Sandpeople

Sandpeople is a hip hop group formed in 2004 in Portland, Oregon. The original 10-member lineup consisted of MCs 1770-8 (aka Mo-B), Al-One, Ethic, Iame, Gold (aka Goldini Bagwell), Jon the Baptist, and Pres, MC/producers Sapient and Simple, and DJ Delay. The lineup changed in the early years with Jon the Baptist and Pres leaving and MCs Illmaculate and OnlyOne joining along with DJ Spark, taking the membership up to 11. DJ Delay left at a later date and the membership stabilized at 10. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Sandpeople is a hip hop group formed in 2004 in Portland, Oregon. The original 10-member lineup consisted of MCs 1770-8 (aka Mo-B), Al-One, Ethic, Iame, Gold (aka Goldini Bagwell), Jon the Baptist, and Pres, MC/producers Sapient and Simple, and DJ Delay. The lineup changed in the early years with Jon the Baptist and Pres leaving and MCs Illmaculate and OnlyOne joining along with DJ Spark, taking the membership up to 11. DJ Delay left at a later date and the membership stabilized at 10. Within the first two months of the group's founding, and long before most Sandpeeps had even met each other, their debut album Points of View was recorded and released over a two week span. That album laid the ground work for what has become a quick moving crew with high standards. Having several sub-groups interwoven throughout the bigger collective, the crews catalogue has been growing rapidly since their inception and only continues to gain momentum. It wasn't until recording for their second album All in Vain began, that many of the Sandpeople finally had met everyone in their crew. "Out at Simple's place was where I actually met Al-One. We were in the studio and I was engineering while he recorded his verse to Fall Apart. It took that long," says Ethic. To the untrained eye, Sandpeople may appear to be a confusing mass of hungry emcees full of passion and low on serotonin. To the trained eye, this is a certainty. In the cloudy and gray corner of this country not known for its bountiful supply of physical sand, an inappropriately named force is emerging. Concerned first with making quality music that is relevant to real everyday life, Sandpeople are sure to make connections with listeners where other artists most commonly fail to. As their name and inventory continues to expand, this will undoubtedly be looked back upon as the crews humble beginnings. Sandpeople, A brilliant fusion of talent and dependencies. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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