Unknown Prophets is a local hip hop group composed of Big Jess and MaD SoN. Both are from Northeast Minneapolis and went to Edison High School. They met at school and started playing music, with Mike playing guitar to Jess' songs. They started performing at the Bon Appetit (Dinkytown), where they added DJ Willy Lose when playing a set in 1998.
Unknown Prophets classic debut album, "World Premier" (2000), put them on the map in the Twin Cities, especially with the appearances by local favorites Slug, DJ Abilities, and Brother Ali, members of the Rhymesayers crew. In September 2002, the Unkown Prophets formed their own record label, N.E. Time Ent. N.E, and promptly released "Welcome to Northeast", a double-disc album with over 30 tracks. Big Jess and Mad Son have also recently released solo albums that are listed below.
Unknown Prophets
The Road Less Traveled
01. Time to Move Forward
02. Mr. Mainstream
03. Our Time Now
04. Not Today
05. Let it Loose
06. The Road Less Traveled
07. Dive In
08. Lord Please
09. Move Mountains
10. Imagination
11. This Song
12. Waves
13. Lost In Time
14. Grown
15. Against the Grain
Big Jess
Good Clean Fun 2: The Super Jump-Off
01. Part 2 scratches by Willy Lose
02. theSuperJumpOff
03. brinstar
04. Don't it Feel Good? feat. New MC & Unicus
05. Insight
06. All I Know Add'l vocals by Brent Snyder, scratches by DJ Amin
07. norfair
08. FAQ
09. Dropp it Like it's Hott
10. Proceed feat. Dispute One, scratches by DJ Anton
11. ridley
12. Road Rage feat. Mohs
13. Caped Crusaders feat. MaD SoN,scratches by Willy Lose
14. Big Jess Music
15. kraid1
16. It Can't Rain Forever
17. What it is/What it Ain't feat. Random Thoughts
18. Time Brings Change
19. kraid2
20. Misconseeved
21. Pure Excellence
22. Where is Paradise?
23. Y'all Need This
24. tourian
Big Jess
Good Clean Fun
01. Intro-Good Clean Fun!
02. Yea feat. MaD SoN & Brent Snyder
03. skit
04. Those Were The Days
05. Underdog
06. This Is Who I Am
07. Can You Believe feat. Gamble & Bobby Hatfield
08. Still Me
09. Good-Bad-Worse
10. What I'm Hopin 4
11. So In Love feat. Brent Snyder
12. Wannabe feat. Shades of Darkenss
13. Warrior
14. skit
15. Hands UP!
16. Stunt
17. jellybeananthills
MaD SoN
Peace Amongst the MaDness
01. Desiderata Author Unknown
02. Peace Amongst the MaDness
03. Times Like These
04. Unimpressed feat. Joia Senser
05. 10 Days Left
06. Sometimes
07. Still Not MaD
08. Paradise
09. Rise Up
10. Before the Storm
11. Tommy's Revenge
12. Matthew
13. Don't Cry
14. Keep On feat. Big Jess
Unknown Prophets
The W.E.T. EP
01. Warning
02. Look At Us Now
03. Don't Expect You 2 Understand
04. Beat Generation
05. Writer's Block
06. So Live
07. Just Like You
08. Shit Talking Material
09. I Do It 4
Unknown Prophets
Now You Know
01. Intro - I need
02. U.N.K.N.O.W.N P.R.O.P.H.E.T.S
03. On and On
04. Get Along
05. Dat Shit f/ Eyedea
06. Thought you Knew
07. Album Filler
08. Changes
09. Sorry
10. Nitty Gritty
11. Da da da
12. N.E. Time f/ Gamble and Bobby Hat
13. Now you Know
14. All in my Head (phobia)
15. It could happen to you
16. I can't make you
17. Outro - Appreciation
Unknown Prophets
World Premier
01. A Lil' Q&A
02. Ready
03. World Premier
04. The Wrong Route f/ Dj Abilities
05. Without my existence
06. The Robbery
07. This One
08. Take it There
09. Human
10. With Who?
11. Be About It
12. It's the Way f/ Try-D
13. 4 the Kidz
14. Us f/ Gamble
15. The Weekend
16. Almost There
17. Never f/ Slug
Unknown Prophets
The Prophecy
01. Intro
02. Unknown Soldiers
03. The Bizness (remix)
04. Battle Hymn
05. Peace of Mind
06. SOUL (struggles of urban life)
07. MaD Cream
08. The Prophecy
09. The Bizness
10. Aftermath
11. A Brighter Day
12. Represent
13. No Shorts
14. We All
15. Amen
16. Without My Existence (remix)