Tag Archives: Hardcore Rap

Rapper and chief executive of M-Squad Entertainment, J. Ward (aka Jay Ward) pursued a profession as a single designer in 2015 after some deaths and wellness scares shook up his perspective. Previously preferring a low-key, behind-the-scenes part, promoting performers on his label (just like the 7hunna Blocc Boyz team) and …

A little collective out of Memphis, Da Survivors debuted in 2000 using the album Bloodstream, Perspire and Tearz on Drill down Dat Files. The record presented work from Task Pimp, AYG, and G-Nutts, amongst others.

His gutter, rough-edged baritone and rugged raps instantly recognizable, Brooklyn MC Rock and roll (b. Jamal Bush), nicknamed the “Rockness Monstah,” was the preferred half of middle-‘90s rap duo Heltah Skeltah. As associates of bigger underground collective the TRAINING Clik, he and partner-in-rhyme Ruck, who later on became better referred …

Hardcore rapper Caffeine got his initial taste of popularity along with his appearance on Spice 1’s 1997 recording Black Bossalini. 2 yrs later on, he released his debut recording, Things in the overall game Done Transformed, on Jive Information, which featured looks by Noreaga, Chyna Doll, Kurupt, and As well …

Queens, NY-based hardcore rapper Capone was created Kiam Holley. While portion a prison word, he befriended fellow inmate Victor Santiago; upon their discharge, the duo rechristened themselves Capone-N-Noreaga and in 1997, released their debut LP, The Battle Survey. Parole violations shortly sent Holley back again to the slammer, as Noreaga …

Staten Island’s four-man staff Icewater is led by Polite, a rapper who would have been an associate from the Wu-Tang Clan if it wasn’t for the actual fact that he was incarcerated as the Wu were first getting agreed upon to a label. A longtime friend of Wu member Raekwon, …

Perhaps one of the most important, famous, as well as infamous players in the mixtape video game, Play certainly lives up to his moniker because of some high-profile legal complications. Play began his profession in hip-hop in his indigenous Philadelphia beneath the name DJ Play. It had been in Philly …

Surviving in Atlanta but originally from Queens, NY, rapper/entrepreneur Soar Ty can be an A&R consultant in Sony/Columbia Records as well as the professional maker of hip-hop music for the strike tv program Empire. Created Tyshawn Johnson, he was associated with the Desert Surprise team along with DJ Idea? and …

Rap trio Nuthouse specialized in the type of turn-of-the-millennium underground hip-hop driven by technique and rhyming abilities instead of gangsta clichés. Pursuing an independent one discharge, their debut, Deez Nutz (EP), was released in the springtime of 2000.

The Queensbridge hip-hop trio Bravehearts first emerged in 1998, having a track for the soundtrack towards the Buzz Williams film Stomach. Following that, the Nas protégés shifted to his posse recording QB Finest, and found their monitor “Oochie Wally” proceed yellow metal. Jungle, Wiz, and Equine then began focusing on …