Tommy Tee
Norway's Tommy Tee started out as a graffiti artist and break dancer in Oslo when the hip-hop phenomenon invaded Scandinavia in the early 80's. His interest in DJ'ing grew and after doing mix-tapes and playing in the clubs, he got offered his own radio show at a Oslo station called Rainbow Radio in 1986. He quickly became the Music Director, and when NRK (the official Norwegian television and radio broadcasting company) launched their new national station P3, Tommy Tee got offered his two hours prime-time show called The National Rap Show. The program is one of the country's most popular shows, with more than 100,000 listeners every Friday. (Great rating in a country with only 4,5 million people). The show is also broadcasted live on internet: www.nrk.no/nrs . International acts that have been interviewed on Tee's radio show include Snoop Dogg, Big Pun, Funkmaster Flex, Black Moon, The Roots, much more. Tommy Tee also hosted a video rap show called Planet Groove (long before Rachel started on BET.)

In 1989 Tommy Tee started Norway's only hip-hop magazine Fat Cap. After ten years Tee is still the editor-in-chief and the magazine has become one of the world's leading grafitti magazines, with global distribution through Tower Books. Tee has also been arranging and promoting concerts with acts like Fugees, Das EFX, Gunshot, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC, and De La Soul. Tommy Tee started producing music in the late 80's. His first milestone as an artist was supporting Ice Cube's concert in Oslo in 1990.

In 1992 the Danish record company Mega Records opened their Norwegian office and hired Tee as the Sales Manager. Three years later he left the company and started Norway's main hip-hop label, Tee Productions.

Tee's first full-length album production was for jazz-artist Helén Eriksen in 1995. Eriksen got picked up by the legendary jazz-label Blue Note through EMI and successfully released her critically acclaimed album "Standards" in Europe and Japan. Helén Eriksen received a Norwegian Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996.

Tommy Tee is one of the few persons in Scandinavia with such a long, consistent, and active hip-hop history. Because Tee has paid so much dues, earned mad respect and built up an international network of contacts, he has often been criticized for having too much power. Especially in a social democracy as Norway. Some acts claim that his position gives him an unfair monopoly when it comes to breaking new artists, and that he does not give enough acts enough airplay, etc. However, most people agree that most of this critique is bitter non-sense and jealousy.