History
While in high school in the late 1980s, Aceyalone, Myka 9, and Self Jupiter formed the short-lived MC Aces, a precursor to Freestyle Fellowship, at the Good Life Cafe in Los Angeles, California. [3] Subsequently, former high school friend P.E.A.C.E. was added to form Freestyle Fellowship. [3]
Freestyle Fellowship released the debut studio album, To Whom It May Concern... , in 1991. [4] In 1993, the group released the second studio album, Innercity Griots . [5]
Freestyle Fellowship went on hiatus due to the incarceration of Self Jupiter. [6] In 1998, the group reunited to record the Shockadoom EP, which would be released in 2002. [7] The group released Temptations in 2001, [8] and The Promise in 2011. [9]
Style and influences
According to Los Angeles Times , Freestyle Fellowship incorporates "jazz rhythms into its raps, which have the improvisational ebb and flow and the random explosiveness of a jazz solo." [10] In a 1993 interview with Los Angeles Times, the group's member Myka 9 said, "What we are is liberators, liberating rap from its R&B/funk structures--that 4/4 (time) prison." [10]
The group has been described by LA Weekly as "the astral jazz-cracked geniuses of sherm-strafed South Central, rapping with caged bird cadences about sleeping on park benches, biblical books, and gangsta rap carpetbaggers." [11]
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