Face Candy was an improvisational Jazz Rap group who included an American rapper and poet who was a freestyle champion, and was from where?
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Face Candy Face Candy was an improvisational Jazz Rap group from Minnesota formed by rapper Eyedea. The group released one album This Is Where We Were in 2006. The lineup consisted of Eyedea, Kristoff Krane, J.T. Bates and Casey O'Brien at the time of Eyedea's sudden death in 2010. The future of the group is uncertain but as of 2011 it had been confirmed the second album Waste Age Teenland would be released posthumously. It was released May 24, 2011, seven months after Eyedea's death.
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Eyedea Micheal David Larsen (November 9, 1981 – October 16, 2010), better known by his stage name Eyedea, was an American musician, rapper and poet. He was a freestyle battle champion and songwriter from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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J. Ivy J. Ivy (born March 3, 1976 as James Ivy Richardson II) is an American performance poet, spoken word artist, recording artist, and author. He is a three-time HBO Def Poet and has earned a Grammy Award for his performance on Kanye West’s debut album "The College Dropout". His full-length solo album, "Here I Am", was released in late 2010 on his co-owned entertainment company Ivyous Entertainment.
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Cadalack Ron Robert Paulson (April 28, 1981 – January 22, 2016), known as Cadalack Ron, was an American battle rapper and underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles.
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Blair (poet) David Blair (September 19, 1967 – July 23, 2011), known as Blair, was an American musician and poet from Detroit, Michigan who competed in the 2002 National Poetry Slam and was nominated for seven Detroit Music Awards. Blair toured in the United States, South Africa and Germany, performing with various artists, including Stevie Wonder and Wilco.
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Illmaculate Gregory Poe (born February 4, 1986), better known by his stage name Illmaculate (a.k.a. Illmac), is a battle rapper and American hip hop artist of Native American descent from St. Johns, Portland, Oregon.
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Stanley Diamond Stanley Diamond (January 4, 1922 in New York City, NY – March 31, 1991 in New York City, NY) was an American poet and anthropologist. As a young man, he identified as a poet, and his disdain for the fascism of the 1930s greatly influenced his thinking. Diamond was a professor at several universities, spending most of his career at The New School. He wrote several books and founded "Dialectical Anthropology", a Marxist anthropology journal, in 1975.
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Mellow Man Ace Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12, 1967), better known as Mellow Man Ace, is a Cuban-American rapper known for bilingual delivery and novelty rhymes. He was born in Cuba and left Cuba with his family at the age of four and resettled in Los Angeles.
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The D.O.C. Tracy Lynn Curry (born June 10, 1968), better known by his stage name The D.O.C., is an American rapper from Dallas. In addition to a solo career, he was a member of the hip hop group Fila Fresh Crew and later collaborated with gangsta rap group N.W.A, where he co-wrote many of their releases as well as Eazy-E's solo debut album "Eazy-Duz-It". He has also worked with Dr. Dre, who is one of the founding members of N.W.A and produced two of his solo albums.
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Trip Lee William Lee Barefield III (born December 17, 1987), better known by his stage name Trip Lee, is an American rapper, singer, poet, and author. Signed to Reach Records, he has recorded both as a solo artist and as a founding member of the 116 Clique. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he now resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a teaching pastor at Cornerstone Church. He first gained recognition after appearing on the Reach Records website at the age of 16. His third album, "Between Two Worlds", was nominated for two Dove Awards and won the Stellar Award for Best Hip Hop Album in 2011.
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Harry Kemp Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."
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James Emanuel James Emanuel (born June 15, 1921 – September 28, 2013) was a poet and scholar from Alliance, Nebraska. Emanuel, who is ranked by some critics as one of the best and most neglected poets of the 20th century, published more than 300 poems, 13 individual books, an influential anthology of African American literature, an autobiography, and more. He is also credited with creating a new literary genre, jazz-and-blues haiku, often read with musical accompaniment.
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Waddie Mitchell Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet. He sometimes performs his poems with a guitarist playing in the background. Mitchell has made eight CDs including "That No Quit Attitude, Lone Drifting Rider "and his most recent, "Sweat Equity".He and cowboy singer and friend Don Edwards released "The Bard and the Balladeer Live From Cowtown. "Mitchell has written four books, "Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider "and a 2015 compilation "One Hundred Poems. "He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival. He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
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Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly for alto saxophone but he also performs on soprano and flute.
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Kid Lucky Terry Lewis, also known by his stage name Kid Lucky, is an American Beatrhymer, Beatboxer, Singer-Songwriter,teacher and activist born in New York City. He is known primarily for coining the art of "Beatrhyming", which he defines as "rapping, singing, or performing spoken word while beatboxing simultaniously".
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Gylan Kain Gylan Kain is an American poet and playwright. He is a founding member, in 1968, of the Original Last Poets (along with Felipe Luciano and David Nelson). He is known for creating the aggressive, rhythmic delivery of spoken word aka performance poetry as it is known today. He often performs with hand drums or backing musicians such as saxophonists and bass guitarists. His work has often been sampled without pre-consent by well-known artists including Dr. Dre and The Prodigy. One of his performances was sampled into the club hit "Voodoo People" by The Prodigy. Dr. Dre sampled an excerpt of Kain performing his poem, "The Shalimar" on Dre's track entitled "Intro" from the album entitled "The Chronic." After legal action was successfully taken to procure compensation for work sampled by The Prodigy, spokespersons for The Prodigy claimed that efforts had been made to procure permission from Kain for use of his work but those efforts had been unsuccessful because Kain, who values privacy, could not be located in time. Dr. Dre has yet to compensate Kain for work sampled without prior consent. This has led some fans to criticize Dr. Dre as an hypocrite for exploiting the work of an influential Black artist after building a reputation as an empowering force in the black American community as a founding member of N.W.A.
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Guante Kyle Tran Myhre (born January 23, 1983), better known by his stage name Guante, is an American hip hop recordings artist, National slam poet Champion (2008-2009), activist, and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Hoodie Allen Steven Adam Markowitz (born on August 19, 1988), better known by his stage name Hoodie Allen, is an American rapper from Long Island, New York. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he began working at Google before ultimately quitting to pursue a music career full-time. In 2012, he released his first official EP titled "All American" which debuted at No. 10 on the "Billboard" 200. In October 2014, Hoodie officially released his debut studio album, "People Keep Talking" which was successful with first week sales of over 30,000 along with a debut position of No. 8 on the "Billboard" 200. Hoodie followed up on his success in January 2016 and released his second studio album, "Happy Camper.
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Scratch (musician) Kyle Jones (born in Camden, New Jersey), better known as Scratch, is an American hip hop musician who specializes in Beatboxing and vocal scratch sounds. He is best known as a former member of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. He is well known in the hip hop and beatbox community for his outstanding ability to simulate the music of a Hip hop Turntablist using only his voice and loop machines.
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Alan Fried Alan M. Fried (born August 11, 1971) is an American amateur wrestler. He was an NCAA National Champion, Espoir World Champion (20 years and under), three-time Ohio State Champion, and the first wrestler to win four Junior National Freestyle titles. He is also an author.
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Supernatural (rapper) Reco Price (born April 23, 1970), better known by his stage name Supernatural (a.k.a. Super Nat or MC Supernatural) is an American rapper best known for his "on-the-spot" freestyle and battle rap abilities He has been a regular performer and host of the Rock the Bells Music Festival since its beginning in 2004.
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Stephen Abas Stephen Anthony Abas (born January 12, 1978) is an American Olympic Freestyle wrestler and Mixed martial artist. Abas became a three-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion in the 125 lb weight division while attending Fresno State University. He has competed in two world freestyle championships and received a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games.