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Introduced via hip-hop producer Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor’s compilation disc Hurby’s Machine, self-styled “gangstress of rap” and Queens-native Antoinette matured from essentially just a tough-talking mama into a more unpredictable, sometimes fresh, sometimes alluring, and sometimes defiant rapper whose musical surroundings are equally divided among funk, go-go, hip-house, and hardcore sampler and production snippets

Born to a Haitian-American family in Miami, rapper Acafool grew up surrounded by his mother and his eight sisters, all of whom sang in the church choir, and so even though he studied psychology at college, it made sense that he was interested in music and took classes in studio recording and production, too

Before he found salvation, Christian rapper Antonious led a life of crime As a teen in Freeport, IL, he was arrested for aggravated assault and unlawful use of weapons, for which he served jail time

Anybody Killa Biography, Photos, Pictures

Masked MC Anybody Killa first emerged from the Psychopathic Records/Insane Clown Posse collective in the late ’90s, contributing to tracks from likeminded types like Twizted, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, and Esham

Building his New Jersey street credibility in the late ’80s by fronting the hip-hop group the Flavor Unit, Apache eventually broke solo to show off his own microphone skills and won the recognition of Tommy Boy Records in the process

Apache Indian Biography, Photos, Pictures

British vocalist Apache Indian (born Steven Kapur) performs a highly eclectic form of ragga informed by the bhangra style of his east Indian heritage After cutting his teeth toasting in U

Apani B Fly Emcee Biography, Photos, Pictures

Apani B Fly Emcee is a native of New York, and is a member of hip-hop group Polyrhythm Addict She has also worked on several projects outside of Poly ~ Gary Hill, All Music Guide

Born to teenage parents in a working-class area of Connecticut, rapper Apathy first discovered hip-hop at age five when his uncle played him Chaka Khan’s 1984 cover of the Prince song “I Feel for You,” which featured Melle Mel rapping

Access Immortal Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born and bred in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section, Access Immortal was lauded as a strong up-and-comer in New York’s hip-hop underground upon his 2005 debut album, Shades of Reality, with several critics fancying him as a Nas or Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) in their youthful prime

Primarily a duo — MC Ra Lamotta and his wife, vocalist Dana Diaz-Tutaan — but aided by a pair of DJs (DJ Big Wiz, DJ Boo) and a percussionist (Guy Licata), Apsci (short for Applied Science) released their first album, Get It Twisted, on the Australian Elefant Tracks label

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