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No mere shiny gimmick, despite their youthfulness and their novelty hit, the brand new Boyz were labeled “the Youthful Teens of Hip-Hop” by the brand new York Instances before they actually had the official select. Earl “Ben J” Benjamin and Dominic “Legacy” Thomas fulfilled in the L.A. suburb of Victorville …

Underground Atlanta rapper Baby D was just 16 when his initial album, Away da Chain, premiered in 2000 in Big Oomp Information. Two years afterwards his followup, Lil’ Chopper Gadget premiered to very much underground acclaim. A significant label bidding battle ensued, garnering the youthful MC a multi-million money cope …

Originally know mainly because Young Boss Nieves, rapper David Rush was created in Highland Park, NJ. He started his hip-hop profession in earnest while enrolled in the Artwork Institute of Atlanta. It had been there that he fulfilled Soundz, an up-and-coming maker who kept in contact actually after David got …

Hip-hop continues to be performed in a number of languages — from Japan to People from france to Polish — but if rap comes with an unofficial second vocabulary (second and then English), it really is Spanish. Latino MCs have already been moving in Spanish since the Mean Machine documented …

By offering mixtapes and CDs direct out the trunk of his car, Houston rapper Pedro Herrera III rose to prominence in the Southwest and among Latin rap enthusiasts doubling as the Mexican/Chicano self-parodying alter ego Chingo Bling. Donning the stereotypical getup of the vaquero (Latino farmhand) — cowboy ostrich boot …

Merging hip-hop, pop, and Caribbean tastes, brothers Theron and Timothy possess written strikes for Akon, Usher, Sean Kingston, the Pussycat Dolls, Ashlee Simpson, and many more with all the name Rock and roll City, eventually shortened to R. Town. Delivered in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, the brothers made a decision …

The grandson of Leon René (songwriter of early R&B songs “Once the Swallows Get back to Capistrano,” “Rockin’ Robin,” and “I Sold My Heart towards the Junkman,” amongst others) and son of Googie Rene (a recording artist who assisted Leon using the operation from the Course label), Chris Rene spent …

Once the Southern-flavored party rap known as crunk took more than urban radio, Miami rapper and future superstar Pitbull decided it had been time to look for stardom. Just how Pitbull noticed it, “crunk ain’t nothin’ but bass music slowed up.” Miami bass music, that’s, the type Pitbull was raised …

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul began rating strike singles in Jamaica in 1996 and steadily attracted international interest thereafter, eventually breaking in to the pop mainstream in 2002 with Dutty Rock and roll. Delivered Sean Paul Henriques on January 8, 1973, the multi-ethnic Paul (his parents acquired Portuguese, Chinese language, and …

The first main American-born, Spanish-rapping hip-hop artist to help make the major-label jump and discover widespread commercial acceptance, Don Dinero was original — for an instant, that’s, before a legion of followers like Pitbull followed in his footsteps basically found an eager marketplace for stateside Spanish-language rap. Granted, stateside Latino …