the Shape Shifters

{{short description|American hip hop group}}

{{About|the Los Angeles hip hop collective|the British house duo|The Shapeshifters|the New Zealand drum and bass act|Shapeshifter (band)}}

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| origin = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| genre = Alternative hip hop

| years_active = 1998–present

| label = Champion Sound
Celestial Recordings
Mean Street
Cornerstone R.A.S.

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| current_members = Akuma
Awol One
Circus
Die Young
Existereo
LA Jae
Life Rexall
Perk One
Radioinactive

| past_members = DJ Rob One
Item
Meck(Gary Gnu)
Relm
Ser
Shumagorath
Transducer/>Bleek

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The Shape Shifters are an underground hip hop collective based in Los Angeles, California.{{cite web|first=Jason|last=Birchmeier|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-shape-shifters-mn0000496374|title=The Shape Shifters|publisher=Allmusic}} It consists of Akuma, Awol One, Circus, Die Young, Existereo, LA Jae, Life Rexall, Perk One, and Radioinactive.{{cite web|first=Eric|last=Feigner|url=http://www.dailybarometer.com/sports/the-shapeshifters-poised-to-attack-1.2368150|title=The Shapeshifters poised to attack|publisher=The Daily Barometer|date=December 3, 2004}}{{cite web|first=Thomas|last=Quinlan|url=http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/HipHop/shapeshifters-planet_ep|title=Shapeshifters - Planet EP|publisher=Exclaim!|date=September 1999}}{{cite web|first=Jesse|last=Serwer|url=http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/shapeshifters/shapeshifters-was-here|title=The Shapeshifters Was Here|publisher=XLR8R|date=November 30, 2004}}

The group prevented the Shapeshifters, another act from the United Kingdom, from using the name in the United States. That resulted in the latter changing its name to Shape:UK, but for the United States only.