Los Angeles-based trumpeter and composer Josef Leimberg had an extended réamounté before he became recognized to a broader market through his focus on Kendrick Lamar’s platinum-certified, Grammy-winning To Pimp a Butterfly. He appeared through the early ’90s as an associate from the short-lived rap group Mad Kap, Ruler Tee associates …

The inventor from the art of “krumping,” Tommy the Clown — aka Thomas Johnson — was created in the town of Detroit, but raised in the tumultuous South Central section of Los Angeles, a location whose reputation for violence and instability helped motivate Johnson to consider — and finally invent …

Hip-hop maker and entrepreneur Donald “XL” Robertson was created and raised in Fresh Orleans, home to understand P’s Zero Limit, a label Robertson saw grow from infancy to infamy. He became an in-house maker for No Limit in 1999, and over another two years made an appearance on yellow metal- …

Unlike fellow Lengthy Seaside rapper Snoop Dogg, Sareem Poems doesn’t glorify persistent and one-eight-sevens on undercover cops, but instead preaches positive Christian values in his rhymes. After obtaining his feet damp as an associate of L.A. Symphony alongside Pigeon John, he released Blooming Seems beneath the pseudonym Poems (brief for …

A local of Flint, MI, Jab (given birth to Joseph Gamache) was introduced to hip-hop young. After honing his delivery emulating affects like N.W.A., Snoop Dogg, and Nas, he became seriously interested in his own composing. He sharpened his rhyming abilities as a fight rapper in Flint, earning several contests …

Regardless of the popular decrease of gangsta rap on the latter part of the 1990s, the design continued to be vital in pouches from the West Coast in to the 21st century. Obviously, the surroundings that affected gangsta’s original introduction never went aside. But the constant marketability from the genre …

Nick Vehicle de Wall structure, aka Afrojack, joined Tiësto and Armin van Buuren in the type of globetrotting DJs, suppliers, and remixers to emerge from the burgeoning Dutch dance music picture. Given birth to in Spijkenisse in 1988, he started playing the piano at age group five, but after obtaining …

Located in Memphis, TN, rap duo Lord T & Eloise are pioneers of “aristocrunk,” a method that incorporates hip-hop, party rap, and crunk to alternately commemorate and satirize the lives and lifestyles from the super-wealthy, particularly those created into older money families. Lord Treadwell (Lord T) and Maurice Eloise XIII …

Beatmaker, television sponsor, mixtape presenter, and all-around music business owner, Scott Keeney is way better recognized to hip-hop followers while DJ Skee. Given birth to in NEW YORK but elevated in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Skee relocated to LA, California after senior high school to become nearer to the music business. …

Although tours with Snoop Dogg, the overall game, and Madonna didn’t come until after her appearance in the 2005 film Rize, which chronicled the lives and competitions of a few of South Central Los Angeles’ top krump dancers, Miss Prissy (called “the Queen of Krump” in the film), created Marquisa …