A diverse, experimental, and futuristically funky hip hop duo consisting of The New Drop Era on the beat tip and Dont Reply tha MC on the mic.

The pair met during their stint with the short-lived horror punk band CH4 in 2002. They maintained a friendship and kept in touch over the years.

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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

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This band formed 10 minutes before a Ryan Adams and The Stills concert at the 9:30 club between Ryan Adams, his cousin, and one of the members of The Stills (I think). They performed their first show 10 minutes later as their own opening act. To my knowledge this was their only performance and the mp3s available for streaming on this site can... [+] Read More

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The longtime MC with pioneering alternative hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest, rapper Q-Tip was born Jonathan Davis in New York City on November 20, 1970. While a student at the Murray Bergtraum High School for Business Careers, he co-founded A Tribe Called Quest with fellow students Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Phife (Malik Taylor) in 1988; the... [+] Read More

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One of the most influential rap groups of the late '90s, Company Flow laid the groundwork for nearly all the experimental hip-hop that followed. They were an instrumental force in revitalizing underground hip-hop as a whole, and in making Rawkus Records the new movement's most prominent indie label. Company Flow's sound -- dense, abstract lyrics... [+] Read More

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Underground hip-hop duo Jedi Mind Tricks started out in the streets of Philadelphia in early 1996. Producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind and MCs Vinnie Paz (aka Ikon the Verbal Hologram) and Jus Allah (aka Megatron) released the Amber Probe EP in 1996, and later gained a cult following with 1997's Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro... [+] Read More

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Bored, sitting at home in an Olympia suburb I have spar time. Washington is rainy but I love it and I also like to make rad sounding **** I first released a crappy DnD related album entitled Cthulhu KiX A$$ with a band called the NPCs which was me and some times a couple friends. It was just a fun little thing and never was official in any way.... [+] Read More

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Method Man was the first -- and biggest -- solo star to emerge from the groundbreaking Wu-Tang Clan. His mush-mouthed, sandpaper-rough bellow (at times recalling EPMD's Erick Sermon) and imaginative rhymes easily made him one of the most recognizable, unpredictable MCs in the group, yet his flow was more deliberate and laid-back than the Wu's... [+] Read More

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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

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A rapper since the '80s, Motion Man has dozens of highlight features, though few of them have appeared on his own records. While Kool Keith fans know him for his tracks on three of Keith's LPs (Black Elvis, Sex Style, First Come, First Served) and fans of The Wake up Show would recognize his rhymes in a flash, his best-known track of all, "The... [+] Read More

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A rapper since the '80s, Motion Man has dozens of highlight features, though few of them have appeared on his own records. While Kool Keith fans know him for his tracks on three of Keith's LPs (Black Elvis, Sex Style, First Come, First Served) and fans of The Wake up Show would recognize his rhymes in a flash, his best-known track of all, "The... [+] Read More

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One of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan, who recorded some of the most influential hip-hop of the '90s, Ol' Dirty Bastard was the loose cannon of the group, both on record and off. Delivering his outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style, ODB came across as a mix of gonzo comic relief and... [+] Read More

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While a member of the New York City duo Organized Konfusion, Pharoahe Monch developed a reputation as one of underground hip-hop's pre-eminent lyricists, crafting intricate and intelligent raps with partner Prince Poetry. After recording three albums together from 1991-1997, the two split up amicably, and Monch pursued a more aggressive solo... [+] Read More

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Beginning his career as a DJ for Stetsasonic, rapper and producer Prince Paul has lent his skills to albums by Boogie Down Productions, Gravediggaz, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, and 3rd Bass, among others. Paul's big break came when he produced De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising album. Shattering the acknowledged rules of hip-hop production, he... [+] Read More

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The Coup were one of the most overtly political bands in rap history. Formed in the early '90s, the Coup were obviously influenced by the black power rhetoric of "conscious" rappers like Public Enemy and KRS-One, but they were perhaps even more inspired by a heavy-duty, leftist reading list that included Marx and Mao. Lead rapper/producer Boots... [+] Read More

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TOMC3 is the up and coming producer based out of San Francisco, CA. Those that are unfamiliar with TomC3 might recognize his first project for Threshold Recordings entitled: Dopestyle 1231. The album was released in 2004 and featured such guests as label mate Motion Man, Kool Keith, Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Vast Aire from Cannibal Ox. The... [+] Read More

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Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, NY-based Wu-Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s -- and only partially because of their music. Turning the standard concept of a hip-hop crew inside out, the Wu-Tang Clan were assembled as a loose congregation of nine... [+] Read More

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