Prince Paul’s Ongoing Hip-Hop Journey Curated by Scion
By Lora Neng
WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER
March 19, 2012
Among those featured by the new online Scion iQ Project Museum to spotlight disappearing underground creative communities is a guided tour of the contributions of Prince Paul to hip-hop. His early DJ career is credited for propagated the original model of the hip-hop band with Stetsasonic while the popularization of the genre through his collaborations with De La Soul gave the music a name in popular media.
The exhibit traces the evolution of hip-hop through Paul’s own humble beginnings, working neighborhood house parties in Amityville, Long Island, New York, promoted through hand-drawn flyers before the advent of major hip-hop record labels. He is also said to have invented the hip-hop skit and promulgated genre-blending alternatives to gangsta rap. While hip-hop gained traction and big money, Paul followed his muse with the supergroup Gravediggaz that helped yet another collaborating artist to reach success when the producer RZA set out to realize his own ambitions in the Wu-Tang Clan.
Prince Paul’s ongoing development of his artistry can be followed via the online series Scion A/V Presents Prince Paul: Musician Impossible, and many of his previously unseen archives are stored on the iQ Project’s digital museum. Any purchases made will not go to the car company but will be used to directly support the artists who contribute to the project.
