The Grouch

Oakland Rapper and producer the Grouch has been a valued hip-hop figure since he co-founded Living Legends, a supergroup from California consisting of himself, Murs, Luckyiam, Sunspot Jonz, Eligh, Scarub, Aesop The Black Wolf and Bicaso. The crew set themselves apart from the vast majority of their fellow West Coast rap artists by favoring clear-eyed raps about everyday issues. They coupled this with a grassroots approach to the music business, choosing to self-release and market their prodigious output. The Grouch's extensive work as a solo artist and co-headliner, from Don't Talk to Me (1995), his debut, through Thees Handz (2022), a collaboration with Murs and Reverie, has only reinforced the reputation he started building in the first half of the '90s.