Best of St. Louis 2006
Arts & Entertainment
Best Hip-Hop Artist
DJ Crucial
With this year's release of Test Presses and Dub Plates—an album eight years in the making that features collaborations with everyone from MF Doom to MC Eiht—DJ Crucial went from being St. Louis' best hip-hop DJ to being our best hip-hop artist. The album's transitions, scratches and (most impressively) production show that Crucial is hip-hop's Steve Nash; in other words, he makes everyone around him better. A longtime DJ at Blueberry Hill's Friday-night party, The Science, he now boasts props from national publications such as URB, XXL and Scratch. Folks around the nation are becoming hip to what we've known for years: Much like Cleveland, Crucial rocks.
Previous Winners
- 2013 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Nick Menn
- 2012 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Thi'sl
- 2011 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Rockwell Knuckles
- 2010 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Black Spade
- 2009 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Black Spade
- 2008 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Vandalyzm
- 2007 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Toyy
- 2005 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Spaide R.I.P.P.E.R.
- 2004 Best Hip-Hop Artist - Honors English
