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Smart Intelligent was the business lead MC for golden age group hip-hop group Poor Righteous Educators, a Trenton, NJ-based trio well-versed in Five Percent Country ideology. The publicity of their jazz-driven hip-hop had not been on the level of Brand Nubian or A Tribe Known as Mission, but PRT do …

Initially thought to be one of the most promising rappers to emerge in the later ’90s, Mos Def, aka Yasiin Bey, considered acting in subsequent years simply because music became a second concern for him. He do discharge new music every once in awhile, including albums like the New Risk …

Two Kings within a Cipher — a duo that contains D.O.P. (blessed Deric Angelettie) as well as the Noble Ahmen-Ra (blessed Ron Lawrence) — was among the many Afrocentric rap groupings who arrived in the East Coast through the early ’90s. From Pyramids to Tasks, their debut record for RCA …

Associated throughout his job with DJ Tag “the 45 Ruler,” New Jersey’s Lakim Shabazz — a Five Percenter created Larry Welsh — arrived up in the mid- to past due ’80s as an associate from the 45 King’s Taste Unit, a staff that included Queen Latifah and Apache within its …

Although controversial subject material of gangsta rap wasn’t a lot of a barrier to well-known success through the ’90s, the Geto Boys’ recordings demonstrated almost too extreme for widespread exposure. Obstructed from distributing their 1990 major-label debut by Geffen — who insisted a track coping with necrophilia in addition to …