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Arrested Development

Arrested Development is an afrocentric hip-hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s. It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and were also Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.

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Prime

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Prime is a Mc from Chicago. For more info visit: http://www.myspace.com/prime and http://www.middlemovement.com/index.php/artists/ 2) Prime is a shortlived project from Sweden, playing emotional future pop. 3) Prime is a UK MC, www.soundclick.com/primeuk 4) Prime is a punk/rock band from Portugal : myspace.com/primerock 5) Prime is an Australian MC from Adelaide, best known for his participation in the 2007 Jumpoff Two on Two World Rap Championships.

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Black Mamba

There are at least 4 bands with this name!!! 1) Black Mamba is a "baby band", or new band, from San Diego, CA.
2) Black Mamba are a hard rock band from Oviedo, Spain.
3) Black Mamba seems to be a rapper, but I don't know a thing about him
4) Black mamba (og de trange trubadurer)
5) Black Mamba is a metal band from the northwest

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Cause & Effect

An electronic fusion of cleverly crafted pop arrangements against a backdrop of layered synth textures and acoustic rhythmic flourishes. Intelligent, thought provoking lyrics and pleading melodies embedded in lush sonic soundscapes that are sure to captivate the senses of even the most discriminating listener. Cause and Effect’s Rob Rowe and Keith Milo return with their fifth studio album, “ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT.”

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Stock

STOCK What is hip hop ?. It is almost a trick question, Dizzy Rascal, Wiley, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, 50 Cent and Eminem have all blurred the boundaries between pop and hip hop in recent times. He was recently on front page of Microsoft Windows Media Guide (USA) free downloads with his song Break The Fall and also appeared on DJ Green Lantern's (Eminem's former DJ) Mixtape "Dirty Invasion" with his song Black & Blue.

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Defenders of the Faith

The group Defenders of the Faith is comprised of two notable canadian hip hop foundation-builders, Checkmate and Concise. Hailing from the West Coast, of Canada the two have paved their own paths by putting in over a decade of hard dedication and strong work ethic. Their debut album as a group, African Kings, was released on November 11th, 2008.

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D12

D12 (aka The Dirty Dozen and D-Twizzy) was initially formed in 1991 by Proof who invited local Detroit rappers such as Bizarre, Eminem and other members who would leave the crew before it achieved success including Eye Kyu, Killa Hawk and Fuzz. The group was a loose collective in the vein of Wu-Tang Clan. Several members began making names for themselves in hip hop during the late 1990s. Bizarre was named Inner City Entertainment's "Flava of the Week". He would also release an album entitled Attack Of The Weirdos and become a member of Tha Outsidaz with Eminem and Rah Digga.

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Alex Gaudino

Alex Gaudino begins his adventure in 1993 in the music business at the famous Flying Records and UMM;
In 1998 with the support of Giacomo Maiolini, owner of Time Records, Alex founds Rise Records, which soon becomes one of the most respected European labels, signing hit records like The Tamperer and Black Legend (Alex is the only Italian A&R who had two # 1 in the UK sales chart ) and the super -hit of Robbie RiveraBang”, which allowed him in 2000 to get the nomination as best European A&R at the European Music Awards in London.

Read more about Alex Gaudino on Last.fm.

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Splinta

There is more than one artist by this name. 1) Splinta is UK Unsigned artist.
Coming to you from Southside, London; with the lyrical ability to be here today. With Artists in "Splinta's Productions"; Collida & Pilla Pane, He and them presents to you, with the tracks which rock the speakers. As he's still unsigned, he works hard with the rest of the team to produce tracks from southside & north-west (manchester).

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