Slug is best known as one half of the hip hop group Atmosphere, which he founded with Derek Turner (Spawn). He is also one of the founders of the Minnesota Hip Hop record label Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Paul "Sage" Francis is a hip-hop artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Sage Francis' style blends a varying tone and delivery with subject matter that focuses on intricate sequences of widely varying imagery, metaphors, the occasional pun, absurdism, and pop culture references, while including touchstones of traditional hip hop such as storytelling and self-promotion.

As a battle rapper, Francis won the 2000 Scribble Jam, a competition considered to be the most sought after prize in the freestyle battling scene. He then came back the next year to finish as a semifinalist. Francis set up his own record label Strange Famous Records through which he has put out the majority of his records, mostly collections of live songs, radio freestyles and spoken word tracks.

Subtitle (aka Giovanni Marks) is a Los Angeles based rapper/producer who is known both for his solo work and his collaborations, both with other rappers and bands such as Islands and The Mars Volta.

Existereo is best known for his hip hop group, The Shape Shifters. Other members of the group are Awol One, Die Young, Life Rexall, Akuma, Radioinactive, Circus, LA Jae, and DJ Rob One (deceased).

Sole, real name Tim Holland, is a rap artist classified under the genre of Conscious hip hop and a co-founder of the alternative hip hop collective known as anticon. Sole is known for his dense, often dark and sometimes depressing, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. His extremely fast, unorthodox delivery mirrors his non-conformist views, and the subject matter of his lyrics tends toward deep, introspective thoughts on everything from suicide and martyrdom to Anarchism, philosophy, and relationships, even quoting the infamous British poet Lord Byron. Although his verses tend to be subjective "rants", they are often filled with an unusual amount of abstract metaphor and allusion.

Doseone is the stage name of Adam Drucker (born April 21, 1977), an emcee, artist, and poet. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of childhood, nature, and American life. Early in his musical career, Dose was in a freestyle rap battle with a then unknown Eminem at Scribble Jam 1997.

He is a founding member of the anticon. hip hop collective, recording with cLOUDDEAD, Boom Bip, Themselves, Greenthink, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Subtle, as well as cameo appearances with many other artists, such as Aesop Rock, Sole, and Mike Patton's Peeping Tom. His latest projects have been Subtle's For Hero: For Fool, the solo album Skeleton Repellent and 13 & God's self-titled album.

Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri) better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper. His musical career has spanned 20 years, during which he has performed sold out shows from Los Angeles to New York City. He is also the best selling MC out of his hometown of Kansas City. Tech N9ne's relative success is most notable for being derived from a strong fan base, regular live performances, and an encouragement of online song sharing rather than media attention, radio play, or extensive music video play.

Busdriver (born Regan J Farquhar) is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records.

Born in Los Angeles, he was introduced to hip hop at an early age, his father being the screenwriter for the film Krush Groove, one of the earliest films focusing on hip hop culture. Farquhar began rapping at age 9, and by 13 he had released his first album, as part of the group 4/29.A regular at the Project Blowed open mic during the mid-1990s, he would be introduced to fellow underground artists, leading him to being a guest on at least 20 singles.

A vegan rapper from Finland who influenced many contemporary rap artists in Finland's Hip Hop renaissance.

Rookie isn't actually an artist but I just needed a player fast and rookie came off from the top of my head.

Masta Ace is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. Appearing on classic 1988 posse cut, "The Symphony", he garnered notoriety as an unsung asset to the Juice Crew posse, where he released a number of well-respected albums that were nonetheless little-heard outside purist circles. The single that has earned him the most attention has been "Born to Roll" (a remix to the track "Jeep Ass Niguh", which uses a tweaked Moog synthesizer bassline sampled from Kraftwerk.) His most recent album, A Long Hot Summer, gained considerable acclaim in 2004.

Mr. Lif (born Jeffrey Haynes, 1977) is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts. He has released two studio albums on El-P's Definitive Jux label. Mr. Lif is also a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time friends and collaborators Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One.