Portland Hip Hop

Portland has always been an underdog city when it comes to the Hip Hop game. With Seattle and Vancouver developing a bigger hip hop scene faster than the Portland hip hop scene the city has always been underrated. Once the playing field leveled out Portland Hip Hop began pumping out fresh artist after fresh artist. Portland has been blessed with some major crews like Jus Family, The Sandpeople and members of the famous Northwest Hip Hop super-group Oldominion, most notably Sleep of The Chicharones. Artists Cool Nutz, Illmaculate, Maniac Lok, Sleep and Bosko are among the most famous artists to come up out of Portland. Other high quality emcees include Luck One, Diezel P, Dru Manchu, Rocket One, Kable Roc, just to name a few, have made names for themselves in the Portland Hip Hop scene. Illmaculate is a two time World Battle Rap Champion (2006, 2007)as well as a Scribble Jam freestyle rap winner (2004) and Spin the Mic competition winner.


More about Portland Hip Hop to come.