Blu & Exile

Hip-Hop Duo

Brownout

Latin Funk Ensemble

Black Milk

Detroit-based hip-hop producer and rapper

Masta Ace

Veteran New York Hip-Hop Artist

Clear Soul Forces

La Coka Nostra

Hardcore Hip-Hop Supergroup

El Michels Affair

Instrumental Soul/Funk Ensemble

Crimeapple

New Jersey-based hip-hop artist

Will Sessions

Detroit-Based Funk and Jazz Ensemble

Ill Bill

New York Underground Hip-Hop Artist

Mr. Green

Marco Polo

Canibus

American rapper and lyricist

Hi-Tek

Trinity

Wordsworth

Large Professor

Mood

Th1rt3en

Hip-Hop Fusion Trio

DMX

American rapper and actor

Madlib

Innovative Underground Hip-Hop Producer and MC

Blu

Emerging Indie Pop Artist

Your Old Droog

Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop Lyricist

Pete Rock

Influential Hip-Hop Producer and Rapper

Diamond D

Hip Hop Producer and Rapper

Mayer Hawthorne

Soulful American Singer-Songwriter

Hus

Danny Brown

American hip-hop artist

Raekwon

Wu-Tang Clan Member and Influential New York Ra...

Black Moon

Pioneering East Coast Hip-Hop Group

Talib Kweli

Influential American Hip-Hop Artist

Sean Price

Brooklyn-based hardcore rapper

Amp Fiddler

Elzhi

Detroit-based lyricist and hip-hop artist

Ray West

Ed O.G

Boston-based hip-hop artist

R.A. The Rugged Man

Underground Hip-Hop Lyricist

Kev Brown

Daru Jones

Khrysis

Hip Hop Producer and Beatmaker

Dames Brown

The Roger Webb Sound

British Easy Listening Ensemble

Brainorchestra

Emerging Multi-genre Music Producer and Performer

Declaime

Underground Hip-Hop Artist from California

Small Professor

Philadelphia-based hip-hop producer and beatmaker

Mystic

Emerging Indie Pop Group

Body Bag Ben

Underground Hip-Hop Producer and Emcee

Rock

Big L

Influential New York Hip-Hop Artist

Dialect

MEDHANE

Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop Artist Medhane

Papoose

J. Rawls

Hip-Hop Producer and Jazz-Influenced Beatmaker

J-Live

New York-based hip-hop artist and DJ

9th Wonder

Grammy-winning hip-hop producer and beatmaker

Benny Reid

Eddie Sancho

Masta Ace / Marco Polo

Tony Suggs

80 Empire