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Postman — in other words the task featuring the Anonymous Mis — was originally an organization named Postmen, and featured both Mis and G-Boah. That group, called after a Burning up Spear melody, was produced in 1993, and built a significant following over time. Their first one, “Cocktail,” premiered in …

Hip-hop poet Dark Ice began growing his terms of revolution back 1993 when he was referred to as Lamar Manson. A fascinating performer having a pro-family, anti-establishment message, Dark Ice worked well Philadelphia’s coffeehouse and poetry slam circuit hard, making himself a faithful local following on the way. It wouldn’t …

Born Wayne Andrew Reigart in Rock and roll Hill, SC, DJ Felli Fel was raised in Atlanta, moved along with his family members to LA as an adolescent, and started his career like a radio DJ in Dallas on K104. After 3 years in Dallas, he relocated to Power 106 …

Treatment is a white colored rapper who’s area of the Wu-Tang Clan team (however, not a member from the actual rap group). Created in 1972 as Ross Filler in Staten Isle, NY, he started writing tracks and poems at age seven, and by senior high school, was carrying out like …

Looking back again to hip-hop’s glory times as soon as 1990, Crusaders for Real Hip-Hop documented one album — Deja Vu, It’s ’82 — for Account. Founded by manufacturer Tony D, the group also included rappers Don Nots, Mr. Rules, and Rahzii.

For a decade, the rap trio Urban Thermo Dynamics (aka UTD) fell in to the “more a tale than a music group category.” A family group affair, Mos Def got teamed along with his young sibling DCQ and his young sister Ces in 1994 for UTD. The solitary, “My Kung …

Although their name means the hip-hop-sounding “Stone Deaf Productions,” SDP certainly are a genre-mixing duo from Spandau, Berlin who favor satirical lyrics and ridiculous videos. Shaped in 1999 by people Vincent Stein and Dag-Alexis Kopplin, SDP released themselves in 2002 with an record of demos, Angriff aus Berlin. In 2004 …

Common (originally GOOD SENSE) was an extremely important figure in rap’s underground through the ’90s, keeping the advanced lyrical technique and moving syncopations of jazz-rap alive within an era when industrial gangsta rap was intimidating to obliterate everything in its path. His literate, smart, nimbly performed rhymes and politics awareness …

Also called Jonathan Park, DFD, or simply simply Dumb, rapper Dumbfoundead delivers his comedic rhymes within an effortless style, a mixture that served him well while about the MC battle circuit. Created in Argentina but elevated in the Koreatown community of LA, Dumbfoundead first produced his name by fighting MCs …

Gimma is a Swiss rapper of regional dialect who have broke to mainstream achievement in 2006 with the very best Ten solitary “Hymna” from his fourth recording, We Gega d’Schwiiz. Furthermore to his single output, he’s an associate of the group OBK and associated with the Bauers collective, which also …