Rapper Tame It is said that one of the Artifacts has died. He turned 52 this year. On Sunday night Nov. 6, Rah Digga, a big name in New Jersey hip-hop, went on social media to say he was sad about Tame’s death.
“When I’m about to feel it, I don’t usually post something like this online right away…
But we’re giving that Jersey legend a bouquet! “Hold your head, @el da sensei,” Rah Digga wrote in the photo caption for Tame. “#RIPTameOne #Artifacts #LegendsDontDie #BrickCity #JerseyShit #YouHadToBeOutside.”
Artifacts became famous with Jersey’s El Da Sensei in the early 1990s when they did a freestyle on the radio show Stretch & Bobbito and Big Beat/Atlantic Records released the hit song “Wrong Side Of The Tracks.” Not only are they good at using microphones, but the way they are shown and written about by graffiti writers also makes their point. Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the band’s first album, came out in 1994. That’s Them, their second album, came out in 1997.
Even though they didn’t do well commercially, underground hip-hop fans loved them for their love of pure hip-hop principles. Tame is Redman’s cousin, and he has also put out a few solo albums. He has worked with Cage (as Leak Bros) and the Weathermen (Cage, Camu Tao, and others). DJ Kaos, an Artifacts fan for many years, died in 2019.
