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  Encyclopedia: Hip hop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
G-funk, an abbreviation of Gangsta-funk, is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s.
Horrorcore is a sub-genre of rap/hip-hop music that evolved from pioneers such as Insane Poetry, Ganxsta NIP, Esham (The Unholy), Geto Boyz, The Flatlinerz, Brotha Lynch Hung and The Gravediggaz.
Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hip-hop   (6074 words)

  
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In a way, Rehm's work ends up being akin to Wu-Tang Clan or Gravediggaz, East Coast rappers trying to challenge the hegemony of the West Coast flavour.
And as the Gravediggaz, by having their album advertised as "horrorcore," were able to then dispute the label as one invented by their, uh, label, so we can see the incommensurability of the "poetics" and the "poetry" chez Rehm.
In the end, that is, the totally cool "Thus I Find my Legs" & "Repudiation" stand out for me. "Repudiation" has the necessary inclusion of the marginal in a way that seems more Grim or Neilson and less Howe: i.e.
www.wings.buffalo.edu /epc/ezines/witz/witz_3.1   (6097 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan mastermind Robert Diggs, aka RZA, is busy promoting "RZA as Bobby Digital In Stereo", the soundtrack album to his alter-ego B-boy superhero film, Bobby Digital, a project the hip hop producer/DJ had to get out of his system before moving on to his debut solo album, "The Cure", due in February.
After helping to produce the side projects of fellow clansmen Raekwon, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Gravediggaz, RZA put his "official" solo album on hold in order to get Bobby Digital's "perverted" ways out of his system via the soundtrack and movie.
The name Robert Diggs should be somewhere among the list of famous alter-egos like Clark Kent.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/W/Wutang_Clan   (204 words)

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