How many hip hop artists(rappers or DJs) left hip hop to become full-time instrumentalists?

[Tommy Gibbs]

Ali Shaheed Muhammad, J Zone, and Andre 3k did it. Are they the only ones? Ali Shaheed plays 3 instruments(bass, drums, keys) and the Jazz is Dead series is dope.

 

[get these nets]

Interesting. Always got the impression that dudes who got into hip hop artistry did so because they are creative types without formal music instruction.

Didn't know that Mr Muhammad played instruments.

 

[315]

I don't think they really left Hip Hop but The Beastie Boys The Mix-Up album was all live instruments

 

[Awesome Wells]

Godfather Don "retired" from Hip Hop for a minute and went off to start a jazz band.

He was doing a lot of live gigs in NYC for awhile. All live instrumentation.

 

[Mac Ten]

Godfather Don "retired" from Hip Hop for a minute and went off to start a jazz band.

He was doing a lot of live gigs in NYC for awhile. All live instrumentation.

What happened to Mike Heron and A Kid Called Roots???


They gave Screwball some of their best beats

 

[Awesome Wells]

What happened to Mike Heron and A Kid Called Roots???


They gave Screwball some of their best beats

Damn, I don’t know what happened to A Kid Called Roots. That's a name I haven't heard in years!

Mike Heron has been doing the executive thing at Shady for a minute. And he was managing a lot of artists, last I heard.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

RZA?..transitioning.

 

[Mac Ten]

Damn, I don’t know what happened to A Kid Called Roots. That's a name I haven't heard in years!

Mike Heron has been doing the executive thing at Shady for a minute. And he was managing a lot of artists, last I heard.

So that’s what happened to Mike Heron??


Em stays looking out for the OGs

 

[jerzboy]

I can see metro going that route