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NEW ORLEANS – Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Daiyan Henley has Los Angeles hip-hop music in his DNA. Henley’s father, Eugene, is a music executive who helped launch the career of the late Los ...
The Good Life Cafe was a health food market and cafe in Los Angeles, California, known for its open mic nights that helped the 1990s Los Angeles alternative hip hop movement flourish. In 2008, director Ava DuVernay, who had performed at the cafe with the Figures of Speech hip hop group, released a documentary about the cafe, This Is The Life ...
This is a list of notable hip hop music artists that are from Los Angeles, California This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Straight Outta L.A., a 2010 documentary film in ESPN's 30 for 30 series directed by Ice Cube, covers the NFL team Raiders' time in Los Angeles, from 1982 to 1994, and how this overlapped with the local hip hop's transition from party jams to gangsta raps, a move led by the group N.W.A, which seized Raiders symbolism.
In 2021, Double K of L.A. rap duo People Under the Stairs died in his sleep. In 2023, his partner Thes One finally found a way to get his feelings on record.
Freestyle Fellowship is an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It consists of Aceyalone, Myka 9, P.E.A.C.E., and Self Jupiter. [1] The group was a prominent part of the Good Life Cafe collective, and are part of the Project Blowed collective. [2]
Reynosa frequented venues in the Los Angeles hip hop underground such as Project Blowed, Good Life Cafe, and Unity. [3] According to Rapzilla, she became known for being "absolutely vicious on the mic" and was one of the first "raw and elite" women that a male-dominated industry respected. [6]
They were named "Best Breakout LA Artist" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, [10] featured in URB Magazine's “NEXT 100” & “NEXT 1000,” XXL Magazine's “New Kids in Town,” Billboard Magazine's “Acts to Watch,” The Source Magazine's “Unsigned Hype” & “Off the Radar,” Time Out New York's “The Volume,” MTVu's “The Hot ...