We can't be certain if Labwaste's
Giovanni Marks and Thavius Beck are here to save Hip-Hop or destroy it,
but if anyone has the power and the right to do either, it is these two
emcees/producers. As their alter-egos, Subtitle and Adlib
(respectively), they have independently established themselves as
pioneers of hip-hop's avant-garde, blurring lines between what hip-hop
is and what hip-hop can be by melding iron Hip-hop
values with a fiery experimental drive, blending and bending genres of
all kinds into all manner of angles. Now riding shotgun to each
other as Labwaste, they are carving yet more trails in the darkest of
terrains, blazing a testament to the possibilities of Hip-Hop and art.
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