Pursuing some underground function and cameo appearances, especially on Wyclef Jean’s “Eliminated Till November” remix in 1997, hardcore rapper Canibus feuded famously with LL Interesting J. The ensuing exchanges — Canibus’ “Second Circular K.O.” and LL’s “The Ripper Attacks Back again,” both spirited fight paths, garnered significant interest. Expectations were …

As much have begun to find, there is even more to Detroit rap than Eminem, ICP, Esham, and Kid Rock and roll. In fact, the town recognized to most because the birthplace of techno or because the house of Motown in fact possesses a little but growing rap scene powered …

Without doubt the to begin his kind, Bubba Sparxxx dumbfounded the hip-hop community — and immediately after, the mass marketplace — when he emerged away from nowhere with Timbaland in past due 2001. When his debut one, “Ugly,” strike urban radio, it had been unmistakably a Timbaland creation — the …

Raised in various elements of Atlanta and its own neighboring suburbs, Antoine Rogers, better referred to as Bobby Creekwater, was allured from the appeal of rap music. Following a yr of going to Clark-Atlanta College or university, he left the faculty books to enter the documenting studio room as one-half …

Hailing through the Brownsville portion of Brooklyn, Thirstin Howl III mixes his considerable lyrical skills with an offbeat love of life to generate his singular old college appear. Of Puerto Rican descent, Howl raps over filthy beats, both in Spanish and British, rotating out hysterical stories and impressing along with …

Boundary-breaking duo God-Des & She are mostly of the openly homosexual hip-hop artists to create any impact within the mainstream, because of their mixture of hard-hitting themes, Eminem-influenced lyrical delivery, and melodic soul-pop hooks. Rapper God-Des, the girl of the trombone professor dad who played for the Flintstones theme, along …

Dutch EDM producer Fedde Le Grand (given birth to in Utrecht in 1977) is most beneficial known for striking the top from the U.K. graphs using the 2006 one “Put THE HANDS Up for Detroit.” A DJ since his teenage years, Le Grand can be known for his creation and …

Daddy Yankee did a lot more than one to establish reggaeton like a marketable music design through the early 21st hundred years. Yankee’s achievement was so remarkable within the wake of his 2004 mainstream breakthrough, Barrio Fino — and specifically the international strike one “Gasolina” — that he transcended ethnic …

The production team referred to as da Beatminerz came collectively in the past due ’90s to rejuvenate hip-hop making use of their purist aesthetics, which appeared back again to the genre’s pioneering New York-based producers as opposed to the contemporary synthesizer-based sounds which were suddenly becoming typical. The five group …

Referred to as the Play Ruler (aka Slap YOUR PREFERRED DJ), DJ Kayslay rose to the very best of his field by refereeing a few of the most talked-about MC fights of the first 2000s, especially Jay-Z versus Nas and 50 Cent versus Ja Guideline, in his Streetsweeper mixtape series …