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Bios: Army Of The Pharoahs, Apathy, 7L & Esoteric, Bahamadia, Jedi Mind Tricks & OuterSpace
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Buy: Army Of The Pharaohs, Apathy, Celph Titled, Chief Kamachi, Esoteric, 7L & Esoteric, Jus Allah, King Syze, Reef The Lost Cauze, Jedi Mind Tricks, OuterSpace, Planetary, Crypt The Warchild, Bahamadia & Vinnie Paz
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Members
Original:
Vinnie Paz (A.K.A. Ikon The Verbal Hologram, Louie Doggs The Genocide General, The Pazmanian Devil, Frank Vinatra & Vin Laden) (Born Vincenzo Luvineri in Clifton Heights, PA)
Chief Kamachi
Julian Voss
Virtuoso
Bahamadia (Born Antonia Reed in Philadelphia, PA)

Current:
Vinnie Paz (A.K.A. Ikon The Verbal Hologram, Louie Doggs The Genocide General, The Pazmanian Devil, Frank Vinatra & Vin Laden) (Born Vincenzo Luvineri in Clifton Heights, PA)
Apathy (Formerly Apathy The Alien Tongue) (Born Chad Bromley, March 8, 1979)
Blacastan
Block McCloud
Celph Titled
Crypt The Warchild (Born Marcus Albaladejo)
Planetary (Born Mario Collazo)
Des Devious
Doap Nixon
Demoz
Esoteric (Born Seamus Ryan)
Jus Allah (A.K.A. Megatron) (Born James Bostick in Camden, New Jersey)
King Magnetic
King Syze
Reef The Lost Cauze (Born Sharif Talib Lacey, December 30th, 1981 in Philadelphia, PA)
Journalist (Born Rafiek George)
V-Zilla

Former Members:
7L (Born George Andrinopoulos)
Virtuoso
Bahamadia (Born Antonia Reed in Philadelphia, PA)
Chief Kamachi
Faez One
Stoupe The Enemy Of Mankind (Born Kevin Baldwin in Philadelphia, PA)

Members' Other Groups
Jedi Mind Tricks:
Vinnie Paz (A.K.A. Ikon The Verbal Hologram, Louie Doggs The Genocide General, The Pazmanian Devil, Frank Vinatra & Vin Laden) (Born Vincenzo Luvineri in Clifton Heights, PA)
Stoupe The Enemy Of Mankind (Born Kevin Baldwin in Philadelphia, PA)
Jus Allah (On & Off) (A.K.A. Megatron) (Born James Bostick in Camden, NJ)

OuterSpace:
Planetary (Born Mario Collazo)
Crypt The Warchild (Born Marcus Albaladejo)

7L & Esoteric:
7L (Born George Andrinopoulos)
Esoteric (Born Seamus Ryan)

The Demigodz:
Apathy (Formerly Apathy The Alien Tongue) (Born Chad Bromley, March 8, 1979)
7L (Born George Andrinopoulos)
Esoteric (Born Seamus Ryan)
El Fudge
Louis Logic (Born Louis Dorley)
Open Mic
Rise
Celph Titled
Motive

See Also: Jedi Mind Tricks, OuterSpace, Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Tang Killah Beez, Non-Phixion & La Coka Nostra

Albums
Army Of The Pharaohs - Ritual Of Battle
Army Of The Pharaohs - The Unholy Terror
Apathy - Where's Your Album?!!
Apathy - Eastern Philosophy
Apathy - Wanna Snuggle?
Apathy - Honkey Kong
Apathy - It's The Bootleg, Muthafuckas! Vol. 3: Fire Walk With Me
Ill Bill & Vinnie Paz - Heavy Metal Kings
Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric - Czarface
Jedi Mind Tricks - The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consciousness
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Jedi Mind Tricks - Visions Of Gandhi
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violence Begets Violence
Killah Priest And Chief Kamachi - Beautiful Minds
OuterSpace - Jedi Mind Tricks Presents OuterSpace
OuterSpace - My Brother's Keeper
7L & Esoteric - Speaking Real Words The E.P.
7L & Esoteric - 1212

Mixtapes
Army Of The Pharaohs - Rare Shit, Collabos, And Freestyles
Vinnie Paz - Fires Of The Judas Blood

Also Featured On...
Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground (Bahamadia)
Blaq Poet - Blaq Poet Society
Blaq Poet - E.B.K. (EveryBodyKilla) (Reef The Lost Cauze)
Canibus - 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus) (Jounalist)
Canibus - Melatonin Magik (Jounalist)
Chops - Virtuosity (Bahamadia)
Dangerous Ground (Bahamadia)
Drop The Beat (Bahamadia)
Enemy Soil
Essential Underground Hip Hop (7L & Esoteric)
Gang Related (Bahamadia)
Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. II: The New Reality (Bahamadia)
Ill Bill - Holy Diver (Vinnie Paz, King Syze & Doap Nixon)
Talib Kweli - Top Kwelity Classics Vol. 1 (Bahamadia)
Proof - Electric Cool Aid Acid Testing E.P. (Journalist)
Proof - I Miss The Hip Hop Shop (Journalist)
Reflection Eternal - The Re:Union (Bahamadia)
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (Bahamadia)
Slaine - The White Man Is The Devil Vol. 1 (7L & Esoteric)
Slaine - A World With No Skies (Original) (Reef The Lost Cauze & Vinnie Paz)
Soul Assassins - Intermission (OuterSpace & Reef The Lost Cauze)
Soundbombing II (Bahamadia)
Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right (The Album) (Esoteric)
Tech N9ne - Collabos: Misery Loves Kompany (Journalist)

Bio From AllMusic.Com
Modeled after the dynamic "supergroup" concept that created the Wu-Tang Clan, the Army of the Pharaohs is the brainchild of Jedi Mind Tricks frontman/MC Vinnie Paz. Paz formed the horrorcore outfit in the late '90s with the original roster of Bahamadia, Chief Kamachi, Virtuoso, 7L & Esoteric, plus Jedi Mind Tricks' other members Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind and Jus Allah. The group first released the "Five Perfect Exertions" b/w "War Ensemble" 12" on Paz's short-lived Superegular Recordings in 1998, but then the underground supergroup remained silent for several years. After a couple of successful JMT albums and a new deal with Babygrande by 2003, Paz resurrected the crew, adding Outerspace (Planetary and Crypt the Warchild), Celph Titled, Reef the Lost Cauze, King Syze, Des Devious, Faez One, and Apathy; however, Bahamadia, Virtuoso, and Jus Allah had defected from the group. Babygrande issued their "Tear It Down" 12" and full-length debut, The Torture Papers, in 2006. The 2007 follow-up album, Ritual Of Battle, saw JMT protégés Doap Nixon and Demoz joining the Pharaohs, as well as a return by Jus Allah. - Cyril Cordor

Apathy's Bio From AllMusic.Com
Born to teenage parents in a working-class area of Connecticut, rapper Apathy first discovered hip-hop at age five when his uncle played him Chaka Khan's 1984 cover of the Prince song "I Feel for You," which featured Melle Mel rapping. Instantly hooked, Apathy began listening to rap incessantly, soaking up the sounds of Gang Starr, Jay-Z, Nas, and Organized Konfusion, among others, as well as writing his own rhymes. He made his debut on Jedi Mind Tricks' 1997 debut LP, The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human, adding verses to three tracks, and shortly afterward he was releasing singles on Bronx Science Records. It was through that label that Apathy met up with Celph Titled, the producer/MC originally from Florida who had worked for Bronx Science's distributor. The two founded the Demigodz (with 7L & Esoteric, El Fudge, Louis Logic, Open Mic, and Rise as the other initial members) and in 2002 they released their EP The Godz Must Be Crazy. The EP was enough to gain attention from major labels, including Interscope, which wanted to sign Apathy and Celph, and Atlantic, which was more interested in Apathy as a solo artist. Eventually, Apathy chose the latter, and soon began recording tracks for his debut. However, disagreement over the direction the album would go delayed progress considerably, and after a few years the rapper signed a distribution deal with indie label Babygrande, which helped release Eastern Philosophy in 2006 (many of the other tracks that he had already written for Atlantic ended up on the mixtapes It's the Bootleg, Muthafucka, Vol. 1 and Where's Your Album?!!) while negotiations for the major-label debut, tentatively titled Bearer of Bad News, continued. In 2007 Apathy set to appease fans with the release of yet another mixtape, Baptism by Fire, which came out on the Demigodz Records. - Marisa Brown

7L & Esoteric's Bio From AllMusic.Com
7L & Esoteric first came together in 1992 after 7L heard Esoteric DJing at a local college radio station in Boston, MA. Esoteric's sets were mostly hip-hop-based, but on occasion he would fuse his own material into his playlists. After hearing Eso's material, 7L contacted him in the hopes of forming an artistic collaboration. And collaborate they did. Reverting back to the standard hip-hop formula for success — one DJ, one MC — they immediately started to build on a common love for hip-hop born of 1986-1989. The pair headlined shows in smaller venues throughout Boston, New York, and Philadelphia as well as opening for some hip-hop heavyweights like Bahamadia, Rakim, Redman, and Company Flow.

The duo released their first single under the name God Complex in 1996. The single was immediately dubbed one of the best rap singles of 1996, receiving huge responses from Los Angeles, New York, Canada, and the overseas markets. Soon after, the Rebel Alliance LP was released. Calling together their fellow MCs and DJs from their hometown (including Virtuoso, Mr. Lif, Tony Infamous, and Force Five), Rebel Alliance was a compilation showcasing the talent and skills held in the scene that raised them. As soon as Rebel Alliance was in the stores, 7L & Esoteric followed up with a 12" featuring the tracks "Be Alert," "Protocol," and yet another collaboration with Virtuoso, "Touch the Mic." While "Be Alert" received attention thanks to the sampling of the Transformers cartoon show, "Protocol" was garnering intense recognition for Esoteric's nonstop lyricism. Source magazine even went so far as to label "Protocol" one of the five best hip-hop tracks of the '90s. Their next single, released on Direct Records, earned the group praise from coast to coast. "Def Rhymes" was exactly what the title implied, while "Headswell" brought back the now-expected pairing of Eso and Virtuoso.

While waiting to release their debut, the duo put out the EP Speaking Real Words, but the pressure that Direct put on them to finish their first full-length, The Soul Purpose, left 7L & Esoteric with an album that they felt wasn't mixed completely and bad feelings toward the label, so they moved to Brick Records for 2002's Dangerous Connection. The success that followed led the group to move to Babygrande, which, with more resources, could give them the marketing and support they were looking for. In 2004 DC2: Bars of Death, the sequel to Dangerous Connection, came out, and though the friends were receiving a fair amount of attention and acclaim, they were also feeling tired and constrained. 7L began working on solo material (he released Flow Season with MC Main Flow in September 2006), and Esoteric began making beats, and in 2005 Babygrande issued Moment of Rarities, an album of previously unreleased tracks.

Although it appeared that a breakup, or least a "hiatus," was on the horizon, 2006 saw the duo back in the studio working on new songs, and in June A New Dope, whose beats — which came from both 7L and Esoteric— were more similar to Kraftwerk or Fatboy Slim than DJ Premier, came out. - Emilie Litzell & Marisa Brown

Bahamadia's Bio From AllMusic.Com
Bahamadia rose to prominence on the hip-hop scene as the female protégée of Gang Starr's Guru, and lent her smooth-flowing raps to a variety of projects during the late '90s, including several electronica and acid jazz artists. Born Antonia Reed in Philadelphia, Bahamadia started out DJing at local house parties in the early to mid-'80s, and soon stepped out front to prove her skill on the mic as well. She remained a presence on the Philly hip-hop scene, but didn't make her first recordings until hooking up with producer/radio personality DJ Ran, who helmed her independent 1993 single "Funk Vibe." "Funk Vibe" caught the attention of Gang Starr MC Guru, who took an interest in Bahamadia's career and helped her get a record deal with Chrysalis. Her first singles, 1994's "Total Wreck" and 1995's "Uknowhowwedu," were well-received in the underground for their jazzy flavor and laid-back raps. She also appeared on the second volume of Guru's acclaimed Jazzmatazz project. The full-length LP Kollage followed in 1996, and featured production by both Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, as well as fellow Philly natives the Roots. Unfortunately, Chrysalis folded a year later, and Bahamadia chose to wait out her contract before resuming her solo career. In the meantime, she made a string of musically adventurous guest appearances that solidified her underground reputation: the Roots (Illadelph Halflife's "Push up Ya Lighter"), Sweetback (Sade's backing band), drum'n'bass auteur Roni Size (the title track of the landmark New Forms), Towa Tei, acid jazzers the Brand New Heavies, the Herbaliser, trip-hoppers Morcheeba ("Good Girl Down"), Rah Digga, Slum Village, and Talib Kweli's Reflection Eternal (their collaboration, "Chaos," appeared on the seminal Rawkus compilation Soundbombing, Vol. 2). She also hosted a hip-hop radio show in Philadelphia from 1997-1999. In 2000, she signed with the L.A.-based indie Goodvibe and released the chilled-out seven-track EP BB Queen (as in "beautiful black"), which received excellent reviews. - Steve Huey

Official Sites: MySpace, Apathy's MySpace, Celph Titled's MySpace, 7L & Esoteric's MySpace, Chief Kamachi's MySpace, Demoz' MySpace, Des Devious' MySpace, Doap Nixon's MySpace, Jus Allah's MySpace, King Magnetic's MySpace, King Syze's MySpace, Reef The Lost Cauze's MySpace, JMTHipHop.Com, Jedi Mind Tricks' MySpace, Jedi Mind Tricks' Facebook, Jedi Mind Tricks' YouTube, Jedi Mind Tricks' Fuckin' Twitter, Vinnie Paz' Facebook, Vinnie Paz' Fuckin' Twitter, OuterSpace, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube & Fuckin' Twitter

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