Diaspora Mixtape

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LMNZ (Germany)

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LMNZ produces Hip Hop – Instrumentals, writes lyrics, composes, arranges music, raps, mixes and records songs. Currently in Berlin, LMNZ studied Sound Engineering and has a proven track record of successful projects uniting the nomadic, global Hip Hop community.

His biggest project so far? The album called “Worldwide Rap,” featuring 76 international artists who participate in 29 languages.

http://www.worldwide-rap.com/

http://www.myspace.com/lmnz

http://lmnz.bandcamp.com/

Daddy Jeff (Euskadi)

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In 2004 Daddy Jeff left Selektah Kolektiboa to start his solo career, launching his first mixtape “Rhyme Lagunak”. Daddy Jeff has run the radio show Radiophonic Emison for the past 9 years, which airs on Info7, Molotoff, and Halabedi. He’s just finished another studio album comprised of 12 trip-hop tracks and is already working on his next, which included collaborations with Hip Hop artists from around the world.

http://www.wix.com/arrimusic/daddy-jeff
email: arrijeff@gmail.com

Aivan (Sapmi Norway)

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Gonagas is one of a few Sámi rap pioneers. He started with MJC, moved over to BWA, and is now a member of the premium Sámi rap group Áivan. Áivan rhymes from a broken soul in Sámi and Norwegian. The Sámi is an indigenous northern European population that have traditionally plied a livelihood around coastal fishing, fur trapping, sheep herding, and semi-nomadic reindeer herding. There are just around 10 people in the world rapping seriously in Sámi.

http://www.aivan.org

email: haavard.sara@gmail.co

Final Outlaw (NYC)

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Final Outlaw is renowned for his shockingly personal performance style and cinematic music. Final Outlaw is an End of the Weak MC Challenge Champion, and winner of the City Park Foundations MC Contest. He has half a million combined views and plays on Myspace and features on almost every major Hip Hop blog including OkayPlayer.com, 2dopeboyz.com, WorldStarHipHop.com, and Vimby.com (180,000+ views first week). The music video “Hip Hop 4ever” landed on the MTV UK website, with regular rotation on Ralph McDaniel’s legendary Video Music Box on NYCTV. The video also won an award for “strongest song” at NYC’s longest running Hip Hop open mic (www.eodub.com) and climbed to #1 on Goldmic.com (beating out 150,000+ other Hip Hop artists.)

www.finaloutlaw.com

email: finaloutlaw@gmail.com

G.O. Mantrazik (Tunisia)

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In 1999, G.Oman’s first single came out. The content of the music went beyond the social aspect to tap into a very sensitive issue – the conditions of the country he was living in. The single was entitled “DENEYA MASALA7” ( life is where you can make profit). At the age of 17, G.Oman was not aware of the consequences of talking about politics in Tunisia. He learned the hard way when cops came to his house and took him for investigation, forcing him to attest that he would never sing about such touchy issues again. In 2005 a new album “demralisé” was recorded and it was a fresh start for G.Oman who formed a new group “2MRUE”, with Mazol a.k.a Mehdi . G.Oman has been working on a professional level with the newly formed production company ‘Rebel Records’.

email: xtrazikgOman@hotmail.it

Wes Chen (China)

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Fluent in both English and Chinese, deeply rooted in the cultures of both America and China, Weschen brings all elements of hip hop from the West to the listeners of China eager for a taste of something new. With longtime friend Jeff Kung, Weschen has produced and hosted China’s first and only hip hop radio show. Broadcast at first in Beijing, thePark has now spread to 100 cities across China, including Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the past 3 years it has become a recognizable brand name in its industry. Continuing on into its 4th year of broadcast, the founders of the show still create all the content, produce every element, and act as host, MC, and DJ.

Doing hip hop in China poses a number of challenges. Having little access to indie label music and the underground scene and media, locals are easily led astray. As founder, producer, and host of the first and only hip hop show on Chinese airwaves, Weschen has taken on the responsibility of showing them the true elements of real hip hop through his playlists, DJ sets, and own original tracks.

http://www.xihapark.com/

email: weschen24@gmail.com

Hired Gun (NYC)

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Hired Gun is a hip hop artist, educator, and cultural ambassador. In 2009 he released his critically acclaimed solo album, “The People’s Verses” which garnered him a spot in the prestigious URB Next 100 (alongside artists such as Drake, UFI, and SkyZoo). He has taught performance poetry and hip hop education classes, and is currently the Program Director for Urban Word, a New York City based arts education organization, and the nation’s leading youth poetry community. Hired Gun has been a guest speaker at such institutions as Yale, Georgetown, The U.S. Institute of Peace, and Trinity College, to name a few, and is a featured writer on MTV’s international blog, Iggy. Hired Gun has toured internationally, and has played alongside The Last Poets, Slick Rick, Rob Swift, Sean Price, Rhymefest, Talib Kweli, J-Live, Mykah Nine and K’naan.

http://www.reverbnation.com/hiredgun

email: freeradicalz@gmail.co

Infinite (New Jersey)

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Infinite is a universal emcee, visual artist, writer, entrepreneur and advocate of self-empowerment. From 1998 to his first album in 2001 titled “Area 52: Classified Rhymes,” Infinite has been known for his unique ability to create powerful lyrics that educate, inspire, and move listeners to think. Following up with “Life Sentences” in 2004 and “Last Daze” in 2009, Infinite is planning to release his latest record, entitled “Mental Devil Slayer”.

http://www.wombapparel.com

email: baker.dion@gmail.com

Contra Las Cuerdas (Uruguay)

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Contras Las Cuerdas was formed in the spring of 1999, and ever since has been making hip-hop “criollo”–a truly innovative style that fuses candombe, Tango, Funk, and Jazz, among other things. Their career is marked by the repeated transcendence of musical boundaries throughout Argentina and Brasil. CLC has opened for La Mala Rodríguez, Calle 13, Bajo Fondo Tango Club, Mvbill, Erick Truffaz. They have also participated in projects with La Calenda Beat, Underbrown, and Luciano Supervielle, just to name a few. By dressing the roots of local musical cultures, tango and candombe, with the musical elements of hip-hop, Contras Las Cuerdas produces a music that gracefully mixes tradition and innovation.

http://www.lastfm.es/music/Contra+Las+Cuerdas