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Tunnel Rats is a West Coast underground hip hop collective founded in 1993 in Whittier, California.Named after the tunnel rats in the Vietnam War, the mixed-gender, multi-racial collective consists of some seventeen individual members and incorporates four affiliated groups, LPG, Future Shock, Foundation, and New Breed, which have recorded both within Tunnel Rats and independently.
[2] He learned to rap, and also took up dance, graffiti, and formal drawing and painting. [3] Discovered by underground hip hop collective Tunnel Rats, he made his debut in 2002 on Speak Life by Sev Statik. [4] In 2003, Petty joined the Tunnel Rats, and on April 8, 2003, released his solo debut album with UpRok Records, entitled Out of Knowhere.
The music of German rapper Casper, which was influenced by both hip hop and bands like Give up the Ghost, Modern Life is War, and Grave Digger, was often referred to as "emo rap" early on in his career. [36] Huffington Post writer Kia Makarechi described American group Hollywood Undead as "crass emo-rap" in 2012 article. [37]
Ratking (often stylized in all caps as RATKING) was an American hip hop group from New York City, which consisted of rappers Wiki and Hak, and producer Sporting Life.A leading force in the underground in the early 2010s, their music has been described as "stridently youthful", [1] and the group themselves have stated they wished to reinvent rap music.
Tunnel Rats is the third studio album by West Coast underground Christian hip hop collective Tunnel Rats, released on March 3, 2004, through Uprok Records.Featuring several new members among the group's ranks, the album was well received by critics, with Christianity Today and Rapzilla considering it the best album so far by the group.
The music developed as part of the broader hip-hop culture; while often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip-hop" more properly denotes the practice(s) of the entire subculture. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The term hip-hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music , [ 9 ] [ 12 ] though rapping may not be the focus of hip-hop ...
Rap's roots lie in the toasting traditions of Jamaica's sound-system live events, where DJs thrilled crowds with deliveries evolved in part from America's jive-talking radio stars.
In July 1983, Ratt signed with the production company Time Coast Music. The company was run by the band's then-manager, Marshall Berle. [citation needed] Time Coast had previously issued records by Spirit [9] and The Alley Cats. [10] Released in 1983, the band's self-titled EP sold over 100,000 records. The band grew in popularity on the ...