Alternative and Underground Scene
In the early 1990s, many of the Los Angeles hip hop scene's most talented and progressive-minded MCs would attend the Good Life Cafe to hone their skills and develop their craft. Artists such as Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Abstract Rude, Spinz, Ahmad, Freestyle Fellowship, Jurassic 5, the Pharcyde, Skee-Lo, and many others performed at the Good Life's open mic Thursday nights from the late-80s into the mid-90s. In the 2008 documentary This Is the Life, L.A. hip hop artist and Good Life regular 2Mex likened the Good Life movement to that of the New York punk rock and Seattle music scenes.
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“No alternative to the
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And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence
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Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about....”
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