Artist: Blue Scholars
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Bayani
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
The Long March EP
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Blue Scholars
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Side by english with companion Seattle-based rap groups Common Market and Boom Bap Project, the Blue Scholars lED the burden in proclaiming the Pacific Northwest as a breeding ground for "true school" rap. Perceiving themselves as blue-collar intellectuals, DJ/producer Sabzi (born Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi) and MC Geologic (born George Quibuyen) used their music as a vehicle to promote their socially conscious objectives and to build a rap music scenery in Seattle, WA, and its surroundings. The 2 first base met on the University of Washington campus as students in 1999, just formed the group in early 2002. They bonded more than powerfully as a redoubtable duet during the course of action of doing numerous live shows. Avoiding the bureaucratic red tape recording of record labels, they took the D.I.Y. plan of attack and self-pressed their debut LP, Puritanical Scholars, in early 2004. Sabzi john Drew on his Persian/Iranian heritage, classical pianissimo education, and affinity for wind to compose lightsome and breezy beat generation to complement Geologic's illuminating rhymes. The album's widespread reception exponentially increased their demand for hot shows and performances, something the progressive duette didn't anticipate. They too didn't expect the Seattle Weekly to call it Album of the Year, which helped push the album to be picked up for national and external distribution in 2005. Instead of recoiling from the spotlight and the local fame, Geologic and Sabzi were bent on cultivating a movement. Sabzi teamed up with some other other scholarly person of UW, RA Scion, to manikin Common Market in 2005. In summertime 2006, they conventional the independent imprint and multimedia system party, Mass Line Media, with MC Gabriel Teodros (of Abyssinian Creole).
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