With his function in the pioneering hip-hop group Cypress Hill, rapper B Real became something of the hip-hop legend for a number of reasons. Most instantly, his brand rhyming style, offering an exaggeratedly nose whine along with a jazz singer’s skill at remaining simply behind DJ Muggs’ currently slow beats, …

While he debuted within the underground world of horrorcore and seemed destined to be always a future footnote, rapper Technology N9ne turned out to be an indie rap superstar. Along the way, he constructed his Unusual Music label right into a Psychopathic Records-styled empire with an associated loyal group of …

Paul Oakenfold may be the DJ, remixer, and manufacturer who did a lot more than any one else to break home music in Britain through the past due ’80s. During 1987-1988, Oakenfold hosted some crucial membership nights that presented a large number of Brits to accommodate music. Just a couple …

Slick Rick foreshadowed and epitomized the pimpster attitude of several rappers through the past due ’80s and early ’90s, with silver chains, his brand eye-patch, and recordings which were believe it or not misogynistic — “Deal with Her Such as a Prostitute,” for instance, became an underground strike in 1988, …

The childlike lo-fi pop sextet Sissy Club formed in 1994 once the core duo of singer Joy Ray and guitarist Courtney Holt — the son of Can Holt, the writer from the Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Lemon Tree” — delivered an impromptu performance in a friend’s party in LA. …

DJ Grandmaster Display and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop’s ideal innovators, transcending the genre’s party-music roots to explore the entire range of its lyrical and sonic horizons. Display was created Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958; he started rotating records as teenager growing up within the …

Marijuana-obsessed however prolific MC Berner released many mixtapes through the past due 2000s and early 2010s, the majority of which arrived with the San Francisco-based rapper’s very own Bern One label. Many of the discs — Drought Period (2008), Visitors (2009), Weekend at Bernie’s (2009), Drought Period 2 (2009), Blow …

With some hits that bundled gangster rhymes, weed talk, pop hooks, and slick creation, Pittsburgh, Pa rapper Wiz Khalifa went from breakthrough single (“Black and Yellow”) to feature film star (Mac and Devin Head to SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL) within the short span of 2 yrs. On the way there have …

Created Laouni Mouhid in 1981, La Fouine was raised in Trappes, a distant suburb of Paris. The youthful Mouhid grew up listening to a number of music, from Jacques Brel towards the Jackson 5, using a fondness for rap works like Snoop Dogg and NTM. He still left college at …

Experimental digital music producer Soaring Lotus, blessed Steven Ellison, is really a grandson of songwriter Marilyn McLeod (the co-writer of Diana Ross’ “Love Hangover”), and a great-nephew of pianist Alice Coltrane, and for that reason a cousin of saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Ellison produced beats for the Toon Network’s Adult Swim …