Emerging from Norway's graffiti and breakdancing scenes, Tommy Tee rose to become a hip-hop impresario and as a promoter/producer/broadcaster has elevated the genre's popularity in Scandinavia. It is his West Coast-flavoured work that grabs the limelight. Rammed with the attitude of American heavy hitters, Tee is equally at home solo as he is collaborating, and his slick symphonic riffs and reggae rhythms hark back to his roots as a DJ before debut Bonds, Beats & Beliefs in 1998—one of the most successful hip-hop records in Norway, and just the tip of the iceberg for this hip-hop polymath.