MUSIC

Afrocentric New York hip hop crew, active in the early 1990s.

• Grand Verbalizer Funkin-Lesson -- "Brother J"
• Lumumba Professor X -- "The Overseer" (d. 2006 menignitis)
• Architect Tractitioner Paradise (Claude Gray)
• Rhythm Provider Sugar Shaft (Anthony Hardin, d. 1995 AIDS)
• DJ Khabir

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Grand Verbalizer Funkin-Lesson	Rapper	?		Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It?
Professor X	Rapper	4-Aug-1956	17-Mar-2006	Vanglorious

DISCOGRAPHY

To the East, Blackwards (1990, 4th & Broadway)

1	Funkin' Lesson
2	Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It?
3	Tribal Jam
4	A Day of Outrage, Operation Snatchback
5	Verbal Milk
6	Earth Bound
7	Shaft's Big Score
8	Raise the Flag
9	Heed the Word of the Brother
10	Verbs of Power
11	In the Ways Of the Scales

Xodus (1992, Polygram)

1	Foreplay
2	Cosmic Ark
3	A.D.A.M.
4	Xodus
5	F.T.P.
6	Fire & Earth (100% Natural)
7	Holy Rum Swig
8	Ooh Baby
9	Rhythem of God
10	Verbal Papp
11	Funk Liberation

Return From Mecca (2006)

Forthcoming.

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