Every artist, group, DJ, label and place in The Jersey City Sound documented as active in Jersey City in the 1990s, listed in order of era and name with a cited entry for each. This is one page of the archive's timeline; the full sequence from the 1960s to today is on the History page.
An entry appears here when its documented years active, an era row on its record card, or a dated event in its sourced facts (a release, a residency, a battle) falls within the period. Birth and death dates do not count as activity. Entries with no dated activity in their sources are not placed in an era until a date is sourced. The archive documents; it does not rank.
In the archive§
Musicians and singers (8)
Groups (6)
Rappers, MCs and crews (21)
Entry №. 185
MC · Manager · Filmmaker
Champagne, also known as Miss Champagne, is a Jersey City hip-hop pioneer — by the scene's account one of the city's first female MCs.
1980s1990s2000s
Entry №. 129
Rapper
Chill Rob G (born Robert Frazier) is a rapper from Jersey City, New Jersey.
1980s1990s2020s
Entry №. 167
Rapper
Double J (Gerald 'J' Jones), known as The Hitman Double J, is a Jersey City rapper.
1980s1990s
Entry №. 187
MC · Party rocker
Lord Sun Albee Al was the founder of the Jersey City crew Sweet Slick and Slide.
1980s1990s
Entry №. 189
Hip-hop group
Positively Black were a Jersey City conscious-rap group formed in 1988.
1980s1990s
Entry №. 190
MC
Prince Kyrie is a Jersey City MC and the founder and frontman of the conscious-rap group Positively Black, which he started in 1988.
1980s1990s2000s
Entry №. 186
Hip-hop crew
Sweet Slick and Slide — also styled Sweet Slick and Sly and known as Triple S — was one of Jersey City's dominant hip-hop crews of the 1980s.
1980s1990s
Entry №. 128
Rapper
Anthony Peaks (December 26, 1964 – January 22, 2010), better known as Apache, was an American rapper.
1990s
Entry №. 130
Rapper
Attrell Cordes (May 19, 1970 – June 17, 2016), known as Prince Be, was the primary vocalist of Jersey City hip-hop duo PM Dawn.
1990s
Entry №. 234
Rapper · MC
CF — Constant Flow, who records as CF201 — is a Jersey City rapper who has worked the underground hip-hop scene since 1993.
1990s2000s2010s
Entry №. 163
Rapper
Chill Divine, born Gary Van Liew, is a 1990s underground hip-hop artist known for a 12-inch EP originally released on Square Records in 1990
1990s
Entry №. 250
MC · Producer · Promoter
Craiga Ski, also billed Craig Ski, was a lifelong Jersey City native, an emcee and promoter of the city's early 1990s hip hop scene.
1990s2000s2010s
Entry №. 238
Rap group
Double XX Posse were a Jersey City rap group of the early 1990s.
1990s
Entry №. 064
Musician
Heather B. Gardner (born November 13, 1970), known professionally as Heather B., is a rapper from Jersey City.
1990s
Entry №. 040
Rapper
Hitchcock is a Jersey City rapper, one half of the A-Team alongside Ransom.
1990s2000s2010s
Entry №. 251
Hip-hop group
Maniac Mobb, also written Maniac Mob, were an underground Jersey City hip hop group of the 1990s.
1990s
Entry №. 230
Rap group · MC
Mr. Low Kash 'N Da Shady Bunch were a Jersey City hip-hop act of the mid-1990s, part of the city's boom-bap rap generation.
1990s
Entry №. 122
Musical group
PM Dawn is a hip-hop duo from Jersey City, New Jersey, consisting of brothers Attrell Cordes (Prince Be) and Jarrett Cordes (DJ Minutemix).
1990s
Entry №. 039
Rapper
Ransom (Randy Nicholls) is a Jersey City rapper who moved to the city around age eight.
1990s2000s2010s
Entry №. 228
Hip-hop group
TGK were a mid-1990s hip-hop group whose known release, the single.
1990s
Entry №. 216
Rap duo
The A-Team were an early-2000s Jersey City rap duo of Ransom and Hitchcock, celebrated for their punchline-heavy, grimy street lyricism.
1990s2000s
DJs (17)
Labels and companies (3)
Places (2)
Questions, answered§
How does the archive decide which era an entry belongs to?
By the years active recorded in the entry, or failing that by dated events in its sourced facts. An artist active across several decades appears on each decade's page; birth and death dates never place an entry.
Where is the full Jersey City music timeline?
On the History page, which links every era page in sequence, and on the Chilltown page for the nickname's own history.
Also in the archive§
Musicians from Jersey City: the complete archive · Jersey City DJs and the mixtape era · Jersey City music history: the timeline · Chilltown · On the Charts
Rappers from Jersey City · Famous Musicians Born in Jersey City · Famous People from Jersey City: Music and Entertainment · Jersey Club and Jersey City · Jersey City Music Venues, Record Stores and Studios · Jersey City High Schools and the Music That Came Through Them · Jersey City Slang in Music: 201 and Chilltown · Jersey City Music Before 1960 · Jersey City Music in the 1960s · Jersey City Music in the 1970s · Jersey City Music in the 1980s · Jersey City Music in the 2000s
Sources§
Every fact above is carried by the linked entries, each with its own numbered sources.
Archive page by Robert Van Liew · Last updated 2026-10-01
