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Stetsasonic | |
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| Origin | Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Members | Prince Paul (Paul Edward Huston) MC Delite (Marvin Shahid Wright) Wise The Human Mix Machine (Leonardo Roman) Daddy-O (Glenn K. Bolton) Bobby Simmons |
| Past members | Frukwan (Arnold Hamilton) DBC (Martin J Namley) Crown Supreme |
Stetsasonic is an American hip hop band. Formed in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Stetsasonic was one of the first hip hop acts to perform with a full band and use live instrumentation in their recordings, paving the way for future hip hop bands such as The Roots. The band combined beat-boxing, sampling technology, and live band performance, incorporating R&B, jazz, dancehall reggae, and rock into its sound.[1] Stetsasonic is also considered one of the acts that pioneered jazz rap.[2]
Though rumored to have disbanded in 1991, soon after the release of its third album, Blood, Sweat & No Tears, Stetsasonic continues to record and perform together, as evidenced by their subsequent release, "People In The Neighborhood", and their performance at the Urban Matterz Hip Hop Festival in 2019. Individual members branched out to explore solo careers, while still maintaining Stetsasonic.[2] Frukwan and Prince Paul were founding members of the Gravediggaz, while the latter also became a record producer, as did Daddy-O.[3]
- ^ Price, Emmett George (2006). Hip Hop Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 295. ISBN 1851098674. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
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