated their press insurance and gained them additional accolades on the way, earning Album of the entire year at Detroitrap.com’s Hip-Hop Honours. After bombarding the punk crowds from the Vans Warped Tour making use of their subsonic boom-bap music in 2004, DJ Zack Daniels changed DJ Sir True, who departed the trio in 2006 for single tasks. The Artfull Dodgers’ third LP, From the Credenza, premiered in 2007.