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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Quannum
| image       = quannum logo.jpg
| founded     = {{start date|1992}}
| founder     = {{hlist|[[DJ Shadow]]|[[Chief Xcel]]|[[Gift of Gab (rapper)|Gift of Gab]]|[[Lyrics Born]]|[[Lateef the Truthspeaker|Lateef]]}}
| genre       = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = San Francisco, California
| website     = 
}}

'''Quannum''' (also known as '''Quannum MCs''' or '''Quannum Mechanics''') is an American [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] [[collective]] based in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. It has been active since 1992, when it was formed at [[University of California, Davis|UC Davis]] under the moniker [[Solesides|Solesides Records]]. It is also the name of the [[independent record label]], Quannum Projects, that releases their records, as well as those of a number of other artists.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quannum Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More {{!}} A... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quannum-mn0000370086 |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref> The label continues to be 100% independently owned and operated.

==Artist roster==
* [[Apsci]] (Dana Diaz-Tutaan & Raphael LaMotta – Brooklyn, New York)
* [[Blackalicious]] ([[Gift of Gab (rapper)|Gift of Gab]] & [[Chief Xcel]] – [[Sacramento, California]])
* [[Curumin]] (Luciano Nakata Albuquerque – [[Brazil]])
* [[General Elektriks]] (Hervé Salters – [[Paris, France]])
* [[Tommy Guerrero]] ([[San Francisco, California]])
* [[Honeycut]] ([[San Francisco, California]])
* [[Lateef and the Chief]] a.k.a. ''Maroons'' ([[Lateef the Truthspeaker|Lateef]] & [[Chief Xcel]] – [[Oakland, California]])
* [[Latyrx]] ([[Lateef the Truthspeaker|Lateef]] & [[Lyrics Born]] – [[Oakland, California]])
* [[Lifesavas]] (Jumbo, Vursatyl, Rev. Shines – [[Portland, Oregon]])
* [[Lyrics Born]] ([[Berkeley, California]])
* Pieces of Peace ([[Chicago, Illinois]])
* [[Pigeon John]] ([[Hawthorne, California]])
* Poets of Rhythm ([[Whitefield Brothers]] & Boris Borale – [[Munich]], Germany)
* [[DJ Shadow]] (Joshua Davis – [[Mill Valley, California]])
* [[Joyo Velarde]] ([[Berkeley, California]])

== References ==
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==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]
* [[Underground hip hop]]

==External links==
* [http://www.solesides.com/ SoleSides website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027040050/http://www.quannum.com/site/ Archived official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050330015145/http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-03-16/listenfeat2.html SF Weekly article on Quannum Projects]

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