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Anti-Pop Consortium regroups, posts new track on MySpace

Between 1996 and 1997, the face of hip-hop shifted dramatically. Its two biggest stars, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., both met their demise from the end of a barrel. The East Coast-West Coast madness was growing out of control. Hip-hop seemed doomed to implode. Out of the darkness of that period, however, arose a quartet of artists—three MCs and a DJ—that called themselves the Anti-Pop Consortium. One of the first groups to straddle the line that had been artificially constructed between IDM and hip-hop, APC released only two full-length studio albums in its five-year existence. Citing creative differences, the...  read more