Crown City Rockers is a five-member
hip hop band from
Oakland,
California, by way of
Boston,
Massachusetts and
Pasadena. Formerly known as Mission, the name under which they released their first album, they play
old school hip hop music with live instrumentation (similar to other hip hop groups like:
Gym Class Heroes,
The Roots,
N.E.R.D, and
Stetsasonic). They have been compared to groups such as:
A Tribe Called Quest,
The Roots, and
De La Soul.