Omni

Formed:

Years Active: 2000

Genres: Blues, R&B, Rap

Styles: Underground Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, West Coast Rap, Alternative Rap, Hardcore Rap

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L.A. underground MC Omni (aka the "California Kid" or Omniprez) was in his teens when he first began rapping as part of his crew, Gershwin B.L.X. (Bass Line Xcursionists). He was influenced by two major currents in West Coast rap music, the hard-edged gangsta rap of Death Row Records and the eclecticism of California's alternative rap scene, particularly from crews like Hieroglyphics and Freestyle Fellowship. But, his vocal display of fluid and hard flows can be likened to that of Del tha Funkee Homosapien, indicating the latter current as a mu...

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