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3 Melancholy Gypsies
3 Melancholy Gypsys is an American hip-hop group from Los Angeles, California that consists of Eligh, MURS and Scarub. The 3 met for the first time in 1992 at Hamilton High School.and after forming 3MG were incorporated into the Log Cabin Crew. The...
4th Avenue Jones
4th Avenue Jones is a Christian American hip hop band based in Los Angeles, California. Their name comes from the last name of founding members Ahmad and Tena Jones (married), and the street where they lived in South Central Los Angeles when they...
5signs
crosstalk from chicago: making it happen"5 Producers with many different styles. Foniks, Alcendor, Accrete, Abstract Butta Fingas and New Systems Of Knowledge, have set a high bar in the alternative L.A. hip hop movement with their debut compilation...
Abf
This LA DJ and Producer extraordinaire is hard to miss, laying down new insightful directions in sound. Raised with a strong influence of Hip Hop, Reggae, African Traditional and contemporary music, he insists on blurring the lines between...
Accrete
Reigning from the City of Roses (Pasadena, CA ). Accrete has been putting down track credits for years. From his collaborative work with experimental artist T. Norton to rock/folk songwriter Joe Sneva, Accrete has broaden his sights on music with no...
Aceyalone
Eddie Hayes, better known by his stage name Aceyalone, is an American rapper.
He is a founding member of the Freestyle Fellowship. Apart from his role in Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone is also a member of Haiku D'Etat (with Mikah 9 and Abstract...
Ahmad
Ahmad Ali Lewis, who was born October 12, 1975 (as heard in the track "Zoom"), in Los Angeles, California, is an American emcee. Credited simply as Ahmad, he is best known for the 1994 single "Back in the Day," a nostalgic song that became a...
Alcendor
Recently making the move from his studio "The 126" and relocating to "The Hills" of Los Angeles, Producer Alcendor has forged all of the right relationships. Since the move he as collaborated with MC's Deca, Wisefool, and N8che; Singers Shaden,...
Apl.de.ap
Allan Pineda Lindo, (born November 28, 1974) better known by his stage name apl.de.ap, is a Filipino-American hip hop musician, record producer and is best known as a member of the Black Eyed Peas.
Apl.de.ap was born in Sapang Bato, Angeles City,...
At Last
At Last was a hip hop a cappella (also known as hiphopapella) group from Los Angeles, California. They first gained national recognition as finalists on the first season of America's Got Talent, having won their spot through viewer votes. The...
Atban Klann
The Atban Klann, (A Tribe Beyond a Nation) was a hip hop group whose members were Will 1X, apl.de.ap, Mookie Mook, DJ Motiv8 & Dante Santiago. The Atban Klann were signed to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records. Two of the members of the hip hop group...
B2K
B2K is an American R&B; music group. It was founded and managed by music producer Chris Stokes in 2001 with Lil' Fizz, J-Boog, Omarion, and Raz-B as members. B2K was an R&B;/Hip-Hop boy band of the early 2000's, until their break-up in 2004.
In the...
Big Syke
Tyruss Himes, better known by his stage name Big Syke (born in Inglewood, California) is an American rapper who was a friend of Tupac Shakur. His alias is a remake of "Little Psycho", a name he got as a child. He originally started a rap group...
Blood of Abraham
Blood of Abraham was an American hip-hop duo composed of Benyad (Benjamin Mor) and Mazik (David Saevitz). They debuted in 1993 with the release of the LP Future Profits on Ruthless Records, the label of the late Eric "Eazy-E" Wright.
A key...
Bloods & Crips
Bloods & Crips was a collaboration between members of the Bloods & Crips, they were signed to Warlock Records.
The Bloods & Crips project was organized by producer Ronnie Phillips and rapper Tweedy Bird Loc, who is a Crip himself. Actual gang...
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. are a hip hop group from Carson, California, composed of the Devoux brothers Paul, Ted, Donald, Roscoe, Danny, and David. Their family is from Samoa. They first began playing music in their father's Baptist church. Before anyone...
Bootie Brown
Bootie Brown (born Romye Robinson November 13, 1969) is a West Coast rapper who was one of the four founding members of the innovative hip hop group The Pharcyde. He has done very few collaborations outside of the group and is currently working with...
Breakestra
Breakestra is a ten-piece funk "orchestra" from Los Angeles, California, formed by Miles Tackett in 1996.
Miles Tackett, also known as "Musicman", plays bass, guitar, keyboards and drums. He also sings along with Mix Master Wolf. The style in which...
Brother Reade
Brother Reade is an American hip-hop duo from Los Angeles. Its members are MC Jimmy Jamz (also Jael Jamz, Major Jamz) and DJ Bobby Evans (also Kill You Me You).
The two first began playing together in a punk rock band in their native Winston-Salem,...
Brownstone
Brownstone is a Grammy Award-nominated female contemporary R&B; group, popular during the mid-1990s that began a revival in 2007. It is best known for its 1995 hit single "If You Love Me." The group also had some success with the singles "Grapevyne,...
Busdriver
Busdriver (born Regan John Farquhar February 12, 1978) is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records.
Born in Los Angeles, he was introduced to hip hop at an early age, his father Ralph Farquhar being the screenwriter for the film...
C.I.A.
C.I.A. (Cru' in Action!) was a hip hop group, which consisted of K-Dee, Sir Jinx and Ice Cube. The group began playing at parties organized by Dr. Dre, a member of a popular local hip-hop group called World Class Wreckin' Cru. C.I.A. was credited...
Capital Punishment Organization
Capital Punishment Organization, most commonly referred to as CPO, was a gangster rap group which consisted of rapper Lil' Nation (Vince Edwards), DJ Train (Clarence Lars) and producer Young D. They released a single album in 1990, To Hell and Black...
Compromised
Compromised is a hip-hop production duo consisting of Ali Haeri and Stephen Ip based out of Los Angeles, California. The collective first appeared on the internet scene in October of 2005 with the well-received Chrono Trigger Mixtape Vol. 1, a semi...
Crazy Town
Crazy Town is a alternative band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer. The band is best known for their 2001 single, "Butterfly", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Members of the band mix elements of hip...
Da Lench Mob
Da Lench Mob was a West Coast hip hop group associated with Ice Cube. The group consisted of rappers J-Dee, Shorty, T-Bone and Maulkie.
The group made its debut on Ice Cube's first solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.
With Ice Cube as its executive...
Damu Ridaz
The Damu Ridas were an assortment of Bloods gang members from South Los Angeles which recorded the Bloods & Crips collaboration album Bangin' on Wax. When the Bangin' on Wax sagas were made, the Bloods gang members formed the group.
Defari
D.A. Johnson Jr., also known as Defari, is a West Coast hip hop artist. Primarily, he is a solo artist, additionally he is a member of the Likwit Junkies, a rap duo with DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples. He was born at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles,...
Dilated Peoples
Dilated Peoples is an underground hip hop group that resides in California. The group achieved notability in the underground hip hop community, although it has had little mainstream success in the US, with the exception of the song "This Way," a...
Dj David Rockwell
Dj David Rockwell (sometimes referred to as just "Dj Rockwell") is a night club dj, remixer, and record producer from Los Angeles, CA. He began dj'ing in 1994 and began doing club gigs in 1996. He is known for creating his own remixes of popular...
Doggy's Angels
Doggy's Angels was a rap trio formed by Snoop Dogg on the "Doggy Style" subsidiary of TVT Records. Members are Big Chan (Chan Gaines), Coniyac (Kim Proby) and Kola Loc (Kola Marion).
The group released one album and single in 2000. The album,...
Eastwood
Eastwood is a West Coast rapper that was born in East L.A. and raised in Inglewood, California (his name is a combination of the two places). Eastwood originally made a name for himself by signing to Death Row Records as part of the label's "second...
Eligh
Eligh is a member of the underground hip hop group the Living Legends.
Expensive Taste
Expensive Taste (styled as Expen$ive Taste) is an American hip hop group formed by Paul Wall, Skinhead Rob (Transplants), and Travis Barker (The Aquabats, Blink-182, Box Car Racer, +44 and Transplants). Expensive Taste recently released a 15-track...
Faqawi
Faqawi is a band formed by "Tre Hardson".
It consists of:
Fatlip
For the song, see Fat Lip.
Fatlip (born Derrick Stewart in 1969) is a Los Angeles-born hip hop musician. He started his career in the hip hop group The Pharcyde.
As a member of The Pharcyde, Fatlip contributed to the critically acclaimed Bizarre...
Foniks
Foniks makes beats. He makes damn good beats that can transport your mind to another place or make you bob your head 'till it hurts. From his humble beginnings as a Hip Hop DJ on college radio, to performing intimate bedroom beat showcases, to...
Fort Minor
Fort Minor is the hip-hop side-project of Mike Shinoda, the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the alternative rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's first solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied, was released in 2005 with the singles "Where'd You Go...
Frost
Arturo Molina Jr. (born May 17, 1965), better known as Frost (Originally Kid Frost), is a Mexican American hip hop artist.
Molina was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California and occasionally lived with his family in military bases in Guam...
Funkdoobiest
Funkdoobiest is a Latin rap group from Los Angeles, California. The original members are Son Doobie (Jason Vasquez), a Puerto Rican rapper, and DJ Ralph M (Ralph Medrano), a Chicano DJ, and Tomahawk Funk (Tyrone Pacheco) of the Lakota nation. The...
Girlicious
Girlicious is an American pop girl group featuring Natalie Mejia, Nichole Cordova, and Chrystina Sayers. Tiffanie Anderson departed the group in June 2009, officially due to different ethics. Their self-titled album was released in Canada during...
Glasses Malone
Charles Penniman, better known by his stage name Glasses Malone, is a West Coast rapper from the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Glasses Malone grew up in the Watts and Compton neighborhoods of Los Angeles. His mother served 25 years...
Gonzoe
Ronald Moore, better known by his stage name Gonzoe, is a rapper from Los Angeles, California.
He's a member of The Regime and a former member of Kausion, a group put together by Ice Cube. He was given the nickname "Young Ritzy" by Tupac Shakur. In...
Haiku D'Etat
Haiku D'Etat (also Haiku d'Etat) is a hip hop supergroup consisting of Aceyalone & Myka 9 of the Freestyle Fellowship, and Abstract Tribe Unique (ATU) leader Abstract Rude (who had previously worked with Aceyalone as the A-Team. All three artists...
Houston
Houston (born Houston Edward Summers IV, October 26, 1983, Los Angeles, California) is an American R&B; singer, best known for the hit single, "I Like That". Houston grew up in Los Angeles and performed on the streets with his friends, who were...
Ice T
Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award-winning American rapper, actor and author. He is credited with helping in pioneering gangsta rap, in the late 1980s. As an actor, he...
IMA Robot
Ima Robot. is a Indie/Punk/Dance band based in Los Angeles that formed in the late 1990s, after Alex Ebert's band The Lucky 13's broke up. But they really only came to fruition in the early 2000s after signing with Virgin Records. The band's...
J-Ro
James Robinson, known by his stage name J-Ro is a hip-hop performer and former member of Tha Alkaholiks.
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J. J. Fad
J. J. Fad was a rap group from Rialto, California about 45 minutes east of Los Angeles, California whose name initially stood for Juana, Juanita, Fatima Ann Dania, and were backed by Clarence "DJ Train" Lars. Later the group dropped Juanita and...
Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. McCartney rose to fame in the early 2000s as member of the boy band Dream Street. He branched into a solo career, having appeared in the television series Summerland...
Jurassic 5
Jurassic 5 was an American alternative hip hop group formed in 1993 by rappers Chali 2na, Akil, Zaakir, Mark 7even, DJ Nu-Mark and Cut Chemist. The group broke up in 2007.
Jurassic 5 came together from two separate cocks, the Rebels of Rhythm and...
Kam
Kam (born Craig Miller) is an American political emcee known primarily among hip hop fans and music critics during the 1990s. Born in Los Angeles, he is considered an esteemed West Coast underground rapper. He is known for his Nation of Islam...
Kevin Federline
Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21, 1978) is an American dancer, rapper, fashion model, and actor. Previously engaged to actress Shar Jackson, Federline is best known for his two-year marriage to pop singer Britney Spears. The couple's divorce was...
L.A. Symphony
LA Symphony is a Christian hip-hop group from Los Angeles, California. Current members of L.A. Symphony are FLYNN (also known as Flynn Adam), UNO Mas, CookBook, Joey the Jerk, and Sharlok Poems. Past members include Pigeon John and BTwice, J-Beits a...
Living Legends
The Living Legends crew is composed of eight hip hop artists based in California. Beginning in the early 1990s, the crew garnered a following by recording, promoting, and performing their music independently (without signing a contract with a major...
Low Profile
Low Profile was originally a duo of two aspiring rappers and a DJ coming out of L.A. The groups membership consisted of WC and DJ Aladdin, who went on to pursue a career in visual art. The duo made its debut with Rhyme Syndicate Records, on a...
MC Trouble
LaTasha Sheron Rogers (July 30, 1970 – June 4, 1991), better known as MC Trouble, was a rap artist, and the first female rapper signed to Motown Records.
MC Trouble had a minor hit with the song "(I Wanna) Make You Mine" featuring labelmates The...
Methods of Mayhem
Methods of Mayhem is an American nu metal band formed in 1999 by Tommy Lee as a collaboration with rapper TiLo after temporarily quitting his position as Mötley Crüe's drummer.
It is the first new project done by Tommy Lee on the eve of his divorce...
Mila J
Mila J (born Jamila Chilombo on November 18, 1983) is an American rapper and R&B; singer. She is the latest solo female artist signed to the TUG roster headed by Chris Stokes, creator of the groups B2K and Immature. She has four siblings: Miyoko ...
Mokenstef
MoKenStef was a female R&B; trio from Los Angeles, California during the mid 1990s. The group name was a combination of the first syllable of each members' names: Monifa, Kenya, and Stephanie. They released one album, Azz Izz, in 1995, and their...
