Who is the Kool Herc of your city or state?

[Theolodius_Black]

I'm from Mississippi, so that shyt weird.

We really never had or really have our own scene. We had some "local" folks pop off, but nothing really major. Hell, even out BIGGEST artists from here kinda disown the fact.

Prolly cause their parents did the smart thing and got them way the fukk away from here as soon as possible.


ANYWAY, all the shyt popping in MS came from Louisiana, Memphis, Atlanta or Florida. So really, DJ Jubilee, Magic Mike, etc

Where you from ju?

Cuz Smoke D, Krit, nor Banner have ever disowned Mississippi…

And the answer for Mississippi is DJ Finesse

 

[get these nets]

@Tommy Gibbs

Do you remember a mid 90s rapper named Omnisence ?

First signed rapper that I remember who repped North Carolina. Had a banger with "Amazin".
Got airplay up here, cosign and features from NY area artists.
Always assumed that he had a tremendous buzz in the Carolinas to get signed in that era. And that he was from one of the pioneering crews from there.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Where you from ju?

Cuz Smoke D, Krit, nor Banner have ever disowned Mississippi…

And the answer for Mississippi is DJ Finesse

Im from the Holmes County Delta.

I named those cats cause they predate the Krits and Banners, same way Herc predates everyone else.

I'm not disavowing anybody. Banners, Krits, Finnesses, Jokers, Fingaprints, Boo da Boss Playas or anybody else.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

@Tommy Gibbs

Do you remember a mid 90s rapper named Omnisence ?

First signed rapper that I remember who repped North Carolina. Had a banger with "Amazin".
Got airplay up here, cosign and features from NY area artists.
Always assumed that he had a tremendous buzz in the Carolinas to get signed in that era. And that he was from one of the pioneering crews from there.

I honestly never heard of him, but I'm going to google and become familiar with his work because. My earliest memory of NC artist were the Bizzie Boys(with Ski, who you may know from Producing hits for Jay Z) and Supreme Nyborn. Supreme Nyborn and the Bizzie Boyz had NY flavor, as with everyone here local that were rapping back then. Years after them when I was in high school around 94, we had N-Tyce to blow up and she was all over BET. She had 2 hits, one with Meth and the other with Father MC(that was also featured in the movie Soldier Boyz. I still have that 12"). Around that time, here in my city, WZMB would have these guys called the Grass Roots that would go to the college station to freestyle weekly. I still have some tapes of that show recorded from 30 years ago. Years go by. Then Ski develops this group with Kia, that would later blow up with the So Gone challenge. She's a really dope MC. They made it to the XXL magazine. This was slightly after Petey Pablo.

First of all, I have no beef with Petey Pablo because I am happy for his success and anything he has to do going forward. he's from my city of Greenville. When Petey blew up, it almost destroyed the state of NC because everyone in the industry expected all rappers coming from here to sound like that. It's cool and all, but we weren't known for party music. We were lyricists showing our skill level. Supastition is like our Rakim. He was the new age Supreme Nyborn/Ski with the lyrics, but better.

Slightly after Supastition and Petey Pablo, here comes Little Brother and the Justice leauge. I joked with Supa that when I heard of him and Little Brother, I wouldn't listen to them. I told him to his face joking, "When I saw yall on Hiphopsite coming from NC, I wouldn't even click on the link to listen because yall were from my state and I thought yall were going to be wack as fukk". A month and a half went by and I still refused to listen. My brother in law at the time was listening to him and little brother and asked me if I heard of these guys from my state(I wasn't living in NC at the time). I told him I didn't listen to rappers from NC because their representation of us is not who we once were. He played me "speed" from Little Brother and it was over. I was hooked. I peeped Supa and the rest is history. I started meeting all of these guys later on like Legacy, Caesar Comanche, Krysis, Kooley High(when Rapsody was with them), Joe Scudda, etc. and we are where we are today. After that, J Cole comes out and blows up years later which is good, and here we are.. But I seriusly don't know who was the FIRST FIRST person who introduced the state to hip hop. My earliest memory is Supreme Nyborn and Bizzie Boys. But I'm definitely going to check out this guy Omnisense because I've got to know.

 

[Chip Skylark]

I have no idea. Memphis, Tx, and LA later was probably the first thing I knew growing up. I can’t think of anyone from the sip either

That’s crazy

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Ski Beatz used to live down the street from me. Recently I heard he was from NY in the first place, but I knew of him from my tweens as a local rapper on an independent Hip Hop label here (in NC).

His music was pretty decent. Then he moved to NY and popped up with Original Flavor, still rhyming. Then he was producing and people seem to know the rest from there.

That Camp Lo is my shyt. He produced that whole album.

I just read your post after making my long post. Yeah, Ski is who I remember. Also in 1996, Mark Sparks released a hot ass album that should have blew up nationwide. "lower level" is my favorite from that album.

A side note, in Raleigh, there was a record stored named Freeze Records in teh early-mid 90s. When Jay Z released Reasonable doubt and I looked at the singles/album inserts, I saw he was on Rocafella/Freeze Records. I really thought that was the Freeze Records in Raleigh . That Freeze Records would buy ads in the Source Magazine in 1995 so that's why I though Jay Z hooked up with them hahaha.

 

[Mr. Negative]

I have no idea. Memphis, Tx, and LA later was probably the first thing I knew growing up. I can’t think of anyone from the sip either

That’s crazy

yeah, I didn't wanna offend nobody, but we really had NO SCENE early on. All our stuff came from surrounding states. Memphis, Louisiana, Texas, Florida. Every so often we'd get a lil blip from Chicago but it wouldn't stick.

 

[Sbp]

Mannie Fresh

 

[Chip Skylark]

yeah, I didn't wanna offend nobody, but we really had NO SCENE early on. All our stuff came from surrounding states. Memphis, Louisiana, Texas, Florida. Every so often we'd get a lil blip from Chicago but it wouldn't stick.

For real. There’s been pockets but the state is so rural and spread its ridiculous. Not to mention the population is damn near the same or less than most major cities. Reading through the thread now and I actually met DJ Finesse that @Theolodius_Black is talking about through Slimbo Slice and Hollywood Luck camp. Didn’t know he was really pivotal though.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

Im from the Holmes County Delta.

I named those cats cause they predate the Krits and Banners, same way Herc predates everyone else.

I'm not disavowing anybody. Banners, Krits, Finnesses, Jokers, Fingaprints, Boo da Boss Playas or anybody else.

Ahhh ok I see I see

Central and South Mississippi, a lot of people that were trying to get on, DJ Finesse was trying to help

One of the first artists I remember hearing because of him was Queen Boys



That record was everywhere growing up cuz Finesse kept that shyt bumping on the radio

I remember when the Bonecrusher shyt happened. Finesse had talked about it cuz we heard the original. He swear he ain’t steal neva scared from Reese and Bigalow but ju, I don’t know. But anyway, yea Finesse is the answer for us.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I honestly never heard of him, but I'm going to google and become familiar with his work because. My earliest memory of NC artist were the Bizzie Boys(with Ski, who you may know from Producing hits for Jay Z) and Supreme Nyborn. Supreme Nyborn and the Bizzie Boyz had NY flavor, as with everyone here local that were rapping back then. Years after them when I was in high school around 94, we had N-Tyce to blow up and she was all over BET. She had 2 hits, one with Meth and the other with Father MC(that was also featured in the movie Soldier Boyz. I still have that 12"). Around that time, here in my city, WZMB would have these guys called the Grass Roots that would go to the college station to freestyle weekly. I still have some tapes of that show recorded from 30 years ago. Years go by. Then Ski develops this group with Kia, that would later blow up with the So Gone challenge. She's a really dope MC. They made it to the XXL magazine. This was slightly after Petey Pablo.

First of all, I have no beef with Petey Pablo because I am happy for his success and anything he has to do going forward. he's from my city of Greenville. When Petey blew up, it almost destroyed the state of NC because everyone in the industry expected all rappers coming from here to sound like that. It's cool and all, but we weren't known for party music. We were lyricists showing our skill level. Supastition is like our Rakim. He was the new age Supreme Nyborn/Ski with the lyrics, but better.

Slightly after Supastition and Petey Pablo, here comes Little Brother and the Justice leauge. I joked with Supa that when I heard of him and Little Brother, I wouldn't listen to them. I told him to his face joking, "When I saw yall on Hiphopsite coming from NC, I wouldn't even click on the link to listen because yall were from my state and I thought yall were going to be wack as fukk". A month and a half went by and I still refused to listen. My brother in law at the time was listening to him and little brother and asked me if I heard of these guys from my state(I wasn't living in NC at the time). I told him I didn't listen to rappers from NC because their representation of us is not who we once were. He played me "speed" from Little Brother and it was over. I was hooked. I peeped Supa and the rest is history. I started meeting all of these guys later on like Legacy, Caesar Comanche, Krysis, Kooley High(when Rapsody was with them), Joe Scudda, etc. and we are where we are today. After that, J Cole comes out and blows up years later which is good, and here we are.. But I seriusly don't know who was the FIRST FIRST person who introduced the state to hip hop. My earliest memory is Supreme Nyborn and Bizzie Boys. But I'm definitely going to check out this guy Omnisense because I've got to know.

Exactly my good Breh.

We wasn't on no "Dirty South" vibe... cause there wasn't a such thing at the time, late 80s early 90s... We was on some East Coast shyt.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

I would say Alonzo Williams would be considered the Kool Herc of LA

 

[UpAndComing]

The Kool Herc of my city is Kool Herc

 

[Newark88]

The central hip hop scene and history in your metro area stems from which DJ, club promoter, artist, or club?


For NJ it has to be the Awesome 2, Teddy Ted and Special K. After Mr. Magic pioneered hip hop radio, the A2 got on around the time Red Alert started spinning.
Heard their names at the time, but wasn't aware of their show until years later. They were the Jersey connection to the emerging hip hop scene in NYC.

For metro Newark, it's DJ MARK the 45 King. Flavor Unit and that family tree stems from him. Lakim Shabazz was the first rapper from Newark that was really put on, that I was aware of, him, Latifah, Latee were Flavor Unit.

Grimy ass Club Sensations in downtown Newark was the hub of the hip hop scene. That and the record shop that was on Broad St. near Mcrory's. Forget if it was a Sam Goody or a Wiz.

Also don’t forget the Twins that came out of North Newark around the same time as Lakim

 

[get these nets]

Also don’t forget the Twins that came out of North Newark around the same time as Lakim

Twin Hype?