Flagged . Hopefully it gets taken down . <| sep |> Thanksgiving games are special , so they get halftime concerts <| sep |> Themselves artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 2527 bce 1 cb 76 a 04407 f 94 c 65 f 95563817 b 0 . png themselves are doseone and jel , from California . Jel became familiar with dose through his good friend and radio partner , Kevin Beacham . But it wasn ' t until early 1998 when some tapes were exchanged through mutual friend , Mr . Dibbs , that the two realized their potential together . Soon after a few phone conversations , jel started making frequent sojourns from Chicago to Cincinnati to record with dose . The duo ' s first couple of tracks ended up on dose ' s first , selfreleased record Hemispheres 1998 . Then from April of 1998 to January of 1999 they solidified their chemistry , putting the tracks together that would end up on themselves ' them . That same Spring dose and jel , along with Slug of Atmosphere and sole and alias of Live Poets began recording deep puddle dynamics ' s The Taste Of Rain . Why Kneel . Out of that record , the concept of anticon was somewhere born whose founding dose and jel would become an integral part of , later bringing them both to the Bay Area . Since then , both artists have continued to push boundaries , producing and collaborating on a range of work far outside the constructs of traditional genre forms . They ' ve expanded their use and understanding of their equipment , as well as perfected their live performances . Their record , the no music . 2002 , involved the use of an SP 1200 , an MPC 2000 , a Korg Poly 64 keyboard , some other shit , a Roland VS 880 , Digital Performer , a Dr . Sample , various microphones , numerous household items and found objects and sounds . Recently the two of them have also expanded their roles in the group , both contributing vocals and production to the no music . They also added Dax Pierson on keyboards , Dr . Sample , Theremin and back up vocals on many of their tracks , and to all of their live performances . Dax is essential in adding syncopation and a real time quality to the tracks . After a sixyear hiatus , Themselves return on a rampage of heady rap wrung from hardworking hands . Of course , the duo of Jeffrey Jel Logan and Adam Doseone Drucker are never too far from the frontlines of good art and honest music . Last year , their Subtle sextet released its third album , the critically acclaimed and wildly adventurous ExitingARM , and a 2005 collaboration with Germany ' s the Notwist yielded the cult gem 13 God . There have been solo offerings , guest appearances , and ceaseless touring , but not peep from the name behind 2002 ' s leftfield classic The No Music . That blessed interim has seen Doseone and Jel become the fearless musicians and exacting artists they ' d always meant to be . Now , hungrier than ever , Themselves are here to scrawl a bold new chapter across rap ' s toostale tome . Furthermore , they set out to accomplish this feat unadorned , returning to hiphop ' s most cardinal and carnal form , the number two the DJ and the MCnecksnapping beats and precision proseaccompanied by a little righteous indignation , of course . Such things do have roots , naturally , and Themselves ' are as colorful as one would expect . Drucker was born in Napa , Idaho , to a hippie pair whose relationship wouldn ' t outlast its ideals . Logan was raised in Chicago by Pentecostal parents . While the former spent his preteen years bouncing between Philadelphia and New Jersey , surviving by his mileaminute wit and ceaseless imagination , Logan nursed an early love for the decidedly safe sounds of Chuck Berry into raging crush on the unhinged backbone of rap music beats . He ' d pump gas in order to save up for the hallowed SP 1200 drum machine of which he ' s now a renowned master Drucker would hone his unmatched rap styles in street battles before moving to Cincinnati in his late teens . In that city ' s annual Scribble Jam competition , as Doseone , he famously battled Eminem in a finalround showdownas well as one of his idols , Freestyle Fellowship ' s P . E . A . C . E . and the experience left him hollow . Meanwhile , Jel had forged a sound unto himself , but couldn ' t find a voice able to keep pace . In 1998 , tapes were exchanged through the venerable DJ Mr . Dibbs , and history came to be made . Of that initial meeting , much would be born Doseone ' s ambitious , selfreleased debut Hemispheres 1998 Themselves ' seminal unveiling , Them 1999 the landmark collaborative project , Deep Puddle Dynamics also featuring Sole , Alias and Atmosphere ' s Slug and the Anticon label itself . Soon , Dose and Jel moved to Oakland in order to spark a movement with Anticon ' s other cofounders , two of which Odd Nosdam , and Yoni Wolf of WHY ? were in yet another celebrated group with Drucker , the eternally lauded cLOUDDEAD . Since , Doseone and Jel have continued to challenge rapand our conception of music itselfevery step of the way . Through their joint projects and an impressive body of solo work see 2006 ' s Soft Money , by Jel , or Doseone ' s selfreleased spokenword album , Soft Skulls , these two have been nurturing the kind of legacy that only gets better with age . In 2009 , Themselves return to a core that ' s been warming , strengthening , and expanding all the while . 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