Jigmastas are an East Coast

East Coast hip hop

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 underground hip hop

Underground hip hop

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 group based in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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. The group consists of DJ Spinna

DJ Spinna

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 and MC Kriminul.

History

DJ Spinna

DJ Spinna

DJ Spinna is an American hip hop music artist and producer, who, according to Allmusic.com, has "remained strictly an underground artist despite his astonishing talent."-Biography:...

, was already renowned throughout the 1990s, and as well already knew Kriminul from the mid 1980s. Jigmastas' recording debut was in Rude Rydims' "Everybody Bounce" on Freeze Records in 1995. The duo released their first single "Beyond Real" which became an underground rap hit, and inspired the name of their self-funded record label, "Beyond Real Recordings," in 1996. To please their fans, Jigmastas released another single, "Last Will and Testimony" released by Tommy Boy Black Label and finally the debut LP album

LP album

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 Grass Roots: Lyrical Fluctuation in 2000. In the May of 2001, the high anticipated debut album Infectious featuring the former guitarist of Living Colour

Living Colour

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, Vernon Reid

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 and rapper Sadat X

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Discography

Title	Release Date	Label
Grass Roots: Lyrical Fluctuations	2000	Beyond Real
Infectious	2001	Beyond Real/Landspeed