This week, Jonathan Cunningham profiles Dyme Def, an up-and-coming hip-hop group looking

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...one of the biggest buzzes generated from it all wasnaE™t in relation to the headliners, but rather Dyme Def, who commanded the room for 30 minutes of raucous, sweat drenched rap bliss.

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By the time they got into the call and response section of their set, they divided the room in two and had the capacity crowd screaming louder than anyone else who performed that evening.

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TheyaE™ll rap about you, your mom, and stealing your girlfriend all in the same verse but are comical enough with their punch lines and prose that it works.

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One path theyaE™re thankfully steering away from is exaggerating who they are at their core, or rapping about having fat wads of cash or being drug kingpins aE“ fibs that are all too common at times within the genre.

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In reality, the Black River High School graduates are all a bunch of self-admitted aEœgoofballsaE who love to chase girls, play ping-pong, and go bowling.

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This year, theyaE™ve made a conscience effort to release a steady stream of free material via the web.

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If Blue Scholars and Common Market are the cityaE™s two most exportable rap acts, Dyme Def has firmly planted itself in third place with hopes to move up the ranks soon.

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Panic is a concept album with all seven tracks loosely related to the current financial crisis.

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A few weeks from now, theyaE™ll be heading out on the road for their first national tour, a brief, but exposure-filled 13-date stint with New York-based rapper, Saigon.