Genre: Hip-Hop
My first Hip Hop cd was Ghosts-Supreme clientelle that i stole from a mate, listend to it for a while and gradually became more intrested into music but usually listened to House and D&B...in 2003 i was listening to Biggie, Snoop etc...then influenced by my uncle who is also a Producer/Mc he got me into the likes of MF Doom, Tribe Called Quest,... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Deloise, is natural of Galiza in the north-east of Iberic Peninsula. Son of emigrants mother and father, he was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in year 1983. linked to the arts since very young, his artistic career started in 1998 as a music producer. With a few resources and after some works, he launched his first demo on 2001 as an instrumental... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” - Thelonious Monk This very idea was the catalyst in the genesis of DRYrun. Consisting of 2 people with short attention spans and the idea that music should come... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Iron Lung is an Emcee out of Miami FL currently living in Orlando. He produces a great deal of material for himself and others. more current songs are available on his myspace page. He has recently finished up a new EP entitled Samurai Electro featuring 4 tracks 3 of which he produced.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Hip Hop Emcee/turntablist/producer, started off as a quiet little boy until I had my first taste of depression when I was very young...no dont say awwww...Indeed this was the start of something good, you could say the building bricks of 66.....I became hugly obsessed with The Church of Satan & other chapters & Cults....My mind began to become... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Akrobatik jumps through hoops for nobody. As a decade-in-the making stalwart of independent hip-hop’s realest echelon, he backslaps chat room rap phonies spawning in his wake. And when he sails through the mainstream with his daily gig on Boston’s jiggy JAM’N 94.5, he does it on his own terms. In Ak’s words, he’s an MC who went to private school... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Antipop Consortium emerged in the early 2000s as one of the underground hip-hop scene's most inventive groups, bridging the gap between New York hip-hop and glitchy IDM. Group members Priest, Beans, and M. Sayyid joined forces in 1997, along with producer E. Blaize, who would become the group's most celebrated member. After some underground... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The mysterious cLOUDDEAD combines a trio of underground hip-hop artists arranged in the Anticon collective -- Doseone, why?, and Odd Nosdam. Each of them are solo artists and featured artists on dozens of underground recordings, but their music as cLOUDDEAD is quite different and unlike anything you'd expect from a group of rap connoisseurs --... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Hip-hop's influence spread far and wide during the '80s, as witnessed by the growth of the international scene during the following decade. Standing beside brilliant DJs from Japan (Krush) and France (Cam), Russia's DJ Vadim has proved to be the most popular advocate of hip-hop to come out of the former Soviet bloc, triggered mostly by the fact... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Mark B is just one of the excellent DJ/producers on Jazz Fudge Recordings, the label most closely associated with Britain-by-way-of-Russia's DJ Vadim. Compared to the usual run of scratch-happy turntablists in underground rap, Mark's much more reliant on drum-machine dinosaurs and samplers. He began recording for Jazz Fudge in 1995, and produced... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Mike Ladd is an iconoclast hip-hop figure, a producer with studio smarts and an intelligent MC as well, but a man with a wide-ranging set of aims that occasionally interfere with his music. The Bronx-based Ladd, whose roots lie in poetry and performance, has close ties to largely spoken-word artists like Saul Williams or Carl Hancock Rux as well... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Initially regarded as one of hip-hop's most promising newcomers in the late '90s, Mos Def expanded his reach in the years to come, establishing himself as a serious actor and also making a bid to reshape the rap-rock genre. His artistic career began in the late '80s as a television actor, a profession he began directly out of high school. By the... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
When he began releasing singles in the late '90s, party rap was the dominant style most MCs favored, but Mr. Lif's lyrical agenda was a political and socially conscious one that recalled the rap stars of the previous decade -- Public Enemy, Gang Starr, and Boogie Down Productions. Born Jeffrey Haynes, Mr. Lif grew up in the Boston, MA, suburb of... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
When he began releasing singles in the late '90s, party rap was the dominant style most MCs favored, but Mr. Lif's lyrical agenda was a political and socially conscious one that recalled the rap stars of the previous decade -- Public Enemy, Gang Starr, and Boogie Down Productions. Born Jeffrey Haynes, Mr. Lif grew up in the Boston, MA, suburb of... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Around since 1990, New Flesh took ten years to release an LP but quickly became dons of the British rap scene, as original and cutting-edge as their much-hyped Big Dada labelmate Roots Manuva. When originally formed (as New Flesh for Old), the group included York native and graffiti sprayer Part 2 (aka Keith Hopewell) along with rappers Toastie... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 00s
Born David Madson in Cincinnati, OH, in 1976, producer Odd Nosdam first began experimenting with looping as a teenager, which eventually led to the purchase of a Dr. Sample and eight-track player while he was a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Soon, he was working with future labelmates Doseone and Why? (with whom he formed cLOUDDEAD),... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
If skills sold, Talib Kweli would have been one of the most commercially successful rappers of his time. As it was, however, the especially earnest MC became one of the most critically successful rappers of his time, which dawned in the late '90s when he rapped alongside Mos Def and DJ Hi-Tek as part of the group Black Star. This trio of... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Formed in September 2006, The Phosphorus Procedure is a one-man electronica and hip hop outfit based in New Jersey.

