Percee P
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| Percee P | |
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| Origin | The Bronx, New York |
| Genre(s) | Hip hop |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Label(s) | Stones Throw Records |
Percee P (born John Percy Simon in 1971) is an underground hip-hop artist from the Patterson Projects in The Bronx, New York City, United States. Percee P has been emceeing since 1979, yet his debut album Perseverance was released by Stones Throw Records on September 18, 2007, produced entirely by Madlib. He had previously released a few singles on several different labels, some of which are expensive collector's items today.
He was known in the underground for selling his mixtapes himself in front of the Fat Beats store in New York, a practice he continues today by selling his Stones Throw album himself at his shows.[1] He has made many guest appearances on other alternative and underground hip-hop artists' releases including Big Daddy Kane, Kool Keith, Lord Finesse, Aesop Rock, Edan, Jurassic 5, C-Rayz Walz, Jaylib, Jedi Mind Tricks, Maestro Fresh Wes, Wildchild, and many more. Percee P was selected for a 1992 Source Magazine "Hip Hop Quotable" for his verse on Lord Finesse's "Yes You May", from the album Return of the Funky Man.
His legendary battle with Lord Finesse from 1989 was immortalized on Edan the Deejay's Fast Rap mixtape, and a complete video of it has since surfaced as a bonus feature on the SBX DVD. Percee's voice is sampled on DJ Shadow's song "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" from the album Endtroducing......
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