Artist description Off-the-hook lyrics teeming with double entendres and sexual innuendo, delivered over funky, heavy-ass beats. Plus some whackycartoons thrown in for good measure.

Music Style Rap/Funk/Rock

Musical Influences Dust Brothers, Rick Rubin, Beasties, Pharcyde

Similar Artists Beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, Digital Underground, Beck, Sublime, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Urban Dance Squad.

Artist History A black guy from Boston and a Jewish guy from Jerseymeet in the bathouses of San Francisco (go figure!) Mix in one drunken Belgian production whiz, and the rest is a rather embarassing footnote in the history of Hip-Hop. For the live band ... Black guy and Jew are joined on stage by a hyper-active percussionist, making their formerly two-man gloried karoake act somewhat more tolerable.New band members join up (drums, bass, guitar) and you'vesuddenly got a kick-ass live show. Our one goal:Not to suck as hard as 99% of all the Hip-Hop shows we've ever seen, including "major" artists! Some career highlights: Second stage at Kamp KOME, Shoreline Amphitheater, 1997Selected as one of the Top 100 Indie CDs of 1997 by PULSE! Magazine. Opened for De La Soul, Sublime, Dick Dale, G. Love & Special Sauce, Fishbone.

Group Members Vocals: K-Squared & The Noble Def G / Production: Jamie Lemoine /Bass: Ethan Towle /Guitar: Sean Leahy /Drums: Eric Oushani /Percussion: Stark Raving Brad

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Loops, Beats

Albums "Twist the Nob"

Press Reviews The beats rock enough to keep even the heaviest of heads on the nod. Spence D., OPTION MagazineThe Marginal Prophets are able to bridge the culture gap between the cool hip-hop kids and all those other freaks left over, like me. Ezra Ace, Happy Happy, Kill Kill (Zine from San Diego) Phat and phunky. All you’d ever want it a rap record and usually don’t get. Beasties fans must get this. Punks must get this. Get it!Gary X. Indiana, FLIPSIDE MagazineThe Marginal Prophets are making hip-hop safe for post-college slackers with minds full of academic pop culture and lungs full of pot. Jeff Stark, San Francisco WeeklyThe satirical lyrics nonetheless go way past funny and land phat in the land of the lame and obnoxious. David Weiss, A.P. (Alternative Press)This effort is packed to the gills with seismic beats deep enough to put a sub-woofer in throes, and yet avoids being repetitive.Robert Arriaga, SF Weekly

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Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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