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Underground hip-hop encompasses several different styles of music. Numerous acts in the book How to Rap are described as being both underground and politically or socially aware, these include – B. Dolan [4] Brother Ali, [4] Diabolic, [5] Immortal Technique, [6] Jedi Mind Tricks, [7] Micranots, [8] Mr. Lif, [5] Murs, [5] Little Brother, [3] P.O.S [9] Zion I and Madlib, among others.
Originating in the late 1980s, in midst of the golden age of hip hop, alternative hip hop was headed primarily by East Coast groups such as De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Brand Nubian, and Digable Planets in subsidiary conjunction by West Coast acts such as The Pharcyde, Digital Underground, Souls of Mischief, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Freestyle ...
Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping [b], DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [9][10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street entrepreneurship, hip hop language, and hip hop fashion. [11][12] From hip hop culture emerged a new genre of popular music, hip hop music.
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
Tunnel Rats is a West Coast underground hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California.Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective consists of some seventeen individual members and incorporates four affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Foundation, and New Breed, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently.
Dionté Boom. Boondox. Naila Boss. MC Breed. Breez Evahflowin'. Bronze Nazareth. Danny Brown. Robert Bruce (rapper) Buckshot (rapper)
A Swedish poster promoting underground music bands. Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. . Underground music is intimately tied to popular music culture as a whole, so there are important tensions within underground music because it appears to both assimilate and resist the forms and processes of popular music cult
South Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Harlem, Long Island. Golden age hip hop refers to mainstream hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s [1][2][3][4] to the early or early-mid 1990s, [1][2][3][4] particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area. [5] A precursor to the new-school hip hop movement, it ...