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Tanya Morgan

Band formed in 2003

Tanya Morgan's Genre:

Underground Rap, Rap

Biography

Though the name Tanya Morgan sounds as if it belongs to a solo female performer, it is in fact an all-male hip-hop group. The band started in 2003 when producer/MC Von Pea (who lived in Brooklyn) and MC Donwil (who lived in Cincinnati) met online and decided to make an album together. Bringing in Ilyas (who, with Donwil, made up the group Ilwil) and Cincinnati producer Brickbeat, Tanya Morgan began to send demos back and forth electronically, meeting in person only after half the record was already complete. Their debut full-length, Moonlighting, was then released in the spring of 2006. ~ Marisa Brown

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Tanya Morgan

This station plays the best music from and music from related artists like Blu & Exile, Little Brother, Blu, Black Milk, Strange Fruit Project, Slum Village, Oddisee, Kidz in the Hall, The Foreign Exchange, Talib Kweli and more.

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Brooklynati

Never Enough (Crazy Love)

Morgan Blu

So Damn Down

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