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Blackalicious is an American alternative hip hop duo. Gift of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in Sacramento, California and formed the group in the early 1990s and released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on Solesides Records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the two and friends of theirs who all met at UC Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented the duo from immediately capitalizing on their fame. Image File history File links Blackalicious. ...
Davis is a city located in Yolo County, California. ...
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Quannum Projects is an alternative hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
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Gift of Gab is the lead MC for hip hop group Blackalicious (along with Chief Xcel), and a member of Quannum Projects (along with Cheif Xcel, DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker). ...
Chief Xcel (b. ...
Alternative hip hop or Underground hip hop is defined as a culture rather than just a musical genre. ...
Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ...
Gift of Gab is the lead MC for hip hop group Blackalicious (along with Chief Xcel), and a member of Quannum Projects (along with Cheif Xcel, DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker). ...
Chief Xcel (b. ...
John F. Kennedy High School, a member of the Sacramento City Unified School District, is a public school in Sacramento, California. ...
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SoleSides Records is a underground hip-hop label based in Northern California, founded in 1993. ...
SoleSides Records is a underground hip-hop label based in Northern California, founded in 1993. ...
The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ...
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, (born January 1, 1973 in Davis, California) is a turntablist musician. ...
Lyrics Born (formerly Asia Born, born Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972), is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip-hop MC. Through his childhood he lived in Tokyo and Salt Lake City, Utah, and has lived most of his life in the Bay Area. ...
Lateef (real name Lateef Daumont from Oakland, California) also known as Lateef The Truth Speaker and Feetal. ...
In late 1997, Solesides became Quannum Projects and in 1999 Blackalicious released the A2G EP, which served as a precursor to their debut full length album, Nia, released the following year. This was followed by a major label contract with MCA Records and the release of the critically acclaimed album Blazing Arrow in 2002. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Quannum Projects is an alternative hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
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The A2G EP by Blackalicious was released in 1999 by Quannum Projects and served as a precursor to Blackalicious full length debut Nia (the EP shares three tracks with Nia). Perhaps the EPs most famous track is Alphabet Aerobics, A collaboration with Jurassic 5s Cut Chemist. ...
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Blazing Arrow is the second full-length album by Blackalicious. ...
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In May 2006, Gift of Gab released his first solo album, 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up. In September, Chief Xcel released The Underground Spiritual Game, a mixtape built around his favorite moments from the extensive catalog of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. One month later, another Xcel project, Maroons: Ambush by Lateef and the Chief, was released. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up is The Gift of Gabs first solo album, released in 2004. ...
The Underground Spiritual Game is a compilation of twelve tracks by Fela Kuti, selected and mixed by Blackalicious producer Chief Xcel. ...
Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. ...
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Lateef and the Chief are a side project of Quannum Projects crew members Lateef and Chief Xcel. ...
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Discography
Albums The A2G EP by Blackalicious was released in 1999 by Quannum Projects and served as a precursor to Blackalicious full length debut Nia (the EP shares three tracks with Nia). Perhaps the EPs most famous track is Alphabet Aerobics, A collaboration with Jurassic 5s Cut Chemist. ...
An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to qualify as singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...
The three-letter acronym NIA has multiple meanings, including: Northern Ireland Assembly National Insurance Academy (NIAPUNE) New India Assurance New Iraqi Army Neuromuscular Integrative Action (now called Nia, no longer in all caps) National_Institute_of_Accountants This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be any or all of an abbreviation...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
Blazing Arrow is the second full-length album by Blackalicious. ...
OutKast was only one of many rap artists to gain a profile among music fans of all stripes, even as they sold millions of records, but it must have been difficult for those in the hip-hop underground to greet their general commercial breakout with equanimity rather than jealousy. ...
ANTI- is a sister label of Epitaph Records that was launched in 1999. ...
EPs - Melodica (EP) (domestic release), Solesides 003
- A2G EP, 3-2-1/Quannum Projects (re-released on Quannum/Sub Verse)
The A2G EP by Blackalicious was released in 1999 by Quannum Projects and served as a precursor to Blackalicious full length debut Nia (the EP shares three tracks with Nia). Perhaps the EPs most famous track is Alphabet Aerobics, A collaboration with Jurassic 5s Cut Chemist. ...
Quannum Projects is an alternative hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
Singles - "Lyric Fathom" b/w "Swan Lake", Solesides 002
- "Deception" b/w "Turmoil" & "Redemption", Quannum Projects
- "Trouble", Quannum Projects/Mo' Wax
- "If I May" b/w "May I" & "Reanimation", Quannum Projects/Mo' Wax
- "Passion" b/w "Paragraph President", MCA/Quannum Projects
- "Make You Feel That Way", MCA/Quannum Projects
- "Your Move", ANTI-/Quannum Projects
- "Powers", ANTI-/Quannum Projects
Mo Wax is a UK-based record label owned by James Lavelle, who founded it in the early 1990s. ...
Compilation appearances - "Touch The Stars", Connected Compilation, 3-2-1
- "One of a Kind" & "Jada's Vengeance", Quannum-Spectrum, Quannum Projects
- "Calcutta Convention", on the Droppen the Bomb V.2 Bomb Records (recorded in 1996)
- "Soul In Flesh", on The Unbound Project compilation, Realized Music
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