Biography: Tha Alkaholiks, Tha Dogg Pound, Tha Eastsidaz, T.W.D.Y., Tha Mexakinz, Thaíde & DJ Hum, Thaione Davis, Ta'Raach, The 45 King, The A'z,

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Tha Alkaholiks Biography, Photos, Pictures

Party rappers from the West Coast, tha Alkaholiks entered the hip-hop field by working with King Tee on his 1993 Tha Triflin’ Album; after touring with KRS-One, Ice Cube, and Too Short, they found a major-label contract with Loud/RCA

Tha Dogg Pound Biography, Photos, Pictures

Tha Dogg Pound was an integral part of the Death Row Records empire, which cast a tall shadow over rap music in the early to mid-’90s, and though the label only released one Dogg Pound album, Dogg Food (1995), the duo’s impression remained fairly constant in the years that followed, as the two group members pursued solo careers and occasionally reunited

Tha Eastsidaz Biography, Photos, Pictures

Protégés of Snoop Doggy Dogg, Long Beach, CA-based duo tha Eastsidaz teamed rappers Big Tray Deee and Goldie Loc, whose partnership was forged in 1999 Their debut album, Snoop Dogg Presents tha Eastsidaz, appeared early the following year on the newly formed Dogghouse label

Led by prominent Oakland producer Ant Banks, TWDY (The Whole Damn Yey) also features Dolla Will and Captain Save’m This trio focuses on the hard, sleazy, gangsta style of rap Banks helped define on his work for Too $hort, Spice 1, and E-40 among others

Tha Mexakinz Biography, Photos, Pictures

Latin rap duo tha Mexakinz were formed in Long Beach, CA, by MCs I-Man and Sinful Their fluid bilingual rhymes on such albums as 1994’s Zig Zag and 1996’s Tha Mexakinz garnered them an underground following among both hip-hop and alternative rock fans

Thaíde & DJ Hum Biography, Photos, Pictures

When DJ Altair Gonçalves and breakdancer Humberto Martins met in 1980, they didn’t know they would be one of the first Brazilian hip-hop duos, Thaíde & DJ Hum In 1988, they managed to get onto the collection Hip Hop Cultura de Rua with their songs “Corpo Fechado” and “Homens da Lei

Thaione Davis Biography, Photos, Pictures

Chicago MC and DJ Thaione Davis was born Thomas Martin in 1978 A product of the city’s southside Princeton Park neighborhood, he began breakdancing at the age of six and began rapping (under the name Tommy T

A veteran MC and beatsmith of Detroit’s hip-hop underground, Ta’Raach (aka Lacks) put in a lot of work over the course of the ’90s and early 2000s, producing and performing on countless tracks that have become rare niceties because of industry politics in his hometown

Producer DJ Mark “The 45 King” burst onto the rap scene during the late ’80s with his bona fide breakbeat classic “The 900 Number” However, following successful productions for Queen Latifah and his own crew, the Flavor Unit, the 45 King’s resistance to changing trends and hip-hop’s own fleeting loyalty combined to ensure his eventual obscurity

Sharing the hometown and nickname of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the Oakland, CA-based A’z garnered more national attention for the California hyphy movement with the club hit “Yadadamean” (Bay Area slang for “you know what I mean”) in 2006

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