Brownout

Latin Funk Ensemble

Blu & Exile

Hip-Hop Duo

Black Milk

Detroit-based hip-hop producer and rapper

Masta Ace

Veteran New York Hip-Hop Artist

La Coka Nostra

Hardcore Hip-Hop Supergroup

Clear Soul Forces

El Michels Affair

Instrumental Soul/Funk Ensemble

Crimeapple

New Jersey-based hip-hop artist

Will Sessions

Detroit-Based Funk and Jazz Ensemble

Ill Bill

New York Underground Hip-Hop Artist

Marco Polo

Canibus

American rapper and lyricist

Mr. Green

Trinity

Wordsworth

Hi-Tek

Large Professor

Th1rt3en

Hip-Hop Fusion Trio

Mood

DMX

American rapper and actor

Madlib

Innovative Underground Hip-Hop Producer and MC

Your Old Droog

Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop Lyricist

Blu

Emerging Indie Pop Artist

Pete Rock

Influential Hip-Hop Producer and Rapper

Diamond D

Hip Hop Producer and Rapper

Mayer Hawthorne

Soulful American Singer-Songwriter

Black Moon

Pioneering East Coast Hip-Hop Group

Danny Brown

American hip-hop artist

Amp Fiddler

Talib Kweli

Influential American Hip-Hop Artist

Raekwon

Wu-Tang Clan Member and Influential New York Ra...

Sean Price

Brooklyn-based hardcore rapper

Ed O.G

Boston-based hip-hop artist

Ray West

Elzhi

Detroit-based lyricist and hip-hop artist

R.A. The Rugged Man

Underground Hip-Hop Lyricist

Daru Jones

Kev Brown

Small Professor

Philadelphia-based hip-hop producer and beatmaker

The Roger Webb Sound

British Easy Listening Ensemble

Dames Brown

Khrysis

Hip Hop Producer and Beatmaker

Brainorchestra

Emerging Multi-genre Music Producer and Performer

Declaime

Underground Hip-Hop Artist from California

9th Wonder

Grammy-winning hip-hop producer and beatmaker

J. Rawls

Hip-Hop Producer and Jazz-Influenced Beatmaker

Big L

Influential New York Hip-Hop Artist

Benny Reid

Body Bag Ben

Underground Hip-Hop Producer and Emcee

Rock

Dialect

MEDHANE

Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop Artist Medhane

Papoose

Mystic

Emerging Indie Pop Group

J-Live

New York-based hip-hop artist and DJ

Sirplus

D.R.U.G.S Beats

Hip-Hop Producer D.R.U.G.S. Beats

Mista Sinista

Eddie Sancho

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