Tag Archives: Alternative Rap

Quasimoto may be the utterly bizarre alter ego of creation wizard/MC Madlib (given birth to Otis Jackson, Jr.), among the leading underground companies over the Western world Coast hip-hop picture. Madlib got his focus on the Oxnard, California-based Lootpack, which documented an acclaimed record, Soundpieces: Da Antidote, for Peanut Butter …

Queen Latifah was definitely not the first feminine rapper, but she was the initial one to be a bona fide superstar. She had even more charisma than her predecessors, and her solid, smart, no-nonsense persona produced her arguably the very first MC who could correctly be referred to as feminist. …

A member from the seminal ’90s rap trio the Fugees, Pras’ single profession didn’t rise towards the same levels as those of his co-workers, Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill, partly because he concentrated more on acting than music. Of Haitian descent (like his cousin Wyclef), Pras was created Prakazrel Michel …

Pigeon John can be an underground MC having a genre-fusing design and positive lyrics. He’s sometimes tagged a Christian rapper due to his positive communications and referrals to God, but with very easily relatable subject material and musical affects drawing from over the spectrum of rock and roll and pop …

Chicago rapper Psalm 1 was created Christalle Bowen within the Windy Town suburb of Englewood, while a teenager she sang in her church choir and analyzed a number of musical instruments. She found out hip-hop in middle college, witnessing fledgling rappers like Common and everything Natural at regional events, even …

Large Panda are an underground rap trio from LA affiliated with alternate rap icons People Beneath the Stairs. Made up of rapper/makers Newman (created Alex Newman in Seattle), Maanumental (Jamaan Mclaren; Seattle), and Chikaramanga (Chikara Kurahashi; Tokyo, Japan), the trio individually released the ’88 Remix (2002) 12″ EP before becoming …

The stepdaughter of jazz trailblazer Don Cherry, vocalist Neneh Cherry forged her own groundbreaking mixture of pop, dance, hip-hop, and R&B, presaging the emergence of both alternative rap and trip-hop. She was created Neneh Mariann Karlssson on March 10, 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden, the girl of Western world African percussionist …

Area of the talented and frequently hilarious Dirty Loop collective, Radioinactive debuted around the Western Coast rap picture within the mid-’90s by showing up with VACATION CABIN (aka 7 Imaginary Gypsys: Murs, Eligh, Scarub) and recorded a set of well-received EPs (with the hip-hop underground a minimum of), “Fotractor” and …

As the feminine person in hip-hop’s Flipmode Squad (which also counts Busta Rhymes, Rampage, and Lord Possess Mercy among its rates), Rah Digga is among rap’s most prominent females MCs. Though her rapping is certainly hard-hitting, Digga’s history is surprisingly steady. Born in NJ, she attended an exclusive college in …

Mixing Twista’s rate, De La Soul’s D.A.We.S.Y. Age group attitude, and the present day swagger from the Technology N9ne-driven underground, rapper R.A. the Rugged Guy is a popular guest celebrity for famous brands Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang, and Notorious B.We.G., but his personal discography is remarkably slim. One cause could possibly …