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Though these were not the first ever to synthesize jazz and hip-hop, Digable Planets epitomized the laid-back charm of jazz hipsters much better than any group before or since. The trio’s 1993 debut recording, Reachin’ (A FRESH Refutation of your time and Space), was a mellow trip packed with examples …

Veteran hip-hop producer Gemstone D has helped away with many of rap music’s most acclaimed LPs, including A Tribe Called Quest’s THE REDUCED End Theory as well as the Fugees’ The Rating. In 1992, he documented his first single record, the underground traditional Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (that was released …

The West Coast’s response to the final Poets, Watts Prophets didn’t get quite the same recognition for his or her contributions to raising black consciousness and laying the foundations for rap. The group was shaped at the W Writer’s Workshop, a business began by screenwriter Budd Schulberg made to provide …

Hailing through the free-form jazz and improvised hip-hop root base of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Alphabet Soup emerged quite a distance before having an opportunity to play on the Monterey Jazz Festival. Fronted with the duo MCs of CB and Blake, their politically billed rantings movement to the backdrop of …

The eclectic NEW YORK music group Success Soundz — once referred to as an ultra-Black Talking Mind — fused an array of Afrocentric music influences into an enticing urban brew that found a dedicated following within the ’90s urban underground scene. The music group initially began because the brainchild of …

Among the initial rap groups to employ a live music group, Brooklyn’s Stetsasonic formed in 1981 and were also one of the primary to promote a confident black awareness that found it is ultimate expression within the so-called “daisy age group” noises of De La Spirit as well as the …

A native from the Crenshaw region of South Central LA, T-Love (aka Taura Taylor) is among hip-hop’s original developing females. From her start being a scenester in the Western world Coastline recording-plant pipeline (where she created and shopped demos for famous brands Eazy-E and Ruthless Information’ impresario Jerry Heller) to …

Grand Puba, given birth to Maxwell Dixon, is most beneficial referred to as the sage business lead rapper of Brand Nubian for the group’s common first record, One for any (1990), as well as the well-regarded reunion record, Base (1998). A indigenous of New Rochelle, NY, Dixon produced his industrial …

Da Clothing is made up of MCs Hemp da Pimp and Split da Mack. Though Hemp was from San Antonio and Split hailed from South Central LA, their cooperation was born within the jazz cabarets of Sarajevo, where in fact the two close friends would freestyle on the vibes of …

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 …