Diggin' up an Artifact

Although graffiti is one of the four elements of hip hop, it always tends to be at the bottom of the list of rapper's song topics just below "party joint" and "chicken heads".

Enter the Artifacts, a dynamic group who wrote THE definitive hit song about getting up in the brick city. Hailing from New Jersey, Emcees El da Sensai and Tame One have unique styles that reflect off their affiliates EPMD and Redman (who also produced half the album), carving their own niche in hip hop's golden age. Their debut album, Between a Rock and a Hard Place is littered with heavy drum loops, dissonant jazz samples and complex rhyming verses.

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