Digital Underground ~ Similar Artists
The Fresh Prince, aka Will Smith (Willard Christopher Smith Jnr., 25 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is now just as famous for his acting career, which started when he played the streetwise tough suffering culture shock when transplanted into the affluent...
 Read more
Slick Rick
- 92% match to Digital Underground
Young M.C.
- 83% match to Digital Underground
Marvin Young, 10 May 1967, London, England, but raised in Queens, New York City. Young went to college in California, earning a degree in economics from the University Of South California, where he also wrote material for Tone-Loc (including co-writing credits on his massive...
Read more
Digable Planets
- 76% match to Digital Underground
US psychedelic jazz rappers who, along with Gang Starr, were hailed as the instigators of the genre. Contextually they were more accurately the legacy of De La Soul/P.M. Dawn's Daisy-age rap, as can be detected from their colourful pseudonyms; Doodle Bug (Craig Irving,...
Read more
DJ Quik
- 69% match to Digital Underground
David Blake, 18 January 1970, Compton, California, USA. Rap artist whose deification of his home town, where he had grown up the youngest of ten children, pervaded both his first two albums ("Born And Raised In Compton" on his 1991 debut, and minor hit single "Jus Lyke Compton"...
Read more
2Pac
- 62% match to Digital Underground
Parish Lesane Crooks, 16 June 1971, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, d. 13 September 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The controversy-laced gangsta rapper 2Pac was the son of two Black Panther members, and his mother Alice Faye Williams was actually pregnant with her son...
Read more
The Beatnuts
- 62% match to Digital Underground
This Latino hip-hop crew from New York established their name in the late 80s with remix credits for Prime Minister Pete Nice, Naughty By Nature, Da Lench Mob and Cypress Hill, and also produced Chi-Ali, Da Youngsta's and Fat Joe. Originally comprising Psycho Les (Lester...
Read more
Redman
- 61% match to Digital Underground
Reginald Noble, 17 April 1970, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Inventive and witty US rapper whose 1992 debut Whut? Thee Album broke into the US Top 50, although it failed to get a UK release until much later in the year. Enshrining the new ethos of cannabis as the drug of choice ("How...
Read more
Goodie Mob
- 60% match to Digital Underground
One of the first and most successful groups to emerge from the Dirty South hip-hop scene from the USA, Goodie Mob helped break the west coast-east coast axis dominating rap music in the mid-90s. Formed in Atlanta, Georgia, by Cee-Lo (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, 30 May 1974,...
Read more
Eazy-E
- 59% match to Digital Underground
Eric Wright, 7 September 1963 (1964 is also cited), Compton, California, USA, d. 26 March 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA. There are those critics who did not take well to Eazy-E's "whine', but his debut kept up N.W.A."s momentum by managing to offend just about every...
Read more
|
