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Combining together rap, rock and roll, political awareness, and introspection, the Bay Area’s Flipsyde use their diverse backgrounds to generate ambitious, revolutionary music. MC Piper (referred to as No the Piper back his Contra Costa University days) was created to some Brazilian dad and discovered the Portuguese vocabulary we were …

Made up of rappers Akrobatik (given birth to Jared Bridgeman) and Mr. Lif (Jeffrey Haynes) and DJ Fakts One (Jason Goler), the Perceptionists are to the Boston, MA, hip-hop picture because the Justice Group of America are to superheroes: the very best of the greatest marshaling their power for the …

7L & Esoteric first came together in 1992 after 7L heard Esoteric DJing at an area college radio place in Boston. Esoteric’s pieces had been mainly hip-hop-based, but sometimes he’d fuse his very own materials into his playlists. After hearing Eso’s materials, 7L approached him in the expectations of developing …

Given birth to and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, road lyricist Corey Isiah Christie, better referred to as Reks, began being a breakdancer in his teenagers and was section of an area B-boy staff called Funk City Connection. By enough time he inserted college at College or university of Massachusetts-Amherst, Reks …

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, …

Patterning his persona and logo following the Marvel Comics super villain Dr. Doom, the person behind MF (Metallic Encounter) Doom’s iron face mask is in fact Daniel Dumile, aka Zevlove X, an associate of former NY hip-hoppers K.M.D. Initial featured on another Bass solitary “The Gas Encounter,” the London-born, Lengthy …

When he first emerged in 2001, Diverse was roundly acclaimed in his hometown of Chicago because the city’s most talented MC since Common. Blessed Kenny Jenkins, he was who owns a plus-size vocabulary along with a complicated but liquid-smooth stream, which positioned him squarely within the intellectual hip-hop underground and …

Bavu Blakes is originally from Dallas, but after going to the School of Tx in Austin, he stayed in “The Live Music Capital of the Globe” to keep his own music tag. A conversational MC with the capacity of both directed criticism and witty lyricisms, Blakes’ exclusive style is certainly …

There was a little but vital hip-hop genesis in Boston in the tail-end from the 1990s led by way of a motley band of artists (Porn Theatre Ushers, Skitzofreniks, 7L & Esoteric, Mr. Lif, Understanding) who distributed several musical features — a like of block-rockin’ retro-beats and veneration for the …