A Tribe Called Quest is an alternative hip-hop group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamal Fareed), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but appears to have rejoined the group since 2006.
Y Society is a Hip-Hop duo comprised of producer Damu The Fudgemunk from Washington, D.C. and underground veteran Insight from Boston, MA.
Daniel Dumile is an underground hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the “MF” stands for metal face, and for tracks he has produced, metal fingers.
Mobb Deep is a hip-hop duo that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The group is perhaps best known for their dark, hardcore delivery as shown on the classic single “Shook Ones Pt. II.”
Arrested Development is a two-time Grammy Award-winning American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s…
Poor Righteous Teachers are an underground HipHop group from Trenton, New Jersey, founded in 1989.
Deltron 3030 is a supergroup of hip hop artists, composed of producer Dan the Automator, rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala. Their work features many other artists as well, all taking on various futuristic pseudonyms.
Method Man & Redman, also known as Red & Meth, Doc & Meth or Mr. Meth and Funk Doc, Tical & Funk Doc are a hip hop duo, consisting of rap superstars Method Man (of Wu-Tang Clan) and Redman (of Def Squad).