Genre: Hip-Hop
LEIF(kolt) is a single MC residing in San Diego, CA. His music blends mainstream rap with poetry, art, and spoken word to form an unapolagetic spinoff of mainstream rap. His new album is expected to drop August of 2006.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s
The Oakland-based Hieroglyphics are an underground rap collective who, at their best, combine an offbeat sensibility with a strong grounding in battle rhyming, freestyling, and other hip-hop traditions. All the members enjoy their own separate careers -- founder Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Casual, the Souls of Mischief, Extra Prolific,... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 00s
The dynamic duo from Portland, OR (a.k.a. Razorblade City) who go by the name of LIFESAVAS - emcee/ producer JUMBO the Garbageman and emcee VURSATYL - couldn’t be any more separate in terms of vocal style, point of view and even appearance, yet what they bring as a collective is timeless. Early on, the two pursued parallel hip-hop careers but... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 00s
The dynamic duo from Portland, OR (a.k.a. Razorblade City) who go by the name of LIFESAVAS - emcee/ producer JUMBO the Garbageman and emcee VURSATYL - couldn’t be any more separate in terms of vocal style, point of view and even appearance, yet what they bring as a collective is timeless. Early on, the two pursued parallel hip-hop careers but... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Founders of the East Oakland underground collective Living Legends, PSC and BFAP formed as Mystik Journeymen in 1992. Southern Californian PSC hooked up with BFAP in Oakland while visiting a girlfriend, and later moved to join the group (at the time, it included a few other rappers who later drifted away). The pair became local legends by 1994,... [+] Read More
