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El Da Sensei
El Da Sensei stepped onto the hip-hop scene as one half of the Newark, NJ duo The Artifacts. After El and his partner Tame-One sent a rough demo to Bobbito the Barber at WKCR in New York, the group was signed to Big Beat/Atlantic Records. They released their debut album, Between a Rock & a Hard Place in 1994 with “Wrong Side of the Tracks” as the lead single and video. The Artifacts developed a fan base of hardcore hip-hoppers and sparked a new subculture in hip-hop called “backpackers.” In 1996, the group followed up their debut with their sophomore album, That’s Them, spawning the underground hits “The Art of Facts” and “The Ultimate.”