X Clan

X Clan
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Genre: Rap
Styles: East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap, Political Rap, Golden Age
Group Members: Professor X, Architect Tractit..., Grand Verbalizer ..., Sugar Shaft, The ..., Brother J, Grand Architect P...
Biography: A good number of Afrocentric, politically oriented rap groups put out records during the late '80s and early '90s. Very few of those groups were on the level of the hard-hitting X Clan, a Brooklyn-based collective that released a pair of stellar albums -- 1990's To the East, Blackwards and 1992's Xodus ...Read full biography
To the East, Blackwards
Released: 1990
Label: 4th & Broadway
Critics' Rating:
The self-sufficient X Clan should've made a bigger splash with To the East, Blackwards, the group's debut album for 4th & Broadway. Name-dropping Nat Turner and Marcus Garvey and dressing in red, black, ...Read full review
Xodus
Released: 1992
Label: Polydor
Critics' Rating:
More of the same is hardly a bad thing when considering X Clan's second album. They're still jacking beats -- from Special Ed, D-Nice, and Main Source, for instance -- and they're still spreading their ...Read full review
More X Clan albums: Main Albums (4), Singles & EPs (11)
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