There are several artists with this name: 1. a grunge band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2. a rapper from Dallas, Texas, 3. a British jazz band. 1) Not so much grunge as they were high-energy fetishists, and not so much funk-rock as they just happened to be funky, Ann Arbor, Michigan's Big Chief were slightly ahead of their time in a number of ways. Not only were they updating the sound of Detroit '69 prior to the grunge sweepstakes of the early '90s