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HO99O9 is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Injury Reserve, Earache Records, DMX, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Theophilus London. Those roots explain a lot about how HO99O9 arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as clipping., El-P, Death Grips, By Storm and Aesop Rock, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Alice in Chains, Grandson, GHOSTEMANE, Nova Twins and Pink Siifu, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around HO99O9, reaching back through Injury Reserve and forward to Alice in Chains. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ho99o9 is an American punk rap duo founded in 2012 in Newark, New Jersey by theOGM and Yeti Bones. They relocated to Los Angeles in 2014. They were one of Rolling Stone's "10 New Artists You Need to Know" in 2014 and The Guardian's "New Band of the Week". They have performed at the Afropunk Festival in 2014, the SXSW Music Festival in 2015 and Primavera Sound Festival in 2016. To date, they have released multiple EPs, accompanied by grindhouse-style music videos, and three full-length albums, United States of Horror (2017), SKIN (2022) and Tomorrow We Escape (2025).
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HO99O9 connections
HO99O9 grew out of Injury Reserve, Earache Records, DMX and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, shares an orbit with clipping., El-P, Death Grips and By Storm, went on to shape Alice in Chains, Grandson, GHOSTEMANE and Nova Twins. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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