Incredicrew (Supreme on the left); photo via The Flavor

"High-Powered Hip-Hop" (Original Demo Version) by Incredicrew

Check the photo and listen to the track, and you can tell DJ Supreme La Rock is old-school. His group Incredicrew helped pioneer Seattle rap back in the '80s.

Supreme is scheduled to perform tonight at the martini-bar-esque Triple Door for his every-fourth-Wednesday "Champion Sound," where he will be the equivalent of a legendary soul musician playing for a room full of people who don't know who he was. Or maybe I shouldn't underestimate the Triple Door's clientele like that.

Unlike most rap pioneers, Supreme still has a music career more than 20 years later. He DJs all types of music at nightclubs near and far — "Champion Sound" is billed as "electronica, hip-hop, everything, R&B" — and became known to a wider audience last year, when he prominently featured in the Seattle soul/funk documentary "Wheedle's Groove," as a vinyl archeologist and local music scholar.

Song via Supreme's blog