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Although she was created in South Africa, Jean Grae (genuine name Tsidi Ibrahim) will be a fresh Yorker by heart. The girl of two jazz music artists, Jean discovered an appreciation for many styles of music young. She went to the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Performing Arts being a vocal …

Area of the celebrated ’90s underground rap group Dark Moon (with manufacturer Bad Dee and fellow MC 5Ft), Buckshot released his initial solo record, The BDI Thug, in 1999 with Duckdown (which afterwards reissued an extended edition in 2003). In 2005, with help from manufacturer 9th Question (Little Sibling, Murs, …

The production team referred to as da Beatminerz came collectively in the past due ’90s to rejuvenate hip-hop making use of their purist aesthetics, which appeared back again to the genre’s pioneering New York-based producers as opposed to the contemporary synthesizer-based sounds which were suddenly becoming typical. The five group …

From his 1994 breakout on Jeru the Damaja’s “Mental Stamina,” Afu-Ra has fused classic East Coast hardcore using the sensitive, intelligent wordplay anticipated from a committed Rastafarian. He began much like every other young NY rapper, though his rhymes impressed Jeru the Damaja more than enough to add him on …

Based away from Harlem, NY, producer Ron Browz was initially brought in to the studio by way of a local hero, Big L. Browz got his big break when he developed the defeat for “Ether,” Nas’ well-known diss track targeted at Jay-Z. Since that time he spent some time working …

Regularly and rightly put into exactly the same context mainly because DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Kanye Western, J Dilla (aka Jay Dee) built and sustained a higher standing like a producer’s producer while maintaining a minimal profile. When Pharrell Williams made an appearance on BET’s 106 & Recreation area …

Within the mid-’90s, Sean Cost, known after that as Ruck, and partner Rock dropped their debut album, Nocturnal, because the rap outfit Heltah Skeltah throughout a time when East Coast hip-hop was delivering mainstream and underground classics remaining and best. Heltah Skeltah and the others of the collective, the TRAINING …