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| x Irving Lorenzo |
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East Coast hip hop | Hollis | Irv Gotti Presents THE INC. |
Irv Gotti (born Irving Lorenzo on June 26, 1970) was a prominent hip hop and R&B; record producer and is the head of The Inc. (Formerly Murder Inc.) record label. He is known for producing many hit rap songs such as Jay-Z's "Can I Get A...", DMX's ...
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| Hip Hop | Irv Gotti Presents: The Inc. | ||||
| x Darryl McDaniels |
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East Coast hip hop | Hollis | Checks Thugs and Rock N Roll |
Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels (born May 31, 1964) is an American musician. He is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the legendary hip hop group Run-D.M.C..
McDaniels grew up in Hollis, Queens, New York. He attended...
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| x Cool C |
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East Coast hip hop | Philadelphia | I Gotta Habit |
Christopher Roney (born December 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American rapper whose musical career peaked in the late 1980s. He is perhaps best known today for the notoriety surrounding his...
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| x Pete Rock & CL Smooth |
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Alternative hip hop | Mount Vernon | All Souled Out |
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth were an influential rap group from Mount Vernon, New York. They made their debut in the rap world with their 1991 EP, All Souled Out. It sold moderately well enough to justify Elektra Records clearing the way for 1992's Mecca...
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| East Coast hip hop | Mecca & The Soul Brother | ||||
| Old school hip hop | The Best of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Good Life | ||||
| Hip Hop | The Main Ingredient | ||||
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| x Juice Crew |
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East Coast hip hop | Queensbridge |
The Juice Crew was a hip hop collective of largely Queensbridge-based artists in the mid- to late-1980s. Founded by producer Marley Marl and radio DJ Mr. Magic and housed by Tyrone William's Cold Chillin' Records, the Juice Crew would introduce New...
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| x CL Smooth |
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East Coast hip hop | Mount Vernon | American Me |
C.L. Smooth (born Corey Brent Penn on October 8, 1968 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American rapper, poet, and is best known as the vocal half of the influential hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
After the pair split in 1995 Pete Rock, whose...
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| Hip Hop | The Outsider | ||||
| x Half-A-Mil | East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn |
Jasun Ward (January 25, 1973 – October 24, 2003) better known by his stage name, Half-A-Mill was a Brooklyn-based, American rapper who was shot dead in his home in the Albany Projects in Brooklyn, New York on October 24, 2003.
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| x Enchant Emerson | East Coast hip hop | The Bronx |
Enchant Emerson (born Eric Alloway on (November 23,1982 The Bronx, New York) a hip-hop progressive artist/producer who is known for his many degrees of pensive elusive cinematic and intricate word play.
A lyricist defined by melodies which spawn...
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| x DJ Spinbad | Turntablism | Fabric Live 14 |
DJ Spinbad (born Chris Sullivan in 1974) is a radio and club DJ who mixes on WWPR in New York City. DJ Spinbad was formerly heard on WHTZ in twenty-minute sets at 7:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. on weekdays, Fridays at 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays...
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| x Yg'z |
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East Coast hip hop | Mount Vernon | Street Nigga |
The YG'z was an American East Coast hip hop group that recorded the EP Street Nigga on 1993.
The group is not to be confused with the popular hip-hop group by the same name that is more commonly known as Young Gunz.
The group was from Mount Vernon,...
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| x Ms. Melodie | East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn |
Ms. Melodie (real name Ramona Parker, born in Flatbush, Brooklyn) was a emcee married to KRS-One in 1988, and was associated with his group Boogie Down Productions until the couple's divorce in 1992.
Her first release was the 1988 12-inch single ...
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| x Jason Mizell |
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Rapcore | New York City |
Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002), also known as Jam-Master Jay and Jay Gambulos, was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-D.M.C..
Mizell was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Hollis, Queens at age 10 with his...
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| x De La Soul |
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Jazz rap | Long Island | Plug Tunin' |
De La Soul is an American hip hop group formed in 1987 in Long Island, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. The members...
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| Hip Hop | Amityville | 3 Feet High and Rising | |||
| Alternative hip hop | Me Myself and I | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Say No Go | ||||
| De La Soul Is Dead | |||||
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| x Will Smith |
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Pop rap | Wynnefield | Big Willie Style |
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been...
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| East Coast hip hop | Men in Black | ||||
| Urban contemporary | Gettin' Jiggy Wit It | ||||
| Pop music | Just the Two of Us | ||||
| Hip Hop | Miami | ||||
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| x Mase |
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East Coast hip hop | Harlem | Harlem World |
Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1977), better known by stage name Mase (often typset as Ma$e), is an American rapper, songwriter, television personality and inspirational speaker. He was an artist on Sean "Diddy" Combs' hip hop label Bad Boy...
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| Gangsta rap | Double Up | ||||
| Christian hip hop | Welcome Back | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | What You Want | ||||
| Pop rap | Feel So Good | ||||
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| x Wu-Tang Clan |
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East Coast hip hop | Staten Island | Protect Ya Neck |
The Wu-Tang Clan is a New York City-based hip hop group, which consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon the Chef, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. They were formed in (and are...
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| Hip Hop | Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers | ||||
| Can It Be All So Simple / Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit | |||||
| Wu-Tang Forever | |||||
| C.R.E.A.M. | |||||
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| x Just-Ice |
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Gangsta rap | New York City | Back to the Old School |
Just-Ice (born Joseph Williams Jr.) A former bouncer at punk clubs, Ice was one of the first of the New York MCs to embrace hardcore rap, and when he burst out of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound,...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Kool & Deadly | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | The Desolate One | ||||
| Hip Hop | Kill the Rhythm (Like a Homicide) | ||||
| Old school hip hop | VII | ||||
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| x Rakim |
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East Coast hip hop | Long Island | Guess Who's Back |
Rakim (pronounced rah-KIM) (full name Rakim Allah, born William Michael Griffin Jr. on January 28, 1968 in,Queens, New York) is an American rapper and pioneer of the musical genre of hip hop, known as one half of the duo Eric B. & Rakim. He is...
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| Hardcore hip hop | The Master | ||||
| Hip Hop | The 18th Letter (disc 2: The Book of Life) | ||||
| The 18th Letter | |||||
| The Seventh Seal | |||||
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| x Run-D.M.C. |
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Ghetto Rock | Queens | King of Rock |
Run-D.M.C. was a hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "DJ Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential...
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| Rapcore | Raising Hell | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Walk This Way | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | Tougher Than Leather | ||||
| Hip Hop | Back from Hell | ||||
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| x Naughty by Nature |
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East Coast hip hop | East Orange | 19 Naughty III |
Naughty by Nature is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop group that at the time of its formation in 1989 consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee. The group formed in East Orange, New Jersey (colloquially referred to as "Illtown" in...
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| Hip Hop | Nature's Finest: Naughty by Nature's Greatest Hits | ||||
| Feels Good (Don't Worry Bout a Thing) | |||||
| Feel Me Flow | |||||
| Hip Hop Hooray | |||||
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| x Boogie Down Productions |
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East Coast hip hop | South Bronx | Edutainment |
Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group originally comprised KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album Criminal Minded.
The name of the group, Boogie...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Live Hardcore Worldwide | ||||
| Hip Hop | Duck Down | ||||
| My 9MM Goes Bang / Criminal Minded | |||||
| The Best of B-Boy Records | |||||
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| x Eve |
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East Coast hip hop | Philadelphia | Ruff Ryders' First Lady |
Eve Jihan Jeffers (born November 10, 1978), who performs under the mononym Eve, is an American recording artist and actress. Her first three albums have so far reached 7 million copies sold world wide. In 2003, she became the star of her own TV show...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Camden | Scorpion | |||
| Pop music | West Philadelphia | Eve-Olution | |||
| Reggae | Satisfaction | ||||
| Hip Hop | Eve-Olution (Clean) | ||||
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| x M.O.P. |
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East Coast hip hop | New York City | Rugged Neva Smoove |
M.O.P., short for Mash Out Posse, is an American hardcore hip hop duo. The duo, comprised of Billy Danze and Lil' Fame, is known for the aggressive delivery typically employed by both emcees. Although they maintain a strong underground following,...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Brooklyn | To the Death | |||
| Hip Hop | Firing Squad | ||||
| First Family 4 Life | |||||
| Warriorz | |||||
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| x Eric B. & Rakim |
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East Coast hip hop | New York City | Paid in Full |
Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier and MC Rakim Allah (born William Michael Griffin Jr.).
Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair is generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and...
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| New school hip hop | Follow the Leader | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | Don't Sweat The Technique | ||||
| Hip Hop | Paid in Full: Deluxe Edition (disc 2) | ||||
| Gold | |||||
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| x Foxy Brown |
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East Coast hip hop | Park Slope | I'll Be |
Inga Fung Marchand (born September 6, 1978), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper known for her solo work as well as numerous collaborations with other artists and her brief stint as part of hip-hop music group The Firm. Her albums...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Brooklyn | Ill Na Na II - The Fever | |||
| Gangsta rap | Broken Silence | ||||
| Hip Hop | Ill Na Na | ||||
| Chyna Doll | |||||
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| x EPMD |
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East Coast hip hop | Long Island | Back in Business |
EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars" (later "Erick and Parrish Millennium Ducats"), referencing its...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Brentwood | Best of EPMD | |||
| Gangsta rap | Business as Usual | ||||
| Hip Hop | Business Never Personal | ||||
| Out of Business | |||||
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| x DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince |
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East Coast hip hop | Philadelphia | Rock the House |
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith (The Fresh Prince), met Jeff Townes (DJ Jazzy Jeff) while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop...
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| Pop rap | West Philadelphia | He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper | |||
| New school hip hop | And in this Corner... | ||||
| Hip Hop | Summertime | ||||
| Homebase | |||||
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| x Memphis Bleek |
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East Coast hip hop | Coming of Age |
Malik Thuston Cox (born June, 23, 1978), better known by his rap persona of Memphis Bleek or "Bleek", is a New York rapper mainly known for his tenure with Roc-A-Fella Records and CEO of his own label Get Low Records. He has released four albums...
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| Hip Hop | The Understanding | ||||
| M.A.D.E. | |||||
| 534 | |||||
| The Coming of Age | |||||
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| x Erick Sermon |
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East Coast hip hop | Long Island | React |
Erick Sermon, also known as Erick Onassis, (born November 25, 1968 in Bay Shore, New York) is an American rapper, musician, and producer. Sermon is best known as half of late-1980s/1990s hip hop group EPMD and for production work. He currently...
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| Alternative hip hop | Chilltown, New York | ||||
| Hip Hop | Double or Nothing | ||||
| Eric Onasis | |||||
| Music | |||||
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| x Mobb Deep |
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Hardcore hip hop | New York City | Juvenile Hell |
Mobb Deep is an American hip hop duo that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The group is best known for its dark, hardcore delivery, as exemplified by the single "Shook Ones Pt. II." Although Mobb Deep has not been as commercially successful as many of...
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| Gangsta rap | Queens | The Infamous | |||
| East Coast hip hop | Hell on Earth | ||||
| Hip Hop | Murda Muzik | ||||
| Infamy | |||||
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| x Raekwon |
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East Coast hip hop | Staten Island | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
Corey Woods (born January 12, 1970) better known by the stage name Raekwon (sometimes "Raekwon the Chef"), is an American rapper and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. He released his solo debut, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., in 1995, and has continued...
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| Hip Hop | Immobilarity | ||||
| Mafioso rap | The Lex Diamond Story | ||||
| The Vatican Mixtape: Volume 1 | |||||
| House of Wax: The Vatican Mixtape, Volume III | |||||
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| x Kirk Jones |
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Hardcore hip hop | Brooklyn | [Blacktrash] The Autobiography of Kirk Jones |
Kirk Jones (also referred to as Sticky Fingaz or Sticky), born November 3, 1973 is an American rapper, actor, and a member of the hip-hop group Onyx. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice "Smoke" Williams...
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| East Coast hip hop | Decade | ||||
| Gangsta rap | Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones | ||||
| Hip Hop | Decade "...but wait it gets worse" | ||||
| StickyFingaz.com | |||||
| x Jadakiss |
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East Coast hip hop | Yonkers | Best of Jadakiss |
Jadakiss (born Jason Phillips on May 27, 1975) is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. Jadakiss is one of three owners of the imprint known as D-Block. He recently signed to Roc-A-Fella Records, an imprint under Def Jam...
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| Hip Hop | Kiss tha Game Goodbye | ||||
| Kiss of Death | |||||
| Kiss the Game Goodbye | |||||
| The Redemption Vol. 4 | |||||
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| x Pete Rock |
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East Coast hip hop | Mount Vernon | Petestrumentals |
Peter Phillips (born June 21, 1970 in Bronx, New York), better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper of Jamaican descent. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed...
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| Jazz rap | Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics | ||||
| Hip Hop | Soul Survivor II | ||||
| Soul Survivor | |||||
| The Original Baby Pa | |||||
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| x D-Block |
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East Coast hip hop | United States of America | Money, Power & Respect |
D-Block is an American record label founded by Sheek Louch, Jadakiss and Styles P. The group did not change their name from "The L.O.X." to "D-Block." "D-Block" is their own record label. They were rumored to be signed to Def Jam Records; however,...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Money, Power and Respect | ||||
| Hip Hop | We Are The Streets | ||||
| Prepare for Glory | |||||
| No Security | |||||
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| x Styles P |
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Hip Hop | Yonkers | A Gangster and a Gentleman |
David Styles (born November 28, 1974) better known as Styles Pinero or Styles P, is a hip-hop rapper and a founding member of the groups The Lox and D-Block.
Styles P has entered a solo deal with Roc Nation / Bad Boy Entertainment and Roc A Fella /...
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| East Coast hip hop | Good Times | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | Big Mike & Supa Mario: Ghost Stories (The World According to “P”) | ||||
| Gangsta rap | Time Is Money | ||||
| Super Gangster: Extraordinary Gentleman | |||||
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| x Kool G Rap |
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Gangsta rap | Queens | The Streets / Thug for Life |
Nathaniel Wilson (born July 20, 1968), better known by his stage name Kool G Rap, is an American rapper from the Corona section of Queens, New York. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member...
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| Mafioso rap | My Life | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | 4, 5, 6 | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Cakes (feat. The RZA) | ||||
| Hip Hop | Greatest Hits | ||||
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| x Swizz Beatz |
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East Coast hip hop | The Bronx | G.H.E.T.T.O Stories |
Kasseem Dean (born September 13, 1978) better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer and rapper. Swizz, wife R&B; singer Mashonda, and rapper Cassidy helped launch his label Full Surface Records.
Swizz has son Prince...
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| Hardcore hip hop | Brooklyn | It's Me Bitches | |||
| Pop rap | One Man Band Man | ||||
| Hip Hop | Money in the Bank | ||||
| One Man Band Man | |||||
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| x Choclair |
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East Coast hip hop | Scarborough | Flagrant |
Kareem Blake, better known by his stage name Choclair, is a Canadian rapper. He helped develop Canadian hip hop in the 1990s, as a member of the Circle.
Blake, of Jamaican descent, was born in Scarborough, Ontario, in east Toronto. Starting at the...
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| Ice Cold | |||||
| Memoirs of Blake Savage | |||||
| What It Takes - The Official Remixes (Placebo Recordings) | |||||
| My Demo | |||||
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| x Chubb Rock | East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn | The Mind |
Chubb Rock (born Richard Simpson on May 28, 1968 in Jamaica) is a New York-based rapper who released several commercially successful hip hop albums in the early 1990s. His stage name is thought to be a clever play on words. A former National Merit...
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| And the Winner Is... | |||||
| Chubb Rock Featuring Hitman Howie Tee | |||||
| I Gotta Get Mine Yo! | |||||
| The One | |||||
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| x Terror Squad |
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Latin rap | The Bronx | Lean Back |
Terror Squad is a hip hop crew and a record label from The Bronx, New York that was first established in 1998 on a song in the album Don Cartagena by its lead vocalist Fat Joe. They released their eponymous debut, Terror Squad, in 1999, with its...
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| Gangsta rap | The Album | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | True Story | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | True Story | ||||
| Hip Hop | Terror Squad | ||||
| x Boot Camp Clik |
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East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn | Duck Down Presents |
Boot Camp Clik is an American hip hop supergroup from Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of Buckshot (of Black Moon), Smif-N-Wessun, also known as Cocoa Brovaz (Tek and Steele), Heltah Skeltah (Rock and Ruck, aka Sean Price) and O.G.C. (Originoo...
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| Hardcore hip hop | The Chosen Few | ||||
| Gangsta rap | And So | ||||
| Hip Hop | The Last Stand | ||||
| Basic Training | |||||
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| x Lady of Rage |
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West Coast hip hop | Farmville | Afro Puffs |
Robin Yvette Allen (born June 11, 1968), better known by her stage name The Lady of Rage, is an American rapper and actress best known for collaborations with several Death Row Records artists, including Snoop Doggy Dogg on the seminal album...
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| East Coast hip hop | Necessary Roughness | ||||
| Hip Hop | From VA 2 LA | ||||
| x Akrobatik |
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East Coast hip hop | Boston | Balance |
Akrobatik is a rapper who hails from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He has collaborated numerous times with many fellow Boston rappers, and recently formed a hip hop collective named The Perceptionists with Mr. Lif and DJ...
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| Hip Hop | The EP | ||||
| Alternative hip hop | The Lost ADATs | ||||
| Absolute Value | |||||
| Absolute Value | |||||
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| x Apathy | East Coast hip hop | Connecticut | It's the Bootleg, Muthafuckas! Volume 1 |
Chad Bromley (born March 8, 1979), better known as Apathy (formerly Apathy the Alien Tongue) is an underground rapper and producer from Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended high school at various schools in Connecticut. He is a re-founding member...
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| Hip Hop | Eastern Philosophy | ||||
| What the Dead See Through the Eyes of the Living | |||||
| Where's Your Album?!! | |||||
| Baptism by Fire | |||||
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| x DJ Whoo Kid | East Coast hip hop | West Orange | Bullet Proof: 50 Cent and G-Unit Pt. 5 |
'DJ Whoo Kid (born Yves Mondesire in Haiti) is a hip hop DJ. He is best known for being the official DJ of the hip hop group G-Unit. He styles himself as "The Mixtape King". He is currently signed to G-Unit Records as well as his subsidiary label,...
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| Hip Hop | Sunday School (Welcome to the Chuuch Volume 4) | ||||
| Soul music | Bulletproof (Soundtrack) (disc 2) | ||||
| x DJ Kay Slay |
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East Coast hip hop | New York City | The Streetsweeper, Volume 1 (Explicit version) |
'DJ Kayslay (born Keith Grayson), also known as The Drama King,Dezzy Dez, and Slap Your Favorite DJ; is the ringmaster of the new hip hop rivalries, played out on his mixtapes. The New York Times called him "Hip Hop's One-Man Ministry of Insults."...
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| The Bronx | Celebrity Status 4 (Mixed by DJ Kay Slay) (Hosted by Chamillionaire) | ||||
| The R&B Model Edition, Part 2 (Mixed by DJ Kay Slay) (Hosted by Brandy Chenell) | |||||
| The Streetsweeper, Volume 1 | |||||
| x Papoose | East Coast hip hop | New York City | A Bootlegger's Nightmare |
Shamele Mackie, (born on December 31, 1978) better known by his stage name Papoose (pronounced /pæˈpuːs/), is an American rapper.
Born December 31, 1978 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, Papoose made his first attempts at...
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| Hip Hop | Bedford-Stuyvesant | A Moment of Silence | |||
| Election Day | |||||
| Mixtape Murder | |||||
| Sharades | |||||
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| x Jay-Z |
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Gangsta rap | Brooklyn | American Gangster |
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known by his stage name, Jay-Z is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over ...
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| Hip Hop | Kingdom Come | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Greatest Hits | ||||
| Mafioso rap | Show Me What You Got | ||||
| Collision Course | |||||
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| x Prodigy |
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Gangsta rap | Hempstead | H.N.I.C. |
Albert Johnson, (born November 2, 1974) better known as Prodigy, is an American rapper and one half of the infamous hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, in addition to producing MC Havoc.
Born in Hempstead, New York, in Long Island, Prodigy became a lyrically...
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| East Coast hip hop | Return of the Mac | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | The Return of the Mac | ||||
| Hip Hop | H.N.I.C. 2 | ||||
| H.N.I.C. PT. 2 | |||||
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| x Ol' Dirty Bastard |
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East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn | Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American rapper and occasional producer, who went by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan....
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| Hip Hop | East New York | O. D. B. E. P. | |||
| Rap music | Nigga Please | ||||
| The Dirty Story: The Best Of ODB | |||||
| The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones | |||||
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| x The Notorious B.I.G. |
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Gangsta rap | Ready to Die |
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a fictional gangster in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again), Frank White (from the 1990 film King of New York), and by his primary stage name The...
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| East Coast hip hop | Life After Death | ||||
| Hip Hop | Born Again | ||||
| Duets: The Final Chapter | |||||
| Best of Biggie Smalls | |||||
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| x Common |
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Alternative hip hop | Chicago | Can I Borrow a Dollar? |
Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (previously Common Sense), is an American actor and rapper.
Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant underground...
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| East Coast hip hop | Breaker 1/9 | ||||
| Hardcore hip hop | Resurrection | ||||
| Hip Hop | One Day It'll All Make Sense | ||||
| Rhythm and blues | One-Nine-Nine-Nine / Like They Used to Say | ||||
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Hardcore hip hop | New York City | Revolutionary Vol. 1 |
Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is an American rapper and political activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on political issues....
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| Latin rap | Harlem | Revolutionary, Volume 2 | |||
| East Coast hip hop | The Point of No Return | ||||
| Gangsta rap | Bin Laden Remix | ||||
| Political hip hop | Revolutionary Vol. 2 | ||||
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| x Lord Finesse |
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East Coast hip hop | The Bronx | From the Crates to the Files...The Lost Sessions |
Lord Finesse is a Hip hop artist and producer, hailing from The Bronx, New York, best known as the leader of the D.I.T.C. rap crew. In 1989, Finesse and his former partner DJ Mike Smooth signed to Wild Pitch Records, home to other popular Hip Hop...
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| Hip Hop | Return of the Funky Man | ||||
| The Awakening | |||||
| Funky Technician | |||||
| x RZA |
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East Coast hip hop | Staten Island | RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo |
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA (pronounced /ˈrɪzə/; born July 5, 1969), is an American Grammy winning music producer, author, rapper, and occasional actor, director, and screenwriter. A prominent figure in hip hop music,...
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| Hip Hop | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | ||||
| Birth of a Prince | |||||
| I've Never Seen... (feat. Xavier Naidoo) | |||||
| Ich kenne nichts (das so schön is wie du) (feat. Xavier Naidoo) | |||||
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| x DJ Premier |
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East Coast hip hop | Brooklyn | Time 2 Chill |
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966 in Houston, Texas), better known by his stage name DJ Premier, is an African-American record producer and DJ, and the instrumental half of the duo Gang Starr, together with vocalist Guru. Originally...
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| Hip Hop | Planet of the Beats | ||||
| The Early Years, Volume 1 | |||||
| Unreleased Instrumentals, Volume 8 | |||||
| Collectif Rap 3 (disc 1) | |||||
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| x Onyx |
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Hardcore hip hop | Queens | Bacdafucup Part II |
For the 1960s Cornish band, see The Onyx.
Onyx is a hip hop group from New York City. Originally formed in 1988 by Fredro Starr, Sonsee, the late Big DS, the group later added Sticky Fingaz, Starr's cousin, in 1991, managed by Diamond Cut...
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| Gangsta rap | Bacdafucup | ||||
| East Coast hip hop | Slam | ||||
| Hip Hop | All We Got Iz Us | ||||
| Shut 'Em Down | |||||
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| x Drag-On | Hip Hop | Philadelphia | Hell and Back |
Mel Jason Smalls (born January 4, 1979), better known as Drag-on, American rapper from The Bronx, New York City. He's the founder of the label Hood Environment and of African-American and Jamaican-American descent.
Drag-On is also known as the Fire...
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| East Coast hip hop | The Bronx | Opposite of H2O | |||
| Hardcore hip hop | Opposite of H₂O | ||||
| Opposite of H2O | |||||
| Hell and Back | |||||
| x Busta Rhymes |
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Hip Hop | Uniondale | Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check |
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes (born May 20, 1972), is a Grammy-nominated Jamaican-American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL wide receiver George "Buster"...
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| East Coast hip hop | The Coming | ||||
| Pop music | When Disaster Strikes... | ||||
| Ragga | Turn It Up (remix) / Fire It Up | ||||
| Dancehall | Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front | ||||
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