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Basehead may be the creation of Michael Ivey, a middle-class suburban child from Maryland. Ivey documented the majority of Basehead’s 1992 debut, Takes on With Toys, on the four-track aware of various friends. Merging laid-back, stoned hip-hop tempo monitors, pop hooks, drawled raps, and pseudo-folky electric guitar, the record received …

New Yorkers Vex and Mondo met Jamaica-born brothers Yodared and Myntric at Virginia Condition University. Boogiemonsters started rapping at displays around campus and, after earning initial place at Howard University’s well-known Hip-Hop Convention, they documented a demonstration and began purchasing it around NY. Pendulum/EMI agreed upon the four MCs and, …

Michael Franti released only 1 record as fifty percent of the Throw away Heroes of Hiphoprisy, nonetheless it was praised for his insightful raps and Community Enemy-influenced beats. After disappearing for just two years, Franti resurfaced in 1994 with Spearhead, a music group even more rooted in ’70s funk. Eschewing …