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Rap fans who think there’s just one thing on Luther Campbell’s mind would get a far different impression by listening to female rapper Anquette Though she recorded for his Luke Skyywalker Records (later just Luke), she took on political and social issues as well as recording bass-heavy party tracks

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In nature, a Slug would not choose to have a relationship with an Ant Rap music, however, is not nature; its creators are largely governed by different principles than crawling insects, especially in Minneapolis

Ant Banks, a Bay Area producer who began working behind the scenes with local legend Too Short, first appeared on two 1992 hip-hop soundtracks, Juice and Menace II Society That same year, he was on production with Too Short (Shorty the Pimp) as well as associates Spice 1 and Pooh-Man

Anthony Davis Biography, Photos, Pictures

Rap producer Anthony Davis, active since the early ’90s with performers such as Maestro Fresh-Wes, does not seem to be the same Anthony Davis who made the weird R&B record under the name Madhouse in 1972 — but as far as madhouses go, anything is possible

Abstract Mindstate Biography, Photos, Pictures

Abstract Mindstate the MOD (Misfitz of Dialogue) was comprised of MCs Ice Gre and Ebony Poetess the Hellcat Mindstate formed at Jackson State in Mississippi, where Gre and EP helped form the Stewpot Stowaways, a hip-hop crew comprised of “outcasts,” or individuals who were originally from the Jackson area

Abstract Rude Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a product of the legendary Goodlife open mic sessions who wished to highlight the nuances of the Los Angeles underground rap scene, Abstract Rude first made a name for himself in 1994 as an executive producer of the Project Blowed compilation

Abstract Tribe Unique Biography, Photos, Pictures

Based out of the South Central Los Angeles hip-hop community, the Abstract Tribe Unique’s lyrical theme has always revolved around their surroundings of growing up in the projects

Believing that rap needs a healthy alternative underground to counter mainstream hip-hop, Anticon is a collective loosely modeled after the American indie rock movement Made up of eight MCs and producers — Alias, Doseone, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Passage, Sole, the Pedestrian, and Why? — the collective pioneered a sound that matches obscure, near-beat poetry lyrics to beats that incorporated abrasive noise samples and unusual time signatures

Born in Los Angeles to a family for whom music was all-important, Matthew Alsberg started learning guitar and piano as a young child, and by the time he enrolled in high school (where he counted Murs, Double K from People Under the Stairs, and Eligh among his peers) he was also playing bass and trombone, studying both jazz and classical music, as well as listening to plenty of punk and hip-hop; he even began to rap himself, though he quickly stepped out of that and moved to production work instead

Antipop Consortium Biography, Photos, Pictures

Antipop Consortium emerged in the early 2000s as one of the underground hip-hop scene’s most inventive groups, bridging the gap between New York hip-hop and glitchy IDM