Crown City Rockers
Background information
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genre(s)	Alternative hip hop Jazz rap
Years active	1997-present
Label(s)	Basement Records Insiduous Urban Records
Website	CrownCityRockers.com
Members
Raashan Ahmad (MC) Woodstock (Samples/Percussion) Headnodic (Bass guitar) Max MacVeety (Drums) Kat Ouano (Keyboards)

Crown City Rockers are a five member hip hop band from Oakland, California, by way of Boston, Massachusetts and Pasadena. Formerly known as Mission:, they play old school inflected hip hop music with live instrumentation, citing influences such as A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, KRS-One and De La Soul. Image File history File links Crowncityrockers. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City 232. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Alternative hip hop is hip hop music that is artistically different from mainstream hip hop typified by pop rap and gangsta rap. ... Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Basement Records was started up late 1988 and was run from the Record Basement shop in Reading, Berkshire. ... MC redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is mostly a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... Oakland is the name of several places in the United States of America: Oakland, Alabama Oakland, California (The best-known city with this name) Oakland, Florida Oakland, Maine Oakland, Maryland Oakland, Michigan Oakland, Missouri Oakland, Nebraska Oakland, New Jersey Oakland, Oklahoma Oakland, Oregon Oakland, Pennsylvania Oakland, Rhode Island Oakland, Tennessee... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, CA Pasadena is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Old school hip hop is a term used to describe the very earliest hip hop music to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. ... A Tribe Called Quest is an influential rap group of the 1990s. ... The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Fifth Dynasty, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning Philadelphia-based hip hop group, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. ... KRS-One (born Lawrence Krisna Parker on August 20, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York. ... De La Soul is a Grammy-award winning hip hop group from Long Island, New York. ...

Discography

Albums

One (April 17, 2001)

Earthtones (August 24, 2004)

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EPs

Mission EP (1999)

Weekend Soul Japan EP (2004) (Japan release only)

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Singles

Contagious (2000)

Mission:2 (2002)

Another Day (Rhyme Writing) (2004)

B-Boy (2006)

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External links

• Crown City Rockers' Official Website
• Crown City Rockers at MySpace