Although they predated the jazz-rap innovations of De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Digable Planets, the Jungle Brothers were hardly ever in a position to score with possibly rap fans or mainstream audiences, probably because of their embrace of a variety of styles — including house music, Afrocentric …

b. c.1973. US feminine rapper whose debut record was an acclaimed, thoughtful variant for the gangsta rap trip. LeShaun got become a solitary mother at age 18, encounters recalled in paths like ‘Youthful Girlz’, and brought maternal knowledge to carry on several her better slashes. The impact of Queen Latifah, …

During its 1989 discharge, De La Soul’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed because the future of hip-hop. Using its colourful, neo-psychedelic collage of examples and styles, in addition to the Long Isle trio’s low-key, smart rhymes and goofy laughter, the record sounded like nothing at all …

MC Lyte was among the initial female rappers to indicate the sexism and misogyny that often works rampant in hip-hop, often taking the topic at once lyrically in her music and helping open up the entranceway for such upcoming performers as Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott. Blessed and elevated in …

Award-winning singer Vickie Winans (given birth to Viviane Bowman) began her profession when she was a youngster, performing with family. Delivered the seventh kid of the still-growing family members, Winans grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Her whole family members was a musical one, and deeply spiritual aswell. She was no …

Gregory Abbott’s origins stem from Venezuela, his mother’s homeland, as well as the isle of Antigua, his father’s homeland; producing him a dual resident of the tiny tropical isle as well as the U.S., where he was created. His profession as an award-winning vocalist, composer, maker, and musician started in …

Weaving a seamless mixture of reggae and hip-hop, Mad Lion (given birth to Oswald Priest) produced probably one of the most influential seems of days gone by 2 decades. The receiver of the 1994 Resource award as Reggae Designer of the entire year, Mad Lion offers influenced similar-sounding recordings by …

Among rap’s most colorful and recognizable people, at various factors in his lifestyle Fab Five Freddy is a nationally exhibited painter, an professional, a screenwriter, a rapper, a graffiti musician, a manufacturer, and a bunch for MTV, each undertaking carrying Freddy’s brand zeal and charisma. We were young within the …

F.A.T.E. (a name produced from the term “for many that’s endured”) can be an R&B vocal group comprised of Tiffany “Tiff” Chisolm, Shaunesa “Timid” Walker, and Patricia “Precious” McKelvin. Chisolm and Walker fulfilled in senior high school in Shirt Town, NJ, and experienced the Harlem-based McKelvin if they auditioned for …

During his heyday, Shabba Rates was arguably typically the most popular dancehall toaster on earth. He was an enormous crossover success within the U.S., because of an openly industrial cross types of reggae and hip-hop, and to prominent duet companions like Maxi Priest, Johnny Gill, and KRS-One. All this brought …