Tag Archives: East Coast Rap

Alongside fellow Harlem-based player Cam’ron, Jim Jones founded the Diplomat label, house towards the Diplomats/Dipset and several of this crew’s prolific solo activities. Though even more of a businessman and behind-the-scenes number than an MC (he was also called a movie director of A&R at Warner GROUP in early 2005), …

Within the fantastic age MC-and-DJ tandem Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, the “Kool Genius of Rap” enjoyed an effective and, most importantly, influential run through the past due ’80s and early ’90s before getting into a fitful single career. Blessed Nathaniel Wilson on July 20, 1968, in Queens, NY, …

Biz Markie’s inclination toward juvenile laughter and his fondness for goofy, tuneless, half-sung choruses camouflaged his true abilities being a freestyle rhymer. The Biz might not have been in a position to convert his outrageous rhyming abilities to tape, but what he do record was worth it in its way. …

Terrifically skilled MC Lin Que Ayoung recorded mainly because Isis for a short spate through the early ’90s. Her 1990 recording, Rebel Spirit, was made by the users of X-Clan. And since that group’s Teacher X required the mic after nearly every verse, it had been an X-Clan recording in …

Brooklyn MC J-Live 1st garnered notice using the launch of his 1995 solitary “Bragging Writes.” Delivering his thoughtful lyrics confidently and simplicity, J-Live’s rapping was solid and his soul-inflected grooves instantly appealed to followers of underground hip-hop. A yr later he adopted up with another strike, “Hush the Masses,” and …

Chicago indigenous and self-styled street poet Lateefa famous her 17th birthday in 1997, unaware a visitor at her party, Rashawnna Man, would quickly become her tightest partner in friendship in addition to in a shared pursuit for hip-hop stardom. Rashawnna, or Shawnna, as she’s known, may be the girl of …

The Boston rap crew Kreators comprised G Squared, Jayson, Big Juan, and XL; their debut album, No Contest, made an appearance over the Bomb HIPHOP label in mid-1999.

Created in Kingston, Jamaica and bred in the brand new York Town borough of Brooklyn, Chubb Rock and roll — known for his authoritative and nimble circulation, in addition to an imposing framework — was an integral rap artist from the past due ’80s and early ’90s. He went to …

Marcus Garvey, creator from the united Negro Improvement Association manifested his concepts by creating the Dark Star shipping range, made to repatriate blacks to Africa. Garvey’s politics vision not merely motivated Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s music group name, but a lot of their thematic worries regarding the African-American community. …

Rock and roll and Ron Dark are an American rap duo whose 1989 record Stop the planet made the U.K. graphs.