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

Canibus

American rapper and lyricist

Hi-Tek

Trinity

Marco Polo

Mood

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

Diamond D

Hip Hop Producer and Rapper

Mayer Hawthorne

Soulful American Singer-Songwriter

Danny Brown

American hip-hop artist

Amp Fiddler

Black Moon

Pioneering East Coast Hip-Hop Group

R.A. The Rugged Man

Underground Hip-Hop Lyricist

Raekwon

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

Elzhi

Detroit-based lyricist and hip-hop artist

Ray West

Kev Brown

Daru Jones

Sean Price

Brooklyn-based hardcore rapper

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

Wordsworth

9th Wonder

Grammy-winning hip-hop producer and beatmaker

Mystic

Emerging Indie Pop Group

Small Professor

Philadelphia-based hip-hop producer and beatmaker

Big L

Influential New York Hip-Hop Artist

Dialect

MEDHANE

Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop Artist Medhane

Benny Reid

J-Live

New York-based hip-hop artist and DJ

Body Bag Ben

Underground Hip-Hop Producer and Emcee

Khrysis

Hip Hop Producer and Beatmaker

Rock

Papoose

DJ Playa Haze

Eddie Sancho

D.R.U.G.S Beats

Hip-Hop Producer D.R.U.G.S. Beats

Large Professor

Masta Ace / Marco Polo

80 Empire

Mista Sinista

Organized Konfusion

Defari

RSXGLD

Long Story Longer

Emerging Indie Folk Group