America Is Dying Slowly (a backronym for AIDS) is a compilation album, the eighth in the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series of recorded by the Red Hot Organization. It featured collaborations from several hip hop acts, including Mobb Deep, De La Soul, Coolio, Biz Markie, Chubb Rock, The Lost Boyz, Pete Rock, Common and Wu-Tang Clan.
Atmosphere is an an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Slug (Sean Daley) and DJ/producer Ant (Anthony Davis).
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth were an influential hiphop group from Mount Vernon, New York.
Duval Clear, known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is an American rapper and record producer from Brownsville, Brooklyn.
The Coup is a political hip hop group based in Oakland, California.
Stetsasonic was an American hip hop group formed in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. It is remembered as one of the first hip-hop crews to use a live band, and their positive, uplifting lyrics have made the group forerunners of alternative hip hop and jazz hip-hop…
Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is an underground hip hop duo from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz and producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind.
INI was a hip hop group composed of Ras G, Rob-O, Grap Luva, and Marco Polo who continued the group with new members after it was disbanded.