Rhymesayers Entertainment
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| Rhymesayers Entertainment | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Founder | Sean Daley (Slug) Anthony Davis (Ant) Musab Saad (Sab the Artist) Brent Sayers (Siddiq) |
| Distributor(s) | Warner Music Group |
| Genre | Hip hop |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Official website | www |
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Rhymesayers Entertainment is headquartered in the same building as its music store, Fifth Element, in Uptown, Minneapolis.
Rhymesayers Entertainment is an indie hip hop record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1] It was co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley (Slug), Anthony Davis (Ant), Musab Saad (Sab the Artist) and Brent Sayers (Siddiq).[2] Beginning in 2008, Rhymesayers Entertainment sponsors the annual Soundset Music Festival, a popular attraction that takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Minneapolis, MN.[citation needed]
Current roster
- Abstract Rude
- Aesop Rock
- Atmosphere (Slug and Ant)
- Blueprint
- Brother Ali
- Budo
- Dem Atlas
- Dilated Peoples (DJ Babu, Evidence and Rakaa)
- DJ Abilities
- Evidence
- Eyedea
- Eyedea & Abilities
- Face Candy (Eyedea, Kristoff Krane, J.T. Bates and Casey O'Brien)
- Felt (Murs and Slug)
- Freeway
- Grayskul (JFK and Onry Ozzborn)
- Grieves
- Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock, DJ Big Wiz and Rob Sonic)
- I Self Devine
- Jake One
- MF Doom
- Micranots (I Self Devine and DJ Kool Akiem)
- Mr. Dibbs
- P.O.S
- Prof
- Psalm One
- Sab the Artist
- Semi.Official (I Self Devine and DJ Abilities)
- Soul Position (Blueprint and RJD2)
- Step Brothers (The Alchemist and Evidence)
- The Uncluded (Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson)
- Toki Wright[3]
- Artists formerly signed to the label include
See also
References
Further reading
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External links
- Official website
- Rhymesayers Entertainment discography at Discogs
Categories:
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from January 2016
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Record labels established in 1995
- American independent record labels
- Independent record labels based in Minnesota
- Hip hop record labels
- Rhymesayers Entertainment
- Hip hop collectives
- Companies based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Minnesota culture
