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Waajeed
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Genre: Hip-Hop

Inventive, genre-defying producer Waajeed was cut from the same cloth of Detroit’s soul-driven hip-hop underground as its chief representative, Jay Dee (aka Dilla) After all, Waajeed — born Robert O’Bryant IV in Detroit in 1975 — and Jay Dee both grew up in Detroit’s Conant Gardens neighborhood

WC
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Genre: Hip-Hop

A long-time staple of the gangsta rap scene, WC began his career with the groups Low Profile and the Maad Circle before forming Westside Connection with Ice Cube and Mack 10

WC and the Maad Circle Biography, Photos, Pictures

Following the dissolution of Low Profile, a late-’80s West Coast MC/DJ partnership between WC and DJ Aladdin, the rapper formed WC and the Maad Circle and released a pair of albums, Ain’t a Damn Thang Changed (1991) and Curb Servin’ (1995)

Weapon of Choice Biography, Photos, Pictures

Weapon of Choice grew out of the ashes of Marshall Law, the band that gave the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Arik Marshall, albeit briefly Arik’s brother Lonnie “Meganut” Marshall put together his own collective, Weapon of Choice, which plays a style dubbed “nutmeg” — a mix of socially metaphorical lyrics, rock, reggae, funk (particularly George Clinton), hip-hop, and jazz drawing inspiration from a similar freewheeling musical hybrid pioneered by Fishbone

Webbie
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Genre: Hip-Hop

Baton Rouge native Webster “Webbie” Gradney, Jr’s brash and street-smart style was influenced by the early No Limit and Cash Money releases that were creeping out of nearby New Orleans and the classic West Coast sound of Snoop Dogg and Eazy-E

Webstar
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Genre: Hip-Hop

In 2006, it seemed the South and the Bay Area had a lock on homegrown urban club hits until Webstar and Young B came on the scene with their instant smash “Chicken Noodle Soup

Wee Papa Girls Biography, Photos, Pictures

A female British rap duo that existed during the late ’80s and early ’90s, Wee Papa Girls issued a pair of albums before going their separate ways: 1989’s The Beat, the Rhyme, the Noise and 1990’s Be Aware

Weerd Science Biography, Photos, Pictures

As the drummer for emo punk-pop band Coheed & Cambria, Joshua Eppard had longed for the opportunity to express himself lyrically, not through singing but rapping Coheed’s record label, Equal Vision, took a chance and offered him his own imprint to piece together the rap project that he had been concocting and fooling around with since his pre-teens, Weerd Science

Because West Shore is an interracial trio that combines rock and rap, some people might try to lump the group in with Limp Bizkit, Korn, (hed) pe, Methods of Mayhem, and other popular rap-rock and rap-metal acts of the ’90s and ’00s

Westside Bugg Biography, Photos, Pictures

San Bernardino, CA-based MC/producer Westside Bugg began rapping as a child and fell in with the Zoo Crew during his teen years He set up a studio, dubbed The Roach Motel, and broke into production, eventually working with Kurupt, Bone, and onetime American Idol contestant Corey Clark