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Criminal Nation
Criminal Nation was an American hip-hop group whose members included D-Rob, Spade, Bumpy, MC Deff/Wojack, D-Wiz, Clee-Bone and Eugenius. The group was active from 1990 to 1992 and then briefly in 2000. Discography *1990: ''Release the Pressure'' Nastymix Records *1992: '' Trouble in the Hood'' Nastymix Records *2000: ''Resurrection Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which ...'' Ocean Records References American hip hop groups West Coast hip hop groups Musical groups from Tacoma, Washington {{US-hiphop-band-stub ...
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the List of municipalities in Washington, third-largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, called wikt:Tacoma, təˡqʷuʔbəʔ in the Lushootseed, Puget Sound Salish dialect. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-wat ...
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West Coast Hip Hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast region of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records and the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, and others. History Early years Several events laid the foundations for West Coast hip hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Mellow Man Ace, Too Short, Kid Frost, Ice-T and Eazy-E—or even before the emergence of rap itself. According to Syd Caesar, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts riots of 1965." In 1967, Budd Schulberg founded a creative space in Los Angeles entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a place ...
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Gangsta Rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip-hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappers flaunt associations with real street gangs, like the Crips and Bloods. Gangsta rap's pioneers Ice-T in 1986, and especially N.W.A in 1988 and the rise of Tupac Amaru Shakur in 1992. In 1992, via record producer Dr. Dre, rapper Snoop Dogg, and their G-funk sound, gangsta rap took the rap genre's lead and became mainstream, popular music. Gangsta rap has been recurrently accused of promoting disorderly conduct and broad criminality, especially assault, homicide, and drug dealing, as well as misogyny, promiscuity, and materialism. Gangsta rap's defenders have variously characterized it as artistic depictions but not literal endorsements of real life in American ghettos, or suggested that some lyrics voice rage against social oppression ...
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Alternative Hip Hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres drawing equally from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, reggae, and even folk." Alternative hip hop developed in the late 1980s and experienced a degree of mainstream recognition during the early-to-mid 1990s. While some groups such as Arrested Development and The Fugees managed to achieve commercial success before breaking up, many alternative rap acts tend to be embraced by alternative rock listeners other than hip-hop or pop audiences. The commercial and cultural momentum was impeded by the then  -also emerging, significantly harder-edged West Coast gangsta rap. A resurgence came about in the late 19 ...
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Hip Hop Music In The Pacific Northwest
Northwest hip hop is hip hop or rap music that originates from the Pacific Northwest of North America, encompassing major cities such as Portland (Oregon), Seattle (Washington), and other towns. Northwest hip hop music mixes elements from various genres of music to form a sound different from its southern neighbor, West Coast hip hop. For many years the scene existed mainly as an underground genre, but recently Northwest hip-hop has seen more and more mainstream acceptance, with artists such as Macklemore gaining nationwide attention. Overview Many of the local underage clubs and high schools in south Seattle held formal contests called bop-offs where dancers would compete against one another. In the early 1980s, soldiers positioned at Tacoma's military bases provided the foundation for a growing hip-hop fan base in the Northwest. In 80s, Seattle old skool rapper "Sir Mix-A-Lot"started his career. Fresh Tracks was a two hour show that played on Sunday nights on KKFX 1250 ("KFOX" ...
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Release The Pressure (album)
''Release the Pressure'' is the debut album by the American rap group Criminal Nation Criminal Nation was an American hip-hop group whose members included D-Rob, Spade, Bumpy, MC Deff/Wojack, D-Wiz, Clee-Bone and Eugenius. The group was active from 1990 to 1992 and then briefly in 2000. Discography *1990: ''Release the Pressure .... It was released in 1990 for Nastymix Records and was produced by the group's producers, Eugenius and Womack. The album peaked at No. 73 on the '' Billboard charts Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and also featured the hit single "Insane", which made it to No. 17 on the Hot Rap Singles. The video for another single, "Black Power Nation", gained some airplay. Track listing #"Positively Funky"- 4:47 #"Black Power Nation"- 3:42 #"The Right Crowd"- 3:05 #"Insane"- 3:57 #"I'm Rollin'"- 5:22 #"My Laboratory"- 4:24 #"Violent Sound"- 2:48 #"Release the Pressure"- 5:18 #"Definitely Down for Trouble"- 4:49 #"Criminal Hit"- 3:34 #"Mission of Murder"- 4:35 #"Take No ...
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Trouble In The Hood
''Trouble in the Hood'' is the second album released by rap group, Criminal Nation. It was released in 1992 for Nastymix Records and was produced by the group's producers, Eugenius and Mark Womack its lead rapper, MC Deff. Trouble in the Hood peaked at #75 on the Billboard charts' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and featured the bass guitar work of Matt McClinton and also synthesizer and keyboard work of producer/musician M.A.S.. It would also be the group's last album for another eight years until 2000's Resurrection Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which .... Track listing #"Intro" – 1:02 #"Trouble in the Hood" – 3:41 #"You Can't Fuck with It" – 4:14 #"Excuse Me Mr. Officer" (Fed Up) – 4:19 #"No Shame" – 4:30 #"Just Loungin'" – 4:52 #"Pierce County Gangster" – 4:00 # ...
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Resurrection (Criminal Nation Album)
''Resurrection'' is the third and final album released by rap group, Criminal Nation. It was released on April 3, 2000 for Ocean Records and was produced by Eugenius and several tracks by M.A.S.. This marked the group's first album since 1992's Trouble in the Hood, however the reunion would prove to be short lived as the group would disband a second time after the album's release. Track listing #"Intro"- :36 #"Criminal Love"- 3:34 #"Stand the Rain"- 4:24 #"Take a Flight"- 3:21 #"Under Pressure"- 4:02 #"Fuck Being Down"- 5:07 #"So Real"- 4:33 #"Demons Dwell"- 5:45 #"A Thin Line"- 5:09 #"Fortune over Fame"- 3:54 #"The Break Down"- 4:50 #"Can I Please Hit?"- 4:50 #"That's Fa Sho"- 4:58 References External links * 2000 albums Criminal Nation albums {{2000-hiphop-album-stub ...
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American Hip Hop Groups
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West Coast Hip Hop Groups
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dir ...
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