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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 …

Blessed Adam Momodou Eriksson Taal in Sweden on August 1, 1983, MC Adam Tensta remains to be based in the united states of his delivery, and released his initial record, It’s a Tensta Matter, over the K-Wrek label in past due 2007. The record spawned two Best 20 singles in …

Among the initial Norwegian rap functions to rap entirely in Norwegian (defeat out with a 12 months by Stale Stiil’s Yo), Gatas Parlament took in the mantle of political rap within their homeland and held it all since their inception. Created in 1993 (though renamed themselves Gatas Parlament in response …

Vocalist Mike Posner launched his profession at Duke University or college, where he balanced his undergraduate research in sociology and business along with his music practices. Like fellow undergrad Asher Roth, Posner started producing melodic pop-rap tunes for the faculty crowd, filling up his music with recommendations to fraternity tradition, …

Ludwig Göransson is a Los Angeles-based Swedish musician most widely known for his often playful film and tv scores. Göransson was raised having a musician dad and started music lessons at a age. Reared mainly on pop/rock and roll, he branched into jazz and traditional in his teenagers, and continued …

Acquiring his name from a figure in movie The Goonies, Chicago-based DJ/producer Copperpot, aka Chester Copperpot, found underground rap’s fore strongly affiliating using the developing U.K. hip-hop picture, where his preliminary success started. Citing more information on disparate influences which includes Duran Duran and DJ Leading, the producer items collectively …

Bike for 3! is an extended distance cooperation between Canadian rapper Buck 65 and Belgian electronica manufacturer Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. Given birth to Richard Terfry in Support Uniacke, Nova Scotia, Buck 65 can be an underground choice rap veteran who produced his full-length debut in 1995 using the record …

The underground Los Angeles-based duo of MC Blu (b. Johnson Barnes) and DJ/manufacturer Exile (b. Aleksander Manfredi) gained widespread acclaim correct from the gate using their debut record, Below the Heavens (2007), which critics crowned as the apparently perfect relationship of Blu’s everyday-struggle raps and Exile’s Pete Rock and roll- …

Substantially involved with a variety of disciplines — social activism, theater acting, and spoken word poetry — Michael “Mike-E” Ellis usually discovers methods to incorporate almost all into his uplifting, Afrocentric hip-hop. The Detroit-based MC was in fact given birth to in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and relocated to the U.S. …