The Crocodile & ReignCity Present
HIEROGLYPHICS
(Opio, Aplus, Tajai, Phesto, Pep Love, Casual)
w/ Special Guests
Hi Life Soundsystem
AudioDose Crew
DJ Gumbeaux
Hosted by King Khazm
$12 Adv. | 8pm Doors | 21+
The Oakland-based Hieroglyphics are an underground rap collective who, at their best, combine an offbeat sensibility with a strong grounding in battle rhyming, freestyling, and other hip-hop traditions.
The crew formed their own label, Hieroglyphics Imperium, which provided not only a platform for their future releases, but total creative control. In addition, the entire collective teamed up for the first album under the Hieroglyphics name, Third Eye Vision, in 1998. Several self-released compilations also appeared, and the proper Hieroglyphics follow-up, Full Circle, dropped in 2003. In 2007 the crew treated fans to a collection of rare B-sides and remixes from all the members, entitled Over Time.