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Called after Mars Blackman, a figure in Spike Lee’s NIKE JORDANS campaign from your ’80s, rapper Mars Dark got his begin in Omaha, NE, before shifting to N.Con.C. to focus on his hip-hop profession. Instead of putting your signature on a cope with Poor Young man or Def Jam, he …

Swedish hip-hop quartet Looptroop Rockers combine old-school, sample-heavy production with English-language rhymes. Produced in 1991 by high-school close friends Promoe (rapper Martin Edh) and Embee (DJ/manufacturer Magnus Bergkvist), Looptroop recruited CosM.We.C. (rapper Tommy Isacsson) in 1993 for the discharge of their debut EP, Superstars. Three Sicksteez implemented in 1995, the …

The Oakland-based Hieroglyphics are an underground rap collective who, at their finest, combine an offbeat sensibility with a solid grounding in fight rhyming, freestyling, and other hip-hop traditions. All of the users enjoy their personal separate professions — creator Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Informal, the Souls of Mischief, Extra Prolific, …

The progressive Southern trio CunninLynguists’ mix of witty lyrics and edgy production has made them a favorite of underground hip-hop fans. Before they teamed up, Deacon the Villain from Kentucky and Kno from Georgia had been already popular among the hip-hop underground for both their abilities over the mike and …

Blessed Felipe Coronel within a army medical center in Lima, Peru, in 1978, Immortal Technique moved to Harlem along with his parents when he was 2 yrs old. At age group nine he began rapping, though he didn’t begin to consider it more significantly until he is at high school. …

This duo of genre-bender pride has produced a name for itself in the Bay Area scene by successfully mixing spiritualism and hip-hop. Oakland’s MC Zumbi and DJ/manufacturer Amp Live mix hip-hop and trip-hop beats with lyrics centered on a note of unity, wish, and spiritual understanding. Although Zion I operates …

An outside-the-box MC and maker, Eligh was a significant contributor towards the advancement of Cali’s hip-hop underground within the mid- to past due ’90s as he helped build the audio of his team, the Living Legends, along with his productions. His motivation to make hip-hop music arrived in the middle-’80s …

The Grouch was a founding person in the Living Legends crew, a loose collective of MCs and DJs through the Bay Area, Japan, and European countries. The Living Legends eschewed the gangsta posing that dominated the hip-hop community, specifically on the Western Coast, and only clear-eyed raps about real-life problems. …

Alums from the open up mic and freestyle-rap circuits in L.A.’s hip-hop underground, Psychosiz, Dumbfoundead (Jonathan Stewart), and Open up Mike Eagle comprise the quirky, freewheeling trio Thirsty Seafood. Open up Mike, a Chicago indigenous, Dumbfoundead, Buenos Aires-born however Koreatown, L.A.-elevated, and Psychosiz most first met one another in the …