“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

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Not many dedicated hip-hoppers could also devote their hours to educating full-time. Mercury, founder and executive producer of The Dugout, takes exception to most convention. Merc balances being a classic beat-miner and producer extraordinaire but can transfer his keyboardist tendencies to a husky, New York-drawled flow that has captured the... [+] Read More

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3rd Bass was one of a still-small number of white hip-hop artists to achieve wide acceptance in the larger community. Along with the Beastie Boys, 3rd Bass proved that white hip-hop wasn't necessarily going to become a watered-down, commercially exploitative rip-off of the genuine article, as so many white interpretations of black musical forms... [+] Read More

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Building on the rapping style of eccentrics Kool Keith and Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Def Jux headliner Aesop Rock became one of the hottest MCs in the post-millennial underground. After a pair of self-released LPs (Appleseed, Music for Earthworms), he recorded Float for Mush in 2000. The former Ian Bavitz then issued a pair of singles -- "Coma"... [+] Read More

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Building on the rapping style of eccentrics Kool Keith and Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Def Jux headliner Aesop Rock became one of the hottest MCs in the post-millennial underground. After a pair of self-released LPs (Appleseed, Music for Earthworms), he recorded Float for Mush in 2000. The former Ian Bavitz then issued a pair of singles -- "Coma"... [+] Read More

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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

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While South Carolina producer/MC Danny! declares himself "A Tribe Called Quest on acid, or EPMD on LSD," he's much more complex than that. Born to military parents in the summer of 1983, Danny Swain never had enough time to grow roots in any particular area. With his family crisscrossing the country, the scenery was always changing and so were... [+] Read More

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After single-handedly redefining "warped" as the mind and mouth behind the Bronx-based Ultramagnetic MC's, "Kool" Keith Thornton -- aka Rhythm X, aka Dr. Octagon, aka Dr. Dooom, aka Mr. Gerbik -- headed for the outer reaches of the stratosphere with a variety of solo projects. A onetime psychiatric patient at Bellevue, Keith's lyrical thematics... [+] Read More

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The original Tennessean don dada” Eddie Meeks is a
true veteran of the music industry. Eddie Meeks who
makes up one-third of the Atlanta based super group
Prophetix has been releasing records for almost 10 years
and still going strong. Eddie Meeks who is originally from
Memphis, Tenn. got his start in the mid-90’s with... [+] Read More

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Born in Luanda, Angola in the year of 1987, moved to California at 12 years old, Eternal Ace is an MC with a passion for production whose sound is influenced by Hip-Hop's Golden Age As Well As Early And Mid-90's Rap (e.g. Nas, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang, Gangstarr, 2Pac, EPMD, KRS-One, etc.), his lyrical content is strictly derived from his own... [+] Read More

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Ill Legit knows music. Plain and simple. His background and range are immense and his ear is impeccable. His musical palette flourishes with several flavors and his recipes for concocting such marvelous songs are sought after. Ill Legit has an insatiable desire to create music that is genuine and cannot be classified in any one genre. Although... [+] Read More

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Growing up in Compton, California, June (born Samuel Howard Jr. in 1983) was given his nickname by his mother, Rella Swafford Howard. June grew up in Los Angeles, a place known for its popular rags to riches stories, stardom, glamour, and fame. June has lived through the history of the rap game growing up listening to N.W.A, Rakim, DJ Quik, and... [+] Read More

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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

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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

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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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The man who would later be known as Sole, one of the founders of the avant-garde indie rap label/collective Anticon, was born in 1977 in Portland, ME, as Tim Holland. By 1992, he had made his first demo, attracting interest from EMI, whose deal Sole declined when he was told he could have Jermaine Dupri as his producer, and not DJ Premier. In... [+] Read More

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Arising from the Boogie Down Bronx in the mid-'80s as a far-flung hip-hop trio with a heap of new ideas to try out, Ultramagnetic's Kool Keith, Ced Gee, and DJ Moe Love occupy something of a singular place in the old-school pantheon. Combining funk-heavy tracks with jeep-rocking beats and obscure lyrical references, Ultramagnetic MC's have a... [+] Read More

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New York rapper Vast Aire first appeared on the East Coast underground hip-hop scene as part of the Atoms Family collective in the late '90s, but he gained wider attention as one half of the duo Cannibal Ox alongside Vordul Megilah. In collaboration with producer El-P (also the head of their label, Definitive Jux Records), the quirky duo debuted... [+] Read More

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