Artist description A solo MC-producer as well as a novelist and an essayist, Scribe brings anarchist views, autobiography, and Western philosophy to underground hip-hop. Also: media analyst, lyric archivist, sometime student, typical wage slave, mediocre graphic designer.

Music Style advanced hip-hop

Musical Influences Freestyle Fellowship, DJ Shadow, Themselves, Pink Floyd

Similar Artists Public Enemy, Saul Williams, Latyrx, Organized Konfusion, Saafir, Circus

Artist History starting writing prose at age seven and lyrics at fifteen; first demos recorded (90 minute homemade tape and "F--- the GOP" cassingle), and major contributor to legendary (now defunct) truehiphop.com in '97; "Marxist Catharsis" full-length tape, 1200 Hobos induction in 1999; Hiphop Lyric Archive presented online, "Purgatory" CD released in 2000; "Extended Play" recorded late 2001, released 2002; first book written, media-deconstruction project started,"The Agitprop-Emorap Shuffle" released in 2003; scattered performances and political actions throughout

Instruments turntable, sampler, pen, mic

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Location Oakland, CA - USA

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