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Gaps

1. Gaps, born Ricardo Tejeda, is not your quintessential rapper. Raised in a multiracial household, in the infamous Sistrunk area of Fort Lauderdale, FL, during the 90s, he quickly found a passion for Hip Hop. Honing his skills, and using his background from a lower-middle class working family, he released his first album, “Primitive Slob”, in 2005. Driven by personal experiences and beliefs, this album was a highly emotional record, with deep political undertones. This garnered Gaps accolades as a rapper and opened doors for performances and collaborations.

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Slickmouth

Slickmouth was born in London before moving to Nigeria and then on to Los Angeles where he spent most of his teenage years. He is now living back in London, writing, creating and perfecting his style over the last three years. This is maybe the secret to his music, as it is also well traveled and has that international worldwide appeal. The Slickmouth sound is something unique, something refreshing and above all it’s entertaining as twists up soulful grooves with poetically soothing lyrics, while always being exciting and forward-thinking in his approach.

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Diggy Simmons

Daniel “Diggy” Simmons, III born March 21, 1995 is the second son and fourth oldest in the growing Simmons family. Diggy is starting his own clothing and shoe line originally called “Space Age” but changed due to legal reasons to “Space Cadet” and is currently called "Chivalrous Culture", starting in 2009, along with his mentor Pharrell Williams. Diggy for the most part of 2009 has also been working on his new mixtape FIRST FLIGHT. With help from producer Neako and DJ Spin King. Some of his influences as stated on his blog include Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lupe Fiasco

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Truth BOE

Truth is a rapper, producer, writer and founding partner of Blackout Entertainment LLP.
An artistically inclined child he taught himself to play the guitar at 15 and soon fell in love with the idea of creating his own music, which he started doing from the age of 16 in his bedroom. It was after meeting Harmony an up and coming producer from London that Truth’s sound really started to develop, from an all out ‘spitter’ of raps Truth soon became an artist with a sound that was as melodic and atmospheric as it was hard drawing on influences from rap music pioneers like Dr Dre...

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