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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 …

Oldominion crew users and MCs Onry Ozzborn and JFK have been meaning to accomplish a project collectively for some time, nonetheless it wasn’t until once they heard Cannibal Ox’s 2001 recording, The Chilly Vein, that they made a decision to organize themselves. The finalized their lineup in 2003 with the …

The Deepspace 5 collective includes a quantity of underground hip-hop artists, especially members of Satisfaction and Labklik. Both of these crews installed in the 1998 Cruvention with Sev Statik, as well as the collective started focusing on what would eventually bring about an individually released five-song EP, accompanied by the …

A meticulous lyrical article writer, Butta Verses was introduced to underground hip-hop viewers using the lofty endorsement of De La Spirit, something just a few MCs can in fact claim. Blessed and bred in the Bronx, Butta (aka John Cullen) embraced hip-hop lifestyle in early stages with road ciphers and …

Although much less well-known as additional contemporary feminine rappers, the ladies who constitute the Deadly Venoms are simply no strangers towards the rap world. Each member has already established a history available with varying examples of accomplishment. Finesse, N-Tyce, Champ MC, and newcomer J-Boo had been brought together beneath the …

Like indie duo the Postal Assistance or transatlantic hip-hoppers Danger Doom, Jaylib was a cooperation by two geographically distant but musically simpatico folks, as a result of trading tapes and CDs backwards and forwards through the email. The collaboration started in 2000 when California turntablist J-Rocc (Jason Jackson) provided a …

The Florida-based political rap duo Deceased Prez includes Stic.guy and M-1, a set of rappers inspired by revolutionaries from Malcolm X to General public Foe. They immersed themselves in politics and social research because they forged their personal design of hip-hop. They continued to utilize Big Punisher on his 1998 …

A promising profession in hip-hop evaded the Manhattan-born rapper MF Grimm after his tragic firing in the first ’90s. Limited to a wheelchair, the person who offered MF Doom his “MF” prefix ultimately became a mover and shaker in New York’s self-employed rap picture as creator and CEO of his …

Although she was created in South Africa, Jean Grae (genuine name Tsidi Ibrahim) will be a fresh Yorker by heart. The girl of two jazz music artists, Jean discovered an appreciation for many styles of music young. She went to the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Performing Arts being a vocal …

In the first ’70s, Umar Bin Hassan was an associate from the street-poet godfathers of rap, the final Poets. He became a member of the group in 1969 after viewing them execute in his indigenous Ohio. With Hassan, the Poets released THE FINAL Poets, THAT IS Madness, and Last Poets …