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Knowledge is Hip Hop
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The DMV has and continues to see a lot of creative wordsmiths and poets take their experiences and set them to rock or jazz influences beats and express themselves through rhyme. In the 80s, the late Biz Markie put DMV in the hip hop spotlight playing lots of college bars in the areas with his late 80s gem "Just A Friend". Since, hip culture has evolved into various forms within itself paralleling the technology and the shifts within the cultural dynamics it expresses itself through. Logic, from Gaithersburg, MD, used hip hop as forum to bring attention to teenage suicide and Wale, also from Gaithersburg, has had major success with his career paving the way for other hip hip artists to follow suit.
Knowledge has been on his own trail of rhyme and verse since the 2000s growing up influenced by 2Pac and rock and roll. His influences have created a fusion of sounds that fans not only from the DMV, but from all over the northeast, are finding irresistible and adding to their playlists to listen to again and again. He chats with Evan live for the first one on one interview on Creative Legends of the DMV.
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