Mexican hardcore rap group Cartel de Santa produced their eponymous full-length debut in 2003 and grew ever more popular with each following album release. Founded in 1996 in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico, the group was originally made up of MC Babo (given birth to Eduardo Dávalos de Luna), MC …

The first main American-born, Spanish-rapping hip-hop artist to help make the major-label jump and discover widespread commercial acceptance, Don Dinero was original — for an instant, that’s, before a legion of followers like Pitbull followed in his footsteps basically found an eager marketplace for stateside Spanish-language rap. Granted, stateside Latino …

A very, extremely obscure instrumental funk group through the mid-’70s, Manzel would come across much fame years later on once numerous hip-hop suppliers sampled the drum intro from “Midnight Theme” and, subsequently, sent breakbeat enthusiasts scurrying for copies of the initial record. Throughout their heyday, Manzel didn’t total anything more …

Comprised of several ex-members of NJ hardcore metallists Mucky Pet, Pet dog Eat Pet dog was among the initial hard rock and roll outfits to check out the cue of Anthrax and test out fusing steel and rap together — a method that would later on become commonplace. Founding people …

Shadz of Lingo MCs Lingo and Kolorado and DJ Rocco met in 1986 in a Richmond, VA, senior high school. They initial worked jointly as rappers, but produced a commercial creation firm in 1988. The four transferred to Atlanta in 1991 and begun to record. Merging old-school posturing with new-breed …

Mexican Latin rap group Control Machete burst in to the regional rock and rap scene within the middle-’80s, building its debut using the release of Mucho Barato in July of 1997. Led by Fermín IV, Pato (later on Patricio Ch. Elizalde), and Plaything Kenobi (Plaything Hernández), the music group returned …

The rock-band using the play-on-words name Bass Is Base laid straight down roots in Toronto, Canada, in 1993. The threesome includes bass guitarist and vocalist Chin Injeti, keyboardist Ivana Santilli, and percussionist and rapper Roger Mooking, better known by followers because the Mystic. The group produced a name for itself …

Crazy Town’s music and image reflected probably one of the most powerful and volatile sociocultural environments on earth — LA — where in fact the metropolitan squalor from the South Central district exists just moments from the glitz of Beverly Hillsides. Spearheaded by way of a group of suppliers/vocalists, Seth …

Self-described “psychedelic hip-hop punk rock” outfit the Kottonmouth Kings emerged from Orange County, California, in 1994. Made up of previous Humble Gods frontman Brad Daddy X, rappers Saint Vicious and D-Loc, DJ Bobby B, and “visible assassin” Pakelika, the group initial attracted attention using the monitor “Suburban Lifestyle,” which made …

Snow Cube was the 1st person in the seminal California rap group N.W.A. to keep, and he quickly set up himself as you of hip-hop’s greatest and most questionable performers. From the outset of his profession, he courted controversy, since his rhymes had been profane and politics. As a single …