Artist description 8 battle MC's from North Jersey

Music Style Battle Rhyme Hip Hop

Musical Influences Hardcore battle MC's

Similar Artists Wu Tang

Artist History Anyone stepping up to the Outsidaz is warned to have his verbal armor polished and poised for battle. This dynamic crew hails a wordsmith’s plume and champions one of hip-hop's founding elements, the art of the lyrical beat down. With an onslaught of loquacious ammunition from cast members Pace Won, Young Zee, Az-Izz, Yah Yah, Denton, D.U., Axe, NawShis and DJ Muhammed, Outsidaz plead no contest to hip hop talent shows, defeating competitors with a smirk as long as their hometown New Jersey. Their energy fuels their own fire and radiates a roomful of onlookers — as witnessed on the recent Lyricist Lounge tour. It was a telling sign when, long ago, one of the members watched a bird defecate on his opponents' shoulder when it was his turn — a calling from above in the most crass sense.On the Outsidaz' debut and first release for Chris Schwartz’s RuffLife Records (part of his RuffNation umbrella), the Night Life EP embellishes mad skills for song structure and choruses influenced by Reggae, Soul and Pop, in addition to East and West Coast rap. Within the EP’s seven songs the Outsidaz drop lyrical mayhem on money, relationships, debauchery, and cold-crushin' MCs. The blaxploitaion-influenced "Don't Look Now," featuring Pace, Young Zee and Axe, has a titillating horn sample from The Streets Of San Francisco flick with a provoking chant. "Money Money Money" is the Outsidaz' take on the measures taken to achieve loot; backed by a brooding beat and dark horns, it's how Pace Won, the Pop fanatic of the bunch, foresees Pop Music in 2000. "Fuck Y'all Niggaz," featuring Young Zee and Rah Digga in the battle zone between the sexes, is as blunt and brutal as the title implies, and like its freaky loops, this is the Outsidaz' twisted take on a sing-along. And the mid-tempo bounce of "Rush Ya Clique (Tearin' Things Up)" features the skills of Eminem alongside Pace Won, Young Zee, Axe, Az-Izz and the late Slang Ton. "Fun shit should still be on everybody's album," claims Young Zee, and the Night Life EP exposes the Outsidaz’ uncanny sense of humor.Raised and trained between Newark, Irvington, and East Orange, NJ (better known as the “bricks”), the dawning of the Outsidaz began New Year's Eve 1990 when Young Zee stumbled onto Pace Won's turf and confronted him for some rhyme relay. After an exasperating three hours of flaunting lines, no winner was determined. The two realized they had found their equal, and have been recruiting mates under the Outsidaz moniker ever since. The outcome has been a motley crew of provocative heads vying for every inch of space, storming stages like a modern-day Parliament/Funkadelic for the hip hop nation. Plain and simple, the Outsidaz formed as a battle-rapping group, and remain a battle-rapping group. "A lot of MCs start rapping for different reasons," says Young Zee, "but we started rapping to humiliate the next man, to humiliate the person that people thought was the freshest."As Young Zee says, "It's a whole different life at night.” So where can the Outsidaz be found during the nocturnal hours? As workaholics (Pace Won and Young Zee had previously recorded for Perspective and Roc-A-Bloc Records, and can be found on upcoming records from Eminem, Rah Digga, and Redman), so they're locked up in their studio, laying rhymes down, cracking on themselves when the track beckons — it's their form of editing, getting the best out of each other. "Hip Hop is coming back to the way we want it," Young Zee affirms. "We're striving for hip hop to come back as being creative again. Nowadays you can get a bill by just sounding like Jigga. Where I'm from, that's cheating. We won't define a diamond in 16 different selections of songs. We got different things to hit you with." So witness the Night Life EP and you'll see how the Outsidaz want their hip hop — in the raw.

Group Members Yah YahYoung ZeeAxePace WonAs IzzD.U.DenzyNawshis

Albums Night Life

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Location newark, nj - USA

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