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B.R.O.T.H.E.R. Movement
The Black Rhyme Organisation to Help Equal Rights (B.R.O.T.H.E.R. ) was a 1989 protest Supergroup (music), supergroup founded in the United Kingdom by the raga-rap group Gatecrash and a collective of Hip hop musicians to protest the policies of apartheid in South Africa. The group's debut single, ''Beyond the 16th Parallel'', was released on Island Records "4th & Broadway" label. It was followed by a music video. The artists involved donated all royalties to the African National Congress. The second B.R.O.T.H.E.R. project was a three-track EP, ''Ghettogeddon'', focusing on the issue of inner city gun culture in the early 1990s. The artists involved donated all royalties to SCAR, Sickle Cell Anemia Research. Participants *Adisa *Cookie Crew *Crucial Robbie *The Demon Boyz *Jerry Dammers *Five Black Intellects *Freshki *Gatecrash *Gunshot (band), Gunshot *Bernie Grant *Hijack *Icepick *Junior San *Katch 22 *Junior Reid *The London Posse *London Rhyme Syndicate *MC Mell'O' *Mr Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunshot (band)
Gunshot is a British hip hop group, formed by MC Mercury, MC Alkaline, Q-Roc, DJ White Child Rix and DJ/MC Barry Blue in the area of Leyton in east London, around 1988/1989. They were originally called Sudden Impact. Career They released their debut single "Battle Creek Brawl" (Vinyl Solution, 1990) to some acclaim, which was followed swiftly by the single "No Sell Out/Crime Story" (Vinyl Solution, 1991). Both singles were well received within the hip hop scene, but following this release Q-Roc left the group to join Son of Noise under the name Curoc. Mercury, Alkaline and White Child Rix continued with the group, releasing a succession of singles in 1991/1992, that soon cemented them a place as one of the leaders of the UK hip hop scene. Their style was hardcore and fast, quickly coming to be considered—along with groups such as Hijack—the defining style of the genre. One of their releases in this period was "Killing Season/Nobody Move" (Vinyl Solution, 1992), which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |