Genre: Hip-Hop
Dj Dax of The UNDC & 365 Click Djs. Miami Beach based hip hop dj / producer / artist & promoter. The Methuen, MA born hip hop entrepreneur has been making his mark all around the underground scenes of multiple cities in the country for far more than a hot minute. With production credits spread all across the board Dax continually strides further... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Ice Cube was the first member of the seminal Californian rap group N.W.A. to leave, and he quickly established himself as one of hip-hop's best and most controversial artists. From the outset of his career, he courted controversy, since his rhymes were profane and political. As a solo artist, his politics and social commentary sharpened... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Whats it do MP3.com? I recreated my site and uploaded my new music. I have been getting alot of love and I appreciate that. Feal free to listen to my music and leave constructive critism or props. I like to see it all.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Roffe Rijmers is een keihard beukende Nederhopformatie.
Purmerend is hun thuisbasis, maar ook daarbuiten brengen zij hun roffe stof recht voor je kanis.
Inmiddels zijn ze al weer enkele jaren goed bezig en hoewel ze in de begindagen nog regelmatig met Osdorp Posse werden vergeleken hebben ze inmiddels een unieke eigen sound...
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Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s
Harlem's confrontational 2 Black 2 Strong came with the backing of MMG, a collective that included members Mean Gene, Johnny Marrs, Warchild, C Dogg, and Dark Chocolate. Doin' Hard Time on Planet Earth, 2 Black 2 Strong's 1991 album, was prefaced the previous year with the Burn Baby Burn EP. The cover of the EP depicted a burning U.S. flag and... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
AMU
Amu started rapping at a tender age inspired by his father who bought him a Hip Hop album in the early eighties while living in the United States. Upon his return to Soweto where he was born, Amu found it very difficult to exercise his love for Hip Hop, being a foreign artform his friends thought it to be rubbish. But...
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Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
Boogie Down Productions was one of the most important and influential hip-hop groups of the latter half of the '80s. Led by the often brilliant and incendiary MC KRS-One, BDP were pioneers of both hardcore and political (or "conscious") rap -- and if that seems contradictory, it also illustrates the scope of KRS-One's talent for chronicling and... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Constituents/Collective/Collaboration: An ever-expanding Music based Network of Musicians, Artists, Producers, Performers, NO LIMITATIONS. Constituents will always be more than the sum of its individual members. I acknowledge that although it was my original concept, i am merely the administrator of some of the ideas involved. I remain confident... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
DonnDilla Da Great brings back the Old-School hip-hop sound we all grew up with in his style of "Renegade Hip-Hop" That can be described as having a constant awareness of today's social, economic and political issues that are troubling today's society. His up and mid-tempo flows help him portray an exciting and unique musical style, with... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
On the surface, the sample-reliant productions and monotone rapping styles of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith had little to recommend them, but the duo's recordings as EPMD were among the best in hip-hop's underground during the late '80s and early '90s. Over the course of four albums (from the 1988 classic Strictly Business to 1992's Business... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
They never had a mainstream hit of their own, but during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop. Not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art in their respective skills. Eric B. was... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
music is what i call my own. actually scratch that, it's for the people to call their own. my direction for music is about writing to the every one. what i feel or what i don't? shoot! i just care about spitting the truth. i hate it when some individuals come for fame and fortune! screw that! what i care about is my comrades! my companions! my... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
L.A.W 1 (Lyrical Artistic Warriors)
Are lyrical freedom fighters representing the everyday struggle? Following the footsteps of such legendary acts such as Brand Nubian and Public Enemy and Dead Prez,
L.A.W1 raps about things worth fighting for like freedom, justice and everyday life.
Khaz, Krane and Lord Razz founded the Crew...
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Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
N.W.A, the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap, are in many ways the most notorious group in the history of rap. Emerging in the late '80s, when Public Enemy had rewritten the rules of hardcore rap by proving that it could be intelligent, revolutionary, and socially aware, N.W.A capitalized on PE's sonic breakthroughs... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
One of hip-hop's most militantly Afrocentric radicals, Paris struggled for most of his career to find acceptance for his fiercely political music, which drew from the provocative intelligence of Public Enemy and the gut-level rage of early Ice Cube. Born Oscar Jackson, Jr. in California, Paris earned a degree in economics from the University of... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Part of the growing contingent of Islamic-oriented message rappers, Poor Righteous Teachers formed in Trenton, NJ, when teenage friends Culture Freedom and Wise Intelligent (songwriting credits are listed as S. Phillips and T. Grimes) decided to form a more positive rap group as an alternative to the gangsta style (which they vehemently defend).... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s
As a member of the fiercely polemical hip-hop collective X-Clan, Professor X spearheaded rap music's embrace of Black Nationalist politics, later continuing his activism with a series of solo efforts. The son of civil rights pioneer Sonny Carson, Professor X was born Lumumba Carson in Brooklyn in 1956. As a child, he met Malcolm X and regularly... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Queen Latifah: musician; television and film actress; a label president; an author and entrepreneur. Blessed with style and substance, Queen Latifah has blossomed into a one-woman entertainment conglomerate. Heralded by the press and the industry as a force to be reckoned with, Latifah has quite simply done it all and shows no sign of slowing... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
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

