Howard Lloyd is a hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 musician (MC and producer) who has been active since the mid-1990s. He has alternatively used both Musa Allah and Musa the Penultimate for production work. His latest release "the quickie EP" was initially released independently on vinyl/cd via his self-owned "wretched of the earth" imprint and has recently been digitally re-released by RopeAdope digital records with four bonus cuts. The Quickie EP cracked the top 10 on college radio

Campus radio

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's vaunted CMJ

College Music Journal

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charts(4/3/2007) and was given press coverage in XXL, Goods, and Vapors magazines as well as countless internet zines and blogs. He was featured on the OKAYPLAYER website in early 2007. He is also a member of the Sputnik Brown collective.