People Under The Stairs
Biography
The underground hip-hop outfit People Under the Stairs was formed by Mike Turner (Double K) and Chris Portugal (Thes One), who met on the fringe of L.A.'s late-'90s hip-hop underground. The duo, devoted to jazzy samples, danceable beats, intricate rhyming skills, and laid-back humor, debuted in 1998 with the acclaimed The Next Step and followed it up in 2000 with Question in the Form of an Answer. Gathering heavy praise and touring with De La Soul, the group took their road experiences and brought it to the studio to record their next album. The final results appeared in the summer of 2002 under the name O.S.T. Busy with individual side projects, the next People Under the Stairs album, Stepfather, didn't come out for another four years. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Selected Discography
This group comes up all over Pandora and I'm just not feeling it. Whoever is rapping, someone has a flow that is just not appealing to me. Sounds very Beastie Boys/mid-80' s . Staccato verses with very little flow and average "conscious" lyrics.
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Just seen this group perfrom yesterday May 24 at jazz raggea fest at UCLA and they got the crowd up off their a**! Love Underground HIP HOP from LA! Reppin LA!! Good music to listen to! Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
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OKAY OAKLAND,LA WHATEVER MAN!!!!! CALI RIGHT JUST THE SAME.....DO U WANT A COOKIE FOR YOUR ANSWERS,,,
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Dude Hiero is from Oakland! People Under The Stairs are tight, but keep in mind Hiero came out in 1994 (I think) and their breadth of work is way beyond People Under The Stairs. There would be no People Under the Stairs without Hiero!
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IF YALL LIKE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS YOU'LL ALSO ENJOY HEIROGLYPHIC S FROM LA AS WELL........ . I KNOW THEY SOUND JUST ALIKE RIGHT???? MY OTHER FAVS ARE: FOREIGN EXCHANGE,PHA T KAT,OLD SCHOOL DIGEABLE PLANETS,FOUN D A T I O N MOVEMENT AND JAX......PEA C E . . . . . A T L
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First time hearing them...ON PANDORA! thank you for the knowledge. I am now a fan.
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They are the TRUTH!! I love their music so much. Like there is nothing better than Montego Slay, the Suite of a Beaver, Pt. 1, and Empty Bottles of Water. Please check out these songs if you dont know.
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these guys are amazing. pandora never ceases to amaze me by leading me to good music.
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It's everything you want it to be. Haha, perfection man.
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Relaxing, dancing, smoke enhancing, tranceing, heart rate increasing and beautiful-Pe o p l e Under The Stairs- Always spitting that funky fresh hip hop that don't stop. Its magical fo real
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People Under the Stairs Live Saturday Night 12/20 The Fox Theater in Boulder,Colo r a d o
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Hard to believe it's only 2 dudes bringing all this beatmaking, body-rocking sunshine! Rap must die so Hip Hop can live!
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Class act they keep it fresh without diluting the musik with over used samples. They've been on my radar for some time now and they never disappoint live or on wax...
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People be holdn it down underground who listens to mainstream anyways, waiting to kick it with Double K an THES One at the Fox Theater, boulder colorado roll one up
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these are so legit, this is real hip hop. None of that gangsta mainstream s**t.
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these guys run hiphop right now. lil wayne and all that mainstream crap has nothing on P.U.T.S and never will, they are just too sick.
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Pandora needs to add People's new album FUN DMC, they just keep gettin better and better
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THIS PAGE BELONGS TO ME RIGHT!!! OKAY......TH A N K S ! ! SMOOTH BEATS ONLY.......I F YOU ARE ON MY LIST YOU MADE IT.....ALL OTHERS ARE OKAY...BUT.. . . . . .
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Love the beats. For all you aspiring djs...beats are sick to practice up on your mixing skills!
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people under the stairs come correct, taking a classic east coast hip hop sound and mixing it into an underground east movement on the Westside.... . I certainly ENJOY! Always down with some P.U.T.S.!
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imm going to see them tonite in RI, supa excited thier on the east coast
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their jazz beats in the background along with their evolutionary mixing ability let beats play out as they should be... if you got a good beat just flow with it. And they do. Big fan
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I was fortunate to see them live in concert at the Cali Comm 2002 Tour. The lyrics are decent and they know how to put on a show.
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