Modern Finnish popular music includes a renowned heavy metal music scene, in common with other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock bands, hip hop performers, pop music and dance music acts such as Bomfunk MCs, Darude and Waldo's People.

* Lineup: Judith, Voice Male, Jukebox 2000, The Bomfunk MCs, Krezip, Lords of Acid, El Tattoo del Tigre, The Dallas Explosion, Twarres, Laïs, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Travis, Emmi, Mauro, Das Pop, Wheatus, Finley Quaye, Frank Black and the Catholics, Fun Lovin ' Criminals, James Brown

An exception to this is / breakbeat -/ electro -/ hiphop-band Bomfunk MC's, who with their MC Raymond Ebanks became popular in Central Europe, as they had the most sold European single of 2000, " Freestyler " along with trance music act Darude's " Sandstorm ".

JS16 has also gained fame by being the producer of Finnish rap / electro group Bomfunk MC's, with three albums and the European megahit " Freestyler " ( 2000 ).

It remained the only Dutch number one to have originated from Finland until 2000, when Freestyler by the Bomfunk MC's reached number one.

Despite being on a major label at the time, Bomfunk MC's music has been hard to find in most record stores across the globe since 2001.

The Bomfunk MC's were a Finnish breakbeat, hip hop group, that was active between 1998 and 2005.

The eastern European market is / was rife with bootlegs of Bomfunk MC's records, with many regularly surfacing on eBay.

Also, the Bomfunk MC's website was notorious among fans of the band for its lack of updates.

As of 2012, both the official Bomfunk MC's website and the band's largest fansite appear to be offline, with many smaller fansites having disappeared as well.

* Beste single: Milk Inc. ( met Walk On Water ), Bomfunk MC's ( with Freestyler )

* DJ-Kicks: Stereo MCs ( mixed by the Stereo MCs ) ( 2000 )

In 2007, Ultramagnetic MCs released the reunion album The Best Kept Secret.

Two DSOs ( including an immediate award to Hassett ), nine MCs, one MBE, two DCMs, nine MMs, and fifteen mentions in dispatches were awarded.

She started beat boxing for the hip-hop group Ladies Fresh and was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of MCs grouped around producer DJ King Gemini, who made a demo recording of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse.

Rolling Stone says, " G Rap excelled at the street narrative, a style that would come to define later Queens MCs like Nas ( who was hugely influenced by G Rap on his early records ) and Mobb Deep ".

Kool Moe Dee ranked Kool G Rap at No. 14 in his book There's A God On The Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs, and MTV gives him an ' Honorable Mention ' in their Greatest MCs Of All Time list.

Pitchfork Media placed Paid in Full at number fifty-two in its " Top 100 Albums of the 1980s "; editor Sam Chennault wrote that Rakim inspired a generation of MCs and " defined what it meant to be a hip-hop lyricist ".

DJs that have performed at ZoukOut include Paul Van Dyk, 2ManyDJS, Masters at Work, Gilles Peterson, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Peter Kruder, James Lavelle, Armin Van Buuren and Stereo MCs.

" featuring guest vocals from MCs Savage and Con Psy which peaked at No. 2 and then released a new single " Dreaming " in January 2004, which also reached No. 1.

He also felt that LL was disrespecting the reigning MCs at the time, himself, Melle Mel and Grandmaster Caz by proclaiming that he was the greatest without paying due respects to those who came before him.

MTV put him at No. 7 in their Greatest MCs Of All Time list, he is placed at No. 4 in Kool Moe Dee ’ s book There's A God On The Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs, About. com ranked him # 3 on its list of the " Top 50 MCs of Our Time ," and RZA listed him as one of his Top 5 best MCs.

The alternative band Happy Mondays, supported by The Farm, Stereo MCs, and The La's, played a gig at the stadium on 1 June 1991, which was later released as a live album.

Stereo MCs at the Orange Music Experience Festival, Haifa, 29 June 2005

In June, Glade Festival officially announced the drum & bass line-up at the festival, with DJs Andy C, Marky, Noisia, Fresh, Cyantific, Phantasy, Mr Nice, Maxxi P alongside MCs Gq, Ic3, Bensta, Script and Johnny G taking over the Vapor Stage.

Just-Ice ( born Joseph Williams Jr .) A former bouncer at punk clubs, Ice was one of the first of the New York MCs to embrace hardcore rap, and when he burst out of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety.

Stereo MCs at the Orange Music Experience Festival, Haifa, 2005

He was ranked # 1 by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006.

MTV describes Kool G Rap as a " hip-hop godfather ", adding that he paved the way for a lot of MCs who we would not have heard of otherwise.

& Rakim's classic album Paid in Full was named the greatest hip hop album of all time by MTV, while Rakim himself was ranked # 4 on MTV's list of the Greatest MCs of All Time.

According to MTV, " We'd been used to MCs like Run and DMC, Chuck D and KRS-One leaping on the mic shouting with energy and irreverence, but Rakim took a methodical approach to his microphone fiending.

Kela released an Ep in Europe entitled " For Those Who've Joined us " featuring Stereo MCs, Artful Dodger, Dj Vadim and more.

Music scholar Adam Krims says, “ the flow of MCs is one of the profoundest changes that separates out new-sounding from older-sounding music ... it is widely recognized and remarked that rhythmic styles of many commercially successful MCs since roughly the beginning of the 1990s have progressively become faster and more ‘ complex ’”.

The impression that he made that year, resulted in many invitations to perform with world known artists like Public Enemy, Stetsasonic, Ice T and Ultra Magnetic MCs.

With MCs Stefan and Clyde rapping about their personal lives and life in Amsterdam as a black man, de Spookrijders even gained respect from non-hip-hop musicians and fans.

As hip hop's popularity grew, performers began speaking (" rapping ") in sync with the beats, and became known as MCs or emcees.

About. com ranked him # 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him # 12 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.

Hip hop disc jockeys select and play music using multiple turntables, often to back up one or more MCs, and they may also do turntable scratching to create percussive sounds.

Other lesser known MCs and DJs included Johnny Rock, DJ Candido, DJ Muscle and DJ Shiz ( today known as B. Boy Omega ) who were all Puerto Ricans from The Bronx, while Mr. L of the TDR crew was half Puerto Rican and half Dominican.

Some of the first hip hop MCs called themselves punk rockers, and some punk fashions have found their way into hip hop dress.

Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow – many MCs note the importance of staying on-beat in How to Rap including Sean Price, Mighty Casey, Zion I, Vinnie Paz, Fredro Starr, Del The Funky Homosapien, Tech N9ne, People Under The Stairs, Twista, B-Real, Mr Lif, 2Mex, and Cage.

MCs stay on-beat by stressing syllables in time to the four beats of the musical backdrop.

released their first single " It's Like That / Sucker MCs ", in late 1983.

Simmons, in defiance, recorded material anyway, inviting several guest stars such as Kid Rock, Jermaine Dupri, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Method Man, and fellow Queens MCs Nas and Prodigy of Mobb Deep to contribute to the project.

DJs, MCs, b-boys and graffiti artists grouped together into informal soundsystems.

The Ultramagnetic MCs is an American hip hop group based in Bronx, New York.

The innovations of Run-D. M. C., LL Cool J, and new school producers such Larry Smith, and Rick Rubin of Def Jam, were quickly advanced on by the Beastie Boys, Marley Marl and his Juice Crew MCs, Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, and Eric B.

The first MCs rapped over DJs swapping back and forth between two copies of the same record playing the same drum break, or playing instrumental portions or versions of a broad range of records.

These crews were the Swiss hip hop founders and brought the hip hop culture fundamentals ( Peace, love & unity state of mind, graffiti, breakdance, DJing, MCs ) and clothing styles straight from the roots and basic founders in New York City ( Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa & The Zulu Nation, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, The Rock Steady Crew, The New York City Breakers and many other U. S. hip hop masters …).

They then started painting graffiti, and were part of a graffiti writer group that was composed of DRC, TCG, 93 MCs and Joey and Kool Shen.