Summary:
International ‘street melodic’ hip-hop mix with tracks produced by commercially acclaimed as well as underground MCs and producers mostly between 2004 and 2012 with a hint of hip-hop roots in electronic music with tracks by British jungle Dynamite MC and breakbeat producer Cut La Roc.
Geography:
• US: MCs and producers from NY, California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Washington, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Florida
• Canada: Sweatshop Union
• UK: Iraqi-British MC Lowkey, rappers Ty and Roots Manuva
• Australia: Australian hip-hop majors Bliss n Eso
• France: French hip-hop veteran Akhenaton (a part of legendary Marseille-originating group IAM) and French producer Al’Tarba
• Spain: one of the best-known Spanish hip-hop collectives Duo kie
Highlights:
• Mainstream-achieved artists like Mos Def
• Underground hip-hop icons like Vinnie Paz and members and associates of his supergroup Army of Pharaohs
• Wu-Tang affiliates Solomon Childs and Killarmy
• MCs from collectives like The Visionaries (2mex) and urban-Latin hip hop pioneers Delinquent Habits (Kemo the Blaxican)
• Melodious Monk, an unknown MC hiding behind a monkey moniquer
• Violin hip-hop sensation Black Violin
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