Artist description Beats and Rhymes Records is home to L.A.'s finest, dopest, rhymers. If you know of the Freestyle Fellowship, Meen Green, Ganjah K, Project Blowed; nuff said!

Music Style Hip-Hop

Musical Influences Freestyle Fellowship, Nonce, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Vintage 1986 Hip-Hop, 1580 KDAY R.I.P.

Similar Artists Freestyle Fellowship, DJ Premier, Outkast, Mos Def, Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang, Dr. Dre, Eminem

Artist History In 1991, 6 men from the Goodlife Cafe in sunny South Central Los Angeles, joined forces for the good of hip-hop and the art of emceeing to form The Freestyle Fellowship. There first recording, "To whom it may concern...," went on to re-shape the landscape of hip-hop (witness: The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, Volume 10, Jurrasic 5, Black Eyed Peas, Hieroglypics (Del, Casual, Souls of Mischief), Ras Kass, Vooodu!, Meen Green, Ganjah K, Mystical etc...). All parties involved with this original project have since been burned by the heat and radiation from insuing accolades. The production team that brought you this original Freestyle Fellowship recording, has re-formed (some 9 years later) as "The Remedy," an antidote to pop music hater-itus. J. Sumbi (Sunshine Man), MD (Sunshine Man), Mathmattiks (Earthquake Bros.), Meen Green (Western Hemisfear), Ganjah K (The First Brigade), MTM (The First Brigade), and The Hemp Cartel have come together again to...BLOW UP!!!

Group Members J. Sumbi (Freestyle Fellowship/Sunshine Men)MD (Freestyle Fellowship/Sunshine Men)Mathmattiks (Earthquake Bros.)Meen Green (The Hemp Cartel)Marc da Murderah (The Hemp Cartel)Ganjah K (The First Brigade)

Instruments ProTools, MPC 2000XL, E-MU Sound Modules and samplers, ADATs, Human Brains, Human Voices

Albums Freestyle Fellowship, "To whom is may concern..." / Freestyle Fellowship, "Inner City Griots" / Ganjah K, "Harvest For The World" / Meen Green, "Lungs Like A Rasta (EP)" / Sach (NONCE), "7 Days To Engineer"

Press Reviews Over the last 10 years, features in The Source, Vibe, URB, RapPages, XXL. Most recently in URB's 10-year anniversary issue (Jan/Feb 2001) mentions The Freestyle Fellowship's "To whom it may concern..." as one of the 10 most important records of the 90's for hip-hop stating, "...when "To whom it may concern..." appeared in 1991, it predicted the coming revolution by California's independent-minded underground, planting the germinal seed that folks like SoleSides and Stones Throw would nuture later in the decade [90's]...the Fellowship, consciously or not, took up the progressive legacy of the New School just as it was crumbling in New York."

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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