Artist's albums
The Official Sounds of the Capital
2021 · EP
Baby Don't You Go Go
2021 · single
Hit the Floor
2020 · single
Don't Mute DC
2019 · single
Disco Fever (Original)
2018 · single
Live PA #21 (Live at Aqua Nightclub, 6-23-18)
2018 · album
Live PA#20 Live @ Panorama Room 9-30-17
2017 · album
Live PA#19: Live @ Fast Eddies 4-28-17
2017 · album
You Can't Run from The Crank (Live)
2017 · single
Tryna Go
2016 · single
Tryna Go (R&B Version)
2016 · single
Turn It Up
2016 · album
Live PA #18 Live @ Cafe Asia 11-28-15
2016 · album
How I Wish You Could Love Me
2016 · single
Cups to the Floor
2015 · single
The Reunion: Live at the Hyatt Regency 9-11-2010
2015 · album
Pieces of Me
2013 · single
Twerk
2013 · single
She Ratchet
2013 · single
DJ Dirty Rico Presents: The Mixtape, Vol. 2
2013 · album
Give It Here
2012 · single
Rock This Party (Live)
2012 · single
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Biography
Rare Essence, Washington’s premier Go-Go band for more than four decades, is a DC institution that has built a devoted fan base that spans multiple generations, drawn to the indigenous funk sired in the mid -70s by the late Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown. Formed by students at a Southeast Washington Catholic school during the mid-‘70s and kept on track by several no-nonsense moms, Rare Essence quickly developed into the city’s most powerful GO-GO band, performing six or seven nights a week for a huge local and regional following. More than 40 plus years later, Rare Essence remains a GO-GO powerhouse, releasing dozens of albums and live recordings while continuing to perform for several thousand fans each week. GO- GO has always been an underground music; still, it has prevailed despite economic deprivation, racial prejudice and the misperception. Rare Essence has performed with Run DMC, LL COOL J, Doug E. Fresh, Biz Markie, Ice Cube, Heavy D and the Boyz, Wu Tang Clan, Method Man, French Montana, Scarface, TLC, Eric B and Rakim, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Wale, Thievery Corporation, Clutch, KRS-1 not to mention Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, The Junk Yard Band and EU. Rampant gentrification has changed the look of DC, but GO-GO remains the heart and soul of black Washington and is officially the sound of DC.