Panacea (group)

Panacea
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Background information
Origin	Washington, D.C., United States
Genres	Underground hip hop, alternative hip hop
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Rawkus Records, Tasteful Licks Records, Neosonic Productions
Members	Raw Poetic K-Murdock

Panacea is an American hip hop duo, formed in 2003 in Washington, D.C., United States. The duo consists of MC Raw Poetic (Jason Moore) and producer K-Murdock (Kyle Murdock). Throughout their musical career, Panacea has had deals with various labels, including: Glow-in-the-Dark-Records, Rawkus Records and Tasteful Licks. They currently release their music under K-Murdock's imprint, Neosonic Productions.

Combining old-school rhyming with soulful beats, the Washington D.C. duo Panacea have drawn comparisons to revered hip-hoppers like The Roots, Gang Starr, and A Tribe Called Quest. Panacea blend Native Tongues-inspired beats with warm major chords and soul samples and add conscious rhymes about life, love, and hip hop.

Producer K-Murdock was born and raised in D.C. and has worked with Grammy Nominated R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn. He was raised during the wilting years of hip hop and he developed his love of music at an early age through exposure from older family members (such as his uncle). One crew in particular, the Native Tongues, changed his musical life when he borrowed the cassettes of two of the collective’s landmark groups (ATCQ & De La Soul) in the early 1990s.

In 2010, K-Murdock produced an LP called Forever Famicom, a collaboration with rapper Random, which was released on Neosonic Records.

MC Raw Poetic is from Philadelphia. Raw Poetic is a rapper with a smooth, clean delivery that moves from quick-paced syncopation into hooks fluidly.

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