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A hip-hop supergroup in the fringes from the genre, Hail Mary Mallon features MCs and manufacturers Aesop Rock and roll and Rob Sonic. Going for a name that referenced Mary Mallon, the real-life Typhoid Mary, Rock and roll and Sonic debuted the task on this year’s 2009 label compilation Definitive …

A longtime friend of Def Jux head El-P, rapper Murs initial appeared being a solo artist in 2003, after almost ten years of dealing with different groupings in the underground. Located in LA, his first one premiered in 1993, and originated from a self-released record by his initial group, 3 …

A hip-hop group from Minneapolis, Atmosphere focuses on rapper Slug (aka Sean Daley). The child of a dark dad and a white mom who divorced when he was an adolescent, Slug became entranced with hip-hop, graffiti, and breakdancing, and created the Rhymesayers collective (originally referred to as Headshots) with two …

A self-taught bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer, P.O.S. (which means a number of stuff, including Item of Society, Little bit of Sh*t, and Guarantee of Skill) spent the majority of his youth influenced with the energy of punk, drumming for Cadillac Blindside and performing and playing electric guitar for Building …

Rapper and activist Sibling Ali has become the prominent artists within the Rhymesayers label. A Midwesterner blessed Jason Douglas Newman, Ali spent a lot of his lifestyle living in several metropolitan areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, where he was initially presented to breakdancing and graffiti and rapping. Ultimately, his …

Maybe a mismatched pair, specifically to look at — a heavy-set, bully-looking guy along with a scrawny, nerdy type with thicker glasses — rapper Jimmy “Jael” Jamz (aka Major Jamz) and DJ/maker Bobby Evans (aka Destroy You Me You) comprise the hip-hop group Sibling Reade. Within their 1st musical outing, …

Flint, MI, indie rappers B-Gozza (Brady Gasser) and Jackpot (Rex Demski) founded the Artfull Dodgers (the name deriving from a personality in Oliver Twist) in 1996 to be able to continue building music, since their previous, bigger staff, collectively called the Juggernaut, had dissolved. The duo’s initial work, the Dusted …

Before Eyedea & Skills were an MC/DJ pair, these were Mike Larsen and Gregory “Potential” Keltgen, two friends from Minneapolis. In 1997, nevertheless, while still in senior high school, the duo started competing within the fight circuit, gaining identification from high-profile is victorious at 1999’s Scribble Jam as well as …

The Seattle-based Boom Bap Project, with MCs Karim (aka Nightclubberlang) and Destro Destructo, alongside DJ Tre, self-released their debut album, Circumstance Dictates, in 2001, though Tre was replaced by DJ Scene following the record arrived. Invited to execute on the 2002 Wintertime Olympics in Sodium Lake Town, UT, the trio …

A founding person in the Oldominion staff, Sleep was created and raised in Farmington, NM, and by age 9 he was writing and performing his very own rhymes, sometimes with years as a child friend and later on crew partner Onry Ozzborn. In the first ’90s Sleep produced his method …