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Das EFX’s wildly playful, rapid-fire stuttering — dense with rhymes and non-sense words and phrases — was one of the most exclusive and influential lyrical designs in early-’90s hip-hop. As the duo totally rewrote the MC guideline reserve, they themselves had been increasingly pegged being a one-dimensional novelty the much …

In addition to their standing among the best & most innovative organizations from hip-hop’s golden age group, Mantronix provided rap music using its initial man-machine, Kurtis Mantronik. A turntable grasp who integrated synthesizers and samplers in to the rhythmatic blend rather than succumbing to the favorite use of examples just …

Hip-hop’s original over weight lover, Large D parlayed an eminently likable persona and strong MC abilities right into a lengthy profession in music, tv, and film. Weighing in at over 250 pounds, his girth could conveniently have grown to be a one-note idea, but he mixed his lyrical problems to …

A favorite radio character and rap archivist, Crimson Alert is well known for breaking the professions of several in hip-hop’s top notch, including Boogie Straight down Productions, Dark Sheep, A Tribe Called Mission, as well as the Jungle Brothers. Crimson Alert started his profession by doing work for Afrika Bambaataa …

Rapper/composer Master (true name Keith Elam) initial rose to prominence because the “lyrical fifty percent” from the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, among the initial outfits that attemptedto fuse jazz with rap. After three albums by Gang Starr strike record store racks (1989’s FORGET ABOUT Mr. Nice Man, 1991’s Part of …

An important number in the wonderful world of hip-hop radio, Mr. Magic debuted in 1983 on WBLS-FM in NEW YORK with the 1st special rap radio display to become aired on a significant train station. Billing itself as Rap Assault, Magic’s show presented Marley Marl because the DJ and Tyrone …

A great number of Afrocentric, politically oriented rap groups released records through the later ’80s and early ’90s. Hardly any of those groupings had been on the amount of the hard-hitting X Clan, a Brooklyn-based collective that released a set of stellar albums — 1990’s Towards the East, Blackwards and …

Introduced via hip-hop producer Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor’s compilation disc Hurby’s Machine, self-styled “gangstress of rap” and Queens-native Antoinette matured from essentially only a tough-talking mama right into a more unstable, sometimes refreshing, sometimes attractive, and sometimes defiant rapper whose musical surroundings are equally divided among funk, go-go, hip-house, and …

This funk and jazz-rap combo all was raised in NEW YORK. Spin 4th, Jingle Bel, and D’Ranged & Broken documented their debut recording, Action Packed Experience, and it made an appearance on Mercury Information in 1994.

3rd Bass was among a still-small amount of white hip-hop performers to attain wide approval in the bigger community. Combined with the Beastie Guys, 3rd Bass demonstrated that white hip-hop wasn’t always going to turn into a watered-down, commercially exploitative rip-off of the original article, as a lot of white …