Oldominion
{{short description|American hip hop group}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Oldominion
| image = File:Oldominionlogo.jpg
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| caption = The Oldominion logo.
| alias =
| origin = Northwest, United States
| genre = Hip hop, alternative hip hop, Pacific Northwest hip hop
| years_active = 1999–present
| label = Under the Needle
| associated_acts = Avatar Darko
Bubba Kush
Children of The Thorn
DJ Scene
Dark Time Sunshine
Diveyede The Poet
Dim Mak
DOS
Grayskul
Night Owls
Sandpeople
Sirens Echo
Soul The Interrogator
The Chicharones
The Saturday Knights
What Have May
| website =
| current_members = Anaxagorus
Azrael The Silent Angel
Barfly
Bishop I
Candidt
Coley Cole
Destro
JFK Ninjaface
Hyena
IAME
Karim
L'Swhere
Mako
Mr. Hill
Nyqwil
Onry Ozzborn
Pale Soul
PeeGee 13 (Taco Neck)
Sleep
Smoke M2D6
Snafu
Syndel
Toni Hill
Tremor
Xperience
Zebulon Dak
| past_members = Ruben Rochester A.P. (deceased)
Jon Dinyaroo "Big Gash" Sanders (deceased)
Wraggz the Warlord (deceased)
Nickels Hawkeye
}}
Oldominion is an American hip hop collective, consisting of more than twenty members.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/one-mw0000217832|title=One - Oldominion|work=Allmusic|first=Rick|last=Anderson|access-date=June 29, 2014}} It was described by Casey Jarman of Willamette Week as the "Northwest's largest hip-hop crew" which "united the local underground rap scene for the first time".{{cite web|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16387-the_oldominion_effect.html|title=The Oldominion Effect|work=Willamette Week|first=Casey|last=Jarman|date=January 19, 2011}}
History
After Oraclez Creed (Onry Ozzborn, Pale Soul, and Sleep) connected with Frontline (Destro, Nyqwil, and Snafu), Rochester A.P. named the group Oldominion in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-01-28/music/oldominion-s-too-awesome-to-sell-records/|title=Oldominion's Too Awesome to Sell Records|work=Seattle Weekly|first=Sara|last=Bricker|date=January 27, 2009}} The first album, One, was released in 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/there-are-so-many-of-us/Content?oid=1032165|title=There Are So Many of Us - A Decade of Oldominion|work=The Stranger|first=Charles|last=Mudede|date=January 29, 2009}}
Discography
Albums
:* One (2000)
:* Make Happy (2008)
EPs
:* Book of Fury (2000)
:* Oldominion Volume 1 (2001)
:* Oldominion Volume 2 (2001)
:* Oldominion Volume 3 (2002)
Compilations
:* Negative One and a Half (2004)
Singles
:* "Don't Kill Your Radio" (1999)
:* "Parallel to Hell / Serenade to Silence" (2000)
:* "Ten" (2008)
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs artist|Oldominion}}
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Category:Alternative hip-hop groups
Category:American hip-hop groups