Meanest Man Contest is a hip hop and

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duo based in

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. The members are Quarterbar (Noah Blumberg) and Eriksolo (Eric Steuer). As college roommates, Noah Blumberg and Eric Steuer started making lo-fi

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songs on a 4-track, then recruited friends to create the Santa Barbara hip-hop crew mic.edu. The duo formed Meanest Man Contest after a move upstate to Oakland, where they searched through stacks of flea market records looking for samples. From this effort came a series of short tracks that would form MMC's collage-like first single, ''Contaminated Dance Step''. MMC's first LP, ''Merit'', included jazz samples and live guitar. More recently, the duo has expanded its musical approach with releases like the off-kilter pop EP ''Some People'', the electro-tinged single ''Throwing Away Broken Electronics'', and the hip-hop releases ''Split'' and ''Partially Smart''. In 2013 the group released ''Everything Worth Mentioning''.

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