L’Roneous

Being truly a free-thinking musician in the 21st century world of highly overexposed hip-hop sometimes equated to being truly a persona non grata. Even though many of hip-hop’s reputed luminaries chose never to rock and roll the fishing boat when industry fight lines were attracted, some artists thought we would forego the mainstream entirely. This was your decision of several a talented underground MC/manufacturer who stuck with their weapons and produced their own make of music on smaller sized labels that could not force these to kowtow towards the needs of the marketplace. The Bay Area’s L*Roneous is certainly one such musician that thought we would paddle his method upstream with an abstract design similar to fellow North Coastline forerunners Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Souls of Mischief and Los Angeles’ the Pharcyde and Freestyle Fellowship. L*Ron’s limited-release debut, “Imaginarium,” originally surfaced in 1998 on Sea Floor Records, however the MC’s mike mastery was just witnessed by a little circle. The design was lucid however leaked with hallucinogenic abstraction and tongue-twisting plane tickets of extravagant. L*Ron’s metaphorical madness was an ideal fit for youthful manufacturer DJ Zeph’s acidic B-boy is better than. The selected few who could actually place L*Ron’s name and verbal template to their memory space banks wished for the sake of hip-hop that he’d be noticed from once again. In the past due ’90s, the MC continued to establish contacts with many of the Golden State’s underground mainstays (Task Blowed, Living Legends) and caused such performers as Freestyle Fellowship’s Mikah9 and Abstract Rude. However in conditions of heavy studio room function, the cryptic MC held things mostly around the hush, liberating just a few singles in Japan and on underground outposts in the us occasionally. Fledgling Bay Region label 6months Distribution got blowing wind of L*Ron’s real talents and produced concerted efforts to provide the designer his due publicity. Sense that L*Ron’s avant-garde design of 1998 experienced discovered its ripple with time which the underground had a need to reclaim a few of its plundered principalities, the label produced programs to reissue the artist’s Imaginarium recording in June of 2002.