Artist description Innovative, creative, introspective, and definitely original.

Music Style Hip-Hop & Neo-Soul

Musical Influences Miles Davis, Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Slick Rick, George Clinton

Artist History As a founding member of the Mos Wanted Crew at Kentucky State University, Krate Digga (b. Jesse Jackson III, 1978, Canton, OH) has been devoted to adding his flavor to the diversity of Hip Hop music. Heavily influenced by jazz, funk, reggae, and classical music and trained in African and Caribbean percussion since the age of 8, Digga incorporates polyrhymic cadences with both traditional and non-traditional ingredients of rap music. Schooled on the wheels of steel by DJ Sicari, while an undergrad at Kentucky State, Digga went on to form the Mos Wanted Crew in 1997 with DJ Sicari, DJ Rod-Nice, and MC Mr. Mike. Along with the Crew, Digga honed his skills and gained experience by Djing campus parties, club venues, and college concert tours. In 2000, Digga left KSU and took sabbatical and began to focus on music production. Since sabbatical, Krate Digga has returned to Djing and released several locally acclaimed mix tapes, while splitting time between producing a Rizz, of S.P.I.R.I.T., solo project and Krate Digga presents…a Jazzmatazz-style album featuring local MC’s poets, singers, and songwriters. Krate Digga hopes presents… can be a launching pad for him and other very talented local artists into national recognition. Krate Digga has recently forged a new partnership with another old friend, DJ Tone Capone of Vizionary Productions and hopes to complete a compilation of Vizionary and SoundChampz camp artists by Winter 2002. His love for music can be seen in the variety of his production library, from hip-hop to R&B, neo-soul to jungle and dancehall to salsa. Digga stays new, fresh, and evolving in the every changing world of music, while keeping himself true the foundation of good music: creativity.

Group Members Krate Digga - DJ/producer/writer Rizz [of S.P.I.R.I.T.] - (collaboration artist) MC/writer/producer

Albums Rizz - The Show-Off (EP) ,1999; Krate Digga - several underground mixtapes ,1997-2002

Location Columbus, OH - USA

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